Afghanistan: At least 50 Taliban Militants Killed, Injured in Afghan Airstrikes in Two Provinces

At least 50 members of the Taliban militant group have been killed or injured in airstrikes by the Afghan government forces in two of the conflict-ridden country’s provinces. Afghanistan’s Defense Ministry said in a statement on Saturday that 33 Taliban militants had been killed and 17 others injured airstrikes in the northern Jowzjan Province and the southern Province of Helmand. “In Jowzjan Province, 19 militants were killed and 15 wounded after warplanes targeted militants’ hideouts in Murghab and Hassan Tabbin villages on the outskirts of provincial capital Shiberghan,” the ministry said in the statement. “Fourteen Taliban, including two non-Afghan militants,…