GARDEZ (Pajhwok): Nearly 200 militants, including foreign fighters, have been killed during a recently launched “Operation Khyber” by Afghan security forces in the southeast, a security official said on Tuesday.
The commander of the 202nd Spinghar police zone, Maj. Gen. Asadullah Sherzad, told a presses conference here that the operation was underway in Khost, Paktia, Paktika and Ghazni provinces.
Nearly 200 local and foreign militants have been killed, hundreds of others wounded and detained during the offensive, which also claimed the lives of 30 Afghan security personnel and left 40 others injured, he said.
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