Afghan Police Slowly Getting Better

Afghan police backed up by US advisors killed 6 taliban and captured 3. Reuters

SHAJOY, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Afghan police backed by U.S. troops killed three Taliban fighters and captured three more in a 40-minute gunbattle in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, a Reuters witness said.

The firefight erupted after some 40 Afghan police officers, backed by a small team of U.S. mentors entered a village in the Shajoy district of Zabul province.

Taliban fighters fired on the troops before retreating to a nearby hill on motorcycles. The police and U.S. mentors chased the militants and surrounded them.

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At the end of the 40-minute battle, three Taliban were killed and three were captured, one of them wounded.

The United States is pressing its NATO allies to come up with more troops for Afghanistan at an alliance summit in Bucharest in early April. But all sides agree that building up the Afghan army and police is the key to long-term key stability.

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Afghan police also killed three Taliban commanders and their two bodyguards in the southern province of Uruzgan on Thursday, the Interior Ministry in a statement