[ToloNews] The country’s western area witnessed deadly attacks over the last 24 hours with over 20 army soldiers killed and many civilians maimed, according to local officials.
According to officials and sources, 20 soldiers were killed in Farah, 4 in Baghlan, 8 in Badakhshan and 5 in 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...
in the last 24 hours.
Sources from Farah said that at least 20 members of the Afghan National Army were killed in a Taliban
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attack on an outpost in Bala Boluk district in Farah on Sunday night.
"It was not a base, it was an outpost for the safety of the base... The situation in other parts of Farah is under control," said Taj Mohammad Jahid, the governor of Farah.
"The outpost has been destroyed," said Dadullah Qani, head of the provincial council in Farah.
A hand grenade went kaboom! near a school for girls in the city of Farah on Monday, injuring 20 civilians and a soldier, according to local sources
Meanwhile,
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Badakhshan, Herat, Kabul, 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..
, Baghlan and Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
provinces also witnessed security incidents and Taliban attacks in the last 24 hours. In these provinces, at least 19 civilians and security forces were killed and 22 more were maimed.
"The attacks will increase but they will not achieve anything because they will increase people’s hate toward Taliban activities," said former Afghan intelligence chief Rahmatullah Nabil.
Ataullah Afghan, head of Helmand's provincial council, said the province has witnessed heavy festivities between security forces and the Taliban in the last two days, in which eight soldiers have died and 20 more have been maimed.
Afghan said that at least 10 outposts in Helmand have fallen to the Taliban over the last two days, and he reiterated that the province requires the government's full attention.
Figures by security agencies show that 164 small and large attacks by the Taliban have occurred over the last 24 hours, up from 141 on the previous day.
The Ministry of Defense in a statement said that 62 Taliban were killed and 58 more were maimed by Afghan forces defending positions in 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...
, Ghazni, Balkh, Herat, Faryab, Farah and Badakhshan provinces in the last 24 hours.
The ministry in a separate statement said that 11 krazed killers, including 9 Taliban members and 2 al Qaeda members, were killed in Nahr-e-Siraj district in Helmand province on Sunday.
"The Taliban, by increasing violence, provides the grounds for more casualties for its members because the Afghan Defense and Security Forces are much more ready, firm and serious against the terrorist group," Defense Ministry front man Rohullah Ahmadzai said.
"We hope that the government makes better plans against the enemy so that we see an end to the bloodshed," said Amir Mohammad Khaksar, an MP from Takhar.
The increased violence coincides with US forces having started their withdrawal from the country on May 1. So far, the US has handed over one camp to Afghan forces in Helmand province.
The Taliban
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attacked a security outpost in Bala Bolok district of Farah province on Sunday night during which six security force members were killed and after which another is missing, said Taj Mohammad Jahid, provincial governor, on Monday.
"The Taliban blew up the security outpost about 9pm last night," Jahid said. "Five soldiers escaped and moved to another outpost."
He also said that the Taliban attacked another security outpost in Farah city, capital of the province, but the security forces pushed back the attack and 10 Taliban were killed and maimed.
The Taliban has not yet commented on the attacks.
At the same time, four security force members were killed, including a commander, in a Taliban attack in Nahrin district of northern Baghlan province on Sunday night, said Mohammad Azizi, district governor.
The Taliban attacked a military unit in the district and "captured four other force members, but one who was maimed managed to escape," he said.
"The Taliban took the equipment of the security forces after the attack," he added.
The Taliban grabbed credit for the attack. 
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