KABUL – A spokesman for a Taliban commander says a captured U.S. soldier will be executed unless the U.S. military stops operations in two districts of southeastern Afghanistan.
The Taliban said last week they were holding the soldier. The U.S. military earlier said he went missing and may be in enemy hands.
Abdullah Jalali, spokesman for Taliban commander Mawlavi Sangin, told The Associated Press on Thursday the soldier was healthy but threatened to kill him unless the U.S. stops airstrikes in Ghazni province's Giro district and Paktika province's Khoshamand district.
Jalali says Giro has been heavily bombed by international forces but did not otherwise explain why they chose those areas.
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KABUL AP A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden station wagon into a police convoy in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing three police, the Interior Ministry said.
Four other police officers were wounded in the morning attack in Nimroz province's Khashord district, the ministry said in a statement.
Militants regularly use roadside and suicide bombings to attack international and government troops in Afghanistan, making the makeshift explosive one of the biggest threats to forces trying to rout the resurgent Taliban.
The bombing follows an attack on an international forces supply convoy in southern Paktika province on Wednesday that left at least eight insurgents and two police officers dead, along with a private security guard, the ministry said.
A provincial official put the death toll from the Paktika clash much higher, saying 21 insurgents and three border police died. Hamidullah Zhwak, a spokesman for the provincial governor, said he had no reports of private security guards killed.
Military supply convoys in Afghanistan are operated by contractors and guarded by private security guards. Zhwak said there were about 80 guards protecting the convoy that was attacked.
Two Afghan army soldiers were killed in two other attacks in the south on Wednesday, the Defense Ministry said.
In the east, meanwhile, international and Afghan forces killed two insurgents who helped mount bomb attacks in the area, NATO forces said. Four other militants were captured in Wednesday's operation in Kunar province, the military alliance said in a statement. It did not give further details.
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