Nato says 50 insurgents killed in Afghanistan

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/nato-says-50-insurgents-killed-in-afghanistan-2318800.html

International and Afghan troops battled heavily armed insurgents holed up in caves and bunkers that served as a way station for foreign fighters crossing into the country from Pakistan, the US-led coalition said today. The two days of fighting killed more than 50 of the militants, it said.

The foreign fighter encampment is located in a rugged, mountainous part of eastern Afghanistan's Paktika province. Insurgents from the Haqqani network, which is affiliated with the Taliban and al-Qa'ida, used the camp as a staging area for fighters brought over the border to carry out attacks across the country, the coalition said.

International forces and Afghan troops, including Afghan special forces, battled insurgents armed with rocket-propelled grenade launchers, heavy machine guns and AK-47 assault rifles.

The joint force recovered stockpiles of weapons, including mortars, RPGs, machine guns, crates of ammunition, AK-47s, grenades and other military gear, the coalition said.