KABUL) said on Friday.
Officials were unable to determine the weight of the marijuana growing in the field, but the size of the field was estimated at about one and a half acre. The cache yielded 200 kilograms of marijuana. The drugs were destroyed on location, an ISAF statement said.
In the same district, coalition soldiers discovered a weapons cache which consisted of machine gun and small arms ammunition, three rocket-propelled grenades, one illumination round, 20 kilograms of explosives and various improvised explosive device components.
A number of suspected insurgents detained during an operation in Musa the Qala district of Helmand province. The operation was aimed to capture a Taliban leader, directs roadside bomb and ambush attacks against coalition forces.
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