Forty Taliban killed in Afghan clashes
Afghan and foreign troops battled with Taliban militants and called in airstrikes in a series of clashes in the country’s south that left 40 insurgents dead, an official said today.
The joint force clashed with militants in the mountainous Shah Wali Kot district in Kandahar province during a three-day operation that ended yesterday and left 35 insurgents dead, said provincial police chief Sayed Agha Saqib.
