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2019-11-27 Afghanistan
26 Taliban militants killed in Special Forces raids in 3 provinces
[KhaamaPress] The Special Forces killed 26 Talibs during the operations in three provinces in the past 24 hours, the military officials said.

The officials further added that the Special Forces killed 12 Talibs during a raid in Kunduz city of northern Kunduz province.

The Special Forces also destroyed a small cache of weapons during the same operation.

In a separate operation the Special Forces killed 11 Talibs and destroyed a small cache of weapons during a raid in Alingar district of Laghman
...Afghan province with a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.
After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men...
, the officials said, adding that the Special Forces killed 3 Talibs in another raid in Alisheng district of the province.

The Special Forces also destroyed a small cache of weapons in Alisheng and a separate weapons cache in Sayyid Karam district of Paktiya, the officials said.

The Taliban
...Arabic for students...
group has not commented regarding the operations so far.
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