Eight soldiers and
four policemen also injured after Taliban fighters attack security checkpoints
in Kunduz province.
At least 13 Afghan
security forces have been killed and several more injured after Taliban
fighters attacked security checkpoints in northern Kunduz province, officials
have said.
Eight soldiers and at
least four policemen were injured in the overnight assault while three others
were taken captive by Taliban fighters, provincial councillor Safiullah Amiri
and Aminullah Aydin told German news agency DPA.
The fighters launched
the attack from several directions on security checkpoints in the Dasht-e Archi
district of Kunduz on Tuesday at about midnight. The clashes continued through
early Wednesday morning, the district governor Saduddin Sayyed said.
Sayyed also confirmed
that the Taliban seized weapons but said the checkpoints were now back under
the control of government forces.
The attack came a day
after at least 11 police officers were killed and six others wounded in an
attack carried out by the armed group in the capital of Baghlan province.
Kunduz is among the
most volatile provinces in Afghanistan where the Taliban have a huge presence
and regularly carry out attacks against the government forces.
The new wave of
attacks against Afghan forces came while US Special Envoy for Afghanistan
Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad is in Brussels to update NATO officials on the
recently relaunched United States-Taliban talks.
The US has been
engaging with the Taliban, which has waged an armed rebellion since it was
toppled from power in a US-led invasion in 2001. The US military action came
following the September 11, 2001 attacks.
But amid the
US-Taliban talks, which were first initiated nearly two years ago, violence has
gone up with a rising death toll of civilians. Both the West-backed government
as well as the Taliban have been blamed for the deaths.
Sumber: AlJazeera– 29 Januari 2020
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