Feel good story of the day.

Via Global Times:

Ten Taliban militants have been killed in Afghanistan within the last 24 hours, the authorities said Tuesday morning.

“In past 24 hours, Afghan National Police (ANP) conducted several joint clearance operations with the cooperation of Army, National Directorate for Security (NDS) and Coalition Forces to clean some of the areas from terrorists and enemies of peace and stability of Afghanistan. As a result eight armed Taliban were killed, five wounded and 20 others were arrested,” the Afghan Interior Ministry said in a statement.

On early Tuesday morning, two Taliban militants were killed when an IED they were panting went off prematurely at a roadside in Khas Uruzgan district of southern Uruzgan province, the provincial police spokesman Farid Ayal told Xinhua.