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The police complex sits near the main highway between Kandahar and the capital of Kabul, 148 miles to the north. A weapons training school and police literacy center are located inside the complex. Kandahar is a Taliban stronghold that has seen some of the most intense fighting of the war. Also on Thursday, NATO announced that it had concluded what it described as a "significant operation" in mountainous eastern Kunar province near the border with Pakistan. More than 80 insurgents were killed after joint Afghan and coalition forces cleared militants out of four villages, NATO said. "The combined security force moved into the mountainous area near the Pakistan border in order to disrupt insurgent activities in the region," NATO said in a statement. "Insurgents had been using the area to move supplies and men into Kunar province and to stage attacks on Afghan and coalition forces." Afghanistan's Ministry of Defense said late Wednesday that more than 130 insurgents were killed in the area over the past two weeks. Few details have been released, but at least six U.S. soldiers were killed in the area last week.
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