ABUL -- Taliban militants attacked a southern town Thursday in the latest violence in Afghanistan, sparking intense fighting that left two insurgents dead, the Defense Ministry said.
A NATO air strike pushed back the militants, who used mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and heavy machine guns in the attack on Naw Zad, in volatile Helmand province, said Defense Ministry spokesman Gen. Zahir Azimi. He said the fighting was "intense."
A Dutch F-16 fighter jet crashed in Ghazni province in central Afghanistan, killing the pilot, military officials said. Hostile fire was ruled out because it was flying too high to have been shot down. The 29-year old pilot, the only person on board, was found dead.
The Netherlands is a key contributor to a multinational force in charge of security operations in southern Afghanistan.
In Zabul province, a suicide attacker plowed his explosives-filled car into a police convoy traveling on the main road, wounding three officers, said Jailan Khan, provincial police chief.
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