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Coalition: 12 militants dead in Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan — The U.S.-led coalition says a dozen militants were killed in a gun battle with coalition forces in Afghanistan.

The coalition says the militants were killed Thursday in Paktika province. Coalition forces were searching compounds in the Bermel district for a militant responsible for “the movement of foreign fighters from Pakistan into Afghanistan.”

The coalition said today that militants fired on them during the search, and that coalition forces fired back, killing the militants

More than 3,700 people — mostly militants — have died in insurgency-related violence in Afghanistan this year.