US Says 9 Militants Killed in Afghanistan
By VOA News
21 May 2009
The U.S. military said nine suspected militants have been killed in separate operations in southern and central Afghanistan.
It said U.S.-led coalition forces killed two militants and captured six others in a clash Thursday in the southern province of Helmand.
Separately, the military said seven militants were killed during an airstrike that followed a gunbattle in the central province of Ghazni Wednesday. It also said a Taliban commander was detained.
U.S. President Barack Obama has ordered 21,000 additional troops to reinforce the 38,000 U.S. troops already in Afghanistan, where the Taliban-led insurgency is spreading.
Some information for this report was provided by AFP and AP.
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