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Taliban leaders, Al-Qaeda members among 43 killed in latest operations: MoD
 [Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Taliban...Arabic for students... local leaders and al-Qaeda terrorist network members are among at least 40 faceless myrmidons killed in latest counter-terrorism operations, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) said Saturday. According to a statement released by the Ministry of Defense (MoD), the faceless myrmidons were killed during the past 24 hours in various provinces of the country. The statement further added that 43 faceless myrmidons were also maimed and ten others were tossed in the calaboose Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! during the operations. The Taliban leaders killed during the operations have been identified as Ustad Torjan and Qari Fida Mohammad Ishaqzai who were killed along with several other faceless myrmidons in Mosa Qala district of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... , MoD said, adding that the two al-Qaeda terrorist network members were killed in Shorabak district of Kandahar province. MoD said the remaining faceless myrmidons were killed during separate operations conducted 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.. , Kapisa, Paktia, Ghazni, Pashtun-infested Logar, Uruzgan, Ghor, Badghis, Kunduz, Faryab, Baghlan, Sar-e-Pul ...a city and eponymous province in northern Afghanistan, population about 500,000. Demographically it is majority Tadjik and Uzbek. There are small Pashtun, Arab, and Hazara communities, of which the Hazaras mostly don't bother anyone... , Samangan, and Badakhshan provinces. Posted by: Fred 2017-05-14 |
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