Afghan soldiers swarmed over mountain peaks in an ongoing battle with hardcore Taliban holdouts on Saturday, killing and capturing several enemy fighters. United States fighter planes, meanwhile, launched a second night of bombing in the southern Zabul province.
Afghan soldiers were waging a fierce ground battle with entrenched Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan on Friday after a night of heavy bombing by United States warplanes that left many Taliban fighters dead.
US forces have captured a man who is believed to be a top financier for Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida network or the Taliban during an operation in southeastern Afghanistan, the military said.
Some one million Afghans have now flocked back to their homeland this year in what is set to be the biggest return of refugees ever seen.
US and British troops uncovered a cache of weapons and explosives during a raid on a tiny farming village in Afghanistan.
The truth behind horrific reports of bloodletting and mass graves in northern Afghanistan will be buried alongside the victims unless investigations begin straight away, local officials say.