Mazar-i-Sharif [Afghanistan], July 25 (ANI/Xinhua): A total of 81 terrorists were confirmed dead as the Afghan forces, backed by helicopter gunships and fighting planes, launched airstrikes in northern Balkh province on Saturday, said an army statement released here Sunday.
The sorties were launched on Saturday afternoon in parts of the restive Kaldar and Chamtal districts, leaving 81 insurgents dead and injuring 43 others.
A large number of arms and ammunition, as well as over two dozen vehicles and motorbikes of the terrorists, were also been destroyed during the air raids, the statement added.
The Taliban terrorists, who have claimed that they captured nearly 200 districts since early May across Afghanistan have yet to make comments. (ANI/Xinhua)
5 terrorists killed, Taliban commander injured in mine blast in Afghanistan
Faryab [Afghanistan], July 25 (ANI/Xinhua): Five Taliban terrorists were killed and a key commander, Mufti Ismael, sustained injury as a mine blast struck their car in Afghanistan‘s northern Faryab province on Sunday, police said.
“Taliban key commander Mufti Ismael after attending a Taliban commanders’ meeting in Shirin Tagab district this afternoon were going to somewhere when a mine blast targeted his car killing five of his bodyguards and injuring him,” a statement of the Faryab police said.
Taliban terrorists have overrun all seven districts of Faryab province and have been mounting pressure on the provincial capital Maimana city, 425 km northwest of Kabul.
The terrorist group has not commented on Sunday’s incident. (ANI/Xinhua)
