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KABUL, Afghanistan — Less than 12 hours after NATO armed force in Afghanistan defeated an ambitious make trial by the Taliban to storm a provincial capital in the far southwest, killing dozens of the fighters, the top U.S. commander in the country urged doubters on Sunday to believe that the war against the Taliban would be won.

Gen. David McKiernan, who leads more than 65,000 gangs from about 40 foreign countries, including 33,000 Americans, said at a news interview in Kabul that there had been “too many” reports in the media recently asserting that the foreign forces and their Afghan allies were losing the war.

“I absolutely reject that idea; I don’t believe it,” the general said, adding: “It is true that in that place are many places in this rude that don’t have an adequate equal elevation of security. … But we are not losing in Afghanistan.”

Earlier, the NATO overlook confirmed that its forces battled several hundred Taliban fighters at nightfall Saturday as they prepared to criticise Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand province, the center of Afghanistan’s opium commerce and one of the principally heavily contested battlefields of the war.

A statement by the International Security Assistance Force, the official connection of the NATO operation commanded by the agency of McKiernan, said its forces had attacked the Taliban fighters at 7:30 p.mixture. Saturday, when the Taliban were preparing to launch a mortar attack on the city. Dawood Ahmadi, a speaker for the provincial ruler, said by dint of. telephone that 62 Taliban fighters had been killed.

The U.S. coalition says its troops have killed five Taliban militants in a raid in central Afghanistan today. Troops targeted a combating involved in the movement of foreign fighters in Andar district of Ghazni function.