QALAT (Pajhwok): A search operation has been launched across southern Zabul province and so far 16 insurgents have been killed, a military official said on Saturday.
Gen. Abdul Hameed Hameed, the 205th military corps commander, told Pajhwok Afghan News the operation was launched on Thursday focused on Qalat, the provincial capital, and all districts.
He said so far 14 militants had been killed in Shajoy district, 11 injured and three captured alive. Security forces had seized 19 motorcycles from the rebels, he added.
Another two insurgents were killed during an airstrike in the . . .
