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KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Afghan officials say five Taliban fighters have been killed by a NATO airstrike or by the Taliban's own explosives.
A spokesman for Afghan Interior Ministry Zmaray Bashari confirmed that three of the militants died during an NATO airstrike in the country's Helmand province, while the other two fighters were killed as they were planting a roadside bomb, the Kuwait news agency KUNA reported.
The spokesman said two of the soldiers killed in the air strike were later identified as a mid-level Taliban commander and two Pakistani nationals.
The two other militants were killed while planting a bomb near Lashkargah, the Helmand province's capital city, on a road typically used by both local and Afghan forces.
Meanwhile, five people with alleged links to al-Qaida and the Taliban were arrested in the Nangarhar province's capital of Jalalabad, the report said.
KUNA said a coalition spokesman reported the five men, of unidentified nationalities, were detained by Afghan and coalition forces during a raid.
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