BFF-26 19 militants killed in N. Afghan air-raids

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19 militants killed in N. Afghan air-raids

MAIMANA, Afghanistan, Dec 30, 2018 (BSS/Xinhua) – Afghan Air Force
launched deadly airstrikes, destroying multiple terrorists’ hideouts and
killing 19 insurgents in Afghanistan’s northern Faryab province, a local
official said Sunday.

The raids were carried out late on Saturday in the troubled Khawja Sabz
Posh and Qaysar districts of the province, leaving 19 militants including
three of their local leaders, Mullah Ahmad, Qari Feda Mohammad and Mullah
Khairullah, dead and seven others wounded, Abdul Karim Yourush, provincial
police spokesman, told Xinhua.

Those among the killed were three foreign militants, Yourush added.

According to him, four civilians including women and children were also
killed, when a mortar fired by Taliban militants hit their house in Garziwan
district of the province on Saturday.

The Taliban militants have not commented on the report.

Fighting has escalated in Afghanistan as the Taliban insurgency spreads
from its traditional strongholds in the south and east to the once peaceful
region in the north.

BSS/XINHUA/FI/1804 hrs