Kabul - Up to 11 police and 20 Taliban fighters have been killed in fresh clashes in southern Afghanistan while two government officers were kidnapped in Logar province, officials and the rebels said Monday. The Taliban say they killed 11 policemen when they attacked a police convoy in Ajristan district of southern Ghazni province late Sunday. Provincial officials confirmed the death toll.
"Eleven police were killed as our fighters ambushed their convoy and destroyed two four-by-four vehicles of them in Gharghara Kotal area Bodies of the dead are still scattered in the battlefield," Taliban spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
Provincial security chief Muhammad Zaman told
