Kabul, Sep 12 (UNI) Afghan forces killed five Taliban militants in central Uruzgan province on Friday night, the Afghan National Army (ANA) said on Saturday.
"Last night, ANA forces conducted an operation in Tarinkot, the capital of Uruzgan province, in which five Taliban insurgents were killed," Sputnik quoted Khwaja Yahya Alawi, the spokesman for the 205th Atal Corps of the military, as saying.
In a separate incident, a failed attempt to plant a mine in the southern Kandahar province resulted in an explosion that killed four Taliban insurgents on Friday, Jamal Nasir Barakzai, a spokesman for the provincial police, told Sputnik.