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Taliban Attack On Nangarhar's Shirzad District Foiled
[ToloNews] At least 27 Taliban...Arabic for students... fighters were killed after they attempted an attack on Shirzad district in the eastern 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 on Friday evening, the provincial governor's office said in a statement on Saturday. The holy warriors had launched the attack near the district governor's office but were "pushed back and defeated," the statement clarified. The attack started with two boom-mobile kabooms and was followed by shootout, the statement added. The statement said that 32 other holy warriors were maimed in the attack. Two security forces bit the dust and eight others were maimed in the attack, the statement said. Nangarhar Governor Shah Mahmood Miakhel praised security forces "bravery and high morale" in foiling the Taliban attack. Miakhel said that in order to prevent civilian casualties they did not conduct  and missile attack, but reinforcements were sent to the area when the attack started. Taliban grabbed credit for the attack. This comes after the Taliban announced their spring offensive on Friday morning which is entitled Operation al-Fatha - which means "victory" in Arabic. The group said in a statement that the offensive will be conducted across Afghanistan with the aim of "eradicating occupation" and "cleansing our Moslem homeland from invasion and corruption". The announcement was widely condemned by the Afghan government, the United States and Afghan politicians. Posted by: trailing wife 2019-04-14 |
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