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2019-12-25 Afghanistan
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15 Afghan soldiers killed in a Taliban ambush in Northern Balkh province
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[KhaamaPress] Taliban
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have ambushed an Afghan military check-point in Dawlatabad district of northern Balkh province, killing at least security members, officials said on Tuesday.
Mohammad Yousuf, the district governor of Dawlatabad where the incident took place have spoken to Rooters confirming dozens of Taliban gunnies targeted a checkpoint manned jointly by Afghan soldiers and intelligence agents, killing 15.
The Afghanistan Ministry of Interior Affairs released a statement, confirming the Taliban attack on an Afghan security check-point in Dawlatabad district of Balkh. MOI has confirmed death of only 7 Afghan soldiers in this attack, apparently did not want to disclose the exact figures of casualties sustained in Taliban attack.
On the other hand, Taliban has announced killing of 20 Afghan cops, injuring 6 and detaining another 4 of them alive.
"We attacked an enemy military base in Dawlatabad district of Balkh province last night. As a result of this operation we killed 20 soldiers including commander Latif, injured 6 of them and have detained 4 soldiers alive," a Taliban spokesperson, Zabihullah Mujahid tweeted.
This comes as the U.S peace envoy, Zalmay Khalilzad restarted negotiations with Taliban few weeks back focusing on violence reduction, ceasefire and intra-Afghan talks.
The talks were interrupted following a Taliban attack on Bagram airfield, destroying a health facility nearby the Bagram military base.
But, recently sources close to Taliban had said a Taliban delegation have travelled to Pakistain to consult with their leaders and senior members on the ’ceasefire’.
Sources also said that the US peace envoy for Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, is in Qatar
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and waiting for the Taliban’s agreement over a reduction of violence and a ceasefire to pave the way for the signing of the agreement.
At least seven soldiers were killed in a Taliban attack on a checkpoint in Dawlat Abad district of Balkh province early Tuesday morning, the Ministry of Defense said.
Six other soldiers including three NDS employees were wounded in the attack, the ministry said.
The checkpoint was manned by both the Afghan army and the National Directorate of Security (NDS).
According to the ministry the attack occurred around 04:30 am local time.
According to the Afghan defence ministry, "terrorists" attacked a joint military base in the Dawlat Abad district of Balkh province near the Uzbekistan border. The base was shared between the army and the National Directorate of Security, Afghanistan's secretive intelligence agency.
“Six soldiers were wounded and four arrested. The base was captured," Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid wrote on Twitter.
The attack comes one day after the Taliban claimed responsibility for the death of an American special forces soldier, who was killed in Kunduz province, also in the north. The Taliban said they had attacked the vehicle he was in, whereas the US military said he died when a weapons cache he had been investigating exploded.
Winter once marked a slowdown in the so-called "fighting season", with Taliban fighters returning to their villages while snow and ice made attacks more difficult to pull off. But in recent years, the distinction between seasons has all but vanished.
According to German intelligence officials at Camp Marmal, a German-run base outside Mazar-i-sharif in Balkh, January 2019 saw one of the highest-ever numbers of attacks in the north.
"If there is no game changer on the strategic level, it will be a 'hot' winter," one official told AFP.
"We are talking about two dozens of security incidents average per day" across NATO's northern command, he added.
In October, local officials said a column of hundreds of Taliban fighters on motorbikes attacked Shortepa district police headquarters in Balkh, briefly capturing the facility. The German intelligence official said the number was exaggerated, with likely only "dozens" of fighters.
Still, it highlights how quickly Taliban fighters can mass and then disperse back into the local population.
"There's fierce fighting going on all through the year, meaning that the Taliban managed to expand into some territories that haven't been their traditional ones," the official said.
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