KABUL, Nov 6: Four militants and five Afghan civilians died in violence in southeast and central Afghanistan in the past week and US and Swedish aid agencies were attacked in an eastern city, the US military said on Saturday.

On the border with Pakistan, Pakistani forces for the first time assisted US-led forces in directing fire on a militant position after a rocket attack on a southern town, Major Scott Nelson told a briefing.

He said the four militants were killed and another wounded on Thursday when US-led forces searched a compound north of Deh Rawud district in the central province of Uruzgan.-Reuters