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NATO Troop Kill 12 Talibans

Afghan and NATO-led troops, backed by air power, killed at least 12 Taliban fighters and wounded another 15 in an operation in southern Afghanistan, a Defence Ministry spokesman said on Sunday.

Mostly Canadian NATO troops and Taliban insurgents have been engeged in fiece fighting in the Zherai district, west of the biggest southern city of Kandahar, for more than a year with each side seizing then losing the same ground several times.

The apparent stalemate is typical of that across Afganistan where insurgents are incapable of  capturing and holding any towns, but Afghan and western forces have not been able to clear insurgents from many remote regions either.

” There are 12 bodies on the ground, but blood traces indicate that there are more than 12 Taliban killed in the operatio,” said Defence Ministry spokesman Zaher Murad. ” it seems the Taliban have taken away their dead from the battleground.”

Many Taliban had been killed or wounded in the operation which began on saturday.

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