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KABUL: The embattled government of Afghanistan, contrary to past years has made headway in the war on insurgency as the government forces have expelled the armed insurgents from 11 districts throughout the outgoing year to expand its sovereignty.

Afghan security forces, according to the country’s defence ministry has changed defensive attitude to an aggressive one, pursuing the armed insurgents elsewhere in the country.

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In crackdowns on the armed opposition groups, the government forces have recaptured Wardoj, Yamgan and Kuran-wa-Munjan districts in the northern Badakhshan province in September and October and thus ended the Taliban outfit’s nearly four years rule over the said districts, forcing the Taliban fighters to flee or surrender, according to the Defence Ministry.

According to the ministry’s statements, the security forces have also recaptured Dasht-e-Archi district in the northern Kunduz province, Bilcheragh district in Faryab, Baharak, Darqad and Khawaja Bahaudin districts in Takhar, Dahna-e-Ghori district in Baghlan, Marja district in Helmand and Jaghato district in the relatively restive Ghazni province in 2019.

Taliban outfit’s desperate attempts to overrun a province or a big city in 2019 have been thwarted and the militants’ storms to capture the western Farah city, eastern Ghazni’s provincial capital the Ghazni city, the northern Kunduz and Baghlan’s provincial capital Pul-e-Khumri have been repulsed.