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| Afghanistan |
| 19 killed in Anti-Insurgent Operations |
| 2015-04-12 |
[Tolo News] At least 19 gunnies were killed and one was locked awayYouse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! during 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 Saturday. The operations were conducted in 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... , Khost, Maidan Wardak, Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... , Sar-e-Pul, Kunduz, Takhar, Faryab and Jowzjan provinces, the statement said. "During the same 24 hour period, Afghan National Police discovered and defused two rockets and three different types of IEDs placed by enemies of Afghanistan for destructive activities in Kabul and Faryab provinces," the statement noted. The MoI, however, did not comment on whether any security force members were harmed in the operations. |
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