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AT-KABUL: Eighteen armed insurgents were killed in separate raids in the north and south of the country in the past 24 hours, security officials said Monday.
In a press release, Ministry of Defense (MoD) said that the security forces conducted operations against the insurgents in different areas of Baghlan, Uruzgan and Helmand provinces. “In these operations, eighteen militants were killed,” the statement said. The statement added that the security forces also arrested five suspects including an individual involved in kidnapping cases from Sar Hawaza area of Paktika province. Unfortunately, four army soldiers were martyred during the operations, the statement said. There has been a steep rise in the number of the Afghan army casualties since they took control of the security responsibilities from the coalition forces at the end of2014.
