KABUL, Sept. 10 (Xinhua) -- One suicide bomber and a drug trafficker were captured in Afghanistan, said National Directorate of Security (NDS) on Sunday.
The NDS personnel launched eight Special Operations in different places within the last 48 hours. And they also captured one would-be suicide bomber and a drug trafficker over the period, NDS, the country's primary intelligence agency, said in a statement reaching Xinhua.
The statement also revealed that 129 Taliban militants and 18 Islamic State (IS) fighters were killed when Afghan army, police and NDS operatives lunched 14 joint operations across the country in two days.
It also said seven Taliban militants and seven IS militants were wounded and eight Taliban were detained by the joint forces.
The security forces also destroyed nine rounds of weapons and nine militants' motorcycles during the above raids, the statement read.
The Afghan security forces have beefed up security operations against militants as the Taliban militants and Islamic State (IS) fighters have been attempting to take territory and consolidate their positions across the country.
