By Xinhua
Kabul : Afghan police have killed 15 Taliban insurgents including two of their local commanders over the past two weeks, a press release of Interior Ministry issued here Tuesday said.
Afghan police have eliminated Mullah Hanif and Mullah Dadgul, two local commanders of Taliban outfit, along with 13 of their comrades in Deh Rawad district of southern Afghanistan’s Uruzgan province, the ministry said.
The operation launched two weeks ago is still continuing, it said.
Uruzgan like its neighboring provinces of Helmand, Zabul and Kandahar in south Afghanistan has been considered a hotbed of Taliban militants.
More than 150 people, almost all of them civilians, have been killed in three suicide and car bomb blasts over the past three days in Kandahar.