US airstrike kill 17 in southeastern Afghanistan

At least 17 Taliban militants, including 15 Pakistanis, were killed in an air raid launched in an operation carried out by the Afghan forces and the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan (ISAF) in Ghazni province, Southern Afghanistan. A spokesman for the Afghan Army, Nazif Sultani, said that15 of the 17 fighters killed in the airstrike, carried Pakistan identity cards. The operation was conducted by Afghan and ISAF troops in the Sanginak area of Andar district late on Monday. Sultani said the air raid targeted a compound where the insurgents were hiding, adding that there were no civilian or Afghan and NATO military casualties.