The Ministry of Defense has announced that over 40 Taliban fighters have been killed over the last few days by the Afghan Army and security forces. Several of the recently destroyed terror groups were planting IEDs alongside roads and towns. Afghan security force members were able to defuse 113 IEDs in the Kandahar province that were on public roads.
Source: https://www.khaama.com/taliban-battered-across-afghanistan-ieds-defused/