(MENAFN- Afghanistan Times) AT News Report
KABUL: The Afghan security forces have killed at least 54 militants
while 31 others received injures in multiple extensive military crackdowns conducted
across the country in the past 24 hours.
The Ministry of Defense (MoD) in a statement said Sunday
that the Afghan National Army (ANA) in collaboration with Afghan National Police
(ANP) and National Directorate of Security (NDS) operatives conducted joint operations
against insurgents in different areas of Nangarhar, Laghman, Kapisa, Ghazni,
Paktia, Khost, Paktika, Kandahar, Urzgan, Badghis, Farah, Sar-e-Pul, Balkh,
Takhar and Helmand provinces that left 54 insurgents dead and wounded 31 others.
Three militants were also detained during operation that
handed them over to the judicial organs for further inquiry
Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) shelled
and bombed the enemies' positions and sanctuaries by artilleries and Air Forces.
Nine militants including Taliban shadow district chief for
Chenarto district were killed and two hideouts with some weapons belonged to
the enemy destroyed in Chenarto and center of Urzgan, while eight killed
including Taliban shadow district governor for Darqad district, 11 others
wounded and four stronghold of the enemy destroyed in Dasht-e-Qala district of
Takhar, the statement added.
Moreover, eight militants killed, 12 others wounded in Muqor
and Andar districts of Ghazni. Three others insurgent were arrested during
operations.
Furthermore, security forces killed six terrorists in
Shahwali Kot district of Kandahar, while five others killed and one local
commander of the Taliban group wounded in Badpakh district of Laghman province.
Similarly, five Daesh fighters were killed and a hideout of
the enemy destroyed in Khodiganai district of Nangarhar. 'Four militants killed
and seven others wounded in Sayad district of Sar-e-Pul, the same number killed
and an ammunition cache destroyed in Marja and Sangeen district of Helmand
province,' the statement said, adding four militants were also killed in Gomal
district of Paktika province.
In past 24 hours, 18 planed clearing operations, and 82 Special
Forces operations conducted in different provinces; also, Air Forces conducted 82
aerial operations supporting Afghan National Army including nine strikes on
enemy's sanctuaries.
The ANA also discovered and confiscated weapons and
ammunition in the operations as well.
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