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Mon, May 9 2011 Two insurgents killed during battle in Afghanistan Tweet Share this KABUL (Reuters) - About 200 Taliban fighters attacked a police outpost in a remote, mountainous region of Afghanistan's east on Tuesday, police and government officials said, with two insurgents killed during a gunfight lasting several hours. The... 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The Taliban announced this month the start of its long-awaited "spring offensive", with dozens of fighters staging a two-day siege in the southern city of Kandahar that came to a bloody end on Sunday. U.S. and Afghan commanders have also warned of a spike in violence as insurgents push back after NATO-led troops made gains during offensives, mainly in the Taliban heartland in the south, over the past year. Afghan and foreign troops however have less control over more remote areas in provinces like Nuristan and Kunar in the east near the border with Pakistan. Sham ul Rahman, the police chief of Nuristan, said there had been "a short engagement" between Taliban fighters and Afghan security forces after insurgents attacked a police outpost in the Chapras area of Nuristan earlier on Tuesday. He said two insurgents were killed and one wounded, and three members of Afghan security forces wounded during the battle. "A group of insurgents fired on a police outpost and were pushed back," Rahman told Reuters by telephone in Nuristan. "The gunbattle lasted for few hours." He said about 200 Taliban fighters had crossed into Nuristan from the Chapa Dara district in neighboring Kunar province, climbing into mountains above the police outpost to launch their attack. A spokesman for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Kabul said the coalition was aware of reports of fighting in the area but said it had not yet been asked for help. "We are certainly standing by to assist if we receive a request," the ISAF spokesman said. Nuristan governor Jamaluddin Badr said insurgents have sanctuaries in Chapa Dara, from where they sometimes launch attacks into Nuristan. There are relatively few foreign troops in the area and it is not unusual for insurgents to overwhelm remote outposts, only to be pushed back later by security forces. Afghan troops, aided by ISAF, on Monday mopped up the remnants of a major assault launched by the Taliban in Kandahar city, the main city in the south, where the governor's compound and other key facilities were attacked by suicide bombers and Taliban fighters on Saturday. Officials said at least 20 attackers, many of them suicide bombers who had used explosives-packed vehicles, were killed during the operation. Three Afghan troops and a civilian were also killed in a battle that showed the Taliban retain the ability to launch telling strikes in an area where U.S. and Afghan leaders say significant progress has been made against the insurgents. Violence across Afghanistan last year reached its worst levels since the Taliban were overthrown in late 2001, with record casualties on all sides of the conflict. 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