By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Afghan and foreign troops battled with Taliban militants and called in airstrikes in a series of clashes in the country's south that left 40 insurgents dead, an official said Sunday.
The joint force clashed with militants in the mountainous Shah Wali Kot district in Kandahar province during a three-day operation that ended Saturday and left 35 insurgents dead, said provincial police chief Sayed Agha Saqib.
Ten other insurgents were detained near the militants' mountainous hide-outs, which they used to launch attacks against Afghan and foreign troops in the area, Saqib said.
Authorities recovered the militants' bodies along with their automatic weapons and ammunition, he said.
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