Eight insurgents killed

Nato says it has killed at least eight insurgents and captured a Taliban leader in several operations throughout Afghanistan. The coalition said Saturday that five of the insurgents were killed a day earlier in an operation targeting a Taliban leader in the northern Kunduz province.
It was unclear whether the Taliban leader was among those killed or detained. In the Taliban's traditional southern stronghold of Kandahar, Nato launched two airstrikes targeting a Taliban militant involved in a December 12 suicide car bombing that killed three insurgents.