US-led coalition troops killed more than 130 Taliban fighters in Afghanistan over the past several days, the coalition said on Monday, but thousands of Afghans staged a protest saying the victims were civilians reports Reuters in the Financial Times.
Backed by air support, the Taliban were killed in two separate battles in the western province of Herat, the US military said in a statement. The deaths triggered an angry protest – the second in the country in two days – over what local villagers say was the killing of civilians.
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