Kapisa (BNA) Ahmad Beg Hill in the Nejrab district of Kapisa was taken over from the Taliban yesterday.
BNA cited the Defense Ministry as saying that during an operation, commandos cleared the hill of armed Taliban and that security forces operations were underway on the outskirts of the hill. The source added that during the operation, casualties were also inflicted on the Taliban.
Note that 42 Taliban militants were killed in an airstrike in Helmand last night. The Ministry of National Defense press office told the BNA that the Air Force targeted a Taliban rally in the town of Lashkargah, Helmand, killing 42 Taliban insurgents and injuring six others.
In conclusion, two Pakistani terrorists were killed during an operation carried out by the security and defense forces in the town of Maimana. The Ministry of Defense (MoD) released a newsletter, security and defense forces launched an operation in the town of Maimana in central Faryab, which resulted in four Taliban leaders named Ozbar and Zafar, citizens from Pakistan, and Qari Gol Ahmad and Mullah Khair Mohammad, along with another 9 member of the group was killed.
A Taliban leader, Khairullah, known as Chalak, and 12 other Taliban were injured in the operation. The operation also destroyed a quantity of weapons, five Kalashnikovs, a rocket launcher, ammunition and an enemy motor vehicle.
