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Dozens of Insurgents Killed, Arrested in NATO-Led Operation in Afghanistan |
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Saturday, 31 December 2011Afghan forces, backed by NATO-led Coalition troops, have killed 15 armed insurgents and detained 55 other suspects in Afghanistan over the past 24 hours, Afghan Interior Ministry said on Saturday morning, Xinhua reported.
"Afghan National Police (ANP), Afghan National Army and international Coalition Forces launched 18 joint operations in Kunar, Nangarhar, Kapisa, Takhar, Baghlan, Kandahar, Helmand, Wardak, Logar, Ghazni, Khost, and Herat provinces over the past 24 hours," the ministry said in a press release.
"As a result of these operations, 15 armed insurgents were killed, four wounded and 55 others were arrested by the ANP," it said.
The ANP also discovered and confiscated 12 AK-47 guns, five rocket launchers, three PKM machine guns, five anti-vehicle mines, 1,280 kg of opium, 164 kg of hashish, 4 kg of heroin, three radio handsets, five motorbikes, seven heavy bullets, two different types of weapons and a pistol, the press release added.
Afghan officials often use the word "insurgents" referring to Taliban. However, the insurgent group, who launched in May this year a rebel offensive against Afghan and NATO forces, has not to make comments yet.
Separately, a Taliban fighter was killed and two injured when Afghan army soldiers repelled an attack on an army checkpoint in the eastern Kunar province late on Friday, an army spokesman in the region Shirin Agha said.
"A group of Taliban launched an attack on an army checkpoint in Ghazi Abad district of Kunar province Friday evening but army soldiers responded to the attack killing a Taliban insurgent and injuring two others," Agha said, adding that three army soldiers were also injured in the attack. |
Saturday, 31 December 2011
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