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Afghan forces conducted 45 ground operations, 10 airstrikes, leaving 51 militants dead
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) personnel conducted at least 45 ground operations and 10 The Ministry of Defense (MoD) in its latest operational update said the operations were conducted in various provinces of the country with an aim to suppress the growing insurgency of the anti-government armed bully boy groups. MoD further added that out of the holy warriors killed during the period, at least 26 of them were killed in Posht-e-Rod district of Farah, 24 of them were maimed, and a vehicle along with a cycle of violence were destroyed. In another operation conducted in Band-e-Taimor area of Maiwand district of Kandahar province, at least 18 holy warriors were killed and 18 improvised bombs were discovered and destroyed. The Afghan forces also conducted an operation in Qarabagh, Andar, and Geru districts in southeastern Ghazni province, leaving at least 2 holy warriors dead and 5 others maimed. At least two holy warriors were killed and another one was maimed during the other operations conducted in Alisheng district of Laghman ...It has a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a reputionagreat wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin. He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.province, while in Khogyani district of 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.. province, at least one bully boy was killed and two others were maimed. The Afghan forces also killed two forces of Evil during an operation conducted in Bala Morghab district of Badghis province. Posted by: Fred 2017-08-11 |
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