KABUL, Afghanistan – More than 25 insurgents including Arabs, Chechens and Pakistanis have been killed and wounded while crossing into Afghanistan’s eastern Nuristan province.
Following retaliatory attacks after Osama bin Laden’s killing, Afghanistan has launched an operation to guard insurgents and this has resulted in the deaths of a number of foreign fighters, who crossed into country from Pakistan.
Suspected insurgents were also detained in a number of other locations around Afghanistan.
Two members of the Taliban had been detained Monday and troops were getting ready to search another compound at the site in the Dahanah-ye Ghori district of Baghlan province Tuesday. They returned fire when the Taliban fired on them.
NATO and Afghan forces seized a cache that included 3,000 pounds of marijuana, 11 hand grenades, liquid opium and an assault rifle including one man being arrested on Sunday in Kandahar.
