JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Nine insurgents were killed and another 13 wounded on Monday during a clash and an airstrike in two districts of eastern Nangarhar province.
Nangarhar governor’s spokesman, Attaullah Khogyani, told Pajhwok Afghan News Taliban insurgents attacked Special Forces in Batikot district at about 6am this morning.
Five attackers were killed and four others wounded when the forces retaliated, he said.
Separately, an airstrike by foreign forces killed four militants and injured nine others in Markikhel area of Shirzad district at about 10am today . . .
