...Arabic for students...
killed and further nine maimed during a battle with Afghan National Defense Security Forces (ANDSF) in Nawa and Nahre Sarar district of Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
province, the Ministry of Defense said in a statement Tuesday.
According to the statement, security forces defused some 20 Improvised Explosive Devices (IED) planted by the "Taliban on public roads" at the location.
"16 Taliban were killed and 9 others were maimed in Nawa and Nahre Saraj districts of Helmand province, as a result of reciprocal attacks of ANDSF last night," said MoD in a tweet. "Also, ANDSF discovered and defused 20 IEDs which were planted by Taliban on public roads in these districts."
Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, Butch shot Black Bart's other gun out of his other hand......
during a separate operation in Uruzgan province, 12 Taliban were killed and further five were maimed in reciprocal attacks of ANDSF in Dehrawood district of the province.
Security forces seized a "large amount of their weapons and ammunitions" after the shootouts.
In Zabul, at least seven Taliban were killed and three other maimed, after they attacked ANDSF positions in Mizan and Shajoa districts Monday.