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Afghanistan
Afghan forces conduct 109 joint, special ops and 20 airstrikes in past 24 hours: MoD
2019-07-15
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan cops conducted 109 Joint and Special Operations against the krazed killer groups in the past 24 hours.

The Ministry of Defense in a statement said the security forces conducted 11 joint and 98 special operations to suppress the krazed killer groups.

Furthermore, the Afghan Air Force conducted 20 Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s to support the ground forces during the operations.

The statement further added that the security forces conducted the operations in Khost, Kunduz, Kandahar, Faryab, Ghor, Parwan, Takhar, Badghis, Ghazni, Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
, 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..
, Zabul, Balkh and 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...
provinces.

Meanwhile,
...back at the alley, Slats Chumbaloni was staring into a hole that was just .45 inch in diameter and was less than three feet from his heavily sweating face ...
the defense ministry said the security forces killed 79 turbans and maimed 57 others during the same operations.

In addition, the security forces arrested 2 suspected krazed killers, the defense ministry added.

The Ministry of Defense also added that the coalition forces also provided support to the Afghan cops during the operations.
Posted by:trailing wife

#3  One has to track progress somehow, peanut gallery. And since the flow is back and forth across the various provinces, as far as I can tell, not straightforwardly into a heartland like in WWII, how would you suggest the situation be better reported?
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-07-15 21:47  

#2  FWIW, these reports sound depressingly like Vietnamese body counts BITD.
Posted by: The peanut gallery   2019-07-15 17:33  

#1  Barry's bugs getin squashed nicely.
Posted by: Woodrow   2019-07-15 03:32  

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