[Tolo News] At least 16 Islamic fascisti were killed in joint Afghan and NATO...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A collection of multinational and multilingual and multicultural armed forces, all of differing capabilities, working toward a common goal by pulling in different directions...
forces operations, Afghan Ministry of Interior Affairs said on Monday.
The operations were launched in the past 24 hours in Kabul, Parwan, Balkh, Badakhshan, Kandahar, Helmand,
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
Zabul, Maidan Wardak, Paktia and 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...
provinces to clear the insecure areas of beturbanned goons, the Ministry said in a statement.
Afghan Ministry of Interior said that 31 other Islamic fascisti were captured during the operations.
Afghan and NATO forces have seized a lot of weapons during the operations, it said.
The operations were launched as Afghan forces have taken over security responsibility of seven areas from foreign forces in the first phase of transition as planned. The process will be completed by the end of 2014.
Afghan government has recently said that Afghan forces are ready for the second phase of security transition.