FAIZABAD (Pajhwok): Afghan forces recaptured the Tagab district of northeastern Badakhshan province from Taliban militants, local officials said on Monday.
The governor’s spokesman, Ahmad Navid Frotan, told Pajhwok Afghan News the Taliban were driven from the district during a joint operation of the Afghan National Army (ANA), police and public order police. The militants retreated to Yamgan district without putting up resistance, he said.
Ground forces commander for 20th Pamir Division, Brig. Gen. Sakhidad Kiftan, said that Taliban militants had been posing security threats on the . . .
