16 Taliban militants killed: gov't statement
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A total of 16 Taliban militants have been killed and 21 others detained during a series of cleanup operations within the past 24 hours, the Afghan Interior Ministry said on Sunday.
"Afghan National Police (ANP), army and coalition forces launched seven joint cleanup operations in Nangarhar, Faryab, Badakhshan, Kandahar, Ghazni, Khost and Paktika provinces, killing 16 Taliban insurgents and detaining 21 other armed insurgents over the past 24 hours," the ministry said in a statement.
They also found and seized weapons besides defusing 12 mines, the statement added without saying if there were casualties on security forces.
Taliban militants have yet to make comments.
Afghan forces and some 130,000 NATO-led coalition troops have intensified cleanup operations against Taliban and other militant groups throughout the country recently. Over 430 insurgents have been killed and more than 880 others detained in the country so far this year, according to the Interior Ministry.
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