A heavily armed group of insurgents preparing for an attack in eastern Afghanistan was killed in an air strike on Sunday.
The militant group was noted during a joint operation by Afghan-coalition security forces in Watahpur district of Kunar province, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a press release on Monday.
It confirmed that the air strike had not injured any civilians or damaged any of their property.
In another joint operation on Monday in Khugyani district, Nangarhar province, a Taliban leader was arrested. He was responsible for the movement of weapons and insurgents throughout the region, and for multiple attacks on Afghan and NATO forces.
In Nawah-e Barakzai district of Helmand province, an Afghan-coalition security force detained several suspected insurgents during an operation to arrest a Taliban explosives expert.
In a separate operation, Afghan-coalition security forces arrested a senior leader of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) in Chahar Darah district, Kunduz province.
The IMU leader directed IED (improvised explosive device) attacks in Kunduz province. He also acquired IEDs, weapons and rockets and distributed them to insurgents throughout the region.
The security force also detained two additional suspected insurgents and seized improvised explosive devices components during the operation, ISAF said.
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