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At least 37 local policemen were killed by the Taliban as fighting rage in Afghanistan’s Western Farah Province, local officials said on Monday.
Khost, the sole village controlled by the government in Khak-e Safid district, was attacked by Taliban militants while the fight was ongoing, Humaira Ayubi, a member of parliament from the province, told dpa.
The Taliban have infiltrated a strategic district in southeastern Afghanistan and fought with members of the Shi’ite Hazara minority, officials said on Thursday, a week after militants and a Shi’ite militia clashed in a central province.
Insurgents raided the Jaghori district in Ghazni province on Wednesday, aiming to regain control of a Shi’ite-dominated region that allows women to move freely and encourages higher female participation in government.
A total of 10 militants have been killed and six others injured as clashes erupted in a northern province on Thursday, provincial police spokesman Sanahullah Ruhani said.
The clashes, according to the official, broke out in Shiwa area of Arghanchkhaw district of Badakhshan province at 02:00 a.m. local time and lasted for several hours and the militants fled away after leaving 10 bodies behind and six more injured.
Continuing armed conflicts between joint force of TNLA and SSPP/SSA troops and RCSS/SSA troops this week forced hundreds of villagers flee from their homes in Namtu township.
Three local rebels were killed in a gunbattle with Indian government forces in disputed Kashmir on Sunday, and six civilians were killed in an explosion at the site after the fighting was over, officials and residents said.
Meanwhile, three Indian army soldiers and two suspected militants were killed in a gunbattle along the highly militarized line of control dividing Kashmir between India and Pakistan.