U.S. forces battled Taliban holdouts in a forbidding mountain range in southern Afghanistan, killing two fighters and arresting two others, an Afghan governor said Thursday. Also Thursday, international peacekeepers announced that they and Afghan security forces had arrested 17 people in the capital in a sweep against suspects allegedly trying to plant a bomb. Four people were arrested in the first phase of the operation early Wednesday afternoon — three near Kabul stadium and a fourth about a half-mile away, in front of the Finance Ministry. Explosives experts found three detonators in the vest of the last suspect and later found a fuse and high explosives, the peacekeepers said in a statement. Full Story
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