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BAGRAM, May 22: US forces killed up to five opposing fighters in a firefight in southeastern Afghanistan on Wednesday night, the US military said.
A statement from the US headquarters at Bagram, north of Kabul, said American special forces and a military reconstruction team came under fire from about 30 opposing fighters near Gardez.
“They returned fire killing three. Two additional men were suspected killed,” the statement from spokesman Col Rodney Davis said, adding that there were no United States casualties.—Reuters
