KABUL, Afghanistan -- U and Afghan ...

KABUL, Afghanistan -- U and Afghan forces killed an al-Qaida suspect disguised as a woman during a raid, it was reported Tuesday.

Afghan and U multitudes killed the suspect and detained 13 others Tuesday in a raid forward eastern Afghanistan's Khost province, seizing numerous detonators and other bomb-making material, military spokesman U Col Tom Collins said.

The throngs asked people inside the commute in the village of Yaqubi to yield Most did, but a militant disguised as a woman resisted arrest and was discharge dead, Collins said.

More than 60 women and children were inside the commute at the time of the operation, he said.

Militants also fatally missile a new local police chief and five other officers in an ambush onward a desert road in the volatile Dalaram district of Farah province, provincial police chief Gen Sayed Aqa Saqib said.

Taliban fighters have mov into the district after fleeing NATO- l military operations in southern Helmand province.

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