Over 30 Taliban militants killed in Afghanistan clash

More than 30 Taliban militants were killed and over 20 others injured after the government forces struck the armed group’s hideouts in the western Badghis province, a member of the Provincial Council, Mohammad Nasir Nazari, said Monday.

The clash flared up in Sanjadak area of Muqar district and parts of the neighboring Qadis district on Sunday after the militants gathered in their hideouts to storm security checkpoints, but the government forces from ground and air retaliated, leaving 32 militants dead and 20 others injured so far.

According to Nazari, one security member was killed and seven others were injured.

Confirming the clash, an army spokesman in the restive province, captain Abdul Latif, asserted that more than two dozen militants had been killed and over a dozen others injured during the operations.

The security forces will continue to chase the insurgents elsewhere in the troubled province and its vicinity to ensure peace and security there.

Shir Aqa Alkozay, the deputy for provincial police chief, has also confirmed the fighting, saying the Taliban militants had suffered huge casualties in the troubled Muqar and Qadis districts over the past 24 hours.

The Taliban outfit which is operational in parts of Badghis province with Qala-e-Naw as its capital, has yet to make comments on the situation there.