| Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces have killed more than 90 militants during several days of fighting in the south of the country this week, the U.S. military and the Afghan Interior Ministry said on Saturday. More than three dozen insurgents were killed in clashes which erupted on Wednesday and were continuing on Saturday, a spokesman for the U.S. military said. Afghan and coalition forces had also killed more than 30 insurgents during three days of fighting in separate clashes in Kandahar province this week. Separately, on Friday Afghan police killed 23 insurgents after militants attacked two separate police checkpoints in Nad Ali district of Helmand province, the Interior Ministry said in a statement on Saturday. A Taliban spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, said Taliban fighters had taken control of the Marja district in Helmand province and Nawa district in Ghazni province. Afghan district officials said their forces were pushing the Taliban back out of the districts. |