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2021-02-06 Afghanistan
Fighting Reported in 20 Provinces in Last 24 Hours
[ToloNews] The Ministry of Defense on Friday reported fighting between the government forces and the Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
in at least 20 provinces in the past 24 hours.

Sources said over 20 security force members were killed in Taliban attacks in Kunduz and Faryab province on Thursday night.

Five security force members, including the commander of the sixth battalion of the Afghan army, in Khwaja Sabz Posh district were killed in the northern province of Faryab on Thursday afternoon.

Also, in the north, a security source said on Friday that 16 security force members were killed and two more were maimed in a Taliban attack on their outpost in Khan Abad district in the northern province of Kunduz on Thursday night.

"We also suffered casualties due to the intensity of the fighting. We have ten security force members martyred," said Abdul Sattar Mirzakawal, the governor of Kunduz.

Meanwhile,
...back at the laboratory the smoke and fumes had dispersed, to reveal an ominous sight...
a boom-mobile explosion happened in Aino Mina Township in the southern city of Kandahar on Friday afternoon, but police said that the blast caused no casualties.

"It was a boom-mobile explosion. The good news is that it caused no casualties," said an eyewitness Juma Khan.

Fierce fighting also reported between the Taliban and the government forces on the outskirts of Lashkargah city in the southern province of Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
. Meanwhile,
...back at the laboratory the smoke and fumes had dispersed, to reveal an ominous sight...
festivities were reported in the Arghandab district in the southern province of Kandahar.

"The Taliban attacked an outpost in the PD10 of Lashkargah city. A big area of Helmand is under the control of the Taliban," said Majid Akhundzada, the deputy head of Helmand provincial council.

"The enemy had their activities, but all these activities were repelled by the brave members of the Afghan cops," the Defense Ministry’s front man Rohullah Ahmadzai said. "The enemy had massive casualties in their attacks by our security forces."
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