At least seven members of the public uprising forces were killed and four more were wounded in a Taliban attack on their outpost in the northern province of Kunduz on Sunday night, provincial council member Khaluddin Hakimi said.

At least 11 workers at the Pashdan Dam in Karokh district of Herat were abducted by the Taliban on Sunday, said Wakil Ahmad Karokhi, a provincial council member.

Five policemen were killed and three more were wounded in separate incidents in Zabul and Uruzgan provinces on Sunday night, local officials said.

A hashtag has turned up on social media calling for the withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan: #get_out_of_Afghanistan. There have been several thousand tweets and retweets with this hashtag over the past few days.

Abdullah Abdullah, head of the High Council for National Reconciliation, on Monday reacted to remarks by Hizb-e-Islami leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, calling them “the language of threat and insult,” saying such talk “doesn’t work” in Afghanistan and it is not what the people expect from their political leaders.

Two days ahead of the NATO ministerial, the Afghan government expects the continued support of the alliance to Afghanistan in its train, advice and assist mission. The NATO meeting has been called an important event where allies are expected to decide on the presence of international troops in Afghanistan.

Security officials in Nangarhar province said Tuesday morning that at least three people including a doctor were assassinated in Jalalabad city. The incident happened at about 8am in PD4 near Nasrat High School.

Afghan commando forces have rescued 42 people – 25 soldiers and 17 civilians – from a Taliban prison in Baghlan province, the Defense Ministry (MoD) confirmed on Tuesday.

Taliban Deputy Leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar says that there is no military solution to the long-term conflict in Afghanistan. In an open letter to the people of the United States, Mullah Baradar stated: “The past nineteen years have proven beyond any doubt that the Afghan issue cannot be resolved through the use of force or by alternating military strategies […]

At least seven policemen were killed in an IED explosion in the Almar district of Faryab province, police said in a statement on Tuesday. According to the statement, an IED targeted a Humvee belonging to the National Security and Defense Forces in the Bazaar of the district on Tuesday.