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| Afghanistan |
| 21 Insurgents Killed in ANSF Operations |
| 2015-03-15 |
| [Tolo News] Twenty-one Taliban Death Eaters were killed and eight others injured during a series of coordinated operations over the past 24 hours by the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF), the Ministry of Interior said in a statement on Saturday. The operations were conducted 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.. , Baghlan, Takhar, Kunduz, Faryab, Sar-e-Pul, Jowzjan, Kandahar, Uruzgan, Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... , Farah, Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... and Nimroz provinces, the statement added. "During the same 24 hour period, the Afghan National Police discovered and defused 18 different types of IEDs placed in Khost and Helmand provinces," the statement noted. |
| Posted by:Fred |