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| Afghan Special Forces conduct operations in 8 provinces leaving 20 Taliban militants dead |
| 2019-05-12 |
| [KhaamaPress] The Afghan Special Forces conducted counter-terrorism operations in eight provinces of the country in the past 24 hours leaving at least 20 Talibs dead. Informed military sources said Friday that the Afghan Special Operations Forces conducted a raid in Garm Ser district of Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... province and destroyed 240 pounds of homemade explosives, 20 pressure plate IEDs and a small cache of IED components. This comes a month after 12 civilians, including six children, were severely maimed by a magnetic bomb in southern Helmand province. The Afghan Special Forces conducted similar operations in Shah Wali Kot district of Kandahar and Tarin Kot district of Uruzgan province, killing 1 Taliban ...the Pashtun equivalent of men... fighter and detaining 8 others. Two days ago three Taliban commanders were killed in Tarin Kot as pressure on fighters in Uruzgan province continues, the source said. The Afghan Special Forces conducted a clearance operation in Chahar Darah district of Kunduz province, discovered and destroying 4 IEDs and a house-borne IED, the sources said, adding that a similar operation was conducted in Baraki Barak district of Pashtun-infested Logar province in which 1 Taliban fighter was killed and 3 others were detained. In the meantime, 8 Taliban fighters were killed in Gomal district of Paktika ...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo... province, 3 others were killed in Deh bala 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.. province, and 7 Taliban fighters were killed, 4 more were maimed in Farah city, the bustling provincial capital of Farah province. The sources also added that the the 203rd Corps conducted route clearance along Highway 1 to enable military convoys and civilian traffic to pass safely. The clearance operation resulted in destroying 12 roadside kabooms, killing 4 Taliban fighters and wounding 2 others. |
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