AFGHANISTAN: Taliban attack on Afghan checkpoint kills 13

A Taliban attack on a checkpoint in the eastern province of Ghazni has killed at least 13 soldiers and policemen, officials said. Afghan reinforcements were dispatched to the site after Monday’s attack in Khogyani district – located on the main road between the capital, Kabul, and the Afghan south – but were repeatedly ambushed along […]

A Taliban attack on a checkpoint in the eastern province of Ghazni has killed at least 13 soldiers and policemen, officials said.

Afghan reinforcements were dispatched to the site after Monday’s attack in Khogyani district – located on the main road between the capital, Kabul, and the Afghan south – but were repeatedly ambushed along the way.

The checkpoint was part of a belt of strongholds built around Ghazni after the city was briefly overrun by the Taliban in August in one of their biggest offensives in years.

At the time, hundreds of people fled the city amid intense fighting between Afghan forces and the Taliban that killed about 120 members of the security forces and civilians.

Arif Noori, spokesperson for the provincial governor in Ghazni, said that seven soldiers and six policemen were killed in Monday’s raid.