KABUL, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- Some 11 militants have been killed and four wounded as Afghan security forces waged offensives across the country, the Defense Ministry said on Friday.
"Afghan army, police and personnel of intelligence agency carried out cleanup operations in Nangarhar, Kapisa, Kunar, Khost, Ghazni, Uruzgan, Herat, Kunduz, Badakhshan, Baghlan, Jawzjan and Helmand provinces over the past 24 hours, killing 11 armed insurgents and wounding four others," the ministry said in a statement.
Among the killed was one militant of Islamic State (IS), and one Taliban fighter was killed after members of local uprising group or pro-government militias fought back armed militants who tried to destroy telephone towers in southern Zabul province, the statement said.
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