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Afghanistan
Afghan forces conduct 110 joint, special ops and 29 airstrikes in past 24 hours: MoD
2019-07-18
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan forces conducted 110 Joint and Special Operations against the hard boy groups in the past 24 hours.

The Ministry of Defense in a statement said the security forces conducted 13 joint and 97 special operations to suppress the hard boy groups.

Furthermore, the Afghan Air Force conducted 29 Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s to support the ground forces during the operations.

The statement further added that the security forces conducted the operations in Faryab, Badghis, Kandahar, Ghazni, Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
, Zabul, Maidan Wardak, Paktika
...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo...
, 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..
, 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...
, Kunduz and Takhar provinces.

Meanwhile,
...back at the wreckage, Captain Poindexter awoke groggily, his hand still stuck in the Ming vase...
the defense ministry said the security forces killed 110 turbans and maimed 59 others during the same operations.

The security forces also arrested 3 suspected turbans during the operations, the Ministry of Defense added.

The Ministry of Defense also added that the coalition forces also provided support to the Afghan cops during the operations.

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