Afghanistan War News Updates -- January 7, 2009

Soldiers with the US Army's 6-4 Cavalry point out strategic landmarks near Combat Outpost Lowell in eastern Afghanistan January 6, 2009. (Bob Strong/Reuters)

U.S. Says Troops Kill 32 Insurgents In Afghanistan
-- Yahoo News/Reuters

KABUL (Reuters) – U.S.-led coalition forces killed 32 insurgents in fighting that erupted in a village in eastern Afghanistan following a raid on a hideout of bomb makers, the U.S. military said Wednesday.

The Taliban who lead the insurgency against the foreign troops and the Afghan government, said 15 civilians were killed in the U.S.-led assault.

Violence has surged in recent years in Afghanistan since the Taliban, ousted in a U.S.-led invasion in 2001, regrouped in 2005 for driving out the foreign troops and to topple the Western-backed government of President Hamid Karzai.

Tuesday's operation was in a village of Laghman province and targeted a Taliban roadside bomb cell responsible for numerous attacks throughout the region, the U.S. military said in a statement.

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