13 suspected Taliban killed in mountain clash
US and Afghan troops backed by warplanes fought Taliban militants in the mountains of southern Afghanistan overnight, killing 13 insurgents and arresting eight.
Two American troops and one Afghan soldier were wounded in the fighting in Miana Shien district of Kandahar province, 150 miles south-west of the capital, Kabul, said Khalid Pashtun, spokesman for the provincial government.
