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| 17 Taliban Insurgents Killed in Afghan Operations |
| 2014-02-18 |
| [Tolo News] Seventeen Taliban bully boyz were killed and 12 others were maimed in joint Afghan cops operations over the past 24 hours, the Afghan Ministry of Interior said in a statement on Monday. Three others were maimed in the operations. "In past 24 hours, Afghan National Police conducted several anti-terrorism joint operations with Afghan National Army and NDS to clean some areas of turbans and enemies of peace and stability of Afghanistan," the statement said. The operations were conducted in 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.. , Kandahar, Zabul, Pashtun-infested Logar, 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... and Helmand ...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan... provinces. "Also, during these operations, Afghan National Police discovered and confiscated light and heavy rounds ammunition and IEDs," the statement said. It did not report any casualties amongst the Afghan forces or civilians. The Taliban has not yet commented on the casualties. |
| Posted by:Fred |