Kabul, Nov 27 (UNI) 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.
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