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Seven suspected Taliban killed in Afghan army swoop
Afghan soldiers killed seven suspected Taliban militants and injured 10 others in the latest violence to hit the troubled country, a military official said.
Four soldiers were wounded during the operation on Tuesday in Dara-e-Noor and Mianesheen, two districts in the southeastern province of Kandahar, General Muslim Hamed, the local military commander told AFP Wednesday. "On Tuesday we launched a clean-up operation -- seven Taliban were killed, 10 were injured," the general said. Hamed said that two suspected militants were also captured during the hunt in the area, near the Pakistan border. The general said troops from the 18,000-strong US-led coalition force supported the operation. US military spokesmen Major Eric Bloom was unable to confirm the involvement of American troops but added that at least one injured Afghan soldier was evacuated to Kandahar Air Base, the main US-led base in southern Afghanistan. The Taliban, who were ousted by a US-led military campaign in late 2001, have stepped up attacks on US and government targets over recent months after a winter lull in fighting. Most of the violence has been in the south and east. Four US soldiers and an Afghan interpreter were wounded by a roadside bomb in the southeastern province of Ghazni on Tuesday, while a suicide car bomber rammed a US convoy in Kandahar Monday, injuring another four US soldiers. A suicide bomber blew himself up during the funeral of a key anti-Taliban cleric at a mosque in Kandahar on June 1, killing 21 people in the deadliest bomb attack in Afghanistan in over two years.
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