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Fourteen killed in Afghan clashes (Roundup)
Aug 22, 2010, 13:15 GMT
Kabul - Fourteen people were killed in fresh violence in Afghanistan, officials said Sunday.
Among them were two members of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), who lost their lives in separate insurgents attacks in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday.
Separately, a roadside bomb struck a vehicle in the western province of Faryab, killing a local commander and four others, the Afghan interior ministry said.
Meanwhile, ISAF forces killed two insurgents in the southern province of Zabul on Saturday. The troops were in pursuit of a Taliban commander who led attacks on Afghan civilians and security forces, ISAF said.
In the southern province on Helmand, insurgents killed two female civilians while attempting to target a patrol of Afghan and international troops.
In neighboring Kandahar province, three Taliban commanders where killed in a raid by Afghan and ISAF troops on a Taliban hideout in Arghandab district on Saturday night, a spokesman for the provincial governor said.
Some 140,000 NATO and 134,000 Afghan Nation Army troops are currently fighting against growing insurgency across the country.
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