At least fifteen Taliban Militants killed in Afghan Army’s Airstrikes in Kandahar

Kabul: At least fifteen Taliban militants were killed and 11 others injured in retaliatory airstrikes by the Afghan government’s forces in the southern Kandahar province, a spokesman for the Afghan National Army’s 205th Atal Corps said on Friday.

“The Taliban attacked the government’s checkpoints in [Kandahar’s] Panjwai Salwat area and Zhari Pashmul area yesterday. In response, air strikes [were launched that] killed 15 Taliban and wounded 11 others,” spokesman Khwaja Yahya Alawi said.

The Taliban radical movement has not yet provided any comment.