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Afghan airstrikes launched after shooting

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S.-led coalition launched airstrikes against "hostile enemy forces" in eastern Afghanistan over the weekend, U.S. Central Command said Sunday.

The first strike was called Saturday after coalition forces were fired upon at 2:30 a.m. local time (5 p.m. ET Friday) approaching a roadblock, the command said. Precision-guided weapons were dropped on "enemy targets," the command said.

Maj. Bill Harrison, a U.S. Central Command spokesman, said one Afghan was killed and three others were wounded. U.S. aircraft struck the same targets again at 2 a.m. Sunday. There were no U.S. casualties, said Harrison.

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Officials would not say why the additional strike was launched, but they said the operation is ongoing.

U.S. and coalition forces and international peacekeepers have been involved in several incidents involving gunfire in recent days.

A spokesman for the 17-nation International Security Assistance Force said an unidentified gunman in a car fired on an observation post manned by six British paratroopers early Saturday.

A Kabul resident told Associated Press television, however, that he was in the car when the British troops opened fire without provocation, killing one man.

The incident came a day after soccer fans clashed with police at Kabul's sports stadium after a restricted number of tickets left hundreds of angry men outside.

On Thursday, the Afghan interim government's tourism minister was killed while sitting on a plane on the Kabul airport's tarmac.

Hamid Karzai, leader of the interim Afghan government, called the act an assassination engineered by at least 20 men, including five senior defense and military officials.

Karzai denied that recent events were signs of growing unrest and widespread political instability in Kabul and his government, saying his Cabinet was "fully, fully united."

But he also said he might ask the international community to expand the ISAF's mandate to allow the peacekeepers to be more aggressive in providing security and enforcing the law.

The ISAF operates under strict rules of engagement that do not permit its soldiers to disarm citizens bearing weapons, which is still a common sight in Afghanistan.

ISAF spokesman Lt. Col. Neal Packham said the force has not changed its functions or outlook, nor does it see any need to do so.

"As far as overall security conditions are concerned, we have not sensed any change of mood in the city whatsoever," Packham said.

"We're going about our business. We have not changed our force profiles, and the city [of Kabul] is perfectly calm."

-- CNN's Clive Mesidor and Brian Palmer contributed to this report.