LASHKARGAH (Pajhwok): Twenty-eight Taliban, including five notorious commanders, has been killed and 16 others wounded in an airstrike in southern Helmand province, an official said on Tuesday.
Capt. Shakil Ahmad Tasal, deputy spokesman for the 203rd Maiwand Military Corps, told Pajhwok Afghan News the dead Taliban commanders were Mullah Raqeeb, Qari Omer, Firdosi, Jahadullah, and Bashir Agha.’
The air raid took place in the Babaji locality of Lashkargah, the provincial capital, late on Tuesday. Tasal said the Taliban had gathered in the . . .
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