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2021-05-23 Afghanistan
92 Talibs toes up across Afghanistan
[Khaama Press] Ministry of Defense on Saturday stated that at least 92 Talibs were killed and 48 others were maimed in eight provinces over the past 24 hours.Deputy front man for the Ministry of Defense Fawad Aman said that Afghan National Defense and Security launched offensive operations in 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...
, Maidan Wardak, 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...
, Pashtun-infested Logar, Balkh, Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
, Baghlan, and Takhar provinces.

According to Aman, the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
faced heavy retaliation from government forces and many of the group’s members were killed.

MoD also stated that ANDSF discovered and defused 34 various types of IEDs during the operations.

Meanwhile,
...back at the pie fight, Bella went down under the weight of the custard...
in Takhar province, an eight-year-old child was killed when a mortar shell landed on a residential house in the region.

Khalil Asir, a Takhar police front man told the media that the incident happened in the "pul-e-Shashmetra" area on the Takhar-Kunduz highway.

Asir stressed that two other civilians including a woman and a child were maimed in the incident.

The front man for Takhar police blamed the Taliban for the mortar attack.

Moreover, two children were killed and two women were maimed when a mortar hit a house in Lashkargah, the center of Helmand province.

The ministry of defense said that a passenger bus hit a roadside kaboom in PD7 of Lashkargah in Helmand province, nine people were killed and two children and a woman were reportedly injured in the incident.

In a similar incident, four non-combatants were killed in western Ghor province in the Kharistan area of Feroz Koh, the incident happened when the victims were traveling on a cycle of violence in the region.

A couple and two of their children were reportedly killed in this incident.

The ministry of defense said at least eight security force members were killed in a Taliban attack in Guzargah-e-Noor district in Baghlan province on Friday.

Some reports indicate that in the incident 20 Talibs including the group’s designated district governor were killed in operations in Guzargah-e-Noor, Juldga, and Baghlan-e-Jadid districts of the Baghlan province. In another security incident, a man was killed in the PD16 Macroryan-e-Kohna area of Kabul city.
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