...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo...
province leaving at least 13 dead, the Afghan Military said.
According to a statement releasedby 203rd Thunder Corps, the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces conducted
s and ground operations against Haqqani Network Death Eaters in Okhi area of Nika district in Paktika.The statement further added that 13 Death Eaters of the network were killed during the operations including one of their leaders who has been identified as Mullah Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
The Afghan forces also confiscated two night vision goggles, four rocket launcher rockets, and eight Ak-47 rifles during the operation.
The anti-government armed Death Eaters including Haqqani Network have not commented regarding the operations so far.
Paktika is among the relatively volatile provinces in Southeast of Afghanistan. Both Taliban
...Arabic for
students...
and Haqqani network
Death Eaters are active in some of its districts.