“The Afghan National Police, Afghan army and International Coalition Forces launched 11 joint operations in Nangarhar, Kunduz, Kandahar, Helmand, Wardak, Khost, Ghazni, and Logar provinces over the past 24 hours,” Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.
“As a result of these operations, four armed militants were killed and 31 others were arrested,” it added.
The joint forces also found and seized weapons besides defusing eight anti-vehicle mines during the above operations, the statement pointed out.
Insecurity continues to rise across Afghanistan despite the presence of some 130,000 US-led forces in the Asian country.
The United Nations announced on February 4 that 2011 was the deadliest on record for Afghan civilians. The death toll rose eight percent compared to the year before and was roughly double the figure for 2007.
Overall, 3,021 civilians died in violence related to the war and 4,507 were wounded in 2011. Of the deaths, the UN attributed 77 percent to militant attacks and 14 percent to US-led foreign troops and Afghan forces. Nine percent of the cases were classified as unknown.
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