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The 209th Shaheen Corps said in a statement that the Taliban militants shelled Khwaja Shabz Posh market earlier Friday.
The governor of the western Afghan province of Farah resigned on Thursday after months of increased fighting.
The Taliban militants and their local leaders suffered heavy casualties during the operations in Sangin, and Washir districts, southern Helmand province of Afghanistan.
Seven Taliban militants were killed or inured, including a Taliban leader, in an air raid carried out by the Afghan forces in central Maidan Wardak province.
An Afghan official says that Taliban have attacked a security outpost in southern Kandahar province, the insurgents' former heartland, killing four soldiers.
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