Media: NATO aircraft began bombing Kandahar

Yesterday, 13 June, NATO planes began bombing in Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan, which until recently was considered one of the main strongholds of the Taliban.
On the bombing today, June 14, reported the Afghan government news agency Bakhtar. According to him, as a result of a two-day air attack killed 45 Taliban fighters.
Chief of Police of the security forces in Kandahar province, Ahmad Wali, Shirzad said that the aviation NATO first bombed a house in the county Hanshin, where, according to foreign military, met Taliban warlords. It is reported that they were killed.
Shirzad said that later were struck villages Shatut, Chinarto, Nisir-Kariz, which killed another 25 militants.
Bakhtar Agency, meanwhile, reports 60 civilians killed in NATO air raids. The governor of Kandahar has not yet confirmed this information.

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Note that on the eve of Afghan President Hamid Karzai met with the elders of the Pashtun tribes and representatives of the people of the city of Kandahar, to enlist their support in carrying out military operations against terrorists. Karzai, who himself is a native of Kandahar, asked the elders to express support for his attempts to normalize the situation in the region.
Recall that in February this year in the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama haveThat the military operation in the Afghan city of Kandahar will start later this year.
Later, Reuters referring to the statement of the American authorities reportedThat the first phase of the operation - cleaning - should be completed to advance the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which is celebrated in late summer.

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