KABUL, Aug 27 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - Five more suspected Taliban fighters were killed Tuesday, August 26, in the U.S.-led Warrior Sweep Operation jointly waged in tandem with Afghan troops.

In Kandahar provincial spokesman Khalid Pashtun said five more suspects were killed and four arrested Tuesday as 500 Afghan troops continued operations in Zabul's Daychopan district 300 kilometers (190 miles) southwest of Kabul, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP).

"Coalition forces are helping us with air support and are bombing Taliban posts," he said.

Another 300 soldiers were carrying out search operations in two districts of Zabul near the border with Kandahar.

"The clean-up operation is still going on in Dozi village and Dozi mountains. The ongoing operation will continue for another 10 to 20 days," Haji Sadow, secretary for provincial security commander Ayob Khan, told AFP by satellite phone.

At least 14 Taliban suspects were killed Monday, August 26, as around 1,000 Afghan troops backed by U.S.-led forces and aircraft smashed bases used by suspected Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters in the Dozi mountains of Zabul province's Daychopan district, 80 kilometers east of the Tarin Kot firefight.

Afghan officials put estimates of suspected Taliban deaths as high as 50.

Zabul government spokesman Ahmadullah Watan Dost on Monday said 40 to 50 militants had been killed.

Sadow said the fighters were Taliban from the central province of Uruzgan and the southern provinces of Helmand and Kandahar, all former strongholds of the toppled regime during its rule from 1996 to 2001 rule.

But an American spokesman could not confirm the figure.

"Some Afghan sources have said as many as 50 (killed) but without confirmation from coalition sources we have said at least 14," the spokesman told reporters at Bagram Air Base, 50 kilometers (31 miles) north of Kabul.

"We are sweeping the area, we are aggressively pursuing anti-coalition elements. Wherever they are going to move, we're trying to find them," he added.

Local Afghan officials have said up to 300 Taliban were regrouping in mountains in Zabul and Uruzgan, the birthplace of the Taliban's spiritual leader Mullah Mohammad Omar.

They further alleged that Taliban members are regrouping in Pakistan's remote tribal borderlands.