33 Taliban killed - NICE DAY IN AFGHANISTAN INDEED!!!!

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33 Taliban killed in south Afghanistan - Yahoo! News

33 Taliban killed in south Afghanistan
By RAHIM FAIEZ, Associated Press Writer
Posted 47 minutes ago

KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghan and U.S.-led coalition troops, using artillery and airstrikes, killed 33 Taliban fighters after the insurgents attacked a police checkpoint in southern Afghanistan, while a clash in the northeast also killed dozens of militants, officials said Friday.

The militants in the south attacked two police vehicles with gunfire and rocket-propelled grenades. Coalition and Afghan forces responded in what the coalition described as a "sparsely populated area" in Uruzgan province.

Gen. Zahir Azimi said 33 Taliban fighters were killed. The coalition reported there were no indications of civilian casualties from the fighting and said no coalition or Afghan forces were killed or wounded.

In northeastern Kunar province, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said militants ambushed its soldiers, who called in airstrikes on "positively identified enemy firing positions" in a remote area.

Kunar Gov. Shalizai Dedar said that Afghan army commanders told him that dozens of militants were killed. He added that there were reports of civilian deaths, although he said those reports were not confirmed.

"There were some number of insurgents that were killed. We have no reason to believe that any civilians were killed at this time," said Maj. John Thomas, a NATO spokesman.

Violence has spiked in Afghanistan in the last several weeks. More than 3,000 people have died in insurgency-related violence in Afghanistan this year — including more than 2,000 militants, according to an Associated Press count based on figures from Western and Afghan officials. More than 1,000 people were killed in June alone.

Elsewhere, a suicide bomber attacked a NATO convoy east of the capital, leaving two soldiers with minor wounds, Afghan officials said.

The bomber damaged both vehicles in the two-vehicle convoy in the Dah Sabuz district of Kabul province, said Zemrai Bashary, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry.

NATO confirmed the blast, and said that two of its troops were wounded, without disclosing their nationalities. Mohammad Sardar, an Afghan soldier at the site, said the wounded were British.

The attack took place a day after another bomber in the south blew himself up at a checkpoint, killing 10 police and wounding 11, while a roadside bomb and clashes in the east left three NATO soldiers dead, authorities said. The alliance did not release the soldiers' nationalities. Most foreign troops in the east are American.

The latest NATO casualties raised the number of foreign soldiers killed this year to at least 105

[Matt58]

Hell yes!! Our Military is doing a great job over there.

Though i'm going to have to say i'm suprised the headline didn't say "20 Civilians and 33 Taliban Dead" because that's mostly all you hear from the media.

[joemomma]

Sweet. You're right Matt, I'm surprised it didn't have the usual media spin on it.

[ShortBucRising]

Media kills everything. We're probably doing better than some stations let on.