PUL-I-KHUMRI (Pajhwok): Clashes and airstrikes killed more than a dozen Taliban insurgents near the capital of northern Baghlan province during an ongoing operation, an official said on Wednesday.
Another 11 Taliban rebels were injured and four captured alive in the Dand-i-Ghori area on the outskirts of Pul-i-Khumri, Baghlan’s capital, said Maj. Mohammad Hanif Razai, spokesman for the Afghan National Army’s 209 Shaheen Military Corps.
He said the security forces had so far cleared five villages of Taliban’s presence . . .
