KABUL – General Bismillah Waziri, the commander of Special OperationMilitary Corps, on Monday said that over 6,000 insurgents were killed inclashes against the Afghan security forces over the past ten months.
He said the number of operations carried out by his forces during thisperiod was over 2,000.
In August 2017, President Ashraf Ghani officially upgraded the SpecialForces Unit and Special Operations Division to a military corps, a movethat brought more responsibilities for these forces in their campaignagainst insurgents in various fronts across Afghanistan.
Over the past ten months, the special operation corps forces carried outabout two thousand operations including 147 special operations againstmilitants, said Waziri.
“We eliminated over 6,100 enemy fighters including Daesh militants duringthe war, 3,285 of them sustained injuries, 443 others were arrested whohave been tackled based on the law,” said Waziri.
Afghan government is currently considering more troops to be included inthe structure of the special forces.
Meanwhile, a number of officers serving in the ranks of the special forceshave reaffirmed their commitment to safeguard the nation against threats.
“We have pursued highly professional training programs,” said one officerMohammad Hussain.
“We the Afghan special operation forces will do it, we are at the serviceof the people,” said another officer Ehsanullah.
According to Waziri, during this period, the special forces managed toseize hundreds of light and heavy weapons including landmines frominsurgents and destroyed 15 strategic centers belonging to the Taliban andDaesh.
The forces also took control of three Taliban prisons.
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