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Afghanistan
Afghan force conducted 11 Joint, 74 Special Operations in past 24 hours: MoD
2019-06-21
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan cops conducted 11 joint operations and 74 Special Operations in various provinces in the past 24 hours.

The Ministry of Defense (MoD) in a statement said Wednesday that the Afghan Air Force also conducted 10 Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s against the hideouts of the terror groups.

The statement further added that the operations were conducted in Faryab, 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..
, Kandahar, Zabul, Maidan Wardak, Kunar, Kunduz, Takhar, Badakhshan, 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
...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets...
communities, of which the Hazaras mostly don't bother anyone...

, Ghor, Ghazni and Paktika
...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo...
provinces.

The Ministry of Defense also added that the security forces killed more than 20 Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
and ISIS bully boyz during the same operations.

The anti-government armed bully boyz have not commented regarding the operations so far.
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