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Eight Taliban Killed in Afghan Violence
 [Tolo News] At least 8 Taliban hard boys were killed in Afghan and foreign forces' joint operations against Taliban hard boys on Friday in separate incidentsIn clashes between police forces and the coalition with Taliban bad boys in the southern Paktika province, four bad boys were killed, said a front man for Spinghar 505 Zone. The incident occurred on Friday morning in the province's Khoshamand district after a convoy of foreign forces came under Taliban attacks, he said. Police has captured some ammunition in the incident and no foreign or Afghan soldier is killed or wounded in the attacks, he added. Meanwhile, four Taliban hard boys were killed and two others were wounded in a joint operation conducted by Afghan and foreign forces in Imam Sahib district of the north-eastern Kunduz province on Friday afternoon. No Afghan and foreign soldiers have been killed or wounded in these operations, the sub-governor of Imam Sahib, Muhammad Ayub Haqyar told TOLOnews. Afghan and foreign forces have escalated their counter-insurgency operations in Afghanistan's volatile regions in an effort to wipe out Taliban bad boys. Posted by: Fred 2010-08-08 |
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