Fifty-five militants have been killed in separate military operations within the last 24 hours, the Afghan Interior Ministry said Thursday morning.

"Afghan security forces and the NATO-led coalition troops conducted seven cleanup operations in Kabul, Nangarhar, Jawzjan, Kandahar, Zabul and Logar province, killing 55 armed insurgents over the past 24 hours," the ministry said in a statement.

Up to 12 insurgents were wounded and 11 others detained by the joint forces as a result of the operations, it added.

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 has been waging an insurgency of more than one decade, has yet to make comments.

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