A known Taliban guerrilla leader was killed by U.S.-led and Afghan forces after leading an ambush on a military convoy in eastern Afghanistan, a provincial security officer said on Thursday. The Taliban attacked the convoy on Wednesday in the district of Alishing in Laghman province, some 80 km (50 miles) northeast of Kabul. After a two-hour firefight near the village of Qala, the attackers fled leaving behind the body of Mullah Janan, a known Taliban military commander, Laghman's deputy security commander told Reuters.
In another incident two Taliban fighters were captured in the Maruf district on the southern province of Kandahar on Tuesday night, according to Raziq Khan, commander of the Afghan army brigade at Spin Boldak, near the border with Pakistan. Khan said the two men were cornered in the village of Esa Khail after smuggling arms into the country.
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