KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Afghan forces backed by U.S. troops killed 25 Taliban militants in clashes in the south of the country, police said on Friday, but a roadside bomb also killed four police officers.Afghan police backed by U.S. troops killed 20 Taliban insurgents in the Deh Rawud district of the south-central Uruzgan province overnight and another five were killed in the Nayesh area of the same province, the provincial police chief said.
But a roadside bomb killed four policemen in the Zherai district of Kandahar province on Friday, the district chief said. A suicide bomber blew himself up, targeting an Italian military convoy in southwestern Afghanistan, on Friday but caused no casualties, an Afghan general said.