AKIPRESS.COM - Two US service members and 30 Afghan civilians were killed in Afghanistan's Kunduz province during an operation, Kunduz officials say.

The service members came under fire during a mission to train, advise and assist the American military's Afghan partners in clearing a Taliban position and disrupting the organization's operations in Kunduz district, according to a statement.

Two US service members were also injured in the operation. At least 30 Afghan civilians were killed and 25 others injured in an air-and-ground operation launched in an area known as Bohd Qhandahari, said Sayed Mahmood Danish, a Kunduz provincial spokesman. He told CNN the operation is the same one in which the American service members were killed.

Four members of Afghan special forces were also killed and six others injured, Danish said. Twenty-six insurgents were killed and 10 others were wounded, he added.

Also Thursday a Taliban mortar attack killed at least seven people attending a wedding party in Faryab province in northern Afghanistan, provincial police spokesman Kareem Youresh said. At least 13 people were injured.