.S. warplanes and ground forces killed five suspected Taliban fighters at a compound in central Afghanistan, the U.S. military said Sunday. The U.S. attack occurred Friday in Uruzgan province, an isolated mountain area with a heavy presence of Taliban fighters. ``We were going into their stronghold, the heart of the Taliban, disrupting them,'' U.S. military spokesman Lt. Col. Bryan Hilferty said in Kabul, the capital.
On Friday, U.S. and Afghan forces returned to the area and took fire from a Taliban compound. U.S. forces returned fire, and called in A-10 attack planes and B-1 bombers before sending in ground forces, Hilferty said. No U.S. casualties were reported during the operation and one woman was wounded inside the compound, he said. The U.S. forces found a ton of weapons, including rockets, mines and ``bomb-making material,'' from the compound, Hilferty said. American forces also searched houses in the area, and detained several people, he said. |