...KABOOM!...
s in support of the Afghan armed forces.
The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said Tuesday that the airstrikes were carried out in the past 24 hours.
The defense ministry in a statement said the air force conducted the airsrikes to support the ground forces during the ongoing counter-terrorism operations.
The statement further added the security forces conducted the latest operations in Uruzgan, Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
, Zabul, Faryab, Kandahar, Parwan, Ghazni, Kunar, 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...
, Balkh, Sar-e-Pul
...a city and eponymous province in northern Afghanistan, population about 500,000. Demographically it is majority Tadjik and Uzbek. There are small Pashtun, Arab, and Hazara communities, of which the Hazaras mostly don't bother anyone..., Badakhshan and Takhar provinces.
The defense ministry also added that the security forces killed 50 Talibs during the operations.
The security forces also maimed 16 murderous Moslems during the same operations and arrested 5 bully boys, the Ministry of Defense added.