The Afghan Ministry of Interior Affairs on Sunday said that the police forces, backed by the army and the NATO-led occupation forces, have eliminated 28 Taliban militants in different provinces within the past 24 hours.

The Afghan Ministry of Interior Affairs on Sunday said that the police forces, backed by the army and the NATO-led occupation forces, have eliminated 28 Taliban militants in different provinces within the past 24 hours.

"Afghan National Police (ANP) in collaboration with the army and coalition forces launched 17 cleanup operations in Kabul, Nangarhar, Laghman, Kapisa, Kunduz, Faryab, Wardak, Ghazni and Paktika provinces, killing 28 armed Taliban militants over the past 24 hours," the ministry said in a statement.

“The ANP also detained 13 suspected militants besides seizing weapons and ammunition in the above raids,” the statement added, without saying whether there were any casualties on the side of security forces.

The Taliban insurgents, who have been waging an insurgency of more than one decade, have yet to confirm the death of their men.

The Afghan security forces have recently intensified cleanup operations against Taliban and other militants throughout the country, but the insurgents retaliated by carrying out bombings and laying out ambushes against them.

On Saturday, two U.S. occupation soldiers were killed in an insurgent attack in eastern Afghanistan, the coalition confirmed in a statement.