Kandahar, June 15, SPA -- Fighting between about 90suspected Taliban rebels and hundreds of Afghan soldiersand U.S.-coalition troops left seven insurgents dead and 10wounded, while a rebel attack on a medical clinic left adoctor and six others dead, officials said Wednesday. The clash broke out on the border between Kandahar andUruzgan, two southern provinces, on Tuesday after therebels attacked a joint Afghan-coalition patrol, armycommander Gen. Muslim Amid said. Four Afghan soldiers were wounded in the fighting, whichended with the insurgents fleeing into nearby mountains,carrying their injured, he said. Two rebels were captured. Troops pursued the rebels into the mountains and werestill hunting them on Wednesday, Amid added. U.S. military spokesman Lt. Col. Jerry O'Hara confirmedthat coalition troops were involved in the fighting, butdeclined to comment on it, saying an assessment was stillgoing on. He said there were no coalition casualties.--SPA1520 Local Time 1220 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/270099