Translating the news
The story from Afghanistan yesterday:
About 300 Taliban militants believed to be holed up in a district north of Kandahar City were under siege on Wednesday, surrounded by Canadian troops fighting alongside Afghan and coalition forces, NATO officials said.
In three days of intense firefights in the Arghandab district, coalition and Afghan national forces have so far killed 50 Taliban fighters and wounded 50 more, authorities said.
And in today's news:
Insurgents have failed to seize control of a coveted corridor into Kandahar city, leaving only "ineffective" pockets of resistance as they left the scene of a major battle with coalition forces, a Canadian military officer said Thursday.
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"They are trying to leave pockets of resistance but they are being very ineffective and we are pushing them out of the Arghandab district," Landry told reporters at Kandahar Airfield.
About 300 Taliban militants were involved in the fighting over Arghandab, about 25 kilometres north of Kandahar. At least 50 of them were killed and an equal number were injured after three days of fierce firefights with Canadian, U.S. and Afghan forces.
Translation:
The 300 Taliban we said we had surrounded yesterday, slipped past us and escaped back to areas they control to bother us again some other day, while leaving behind a small holding force to keep us distracted.
