2 Killed, 9 Injured in Afghanistan Clash
Villagers clashed with police trying to eradicate poppy fields in northern Afghanistan, leaving at least two farmers dead and nine police injured, an official said Wednesday. Separately, the Defense Ministry said 11 militants had been killed as the result of a combined U.S.-Afghan operation in eastern Afghanistan. Residents in Sari Pul province, about 150 miles northwest of Kabul, blocked their village road with large rocks when a police poppy eradication team approached Tuesday, deputy provincial police chief Sayad Hussin Safawi said. Full Story