KABUL - Afghan security forces and international troops have killed 70 Taleban rebels in a week-long push to drive the militants from a southern district, an intelligence department statement said on Saturday.Dozens of Afghan soldiers supported by NATO-led military forces launched the hunt last Saturday in Nari Saraj district of insurgency-hit southern Helmand province, the statement said. Up to 70 rebels including five militant commanders were killed and more than 30 others were injured, it said.
Taleban militants “are now cleared” from the area, the statement said. It did not say when the district was overrun by the rebels.