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Afghanistan
Taliban suffer heavy casualties in Ghazni operations: Gen. Radmanish
2018-05-07
[Khaama Press] The Afghan defense officials are saying that the Talibs have suffered heavy casualties during the operations in southeastern Ghazni province of Afghanistan.

The deputy front man for the Ministry of Defense (MoD) Gen. Mohammad Radmanish told news hounds a total of 60 Death Eaters were killed and 33 others sustained injuries in the past 24 hours.

Gen. Radmanish further added that at least 36 Death Eaters were killed during the operations in Andar district of Ghazni while 8 others were killed in Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
He said at least 9 Death Eaters including 2 ISIS fighters were killed in Deh Bala and Khogyani district of 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..
while 4 Death Eaters were killed in Badakhshan and 3 in Uruzgan province.

According to Gen. Radmanish, at least 10 offensive operations are underway in 10 provinces of the country as the Commando forces have carried out 66 operations while 17 Arclight airstrikes have also been carried out during the same period.

He also added that the Afghan armed forces have also discovered and defused 47 improvised bombs as he emphasized that the operations in Nangarhar, Laghman
...It has a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.
After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men.

, Kapisa, Uruzgan, Kandahar, Badghis, Balkh, Badakhshan, Faryab, and Helmand provinces are successfully being implemented.

Afghan forces, Taliban battle for control of highway in Ghazni province

[DAWN] At least 31 Talibs were killed by Afghan cops backed by US air strikes in Afghanistan’s central Ghazni province, as the Afghan army battled to protect a key highway, officials said on Saturday.

Mohammad Arif Noori, the front man for the provincial governor, said the hard boyz were planning to wrest control of an arterial road and had attacked many security check posts.

"With the help of US air forces, the Talibs have been pushed back from the areas near Ghazni-Paktika
...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo...
highway, but the road is still closed due to serious damages caused by the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
," said Noori.
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