The Afghan Ministry of Defense (MoD) said on Saturday that at least 28 insurgents were killed during Afghan forces’ operations in the past 24 hours. 

The ministry said in a statement that at least 13 others were wounded. 

The operations were conducted in Nangarhar, Laghman, Ghazni, Paktika, Logar, Kandahar, Farah, Takhar, Faryab, Nimroz and Helmand provinces, the MoD said. 

During the operations a number of vehicles and weapons belonging to insurgents were destroyed, the MoD said. 

According to the ministry during the air strikes insurgent hideouts were also targeted and destroyed. 

No more information was given by the ministry nor did the statement indicate whether there were any casualties among security forces.