Kabul - A terrorist who allegedly recruited Afghan children to serve as suicide bombers has been taken into custody, US officials reported Sunday. The arrest was made south of the Afghan capital of Kabul. A second rebel sympathizer had been taken into custody the night before in operations in the province of Logar.
The two belonged to the Hakkani Network, considered to be "one of the deadliest Taliban organizations" and had been active in the troubled Afghan area along the Pakistani border.
US-led coalition troops and Afghan soldiers participated in the mission.
Also on Sunday, military officials reported that two international troops were killed Saturday in southern Afghanistan by local militants.
The deaths came after an attack with a homemade explosive device, reported the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) on Sunday. The soldiers' nationalities were not known.
US and Afghan troops began a major anti-Taliban offensive in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand on Thursday, with support from British troops.
