[ToloNews] Violence has expanded to 28 out of 34 provinces in the country in the last 24 hours amidst constant delays in the start of direct peace negotiations between negotiating teams from the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Afghanistan and the Taliban
 ...mindless ferocity in a turban...
The Taliban attacked security outposts in the northern province of Kunduz on Thursday evening, killing at least one security force member and wounding three more, according to local officials.
"Intense fighting continues since last night between the Afghan National Security and Defense Forces and the Taliban," said Rabbani Rabbani, member of Kunduz provincial council. "People are extremely distressed about violence."
"They (Taliban) staged their offensive, but they faced strong resistance from the security forces. Eight bully boy were killed, two more maimed and their attack was repelled," said Inamuddin Rahmani, a front man for Kunduz police.
The Defense Ministry said the Afghan National Security and Defense Forces have inflicted heavy casualties to the Taliban.
"The Taliban staged attacks on the checkpoints and bases of the government forces in 28 provinces over the past 24 hours, but the government forces repelled their attacks and inflicted heavy casualties to them," Defense Ministry front man Rohullah Ahmadzai said.
Last month the Taliban launched a brazen attack on Lashkargah city, the center of Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
province in southern Afghanistan, leaving thousands of people homeless.
Provinces, where a fresh spate of violence reported, include Uruzgan, Badghis, Badakhshan, Baghlan, Balkh, Paktia, Takhar, Jawzjan, Khost, Zabul, Sar-e-Pul
...a city and eponymous province in northern Afghanistan, population about 500,000. Demographically it is majority Tadjik and Uzbek. There are small Pashtun, Arab, and Hazara communities, of which the Hazaras mostly don't bother anyone...
, Ghazni, Ghor, Faryab, Farah, Kabul, Kapisa, Kunduz, Kandahar, Kunar, Laghman
...Afghan province with a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman .The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin. He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property. After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men...
, Pashtun-infested Logar, Maidan Wardak, Pashtun-infested Logar, Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
, Nuristan, Nimroz, Herat
...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
and Helmand.
The United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
in a report this week said that the level of violence has continued to remain high despite the peace efforts. UN report shows that 2,117 non-combatants were killed in conflicts and attacks in Afghanistan over the last nine months. 
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