Nine Taliban Insurgents Killed in Afghan Operations

KABUL: (MEP) – At least nine insurgents were killed and four others injured during a series of coordinated operations conducted by the Afghan forces over the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Interior Affairs (MoIA) released in a statement on Sunday.

Two other insurgents were arrested during the raids.

The statement read: “The Afghan National Police (ANP), Afghan National Army (ANA) and the National Directorate of Security (NDS), or intelligence service, conducted several anti-terrorism joint operations in Nangarhar, Kapisa, Kunduz and Zabul provinces.”

The MoIA did not provide details about Afghan force casualties during the raids. And self-identified Taliban spokesman have not yet commented on the operations.

There are over 350,000 Afghan security forces and the forces will take over full security responsibility from foreign troops by the end of 2014.