50 militants killed in Afghan battle

Afghanistan seems to be a gory picture of stretching militant attacks, fighting and insurgency. In a recent encounter between NATO troops and Taliban militants, around 50 insurgents were killed, while the army too had a few casualities. Inhabiting several hundreds of thousands of Taliban and Al Qaeda militants, Afghanistan is a daily battleground with sporadic fighting, clashes going on between the U.S. led NATO coalition forces and the terrorists. More than 3000 have lost their lives this year, the most vulnerable to death and destruction being the innocent civilians. Be it Helmand, Kabul or Kandhar, the death toll is mounting for the troops and the militants, whose accurate number has never been precisely known. As Afghanistan prepares itself for forthcoming winter, battle between Taliban and the NATO forces heads to a new battleground. With most of the coalition forces attacking the insurgents with air raids, the militants are killing troops in ambush attacks. In a way, both the terrorists and the NATO fighters have fallen to the deathtraps laid for them by each other. The Taliban militants have also taken to a new recourse, tapping mobile phones of soldiers to create panic back home. Afghanistan has been in the midst of violence ever since the Soviet troops moved in to it, pressing the panic button for the poor Afghans resulting in a bloody violent situation from which the country has not yet recovered. The story of Afghanistan is a sad tale of misery of its people suffering from Taliban brutality and events that unfolded afterwards and the war on terror has neither helped significantly. What fate lies ahead for Afghanistan is a billion dollars question, the answer to which mums the most rhetoric. Image1 Image2 Image3 Source: BBC