"Afghan police, army, intelligence agency and NATO-led Coalition Forces launched eight joint cleanup operations in Helmand, Zabul, Ghazni, Paktika, Herat and Farah provinces, killing 11 armed Taliban insurgents and detaining two others over the past 24 hours," the ministry said in a statement.
They also found and seized weapons, the statement said, without saying if there were any casualties on the side of security forces.
The Taliban insurgent group, which announced the launching of a spring offensive from May 3 against security forces, has not to make comments yet.
The Afghan forces and some 130,000 NATO-led coalition troops have intensified cleanup operations against Taliban and other militants throughout the country recently.
Records kept by Xinhua, based on figures released by Interior Ministry, reveal that around 400 insurgents have been killed, 120 wounded and nearly 450 others detained since May 1 across the insurgency-hit country.
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