Afghan and U.S. forces have dismantled al Qaeda training sites in southern Afghanistan in a joint air and ground operation, leaving “numerous militants dead,” according to a statement Tuesday by U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
“This is one of the largest joint ground-assault operations we have ever conducted in Afghanistan,” said Brig. Gen. Wilson Shoffner, a U.S. spokesman in Afghanistan. “We struck a major al Qaeda sanctuary in the center of the Taliban’s historic heartland.”
The operation was conducted last week and early this week.