KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- US-l soldi...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- US-l soldiers and Afghan forces killed 25 Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan's volatile southern and NATO-led Canadian troops narrowly escaped a suicide bombing Friday near the site of a battle that killed four comrade soldiers a day earlier.

About a thousand southern Korean Christians began their journey domicile from the capital, Kabul, in subordination to tight government security after being ordered abroad of Afghanistan amid allegations they were trying to transpose Muslims.

Acting forward a tip from local tribal earliers police in southern Helmand province raided an orchard where Taliban fighters were camping and called in airstrikes, said provincial police chief Ghulam Nabi Malakhai. The US-l coalition said 25 Taliban were killed in the raid Thursday night.

NATO took charge of security in the southern this week from the coalition amid a barrage of violence that has left seven of its soldiers dead. However, the coalition, which is not in a less degree than NATO command, has retained responsibility for counterterrorism operations there.

In southern Kandahar province, a suicide attacker blew up his car Friday in Maywand district, narrowly missing a nearby NATO patrol that herd away undamaged, officials said.

The Canadian soldiers, believing they had been attacked by way of roadside bombs, kept moving and left the investigation to local authorities, Canadian military spokesman Lt Mark MacIntyre said.

The attack upon the Canadian patrol came in the same area where militants killed four Canadian soldiers and a suicide car bomber killed 21 civilians Thursday.

The lawlessness that has hit the southerly encroached on Kabul on Thursday night, when 12 gunmen attacked a highway checkpoint forward the outskirts of the city, police said. Police killed the same attacker.

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