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FACTBOX: Security developments in Afghanistan

Fri Aug 22, 2008 1:04pm EDT

(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Afghanistan at 1:00 p.m. EDT on Friday:

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* HERAT - U.S.-led coalition forces killed 76 Afghan civilians, most of them women and children, in air strikes on Friday afternoon, the Interior Ministry said.

Coalition forces said they had killed 30 militants, including a Taliban commander, in an air strike in the same area in the early hours of Friday, the U.S. military said, but denied any civilians were killed.

PAKTIKA - Soldiers from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) fired artillery rounds into Pakistan from the eastern province of Paktika on Friday in a coordinated attack with the Pakistani military, the ISAF said. ISAF could not confirm how many insurgents were killed but said there were no civilian casualties.

EASTERN AFGHANISTAN - A bomb killed a soldier from the U.S.-led force in eastern Afghanistan on Friday, the U.S. military said in a statement.

KAPISA - U.S.-led coalition forces carried out air strikes in Kapisa province on Thursday, northeast of the capital, Kabul, after coming under attack, killing an unspecified number of insurgents, the U.S. military said on Friday.

KANDAHAR - Taliban insurgents killed four Afghan border police in a clash in southern Kandahar province, close to the Pakistani border, late on Thursday, a senior police official told Reuters. Two insurgents were also killed in the fighting.

(Compiled by Jonathon Burch; Editing by Giles Elgood)



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