HERAT CITY (SW) – At least 18 members of a pro-government militia and its guests were killed by the Taliban in Herat province, sources told Salam Watandar.
A reliable security source in Herat, who did not want to be named, told Salam Watandar that on Sunday night the Taliban attacked a check post of the militia force in Sayed Abad area in the Pashtun Zarghun district of the province.
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According to the source, the Taliban captured the checkpoint after an hour of fighting and shot dead 11 militiamen and seven of their guests who had come to the checkpoint from Herat for a meeting. The source added that the Taliban blew up the checkpoint after shooting all 18 men.
The source also said that the bodies of those killed were taken out of the checkpoint by army soldiers yesterday and were moved to the hospital morgue.
Clashes between security forces and the Taliban also continued in Shindand district.
In neighboring Ghor, at least 4 civilians and 17 Taliban militants got killed, officials said on Tuesday. Officials in Ghor said that as a result of airstrikes by security forces and clashes between Taliban fighters in the province, 13 Taliban were killed, including Mullah Ahmad Shah, the Taliban’s deputy governor for Ghor in Chahar Sada district.
However, Nek Mohammad Nekzad, security chief of Ghor police command, told Salam Watandar that Taliban fighters had killed four civilians and a security guard and wounded three others in an attack on the Khamshur area of Lal Sar Jangal district last night.
Security sources, who did not want to be named, also told Salam Wtandar that a woman and four security forces were seriously injured in Taliban attacks in the Chahar Sada district of the province, and that last night a Taliban attack on the Kharestan checkpoint west of Feroz Koh, 13 security forces have been wounded.
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