Seven Afghan Soldiers Killed in Taliban Attack on Army Checkpoint
Tuesday, 24th December 2019

The Taliban focused on a military checkpoint in northern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing at any rate seven Afghan officers, the safeguarding service and the guerillas said.
The service said in an explanation that the "adversary" assault in northern Balkh region, in the area of Dawlat Abad, additionally injured six different individuals from the security powers — three troopers and three insight operators. An examination was in progress, the announcement included.
Taliban representative Zabihullah Mujahid asserted obligation regarding the assault, saying likewise that the extremists caught four Afghan soldiers and held onto weapons and ammo structure the checkpoint.
The Taliban presently control or hold influence over for all intents and purposes half of Afghanistan yet keep on organising close day by day assaults focusing on Afghan and U.S. powers, just as government authorities — even as they hold harmony converses with a U.S. agent entrusted with arranging a conclusion to the 18-year strife, America's longest war. Scores of regular Afghan citizens are additionally executed in the crossfire or by roadside bombs planted by activists.
On Monday, an American trooper was killed in battle in northern Kunduz territory. The Taliban asserted they were behind a lethal roadside shelling that focused American and Afghan powers in Kunduz.
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