Over 60 Killed In Three Days In Conflict-Plagued Afghanistan

There are close to 90,000 forces based in Afghanistan to fight a bloody insurgency
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KABUL, June 20 (Xinhua) -- More than 60 people, majority of them Taliban fighters, have been killed in Afghanistan since mid of the week, according to Afghan officials.

The Taliban fighters, in their latest wave of violent attacks against government interests, targeted a convoy of the Afghan national army in eastern Khost province Saturday morning and troops returned fire, killing five insurgents, an official said.

According to Khost Governor Hamidullah Qalandarzai, one passerby was killed in the crossfire while there were no casualties on the troops.

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