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Afghanistan: 50 Taliban killed in airstrikes

| | Jul 04, 2016, at 12:22 am
Kabul, July 3 (IBNS) Fifty Taliban fighters have been killed in airstrikes in the Arghistan district of northeastern Badakhshan province of Afghanistan, media reports said on Sunday.

The Afghan Air Force (AAF) targeted Taliban hideouts in different areas of the troubled district, inflicting the casualties on the insurgents, Pajhwok Afghan News reported quoting the Ministry of Defence (MoD)  statement.

Brig. Gen. Janat Gul Karokhel, commander of the 20th Pamir Corps second unit, told Pajhwok Afghan News key Taliban figures Maulvi AttiqullahZubair, Basit and Ibrahim were among the dead.

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