KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan-international force captured a Taliban weapons facilitator in Ghazni province last night.
The weapons facilitator, responsible for supplying arms to various militant networks, was captured during the search of a compound outside the village of Khanzama Kheyl, Qara Bagh district.
In a separate operation, a joint Afghan-international force discovered a weapons cache after receiving a tip from a resident in Dishu district, Helmand province yesterday.
The cache consisted of four hand grenades, 76 boxes of 14.5 mm rounds, 125 rounds of 12.7 mm ammunition, two mortar fuses and other munitions. They were destroyed on site.
No shots were fired and no Afghan citizens were harmed during the operation.