Mar. 13: Afghan-ISAF Operations in Western, Eastern, Southern Afghanistan
NEWS RELEASE ISAF Joint Command - Afghanistan  2010-03-CA-058  For Immediate Release

 KABUL, Afghanistan (March 13) - An Afghan-international security force killed eight militants and captured a foreign fighter facilitator in Farah last night. Three of the eight militants killed were identified as foreign fighters.   A joint security team went to a small compound in a rural area north of the village of Shir Sorkh, in the Gulistam district, after intelligence information indicated militant activity. As the joint force arrived they immediately came under fire from the insurgents inside. The security force returned fire and cleared the enemy from the compound. One militant, who was wounded, was a foreign fighter facilitator responsible for the moving and equipping foreign militant fighters coming into Afghanistan.   A search of the building found multiple weapons, to include rocket-propelled grenades, machine guns and hand grenades.