KABUL: (Middle East Press) According to the Ministry of Interior (Mol) at least 50 Taliban insurgents were killed and 32 others were injured during joint military operations by Afghan national security forces in the past 24 hours.
Afghan National Police conducted several anti-terrorism joint operations with Afghan National Army and NDS to clean some of the areas from terrorists and enemies of peace and stability of Afghanistan,” MoI said following a statement.
The statement further added that the operations were conducted in Uruzgan, Nangarhar, Zabul, Khost, Kandahar, Ghazni, Jowzjan, Laghman, Paktika and Helmand provinces,
The statement also added that at least 16 other militants were arrested by Afghan National Security Forces.
Afghan National Police discovered and confiscated 18 AK-47 rifles, three rocket launchers, once machine gun, 62 different types of IEDs and some amount of light and heavy rounds ammunition, the statement added.
Taliban insurgent group has not commented about the report yet.
