By NNN-SPA
Kabul, Afghanistan : Twelve Taliban fighters were killed by artillery fire along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border after insurgents attacked a military post with rockets and mortars, the U.S.-led coalition said Sunday.
The fighting occurred as a string of bombings and gun battles elsewhere around Afghanistan left 41 people dead and six wounded on Saturday, including two foreigners hurt in a suicide bombing near the capital.
Coalition and Afghan troops in eastern Patoka province were attacked by insurgents who fired rockets and mortar rounds toward a coalition observation post Saturday, a coalition statement was quoted as saying by the Associated Press.