"Afghan National Police (ANP), army, NDS or intelligence agency and NATO-led coalition forces launched seven joint cleanup operations in Takhar, Kandahar, Uruzgan, Ghazni, Paktika, Paktia and Helmand provinces, killing 10 armed Taliban insurgents and detaining 32 others over the past 24 hours," the ministry said in a statement providing daily operational updates.
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 launched in May this year spring offensive against Afghan and NATO forces, have yet to make comments.
Afghan forces and some 130,000 NATO-led coalition troops have intensified operations against Taliban and other militants recently but the insurgents responded in retaliation by carrying out suicide attacks and roadside bombings.
A total of 16 people were killed and 90 others, including two U. S. soldiers with the coalition wounded in two suicide bombings in eastern Wardak province on Saturday morning.
Separately, Taliban shot and killed Hajji Hamidullah a member of district council in Nawa district of southern Helamnd province earlier Saturday, a provincial police spokesman Farid Farhang told Xinhua.
from XINHUA
2012-09-02 13:11:21
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