Six al Qaeda members and seventeen Taliban fighters were killed in an operation that was conducted by the Afghan Special Forces in Musa Qala district in Helmand province.
Preliminary reports indicate that the Al Qaeda members killed were from Pakistan from Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS).
The operation comes just a few days after Afghanistan went to the polls for presidential elections. Afghanistan has been the ground for various terror organizations including ISIS, al Qaeda, and the Taliban and as such the operations in line with the national security of the Middle Eastern nation.
The Afghan security forces have been left to fight on the front lines alone since the United States partially withdrew ground troops five years ago. In that time, they have lost at least 45,000 Afghan troops and that figure is rising.
