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Special Forces kill, detain 6 Taliban militants; destroy weapons caches in 4 provinces
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Special Forces...established in 2007 with the intent of taking one conventional infantry kandak (battalion) from each of the regional ANA corps, giving them special training and equipment, and reorganizing based on the U.S. Army Rangers. Each battalion is assigned to one of the six regional corps. The commandos comprise 7% of the Afghan National Security Forces but conduct 70% to 80% of the fighting... killed 4 Talibs and arrested 2 others during the operations in Baghlan, Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... , Farah and Kunduz provinces in the past 24 hours. According to military officials, the Special Forces arrested 2 Talibs during a raid in Baghlan-e Jadid district of Baghlan province. The officials further added that the Special Forces killed 2 Talibs during an operation in Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand. The Special Forces killed 2 more Talibs and destroyed a small cache of weapons during a separate raid in Qalah-ye Kah district of Farah province. The officials also added that the Special Forces destroyed another cache of weapons during a raid in Aliabad district of Kunduz province. The Taliban  ...the Pashtun equivalent of men...group has not commented regarding the operations so far. Related: Baghlan-e Jadid distric: 2019-09-25 Special Forces destroy Taliban’s IED making factory in Baghlan Baghlan-e Jadid distric: 2019-09-16 Airstrikes target Taliban militants in 4 provinces Baghlan-e Jadid distric: 2019-01-15 27 Taliban, ISIS-K militants killed in separate operations of Afghan, coalition forces Related: Nahr-e Saraj distric: 2019-11-09 Special Forces kill 11 Taliban militants, destroy caches of weapons in 3 provinces Nahr-e Saraj distric: 2019-11-09 Airstrikes kill 33 Taliban, ISIS militants in 3 provinces Nahr-e Saraj distric: 2019-11-08 13 Taliban militants killed, detained in Special Forces raids in Helmand and Wardak Related: Aliabad district: 2019-09-27 Special Forces kill, detain 11 Taliban militants in 4 provinces Aliabad district: 2019-03-27 2 senior Taliban commanders arrested, 2 others killed in the outskirts of Kunduz city Aliabad district: 2018-10-17 Militants killed, APCs recaptured in Afghan Special Forces operation in Kunduz Posted by: trailing wife 2019-11-14 |
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