Fourteen militants reported dead as Taliban attack Nato base

Taliban insurgents detonated a truck bomb, then tried to storm a Nato base in eastern Afghanistan today, but coalition forces repelled the attack, killing 14 militants, officials said.

Fourteen militants reported dead as Taliban attack Nato base

Taliban insurgents detonated a truck bomb, then tried to storm a Nato base in eastern Afghanistan today, but coalition forces repelled the attack, killing 14 militants, officials said.

No foreign or Afghan troops were killed, according to Nato, but the attack showed the fundamentalist Islamic movement remains a resilient force even as Afghan President Hamid Karzai insists they do not have the means to retake the nation after foreign forces leave.

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