Amid the unabated violence in Afghanistan, at least 50 Taliban militants surrendered in the country's northern province of Jawzjan as fighting raged in the region, a Defence Ministry official said on Thursday.
A media report has revealed that there were 117 Afghan civilian casualties in the past seven days, a drastic difference from the 433 fatalities reported the previous week amid US airstrikes on the Taliban and international calls for a reduction in violence in the war-torn country.
The Taliban slammed the US airstrikes in the Afghan provinces of Kandahar and Helmand, as a violation of the Doha agreement.
The Afghan security forces have recently beefed up security operations against the Taliban militants.
At least 77 Taliban militants were killed as the Afghan Air Force has intensified airstrikes across the war-torn country, conducting multiple raids on insurgent positions, the Ministry of Defence confirmed on Tuesday.
Taliban has told that any foreign troops left in Afghanistan after Nato's September withdrawal deadline will be at risk as occupiers.
In the neighbouring Nangarhar province, 15 Taliban militants were killed and eight wounded after the Afghan Air Force targeted a Taliban hideout in the suburban Hisarak district on Saturday.
The latest offensive comes as Afghanistan is witnessing an increase in security incidents as the Taliban outfit has intensified their activities since the start of the US-led forces pull out on May 1.
Khan Abad district in Kunduz was retaken on Monday, while Chah Ab district in Takhar was seized last week.
Kabul: At least 15 Taliban militants were killed following airstrikes in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, the government said on Sunday. Fifteen Taliban militants were killed following air raids in Sangin, Nad Ali and Musa Qala districts of Helmand province on Saturday, Presidential Information Coordination Centre was cited as saying by Xinhua news agency. The Centre’s statement […]
Kabul: About 30 Taliban militants were killed in an airstrike in Afghanistan’s Takhar province, a local source said on Wednesday. In the strike that was conducted late on Tuesday acting on an intelligence input, about 30 militants were killed and some 30 injured, Xinhua quoted an Afghan army official as saying. Armed with small firearms […]
Ghazni (Afghanistan): Afghan fighting planes targeted the Taliban hideouts in the restive Muqar and Gilan districts of eastern Ghazni province on Saturday, killing 12 insurgents and injuring six others, the…
Kabul: Three Taliban militants were killed in air strikes conducted by Afghan National Army’s Air Force in Afghanistan’s Herat and Farah provinces, the command of special forces said on Sunday. In an air strike in Shindand district of Herat province at 9.48 a.m. local time on Sunday, Marwan Bajawori, a Taliban local leader and the […]
Kabul: At least nine Taliban militants have been killed in two separate air strikes conducted by the Afghan Air Force in Afghanistan’s eastern Laghman province. The strikes were launched late Monday after Operations Command of the Afghan National Army Special Operations Corps (ANASOC) approved the sorties to be conducted on militants’ positions in Alishing and […]
Kabul: Afghan forces, during a cleanup operation, have killed at least 18 Taliban militants in the country’s Takhar province, officials said on Saturday. The operation, backed by military planes, was conducted over the last two days in the troubled Darqad district of the province, resulting in the death of at least 18 Taliban fighters and […]
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