Twenty suspected Taleban militants have been killed in a clash with US-led coalition and Afghan forces in the south, an Afghan general says. One Afghan soldier was wounded in the clash in the restive Helmand province, General Rahamatullah Raufi says. He said the forces attacked a Taleban meeting in the Musa Qala district, triggering off a three hour fighting. Fighting has intensified in Afghanistan in recent months. Hundreds of suspected Taleban militants have been killed.
"Twenty Taliban were killed in the operation. Their bodies with their weapons were left at the site," Gen Raufi, who commands Afghan forces in the south, told the AFP news agency.
Last week, US-led coalition forces said they had killed about 40 Taleban fighters in an attack on a compound in southern Uruzgan province.
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