Five Militants Killed in Volatile Eastern Region
U.S. and Afghan soldiers killed five militants during a large-scale operation targeting Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters in a volatile eastern region near Pakistan.
The renewed violence in Kunar province came as Afghanistan urged neighboring Pakistan to do more to curb militancy on their shared frontier, drawing an angry rebuke from Islamabad, which has deployed 80,000 soldiers to the region.
The U.S. military said in a statement that a patrol spotted a group of seven militants near the provincial capital, Asadabad, and killed five of them.
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