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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - U.S. troops and warplanes reinforced Afghan forces that were ambushed on a high mountain pass in a firefight that killed about 12 militants and wounded two American soldiers, officials said Tuesday.
In other reminders of Afghanistan's instability, farmers fought a gunbattle with counternarcotics police in the south, and authorities said they arrested three men suspected of trying to abduct an American in the capital.
U.S. forces scrambled to the aid of a convoy of government troops who came under fire Monday from 30-35 militants on a mountain pass near Khost, 90 miles south of Kabul, American and Afghan officials said.
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