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Afghanistan
41 Insurgents Killed in ANSF Military Operations
2015-06-17
[Tolo News] At least 41 Lions of Islam have been killed in a series of coordinated operations over the past 24 hours by the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF), the Ministry of Interior (MoI) said in a statement on Tuesday.

In addition, 10 other Lions of Islam were maimed and five locked away
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
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The operations were conducted in Kapisa, Badakhshan, Sar-e-Pul, Kandahar, Zabul, 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...
and Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
provinces, the statement said.

"During the same 24 hour period, Afghan National Police discovered and defused 47 different types of IEDs placed by enemies of Afghanistan for destructive activities in Laghman and Uruzgan provinces," it said.

The MoI, however, did not comment on whether any security force members were maimed during the operations.
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