Air strikes kill 60 Taliban in Afghanistan: Police

Tuesday, May 15, 2007, 14:11 [IST]

Kandahar (Afghanistan), May 15: Sixty Taliban fighters including three commanders were killed in air strikes on two Taliban bases in Afghanistan's Kandahar province, a provincial police chief said today.

The joint operation involving foreign and Afghan security forces took place in the Zharai district of Kandahar, police chief Esmatullah Alizai told Reuters. He said there were no casualties among the foreign or Afghan forces.

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