The Afghan Defense Ministry has claimed that almost 86 Taliban fighters have been killed in recent skirmishes between the Afghan security forces and the Taliban in different provinces of Afghanistan in the last 24 hours.
With the aerial support of the Afghan Air Forces, the Afghan security forces have conducted operations and counter-attacks against the Taliban militants in Nangarhar, Kandahar, Faryab, Nimroz, Badakhshan and Takhar provinces that killed 86 Taliban insurgents and left 31 others injured, the Ministry of Defense said in a statement.
According to the statement, 19 rounds of mines and IEDs that were planted by the Taliban to target civilians and security forces were also discovered and defused.
Huge amounts of weapons and ammunition were also destroyed, the statement added.
