Accessibility links

Breaking News
News

Four Insurgents Killed, One Captured in Afghan Violence

update

The U.S. military in Afghanistan says fighting in two southern provinces has left four suspected militants dead and two Afghan police wounded.

A U.S. military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Jerry O'Hara says three insurgents were killed and two Afghan police officers wounded during a clash Friday in the Deh Rawood district of Uruzgan province. One fighter was captured, along with a light machine gun and a rocket-propelled grenade.

The spokesman said that, on the same day, south of Kabul, one militant was killed when a group of insurgents attacked a U.S. and Afghan military convoy.

There has been an upsurge of violence in Afghanistan ahead of the September 18 parliamentary elections. Hundreds of people have died in militant-related violence so far this year.

Some information for this report provided by AP and AFP.

XS
SM
MD
LG