MAIMANA (Pajhwok): Forty-one Taliban insurgents have been killed in air-and-ground operations in Almar and Pashtunkot districts of northwestern Faryab province, an official said on Tuesday.
A spokesman for the special security unit, Ahmad Javed Salim, told Pajhwok Afghan News the operations were launched in the Yaka Toot area of Pashtunkot.
He said that 30 militants, including commander Qari Shakir, were killed. Clashes were still under way between the security forces and Taliban, he added.
Eleven insurgents were killed and several others wounded . . .
