KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - U.S.-led troops mounted overnight raids on suspected al-Qaida compounds in eastern Afghanistan, killing four people and detaining several others, officials said Sunday.
The U.S. military said ``several Arab fighters'' were among the suspects killed or detained in the operation in Nangarhar province, although a local official said only Afghans survived.
News of the operation came as the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan told The Associated Press that al-Qaida suspects continued to slip across the nearby Pakistani border.
The overnight attack targeted several compounds that ``had clear connections to al-Qaida,'' the military said in a statement.
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