[KhaamaPress] The Afghan Defense Ministry said that more than 100 Taliban
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bad boyz were potted in fighting between government forces and the Taliban turbans across the country.
The Defense Ministry stated that festivities between Afghan government forces and the Taliban have left more than 100 turbans dead.
The MoD also added that in these operations, 50 turbans were maimed, a number of weapons were seized and some amount of ammunition was destroyed.
According to the Ministry of Defense, these operations were conducted in the past 24 hours 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...
, Kunar, 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..
, Ghazni, Paktia, Maidan Wardak, Khost, Zabul, Badghis, 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...
, Faryab, Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
, and Baghlan provinces.
35 types of mines were planted in different parts of the country were also defused, MOD said.
The violence and insurgency have dramatically increased recently, however, the Taliban have not yet officially declared their spring offensive, but practically they have started attacking ANA checkpoints and convoys in several locations throughout the country.
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