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2021-04-26 Afghanistan
ANDSF inflict heavy casualties on Taliban, ‘key commander’ killed in Kandahar
[KhaamaPress] Ministry of Defense said, that the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces are advancing and taking control of areas in the Jalriz district of Maidan Wardak province.

On Sunday, MoD stated that Taliban
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in region have also suffered heavy casualties.

Fawad Aman, deputy front man for the Ministry of Defense tweeted that ANDSF were advancing in the region. He indicated that 28 Taliban fighters were killed during AAF Arclight airstrike
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s and Afghan commando operations.

A large amount of Taliban weapons and ammunition were also wrecked during the operation.

Meanwhile,
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The window was looking better all the time....

the Ministry of Defense announced on Saturday, that four Taliban fighters, including the group’s key commander, were killed in the Dand district of Kandahar province. In an operation carried out by ANDSF and AAF in Takaneh and Pol-e-Mehrab areas of Jalriz district, Mawlawi Jafar, a key Taliban commander for Dand district along with four of his bodyguards were killed. According to MoI, "Jafar" led a 150-member Taliban group and played an active role in planning "terrorist" attacks in the region.

Previously, acting Defense Minister General Yasin Zia said that Taliban violence has faced heavy challenges and casualties in Kandahar, at least 1100 Taliban affiliates were killed in the Arghandab district alone.
A provincial council member in Maidan Wardak, Sharifullah Hotak, said that civilians were killed in a mortar attack on a house in Sayed Abad district and an airstrike in Jalriz district in the province.

“At least eight members of one family were killed in an airstrike in Zorlang village in Jalriz district,” Hotak said. “In another incident in Sayed Abad district, four members of one family were killed and three more were wounded when a mortar hit their house.”

Meanwhile, sources said that Abdul Waris, commander of a security forces unit, was killed in an explosion in Maiwand district of Kandahar province. Sources said that Abdul Basir Achakzai, the police chief for Kandahar's Zherai district, was wounded in the blast.

Also, four people, including a security officer for Gulran district, two security force members and former district governor for Gulran, Abdul Ghani Noori, were killed in a roadside bomb explosion in the district this evening, the provincial governor Waheed Qatali said.
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