KABUL (SW) – Officials in Kandahar, Kunduz and Badakhshan provinces on Sunday reported killing of at least 15 security forces and injuring of 13 others in Taliban assaults.
A well-placed security source in Kandahar said the Taliban insurgents staged an overnight raid on a check post in Shah Wali Kot district last night killing six soldiers and wounding seven others. The source said the Afghan Air Force responding to this attack killed 40 Taliban including a number of their so-called ‘Red Unit’.
Officials at the 205 – Attal Corps and the provincial police chief, did not comment.
In the northern Kunduz province, the Taliban insurgents stormed a police checkpoint on the outskirts of Kunduz city killing a unit police commander along with five policemen. Fawzia Yaftali, a provincial council member, confirmed the incident.
Spokesman for the provincial governor, Esmatullah Moradi, confirmed the incident. He told Salam Watandar that ten insurgents were killed and six more wounded when the security forces retaliated. He added three more insurgents were killed in the Imam Saheb district of the province.
In Badakhshan, a military source said three security forces and six Taliban insurgents got killed in clashes in the Argo district.
The Taliban have not commented on these incidents.
This comes as the landmark intra-Afghan talks entered second day on Sunday in the Qatari capital, Doha.
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