The Ministry of Defense in a statement said Saturday that the security forces conducted 12 joint operations and 99 special tasks/operations to suppress the bully boy groups.
Furthermore, the Afghan Air Force conducted 26
...KABOOM!...
s to support the ground forces.
The statement further added that the security forces conducted the operations in Takhar, Kandahar, Faryab, Zabul, 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..
, Baghlan, Uruzgan, Farah, Kunduz, Paktiya, Herat
...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
, Ghazni, Kapisa, Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
, 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 communities, of which the Hazaras mostly don't bother anyone...and Pashtun-infested Logar provinces.
Meanwhile,
...back at the barn, Bossy's udder had begun to ache...
the defense ministry said the security forces killed 91 forces of Evil during the operations.
In addition, the security forces maimed 41 forces of Evil during the same operations.
The Ministry of Defense also added that the coalition forces also provided support to the Afghan cops during the operations.