Kabul air strike claims 42 militants’ lives
Tuesday, 8 May 2018
KABUL, May 07 (Xinhua): At least 42 militants were killed and 24 others wounded in separate airstrikes in Afghanistan within the past 24 hours, the country's Defence ministry said Monday.
In southern Uruzgan province, 18 militants were killed and 14 others wounded after Taliban militants' positions were targeted on outskirts of provincial capital Tirin Kot city and neighboring Dihrawud district, the ministry said in a statement.
Nine Taliban were killed and seven others wounded in another similar air raid in Maruf district of neighboring Kandahar province.