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A US drone passes overhead at a forward operating base near Kandahar, on January 1, 2009/AFP

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US air strike accidentally kills five Afghan police

Abdulzai said that the rebels also suffered casualties but he gave no further details.

Bati Kot district is on the main road from the capital Kabul to neighbouring Pakistan a key transport route as NATO forces withdraw military equipment from Afghanistan.

Talks on whether a number American troops would remain in Afghanistan beyond 2014 to target remaining Al Qaeda militants and further train Afghan forces collapsed in June when Karzai was angered by the opening of a Taliban office in Qatar.

The Taliban issue was just one in a series of spats between the nations, which also included which country should have control over prisons holding suspected insurgents.

US Secretary of State John Kerry said in Islamabad on Thursday that he was confident Washington and Kabul could salvage the stalled security negotiations.

In a sign of progress, Afghanistan on Thursday said it had dropped efforts to collect $70 million in fines on US cargo being shipped out of the country.

Kabul’s attempt to impose the customs penalties triggered outrage in the US, which has provided billions of dollars of civil support and military assistance to Afghanistan since 2001.

Huge volumes of US hardware are being transported home, and the Afghan government had insisted that US forces pay $1,000 for each shipping container that lacked “valid” customs forms, with the dispute blocking border crossings for a time.

Karzai had previously tried to reduce the number of civilian casualties in Afghanistan by banning the country’s troops from calling in air strikes.

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