KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's fledgling national army has launched its first major combat operation, sweeping the Zormat Valley region in the southeast of the country for Islamic militants fighting the U.S.-backed government.
About 1,000 soldiers from the now 5,000-strong Afghan National Army (ANA) were in the valley region in the southern part of Paktia province, a spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan said Wednesday.
"Operation Warrior Sweep marks the ANA's first major combat operation," Colonel Rodney Davis said at a military base on the outskirts of Kabul.
Davis said the ANA's mission was to "kill, capture and deny sanctuary to anti-coalition forces," and that it was backed by coalition forces. He declined to detail coalition participation
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