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PESHAWER, June 19 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - Al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters killed forty soldiers from the U.S. special forces in southeast Afghanistan near the Pakistani borders, a Pakistani newspaper reported Wednesday, June 19. In response, U.S. forces attacked the entire area, said the Urdu-language Mashreq paper. Besides the 40 U.S. soldiers, 10 of the Afghan-U.S. allies were also killed during the attack which the fighters carried out at the American forces. U.S. forces were on their way to carry out an inspection and survey mission on the Birmil area in the province of Khost. The news was not confirmed...