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Afghanistan
Taliban militants suffer heavy casualties in Faryab and Ghazni operations
2019-11-26
[KhaamaPress] The Talibs suffered heavy casualties during the operations in northern Faryab and South-eastern Ghazni provinces, the Afghan military said.

The 209th Shaheen Corps in the North said in a statement that a series of Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s killed 6 Talibs and maimed 3 others in Qaramqol and Andkhoi districts of Faryab.

The statement further added that the security forces conducted the airstrikes amid ongoing Shaheen-607 operations.

Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch cautiously raised his hat over the edge of the horse trough on the end of a stick......
 the 203rd Thunder Corps in the South-east said the security forces killed 4 Talibs and maimed 5 others during the operations in Nogha and Shahbaz areas of the thriving provincial capital of Ghazni province.

The security forces also discovered and defused 10 improvised bombs during the operations in Paktika
...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo...
, Ghazni, Wardak and Pashtun-infested Logar provinces, the 203rd Thunder Corps added.

The Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
 group has not commented regarding the operations so far.
Posted by:trailing wife

#5  The Pak ISI and Mullahs have a near endless supply of pig-ignorant religiously brainwashed unemployed fodder
Posted by: Frank G   2019-11-26 18:59  

#4  There was a tongue in cheek analysis of the various units in an old Avalon Hill wargame called Panzerblitz: "Soviet T-34c Loss: Shruggable. 'What is one rat to the pack?' "
To the Taliban Collective the loss of a fellow bandit tribe often means that your tribe has a new place to expand into...
Posted by: magpie   2019-11-26 18:46  

#3  "All my people want is peace !"

"Rubbish, Hamid. You wouldn't know what t'do with it."
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-11-26 12:12  

#2  you think they'd get tired of it.

"We will rest when we are dead!"
"Your terms are acceptable."

I think for these guys fighting is more of a lifestyle than anything.
Posted by: SteveS   2019-11-26 12:08  

#1  if anything, you cant say the taliban are quiters - they just keep coming and coming and coming...... you think they'd get tired of it.
Posted by: Yosemite Sam   2019-11-26 11:46  

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