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KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Afghan security forces, aided by coalition troops, killed 100 suspected Taliban militants in a two-day operation in southwestern Afghanistan, the Interior Ministry said Saturday.
Zemarai Bashary, a ministry spokesman, said the militants were killed during operations to retake the Bakwa district in Farah province.
Among the dead were five Taliban commanders and two Afghan police officers, he said.
The area is very remote, and the Taliban captured it about seven or eight months ago, Bashary said. Most of the operation to retake the district was finished, he said.
Farah borders Helmand province, Afghanistan's top poppy-producing region and a major front in the war against the Taliban. Provincial authorities have blamed militants for a spate of recent deadly attacks in Farah.
In Nangarhar province in eastern Afghanistan, a suicide bomber in a vehicle killed two NATO soldiers on patrol Saturday, the International Security Assistance Force said. The ISAF did not release the names or nationalities of those killed.
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