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Afghanistan
Fresh violence claims lives of 10 soldiers, 61 militants: MoD
2016-08-07
[Khaama (Afghanistan)] At least 10 Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers bit the dust in the latest counter-terrorism operations across the country in the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) said Saturday.

According to a statement by MoD, the operations were conducted in Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
, Khost, 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..
, Ghazni, Kunar, Pashtun-infested Logar, Uruzgan, and Farah province.

The statement further added 61 bandidos Lions of Islam were killed, 53 others including the 13 were maimed during the same operations.

At least 13 of the bandidos Lions of Islam were killed in Nad-e-Ali district of Helmand, 13 others were killed in Moosa Khel district of Khost, and 21 loyalists of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group were killed in Achin district of Nangarhar.

According to MoD, at least 10 Taliban Lions of Islam were killed during a separate operation in Andar district of Ghazni province and 4 others were killed in separate raids in Kunar, Pashtun-infested Logar, Uruzgan and Farah provinces.

The anti-government armed krazed killer groups have not commented regarding the reports so far.

This comes as the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) are busy conducting their annual counter-terrorism operations across the country.

The annual operation ’Shafaq’ was launched in response to Taliban’s annual spring offensive which the group launched in mid-April this year.
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