Kabul: – More than 24,000 Taliban militants have been killed and wounded in four months of Afghan military operations carried out between April and July. According to the Afghan government, a total of 5,777 Afghans were killed during the period, and most of them were women and children. Meanwhile, the Afghan defence ministry said 226 Taliban militants had been killed in the past 24 hours.
The Afghan army has initiated a campaign against the Taliban even before the US military withdrawal. During these four months, the Afghan military carried out about 22,000 attacks on the Taliban. More than 24,000 terrorists were killed in these attacks. The Taliban is claimed to have suffered heavy casualties in the Kandahar, Helmand, Paktia, Baghlan and Herat provinces. Afghan Ministry of Peace Affairs released the information on Thursday.
