Around 20 Talibans were killed and over a dozen wounded in a joint operation between Afghan and Western forces in eastern Afghanistan, officials said on Saturday.They were killed late on Friday in Kunar province, its governor Fazlullah Wahedi said, adding that
| The rebels had recently crossed the border from Pakistan to launch an attack on foreign forces. |
Captain Adam Khan Mateen of the Afghanistan Army, citing military intelligence reports, said some of the fighters were foreigners. “We’ve intercepted their radio conversations and have intelligence reports stating that some of them were foreigners,” he said.