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Taliban Said Routed Near Kandahar

Posted Jun 19, 08 7:21 CDT in World 

(AP) – Yesterday's swift offensive by Afghan and NATO forces drove Taliban militants from a strategic group of villages outside southern Afghanistan's largest city and killed 56 insurgents, Afghan officials said today. The Afghan National Army has taken control of the villages, a defense ministry spokesman said, but militants had planted hundreds of land mines in the area before fleeing, the AP reports.

NATO officials did not confirm that Arghandab, a river valley 10 miles northwest of Kandahar,  was militant-free, but did say the alliance launched a "limited number of successful airstrikes" overnight, and that the joint Afghan-NATO offensive was progressing through Arghandab "methodically and successfully" and had met minimal resistance.

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US soldiers patrol through Kabul, Afghanistan, on Thursday, June 19, 2008.   (Rahmat Gul)
An Afghan soldier guards a village in Arghandab district, in Kandahar province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday June 19, 2008.   (AP Photo/Musadeq sadeq)
A Canadian soldier with the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) stands guard in Arghandab district, where is partly controlled by the Taliban militants, in Kandahar province.   (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
An Afghan soldier mans a check point in Arghandab district which is partly controlled by Taliban militants, in Kandahar province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, June 18, 2008.   (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)
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