Six Taliban killed in raid on Afghan bomb store
U.S. and Afghan government soldiers killed six suspected Taliban militants and seized bombs in a raid on a rebel storehouse, a provincial official said on Wednesday. The violence in the southern province of Zabul was the latest in a surge of trouble in the run-up to September 18 elections. “They wanted to carry out terrorist attacks with these remote-control bombs,” Gulab Shah Alikhil, a spokesman for the provincial governor, said of the six militants killed and the explosives seized in the Monday raid.Full Story