Kabul, December 12: Afghan security forces have killed four militants in an operation in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar, a local official says.
Mohammad Hassan, the provincial official, said on Monday that Afghan forces targeted the militants late on Sunday when they “were planting improvised explosive devices (IEDs)” along a road in Khogyani district to hit security forces, Xinhua reported.
The Taliban have not made any comment on the incident yet.
The development comes as Afghan forces are preparing the ground to take security responsibility of provincial capital Jalalabad city and three other districts from US-led forces in near future.
The Afghan interior ministry said on Monday that a total of 14 militants were killed and 11 others detained during a string of operations by Afghan and foreign troops in different parts of the country over the past 24 hours.
The security situation remains fragile in Afghanistan, despite the presence of nearly 150,000 US-led foreign forces in the Asian country.
—-Agencies