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5 Taliban Insurgents Killed, 21 Others Detained
At least five Taliban bully boyz were killed and 21 others were captured in joint Afghan, NATO...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions... security troops' operations in the past 24 hours, the Afghan Ministry of Interior (MoI) said Sunday. The operations were launched in Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. , Kunar, Kapisa, Kandahar, Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... , Khost, Ghazni, Pashtun-infested Logar, Zabul and Farah provinces to clear areas of turbans, the MoI said in a statement. During the operation, the security forces also seized weapons and defused 14 anti-vehicle mines, the statement said. It did not mention whether there were any casualties among the Afghan or coalition security forces. Posted by: trailing wife 2012-04-30 |
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