Battles, ambushes kill around 30 in Afghanistan

A joint Afghan and US-led coalition operation against insurgents in the south killed more than 20 Taliban fighters Sunday, said the provincial police chief. But a roadside bomb exploded and killed one Afghan policeman as the forces were returning to base

Elsewhere, militants attacked a security post in a northwestern province, killing four police, said the provincial police chief. Another Taliban attack in the east killed the police chief in Sarhawza district, while militants elsewhere in the region ambushed a truck of private security guards, killing four of them, said a spokesman for the governor. (AP)