But security sources said that “at least 24 security force members” were killed in Taliban attacks in Kunduz. At least four security forces members and 15 Taliban were killed in clashes in the northern province of Kunduz on Monday night, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) said in a statement.

The numbers show that at least 14 people were killed and 33 more wounded as a result of these attacks and acts of violence. At least nine provinces in Afghanistan have witnessed targeted attacks, explosions and violent criminal acts in the past 48 hours, according to the statistics received by TOLOnews.

In the southern province of Kandahar, Panjwai and Arghandab have witnessed recent battles between the Afghan security forces and the Taliban. Over 40 Afghan security force members have been killed in fighting with the Taliban over the past 24 hours, with the majority of casualties reported in volatile areas in Kunduz, Baghlan and Nimroz province.

Four Taliban assailants were killed after they stormed a vehicles repair workshop of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) in southern Kandahar province on Saturday.

Some sources claim the Taliban are not allowing the National Food Program (NFP) to be implemented in the Jalrez district of central MaidanWardak province and Talak and Shahrak districts of Ghor province, a claim the rebels reject as baseless.

Prices of fuel, firewood, Russian gold and ghee increased during the outgoing week in Kabul, market sources said on Saturday. A worker of Hashimi fuel station in Taimani Square said the price of one litre of petrol rose from 36afs to 40afs and the same quantity of diesel from 38afs to 43afs.

Five Taliban have been killed in an airstrike in eastern Laghman province while an individual who planned attack on security forces arrested in eastern Nangarhar province, an official and a statement said on Sunday.

Abid has found an unlikely combat role in a country where most such jobs are taken up by the Afghan security forces and the Taliban as fighting between the two sides continues.

A new wave of violence and a growing uncertainty about the country’s future have left Afghans in the capital with a constant sense of fear. In Kabul’s uncertain present, fear and dread intertwine in a vise. Fear has become a way of life.

Ghani, addressing the Taliban, said: “Terror, crime and violence are not the solutions to the problem.” Gunmen opened fire on a vehicle in Kabul around 830am on Sunday, Kabul police reported, and two female judges of the Supreme Court were killed and two other people–the driver and another female–were wounded in the attack, according to the Presidential Palace.