Taliban insurgents have once again captured the Dehrawud district of central Uruzgan province, local officials said on Saturday.

Taliban’s supreme leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour had purchased a ‘life insurance’ policy from a private firm in Pakistan. A Karachi-based anti-terrorism court was informed on Saturday the former Taliban supremo, who was killed in a US drone attack in 2016, had bought the life insurance policy using a fake identity.

Afghan Local Police (ALP ) chief for the Zherai district of southern Kandahar province has been killed in an attack, a well-placed security source said on Sunday.

At least 11 civilians, including children and women, have been killed as a result of an airstrike in Arghandab district of southern Kandahar province, local people said on Sunday. Security officials did not say anything about the incident so far.

Dozens of Taliban fighters were killed in fierce overnight fighting between Afghan forces and militants who attacked several checkpoints in the insurgent bastion of Kandahar, officials said Sunday.

Dozens of Taliban fighters were killed in fierce overnight fighting between Afghan forces and militants who attacked multiple checkpoints in the insurgent bastion of Kandahar, officials said Sunday.

Taliban attacked checkpoints in Panjwai, Zhari, Arghandab, and Maiwand districts, says Defense Ministry Afghanistan on Sunday claimed to have killed at least 90 Taliban militants amid heavy fighting in Kandahar province.

At least two people were killed and two were wounded in a magnetic IED blast in Kabul city on Sunday morning, Kabul police confirmed.

US and NATO’s Resolute Support forces commander in Afghanistan Gen. Scott Miller on Sunday said that he “has orders to reduce the US military presence to 2,500” and that “part of this is in line with US-Taliban agreement.”

The negotiating team of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan will return to Kabul Monday, having called for a 23-day break in their three-month discussions, calling it the end of the current round of talks.