Around 65 people were killed in a Taliban-claimed attack on an Afghan intelligence base, a local official said yesterday, raising the toll substantially from 12 announced previously. “We took about 65 bodies out of the rubble yesterday,” Mohammad Sardar Bakhyari, deputy head of the provincial council in Wardak province, where the attack occurred on Monday in the latest blow to […]

The Taliban are consistently taking heavy losses in the battlefield and military offensives and Afghanistan’s armed forces killed at least 56 militants and injured 22 others in crackdowns over past day.