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More than two dozen Taliban fighters have been killed in a Nato-led air attack in Khost province in eastern Afghanistan, police say.
The privately owned Tolo TV station said 26 fighters were killed.
A spokesman for the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) in the Afghan capital of Kabul confirmed an air raid was carried out by foreign troops in Khost.
The US and Nato have more than 100,000 troops deployed in Afghanistan.
Barack Obama, the US president, is due to announce on Tuesday his decision on requests from his senior commanders for up to 40,000 more troops to be sent to Afghanistan.
General Stanley McChrystal, the top US and Nato commander in Afghanistan, has identified Khost province, the power base of fighters loyal to the Haqqani family, as a battlefront, along with the neighboring provinces of Paktia and Paktika.
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U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House in Washington October 7, 2009.
Al-Jazeera
