20 Taliban killed

Published March 27, 2007

KABUL, March 26: Suspected Taliban militants attacked a district office in central Afghanistan in a clash that left 15 militants and two officers dead, the ministry of interior said on Monday. The Sunday attack in Jalarez district in Wardak province also left a district chief and 10 militants wounded, it said. In Ghazni, police and soldiers launched a joint operation against militants in Andar district, which left five suspected Taliban dead and seven wounded. A suicide bomber in a car attacked a Nato convoy in Kandahar, killing himself.—AP

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