Kabul: Afghan forces killed 16 Taliban militants and injured 19 others while evicting them from several villages in Dand-e-Ghori area in Baghlan province, police said on Thursday. [caption id=“attachment_4961631” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]
File image of Afghan Taliban. Reuters[/caption] “The security forces have recaptured several villages including the main base of Taliban militants over the past four days,” police chief Ekramudin Sari told Xinhua news agency. Dand-e-Ghori was captured by Taliban two years ago and since then has been regarded as a Taliban stronghold in the northern Baghlan province. The ongoing operations against the Taliban in Dand-e-Ghori would last until the area was cleansed of the insurgents, Sari said. Taliban militants were yet to comment on the development.
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