43 insurgents killed in past 24 hours: MoD

KABUL (Pajhwok): Forty-three militants have been killed, 18 wounded and two captured alive during operations over the past 24 hours in various provinces, the Ministry of Defense said on Friday.

The dead militants included three commanders, the ministry said in a statement. The operations were conducted in Nangarhar, Laghman, Kapisa, Paktia, Paktika, Khost, Ghazni, Kandahar, Uruzgan, Badghis, Herat, Farah, Kunduz, Faryab, Baghlan, Badakhshan and Helmand provinces.

A base of the Taliban was destroyed as a result of an airstrike in southern Helmand province, the brief statement said.

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