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 of Afghanistan.
According to the informed military sources, the Afghan Special Forces conducted a raid in the vicinity of Nangarhar province killing 2 Taliban
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fighters. The soldiers discovered a military humvee that was likely to be used as a vehicle-borne IED and it was destroyed.
The sources further added that
s in Qarah Bagh district of Ghazni province also left 4 Taliban fighters dead.The security forces carried out similar airstrikes in Tarinkot city of Uruzgan province leaving 19 Taliban fighters dead, the sources said, adding that the Afghan Special Forces also conducted an operation in Chimtal district of Balkh province killing 3 Taliban fighters.
The anti-government armed faceless myrmidons including Taliban have not commented regarding the operations so far.