NATO said Monday that about 200 Taliban-linked militants had been killed or captured in major military operations by Afghan and foreign forces on Afghanistan’s eastern border.
Hundreds of Afghan troops backed by the US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) launched a major offensive focused on the troubled border last week, going after insurgents linked to the hardline Haqqani group.
“As these operations, which were Afghan-led and supported by ISAF, have concluded, we can now say that at least 20 Haqqani-affiliated insurgents have been killed or captured,” ISAF spokesman, Brigadier General Carsten Jacobson, told reporters.
About 175 non-Haqqani rebels were also killed or captured, he said, adding that the operations lasted about one week.
