Taliban seize province near capital, attack northern city
Taliban militants have captured Warsaj district, the last bastion of the Afghan government in Takhar province, and further consolidated their position in the country's northern region.
Taliban militants have captured Warsaj district, the last bastion of the Afghan government in Takhar province, and further consolidated their position in the country's northern region.
Kunduz is a strategic crossroads with good access to much of northern Afghanistan as well as the capital, Kabul, about 200 miles.
On Friday, Taliban terrorists killed Dawa Khan Menapal, head of the Afghan government's media and information center.
On Tuesday evening, a group of militants detonated a car bomb next to the house of the Defense Minister, triggering a five-hour gun battle and leaving 12 dead,
The security forces found "Pakistani ID cards on the Taliban terrorists who were killed in Arghistan and Marouf," police added.
The soldiers were driving back to base after picking up their salaries in the country's western Farah province.
The Taliban view the US-backed government in Kabul as a dysfunctional Western puppet and have refused repeated offers to negotiate with it.
Armed attacks by the terror group have increased of late, as the country prepares to go to the polls on October 20.
Chief Election Commissioner Justice (retired) Sardar Mohammad Raza Khan condemned the attack and termed it a "weakness of security institutions".
Taliban militants launched a pre-dawn raid on a district government compound in Afghanistan on Thursday, killing at least seven people…
