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The operation was targeting an insurgent leader of the Taliban-affiliated militant group Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, Isaf said in a statement released Saturday.
Four insurgents were killed in a shoot-out after an armed insurgent emerged from the targeted house with a woman and some children in front of him. Isaf reported he started firing on the coalition forces from behind the woman and children, then two other insurgents also started firing from other locations.
The woman was wounded during the gunfight, and has been airlifted by helicopter, along with her husband, to a medical facility for treatment where she is listed as being in a stable condition, Isaf said.
One other insurgent was wounded and "several" insurgents were detained.
Isaf said the targeted leader "plans and conducts attacks against coalition troops throughout northern Afghanistan and is suspected in plotting an attack against a senior Afghan official".
The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan is a Taliban-affiliated group of militants operating in relatively peaceful northern Afghan provinces.
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