More than 100 militants are alleged to have been killed by US-led coalition forces in Afghanistan in a major battle against suspected Afghan insurgents.
Peshawar, Aug 29 : More than 100 militants are alleged to have been killed by US-led coalition forces in Afghanistan in a major battle against suspected Afghan insurgents.
A statement issued by the US-led coalition said that fighting erupted when the insurgents ambushed a joint Afghan-US force in Shah Wali Kot. Fighter aircraft bombed the insurgents' positions.
In the southern provinces of Helmand and Kandahar, the coalition said that the Afghan Government forces acting with coalition supervision had repulsed the insurgents.
In the Helmand encounter, it said 12 rebels had been killed after Afghan forces called in coalition air support, which helped identify targets but did not engage the insurgents.
Earlier, three US soldiers were killed in a suicide attack in the east.
The troops were helping to build a bridge, a news agency quoted an unnamed US official as saying.
The US-led coalition also said three of its troops and two Afghan soldiers were killed in eastern Kunar province on Sunday.
In clashes in Kandahar province, soldiers were attacked from several positions with machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars, according to an alliance statement.
It said that up to 22 militants had been killed in two other clashes in the south Afghanistan. There was no immediate reaction to the reports from the Taliban.
Statements from the coalition said that all the incidents were sparked by ambushes from insurgent forces.
The reports could not be independently confirmed.
ANI