US forces say they have arrested a Taliban commander named Shah Noor, also known as Agha Khan, in southern Zabul province last month. One Coalition soldier was killed in Helmand province and seven Taliban were killed in an airstrike after they laid a landmine in the Panjwai district. Taliban militants in southern Afghanistan are launching fewer direct attacks on Canadian troops because they suffer heavy casualties from such operations.
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