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More than 40 Taliban militants killed, wounded in Special Forces operations, airstrikes
[KhaamaPress] More than 40 Talibs were killed or maimed during the operations of Afghan Special Forces and  s which were conducted in various provinces of the country over the past 24 hours.According to informed military sources, Afghan Special Forces conducted a clearance operation in Chahar Darah district of Kunduz province and destroyed 2 IEDs. The Special Forces killed 7 Talibs in a similar raid in Khugyani 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.. while an airstrike a barricaded shooter in Khugyani district resulted into the killing of a barricaded shooter. The sources further added that Afghan Special Forces conducted a raid in Ab Band district of Ghazni province killing 4 Taliban ...Arabic for students... fighters and seizing 32 ANA uniforms, 13 pressure plate IEDs and an assortment of weapons and ammunition. In the meantime, 2 Talibs were killed in an airstrike in Khoshi district of Khost and 14 Talibs were killed, another hard boy was maimed during the Special Forces operation in Nad Ali district of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... . Over 2,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate and numerous IED components were also destroyed during the same operation. At least 16 Talibs during separate airstrikes in Tarinkot city of Uruzgan and Kajai district of Helmand province, the sources said, adding that a separate air strike in Sangin district of Helmand destroyed a structure being used as a Taliban operations center. The anti-government armed bully boyz including Taliban have not commented regarding the operations so far. Posted by: trailing wife 2019-03-19 |
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