24 Talibans killed in Afghanistan
About two dozen Taliban fighters were killed in separate battles in Afghanistan, one of them in the same province where nine Australian troops were wounded, officials said Wednesday.
The Australian special forces were hurt in a Taliban ambush Tuesday in the southern province of Uruzgan in the nation's worst combat casualty toll in a single incident since Vietnam, the Australian military said.
The police chief of Uruzgan, Juma Gul Hemat, confirmed casualties to Australian troops serving in the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) helping to battle a Taliban-led insurgency.
He said there were several clashes between troops and militants in his province Tuesday.
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