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| Twenty-four militants killed in operations by Afghan army troops |
| 2015-06-21 |
| [Iran Press TV] Afghanistan's Interior Ministry has announced the killing of 24 suspected Talibs across the war-torn country in a series operations by the Afghan army and security forces. "A total of 24 armed hard boyz have been killed during police operations backed by the army and National Directorate for Security over the past 24 hours," said the ministry in a Saturday statement, Xinhua news agency reported. According to the statement, the operations were carried out in Kunar, Oruzgan and Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... provinces, during which five more turbans sustained injuries and one of them was captured. The Talibs, however, refuted the Interior Ministry's account, claiming that the armed hard boyz had inflicted major losses on government troops over the period. The turbans further claimed in an online statement that they destroyed an armored vehicle in the Miwand district of the southern Kandahar province on Saturday and killed a number of security officers. Additionally, the Taliban asserted its forces overran a police checkpoint in the Sistani area of the Marja district in Helmand province late on Friday, killing five coppers, a claim dismissed by Afghan authorities as a propaganda bid. |
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