Taliban attack leaves 15 Afghan Army soldiers, police personnel dead

At Least seven Afghanistan soldiers and eight security force personnel were killed in two separate Taliban attacks since Thursday, media reports said on Saturday

Jun 05, 2021
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At Least seven Afghanistan soldiers and eight security force personnel were killed in two separate Taliban attacks since Thursday, media reports said on Saturday.

Taliban militants attacked a security outpost in Jawand district in the northwestern province of Badghis which left at least seven Afghanistan Armymen dead on Thursday.

A security official told TOLO News the Taliban has also feared casualties in the attack, but the exact number is not clear so far.

Mirza Ali Bidaar, the district governor of Qadis in Badghis, told TOLO News that four Taliban fighters were killed during clashes in Qadis on Thursday evening.

At least eight security force members, including police chiefs of two districts, were killed in a Taliban attack on Julga district in Baghlan province on Friday night, a security official who wished not to be named said.

Taliban attack started after midnight on Friday from different directions towards the center of Julga district in the northern province of Baghlan and continued until Saturday morning, the official said.

Gulbuddin, the police chief for Julga district, and Lotful-ul-Haq, the police chief for Burka district of Baghlan, were killed in the clashes. Lotful-ul-Haq, the police chief for Burka, went to Julga district to help security forces in the fight against the Taliban, the official said.

The official said that the district will fall to the Taliban if reinforcements were not sent, Tolo News reported.

Violence has remained high in the country as clashes continue between Afghan forces and the Taliban on multiple fronts.

Security officials reported clashes between the government forces and the Taliban in at least 10 provinces in the last 24 hours.

(SAM)

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