At least 23 security force members killed in series of Taliban attacks at multiple checkpoints, officials say
Afghan security forces take position at the site of an attack in a US military air base in Bagram, north of Kabul, Afghanistan December 11, 2019.
He said reinforcements had been dispatched to the post, which is located on the strategic highway connecting Balkh to neighbouring Jawezjan province.A Taliban spokesman claimed 11 policemen died in the attack, but Afzal Hadid — a member of the provincial council — put the death toll at nine, adding four others were missing.
Separate assaults by the Taliban killed at least nine members of Afghan security forces in northeastern Kunduz, and seven in neighbouring Takhar province, officials said. A UN tally found last year was the deadliest on record, with at least 3,804 civilian deaths caused by the war — including 927 children.
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