Airstrikes against Taliban militants left 10 insurgents dead in Afghanistan's eastern Kuner province on Saturday, an official said on Sunday.
"Acting on intelligence reports indicating that insurgents have been planning to attack Afghan and international joint troops in Soki district, the forces called on war planes, killing 10 insurgents on the spot," Gen.
Mohammad Qasim, commander of Afghan- NATO military operations coordination center in the province, told Xinhua.
However, Tahir Salfi, who claimed to talk for Taliban outfits, rejected the claim in talks with media via cell phone from undisclosed location, saying "only two Taliban fighters have been injured in the incident, but our men also inflected causalities on NATO forces."
Eastern Afghanistan has been the scene of Taliban-led insurgency. Parts of the 30,000 additional troops announced by U.S. President Barak Obama are expected to be deployed in eastern parts of the post-Taliban country to
combat Taliban-led militancy there.