In Afghanistan, about 40 Taliban militants were killed and 14 injured when militants launched a cross-border attack against police check-posts in the country's eastern Paktika Province. A Provincial Government spokesman said, dozens of militants crossed the Afghan-Pakistan border and stormed Afghan border police checkposts in Nahmat Abad area of the Gomal district yesterday. He said, helicopters of NATO-led International Security Assistance Force supported the police in the fight against militants. He said, an Afghan Taliban key commander named Zanzer was among the killed. Earlier in the day, the NATO-led ISAF confirmed losing two soldiers in an insurgent attack also in eastern Afghanistan.