13 Afghan soldiers killed in Taliban attack
World | January 29, 2020 13:51 ISTAt least 13 soldiers were killed in an overnight Taliban attack in Afghanistan's Kunduz province, officials said on Wednesday.
At least 13 soldiers were killed in an overnight Taliban attack in Afghanistan's Kunduz province, officials said on Wednesday.
The attack on the Shortepa district headquarters in northern Balkh province started early in the morning, according to Munir Ahmad Farhad, spokesman for the provincial governor.
At least 15 militants were killed and 10 others wounded after a military aircraft targeted a gathering of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan's Takhar province on Saturday, officials said.
Aziz Ahmad Azizi, provincial governor's spokesman, says two other police were wounded in Saturday's attack in Spin Bolduk district.
The interior ministry and police both said the blast had been a car bomb targeting a compound which houses G4S, a private British security company, in east Kabul, reported TOLO News.
The Taliban have in recent months been staging near-daily attacks across Afghanistan, inflicting heavy casualties on Afghan forces.
Arif Noori, spokesman for the provincial governor said that ix insurgents were killed and more than 10 others were wounded during a three-hour battle with Afghan forces.
The attack, which took place on Wednesday in the district of Bagram in Parwan province, also wounded three Afghan civilians, said Wahida Shakar, spokeswoman for the provincial governor.
Six Taliban militants died and four were injured in the clash at security checkpoints in Mandozai area of Khakriz district on Sunday.
The Taliban moved in large numbers, striking the army positions from different directions.
Security forces said Sunday they had killed the last of six Taliban militants to end an overnight siege at Kabul’s Intercontinental Hotel that left at least 18 people dead, including 14 foreigners.
Afghan Defence Minister Abdullah Habibi and the army chief, General Qadam Shah Shahim, resigned on Monday in the wake of an attack at an army base in Balkh that left over 140 soldiers dead.
At least eight military personnel and one attacker were killed when Taliban militants attacked an Afghan Army Corps in the northern province ofBalkh on Friday, the Defence Ministry said.
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