AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Taliban attacks in Afghanistan's north and south have killed at least 11 Afghan soldiers and policemen, the country's defence ministry and a provincial official said on Monday.
The violence comes even as Afghan President Ashraf Ghani last week announced his 21-member team would negotiate peace with the Taliban, only to have his political opponent, Abdullah Abdullah, reject it as not inclusive enough.
The Taliban has not claimed responsibility for the latest attacks.
According to the defence ministry, the rebels targeted a military checkpoint in a multi-pronged attack in the district of Arghandab in southern Zabul province on Sunday night, killing at least six troops.
In northern Baghlan province, at least five members of the security forces were killed and six others were wounded when their checkpoint came under a Taliban attack on the outskirts of the provincial capital, Puli Khumri, said Mabobullah Ghafari, a provincial council member. That attack also took place on Sunday.
On Monday, a sticky bomb attached to a vehicle detonated in the capital of Kabul, wounding at least four people, said Firdaus Faramraz, a spokesman for the Kabul police chief.
Jawed Faisal, spokesman for the Afghan National Security Adviser's office, said on Monday that Afghan officials and the Taliban agreed during a video conference that the Taliban should send its technical team to Kabul for face-to-face discussions on the release of Taliban prisoners.
The International Committee of the Red Cross would provide assistance in this matter, Faisal added.
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source : Al Jazeera
Monday
30 March 2020
10:55:30 AM
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Taliban attacks in Afghanistan's north and south have killed at least 11 Afghan soldiers and policemen, the country's defence ministry and a provincial official said on Monday.