Afghanistan, March 19 -- At least 35 Taliban militants were killed and a large cache of weapons was destroyed during the operations of Afghan Special Forces and airstrikes in northern Kunduz province.

According to informed military sources, Afghan Special Forces conducted a raid in Chahar Darah district killing 27 Taliban fighters.

The sources further added that a large weapons cache, 38 pressure-plate IEDs and 40 pounds of homemade explosives were destroyed.

"Several self-defense air strikes in Chahar Darah district killed another 8 Taliban fighters," the sources added.

The anti-government armed militants including Taliban have not commented regarding the operations so far.

Kunduz is among the relatively volatile provinces in North ...