KABUL (Pajhwok): More than 40 insurgents have been killed during security operations over the past 24 hours in various parts of the country, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) said on Friday.
The ground offensives, backed by artillery and air support, were carried out in Nangarhar, Ghazni, Maidan Wardak, Paktika, Kandahar, Uruzgan, Zabul, Farah, Faryab and Helmand provinces, a MoD statement said.
It said two Pakistanis were among 10 militants killed and four others wounded and their weapons destroyed in an operation in Khak-i-Safid district . . .
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Azizullah Hamdard
