30 militants killed in Afghan raids in 2 days

Thirty Taliban militants have been killed and 38 others were wounded in military operations since Saturday morning, the Afghan Interior Ministry said on Sunday. "In past 24 hours, Afghan National Police (ANP) conducted several joint cleanup operations with the cooperation of Army, NDS (intelligence service) and Coalition Forces in Nangarhar, Kapisa, Kunduz, Kandahar, Uruzgan, Logar and Helmand provinces. As a result 30 armed Taliban were killed, 38 wounded and three others were arrested," the ministry said in a statement, Xinhua reported. The ANP also seized weapons besides defusing several landmines, it added. The Taliban insurgent group, which has been waging an insurgency of more than one decade, has yet to make comments.