U.S. troops, Afghan police storm Taliban stronghold

The predawn operation takes place in a Kandahar district of 75,000 that includes Kokaran, the insurgent movement's spiritual home. Hours later, militants attack a NATO base, wounding several troops. U.S. soldiers and Afghan police swarmed a dense Taliban stronghold of mud-brick homes on the western shoulder of Kandahar early Saturday, conducting searches and promising aid in a preview of a planned summer campaign...

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