Alwaght- Afghan government forces launched airstrikes on Jowzjan and Helmand Provinces killing over 30 members of the Taliban militant group.
Afghanistan’s Defense Ministry said in a statement on Saturday that 33 Taliban militants had been killed and 17 others injured airstrikes in the two provinces of the conflict-ridden country.
“In Jowzjan Province, 19 militants were killed and 15 wounded after warplanes targeted militants' hideouts in Murghab and Hassan Tabbin villages on the outskirts of provincial capital Shiberghan,” the ministry said in the statement.
“Fourteen Taliban, including two non-Afghan militants, lost their lives and two others wounded when the air force struck their position on the outskirts of Lashkar Gah, capital of southern Helmand province,” it added.
The ministry also said three vehicles, six motorcycles, two bunkers and a big cache of weapons and ammunition belonging to the Taliban militants were destroyed.
The militants are believed to control about half of Afghanistan’s roughly 400 districts.
The Afghan government imposed a night-time curfew over much of the country as it tries to deter the Taliban from advancing into key urban areas.
Aside from Kabul and two other provinces, no movement will be allowed between 22:00 and 04:00 in the other 31 provinces.
