Taliban terrorists takes control of district in northeast Afghanistan following deadly clashes

Taliban militants have taken control of the Arghanj Khaw district center in Afghanistan’s northeastern province of Badakhshan after two days of intense fighting, officials say.

 

Taliban militants have taken control of the Arghanj Khaw district center in Afghanistan’s northeastern province of Badakhshan after two days of intense fighting, officials say.

At least 12 members of the security forces were killed and another five were wounded in the fighting, local officials said on March 30.

“We’re committed to take it back, local forces need more support from the central government,” spokesman Nek Mohammad Nazari said.

He said an unknown number of Taliban fighters were killed in the clashes.

Over the past three years, the militants have also taken control of Badakhshan’s Warduj and Yumgan districts.

Meanwhile, at least eight Afghan police were killed in a Taliban attack in the southern Zabul Province, provincial council chief Ata Jan Haq Bayan said.