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2019-11-22 Afghanistan
Special Forces kill, detain 13 Taliban and ISIS militants in 4 provinces
[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Special Forces
...established in 2007 with the intent of taking one conventional infantry kandak (battalion) from each of the regional ANA corps, giving them special training and equipment, and reorganizing based on the U.S. Army Rangers. Each battalion is assigned to one of the six regional corps. The commandos comprise 7% of the Afghan National Security Forces but conduct 70% to 80% of the fighting...
killed 7 Talibs and arrested five other bully boyz including an ISIS-K Death Eater during the operations in four provinces in the past 24 hours.

The military officials said earlier today the Special Forces killed 5 Talibs, arrested 5 others and destroyed a small cache of weapons during a raid in Khakrez district of Kandahar.

The officials further added the Special Forces arrested an ISIS-K Death Eater and destroyed a small cache of weapons during a raid in Bati Kot district of 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..
province.

The Special Forces killed a Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
Death Eater during a separate raid in Shindand district of 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...
, the officials said, adding that the Special Forces killed another Taliban Death Eater during a similar raid which they conducted in Charkh district of Pashtun-infested Logar.

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