By SPA,
Kabul, Afghanistan : A joint U.S.-Afghan operation along the border with Pakistan has killed about 20 insurgent fighters over the last month, an Afghan governor said Monday, according to Associated Press.
The Afghan and U.S. forces taking part in Operation Lion Heart are trying to pressure the insurgents along the border between Afghanistan’s Kunar province and the Bajur region in Pakistan.
Pakistani forces are conducting their own operation in Bajur in coordination with the U.S. and Afghan forces.
The Ministry of Defense said Monday that dozens of insurgents have been killed and wounded over the last month.
A spokesman said he couldn’t give more precise numbers.
However, Kunar Gov. Sayed Fazeullah Wahidi said around 20 fighters have been killed over the last month.
Elsewhere in Afghanistan, a car bomb with two attackers exploded Monday near an Afghan governor’s compound, killing one Afghan civilian and wounding seven. The two attackers also died, said Sayed Ismail Jahangir, the spokesman for the governor of Ghazni province in central Afghanistan.
Shops around the governor’s compound were damaged, and shattered glass littered the ground around the bombing.