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Afghanistan
More than 60 Taliban militants killed in Special Forces operations and airstrikes
2019-03-10
[KhaamaPress] More than 60 Talibs were killed during separate operations of the Afghan Special Forces and Arclight airstrikes which were conducted in the past 24 hours in various provinces of the country.

According to the informed military sources, at least 29 Talibs were killed, one of their commanders was maimed, and vehicle-borne Improvised Explosive Device was destroyed during the operations of Special Force and airstrikes which were conducted in Baraki Barak and Charkh districts of Pashtun-infested Logar and Sayyidabad district of Wardak province.

The sources further added that similar operations and airstrike were carried out in Nowzad and Musa Qal’ah districts of Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
, and Tarink city of Uruzgan province laving 12 holy warriors dead and destroying one Taliban
...Arabic for students...
radio tower and an Improvised Explosive Device.

"The Afghan Special Forces also conducted a search operation of a suspected weapons cache in Ahmadabad district of Paktika
...which coincidentally borders South Wazoo...
province and discovered 1 magnetic mine and 16 mine controllers. The bomb making material was removed from the site and destroyed to prevent it from being used in the surrounding village and wounding non-combatants," the sources said, adding that Afghan Special Forces conducted a separate operation along the highway in Samangan killing 4 Taliban fighters and wounding 3 others.
Posted by:trailing wife

#5  Reminds me of daily "Body Counts" back in 1970 Viet Nam. They were accurate. Yeah, right.
Posted by: Tiny Gonque9241   2019-03-10 14:12  

#4  Nevertheless, they persisted.

The Taliban get their foot soldiers cannon fodder from groomed Madrassah graduates in Afghanistan and Pakistan, generally going straight from the classroom to the battlefront. Those Madrassah students are a combination of the sons of the ambitious lower middle class, who can’t afford to pay the fees for proper schooling, and the desperate poor, who can’t afford to feed all their offspring. According to the CIA World Factbook, the median age of the Afghan male population is 19 and the fertility rate is 5 — so there are plenty more where these came from. The concern the Taliban should have is the number of trained officers they are now losing, compared to under President Trump’s predecessor.
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-03-10 13:12  

#3  Taliban have probably have had 50k killed in the past two decades and about the same number injured.

Nevertheless, they persisted.
Posted by: lord garth   2019-03-10 12:15  

#2  Good point, Chris. The ASF seem to have been particularly effective lately
Posted by: Frank G   2019-03-10 10:13  

#1  if these numbers are true and not repeated from the same operations daily, how long can they sustain losses like this?
Posted by: chris   2019-03-10 08:59  

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