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Taliban Guerrillas Retake Areas of Southern Afghan

Elusive Taliban fighters have recaptured some areas of a southern Afghan province despite a ongoing massive joint operation by government troops and US-led coalition forces to hunt them down, an Afghan military official said on Wednesday.


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Elusive Taliban fighters have recaptured some areas of a southern Afghan province despite a ongoing massive joint operation by government troops and US-led coalition forces to hunt them down, an Afghan military official said on Wednesday.

"Two districts of Larzahwa, Chanaraha and a part of the district of Dai Chupan in Zabul province were fallen to the hands of Taliban guerrillas on Tuesday afternoon," Haji Janan, a commander of the Afghan Army's 7th Corps stationed in Kandahar, told Xinhua.

He said that such a situation occurred after a new Taliban commander and more Taliban fighters arrived on Tuesday in the area,where some 40 suspected Taliban have been killed earlier this week.

Seven more Taliban fighters were killed in harsh clashes on Tuesday evening in the mountainous Dai Chupan district.

US-led coalition forces also sent more soldiers by air and roadto the area to join the cleanup operation against the Taliban guerrillas launched on Monday, said Janan, whose troops are also participating in the operation.

Authorities of Zabul province are trying to strengthen coordination among over 1,000 government troops from three neighboring provinces in order to arrange new offensive against the Taliban fighters on coming days, the official said.

Meanwhile, Affizullah Hashmi, governor of Zabul province, said on Wednesday that two strategic Taliban bases in the Dara Dozi valley located in Dai Chupan mountains were destroyed on Tuesday.

During the last three days of military operation in the province, about 40 Taliban militia and five government soldiers were killed, he said.




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