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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - Militants attacked a coalition forces base in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, sparking a firefight that killed two foreign troops and at least 12 rebels, the U.S. military said. At least one of the soldiers was American.
Four foreign troops and an Afghan soldier were wounded in the battle in Helmand province, the military said in a statement. The region is a hotbed of insurgency and center of the booming drugs trade.
The troops called in aircraft to attack the militants and together with the forces inside the base "are believed to have killed at least a dozen enemy insurgents," the statement said. But it added the military was still conducting a full assessment of the battle.
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