Kabul [Afghanistan]: The Afghan security forces have killed 15 members of the Taliban movement during an operation in the country's central province of Uruzgan, the Afghan Ministry of Defense said on Sunday.
According to the ministry, as a result of the operation, the Afghan forces also destroyed the group's weapons, ammunition, as well as one vehicle and two hideouts.
During another operation in the Pashtrod district in the southwestern province of Farah last night, the Afghan forces killed eight insurgents and injured another one, the ministry added.
The Afghan armed forces and the Taliban continue to engage in clashes across the country despite the start of peace negotiations between the government and representatives of the group in the Qatari capital of Doha back in September.
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Earlier, two Afghan soldiers and a former director of the National Directorate of Security were killed in a Taliban attack in Kunduz province of Afghanistan, a source in the provincial council told media on Sunday.
According to the source, the Taliban attacked a military checkpoint in the province's Aliabad district on Saturday night.
The Kunduz governor's office confirmed the incident but declined to comment on the casualties. On Sunday morning, one policeman was killed and two others suffered injuries in a bomb attack on a security outpost in Khogyani district of Nangarhar province.
According to officials, it was a suicide attack on the checkpoint. Afghanistan has witnessed a sharp rise in violence.
(Agencies)
