Afghan and international security forces eliminated more than a dozen militants and detained another during a joint operation targeting Al-Qaeda in Kunar province of eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, said a statement of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), Xinhua reported.
   "Today a joint security force killed more than a dozen militants and detained a suspected militant after searching a mountainside compound in Kunar province known to be used by an al- Qaida commander whose element believed responsible for the facilitation of foreign fighters and numerous attacks in Pech Valley," the statement said.
   There were no casualties on the combined forces or local civilians, Mathias, a U.S. military spokeswomen said.
   Moreover, the statement confirmed one U.S. service member was killed in an improvised explosive device strike on Saturday in western Afghanistan.
   Conflicts and violence have claimed 407 international troops, including 241 from the U.S., as NATO's supreme commander in Afghanistan General Stanley McChrystal has asked for additional 40, 000 troops to control the deteriorating security situation in the war-plagued country.