PUL-I-KHUMRI (Pajhwok): At least 30 Taliban militants have been killed and another 16 wounded in airstrikes in the Markaz-i-Baghlan district of northern Baghlan province, officials said on Tuesday.
Ghulam Mohammad Balkhi, deputy spokesman for the Afghan army’s Shaheen Military Corps in the northern zone, told Pajhwok Afghan News that US forces conducted the airstrikes in Khodai Dadkhel, Larkhabi, Alauddin and Khalzai villages since yesterday.
He said 30 militants were eliminated and another 17 wounded in the airstrike and the ground forces recaptured . . .
