Eight Taliban killed in southern Afghanistan

KABUL—Police say eight Taliban fighters have been killed in an operation by Afghan and Western troops, after the rebels ambushed a civilian supply convoy in troubled southern Afghanistan. The rebels were killed late Saturday (local time) in a raid launched after militants had ambushed the trucks ferrying supplies to foreign military bases in Zabul province, a police official said on Sunday. “Taliban attacked a civilian convoy. After brief fighting with security guards, the rebels retreated into a nearby village, stealing a vehicle of the guards,” provincial deputy police chief Faridullah Zadran said. “Police, the army and NATO forces chased them. In fighting that we had with the Taliban, eight of them were killed and four others were captured. The stolen car was also recovered.”

—Online