GHAZNI, Afghanistan, March 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) – At least 11 militants have been killed, eight wounded and seven others arrested, following separate clashes in two eastern Afghan provinces, authorities said today (Sunday).
In one incident, 10 Taliban militants were killed after a unit of Afghan National Army Special Operations Corps, backed by the air force, attacked a Taliban hideout in Googer locality, Zana Khan district of eastern Ghazni province Saturday night, provincial government spokesman, Harif Noori, said.
A security force and eight militants were wounded during the clashes while security forces also destroyed amount of weapons and ammunition in the raid, Noori said.
Elsewhere, one militant was killed and seven others arrested, following an engagement between security forces and Taliban in Tere Zayi district of neighbouring Khost province, the command of special forces said, earlier in the day.
Several AK-47 rifles were seized by security forces in the border district, the command said in a statement.
Afghan security forces have beefed up operations on militants recently as spring and summer, known as the fighting season, is drawing near in the country.– NNN-AGENCIES
