Two separate airstrikes in Afghanistan's south and east have killed more than 27 militants, including Chechen fighters, officials said Tuesday. Authorities clashed with Taliban fighters and requested airstrikes from foreign troops in the southern Uruzgan province on Tuesday, which killed 15 militants, said provincial police chief Juma Gul Himat. Two wounded Taliban fighters were wounded, Himat said. Authorities recovered the bodies of dead militants, he said. In the eastern Paktika province, meanwhile, another airstrike hit a group of foreign fighters and killed 12 militants, including nine Chechen fighters, said Ruhulla Samon, the spokesman for the provincial governor. There were no casualties among Afghan forces in either clash, the Associated Press reported.
