US & Afghan Forces Kill 25 Taliban

Eight civilians were also killed when the taliban ran into a compound and held 11 civilians hostage including childern. Reuters

The Taliban launched multiple ambushes on a patrol in the Khas Uruzgan district of Uruzgan province on Sunday, the U.S. military said in a statement.

The militants "then fled into a neighbouring compound where they held 11 non-combatants hostage, including several children and an infant," it said.

The insurgents then fired on the coalition forces from the compound and the troops called in an airstrike, but the statement said they did not know there were civilians in the building.

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"The Taliban uses innocent civilians' homes, taking them by force to attack Afghan and coalition forces," the U.S. military quoted Uruzgan Police Chief Juma Gul as saying.

"If civilians get killed during these attacks, the responsibility falls on the Taliban and their terrorist sponsors," he said.