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Taliban militants suffer casualties after attacking Afghan forces in Hesarak
[KhaamaPress] The local officials 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..
province are saying at least eleven Talibs were killed or maimed during a clash with the police forces in Hesarak district. The incident took place late on Friday night in the vicinity of Hesarak district of Nangarhar province.

The provincial government media office in a statement said at least four Talibs were killed and seven others were maimed during the clash. The statement further added that the security forces and the local residents did not suffer any casualty during the clash.

The anti-government armed Lions of Islam including Talibs have not commented regarding the report so far.

Nangarhar has been among the relatively calm provinces since the fall of the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
regime in 2001 but the anti-government armed Lions of Islam have been attempting to expand their foothold in this province during the recent years. However,
some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go...
the Afghan armed forces are busy conducting counter-terrorism operations to suppress the myrmidon groups.

The US forces based in Afghanistan also conduct Arclight airstrike almost on routine basis to prevent the myrmidon groups expand their foothold in this province.
Posted by: trailing wife 2018-07-16
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