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Taliban battered in Kandahar, more than a dozen killed: MoD
[KhaamaPress] The Ministry of Defense in a released statement said, 15 Taliban
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 fighters have been killed in operations conducted by Afghan national defense and security forces in the Panjwai district of Kandahar province.

The ministry stated Wednesday, that ANDSF backed by air support launched an operation in the Panjwai district of Kandahar on Tuesday.

The operation resulted in killing of 15 Taliban members and wounding 5 others, MoD stated.

According to MoD, some weapons and ammunition belonging to the group was also destroyed amid the operation.

The statement also added that ANDSF discovered and defused 310 various types of IEDs placed to target civilians and security forces in the Arghandab and Panjwai districts of the province.

The Taliban have not yet commented on the incident.

In another security incident, Balkh police headquarters reported two button men on a motor cycle sprayed bullets at the guards of the newly constructed Balkh university. According to the police the incident happened on Wednesday morning, when the button men attacked Balkh University’s guards, suspects on the lam.

Efforts are underway to identify the perpetrators, police said.

Balkh province is one of the relatively safest provinces of Afghanistan, but recently it has witnessed assassinations on security forces and babus government employees and the region has turned insecure due to such security incidents.

Thousands Displaced From Kandahar’s Embattled Arghandab District

[ToloNews] Eight months of war and violence have dealt major destruction to the people in Arghandab district in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar. The war has left thousands of people in the district homeless.

Arghandab is one of the 17 districts in Kandahar that saw some of the fiercest battles between the Afghan cops and the Taliban
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 during this period.

Many people who left their native villages have now migrated to neighboring districts and say their conditions are miserable.

The main road connecting Arghandab to other districts is still closed due to landmines.

"There are landmines all around, no one is able to move this way," said Ahmadullah, a resident of Arghandab who returned to his village after five months.

Afghan security officials have said that they need months to clear landmines from the road.

"We need a lot of time even if we are able to clear 700 or 600 or 500 landmines daily," said Mohammad Rafiq, the Arghandab police chief.

Two major bridges and several small size bridges were also destroyed during war in the past 8 months in Arghandab.

On March 24, the "Taliban" detonated a car full of explosives on a bridge in Arghandab, damaging parts of the bridge, Kandahar police said at the time.

Arghandab, Zherai, Dand and Pajwai districts have witnessed festivities between government forces and the Taliban in the last few months.

According to the refugees and repatriation directorate of Kandahar, over 11,000 families have been displaced due to conflicts in the province.
Posted by: trailing wife 2021-04-22
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