By Fahim Abed together with Rod Nordland
KABUL, Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan — Dozens of soldiers together with police describe officers were killed or captured inward ix Taliban attacks that overran safety bases together with outposts inward dissimilar parts of Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan during a 24-hour stream that ended on Tuesday, officials said.
In maybe the almost severe blow, insurgents captured battalion headquarters of the Afghan Border Force inward Farah Province, inward western Afghanistan, killing or taking prisoner nearly the entire contingent of officers, amongst every bit many every bit xx dead. In Kandahar Province, inward the south, iii kind attacks killed a full of 17 police describe officers. And inward Ghazni, a key province, a articulation armed forces together with police describe outpost brutal entirely ii days later it had been laid up, amongst all xvi safety officials at that spot killed or wounded.
The onset on the headquarters inward Farah, to a greater extent than or less the Iranian border, destroyed the start battalion’s base of operations inward the district of Poshti Koh. Sgt. Gholam Mohammad, the senior noncommissioned officer, said from a hospital where he had been taken amongst a tiddler caput injure that, inward add-on to the xx edge strength officers killed, 25 had been taken captive past times the Taliban. Three others escaped.
The Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, claimed responsibleness for the capture of the headquarters inward posts on Twitter that purported to present weapons seized at the base.
In all, 59 police describe officers or soldiers were confirmed killed inward the ix attacks on Mon together with Tuesday, which took house inward vii provinces.
By comparison, inward the calendar week that ended on Thursday, xviii Afghan safety officials were killed, according to a tally past times The New York Times.
The Afghan Border Force falls nether the command of the Ministry of Defense, although it was part of the police describe until concluding year. Sergeant Mohammad was inward accuse of logistics at the Farah base. “The Taliban start captured our radio officeholder together with our contact amongst other units was cutting off,” he said past times telephone. “Then they intensified their attack.”
The laid on started at xi p.m. Mon together with continued into the early on hours Tuesday, he added, past times which fourth dimension the defenders ran out of ammunition together with the insurgents took command of the base.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Defense, Ghafoor Ahmad Jawed, said that reinforcements were existence sent to attempt to recapture the base, together with that the regime were unsure of the seat out of casualties. Other Afghan officials gave divergent tallies. Abdul Hakim, the district governor of Poshti Koh, said xviii officers had been killed together with 23 others taken prisoner. There were 48 officers inward the battalion.
In some other onset on Monday, the Taliban targeted a safety outpost inward the district of Khogyani, inward Ghazni Province, killing at to the lowest degree xiii members of the Afghan safety forces together with wounding iii others, according to Mohammad Arif Noori, the governor’s spokesman. “Six police describe officers together with vii soldiers were amid those killed,” he said. “It was a articulation outpost of regular army together with police describe which was built ii days ago.”
Six Taliban fighters were also killed inward the assault, together with 10 others were wounded, he added.
Farah Province has been the scene of heavy fighting this year, amongst insurgents briefly overrunning its upper-case missive of the alphabet inward May. Ghazni, too, has seen heavy fighting, amongst its upper-case missive of the alphabet nearly captured past times the Taliban inward August.
In Kandahar Province, 12 police describe officers were killed inward a Taliban onset earlier dawn Mon on a police describe outpost inward the district of Khakrez, according to Malim Mir Hamza, the district governor. Insurgents captured the outpost together with seized all of the weapons together with equipment there, he said.
In ii other attacks inward Kandahar on Monday, a full of 5 police describe officers were killed together with vii others wounded when insurgents attacked safety outposts inward the districts of Maruf together with Arghistan, according to Zia Durrani, the spokesman for the Afghan police describe inward the province.
Kandahar, in ane lawsuit a stronghold of the Taliban together with the organization’s base, has been relatively tranquillity over the past times year. But the insurgents killed the province’s powerful police describe chief, Gen. Abdul Raziq, inward an insider onset concluding month.
In iv smaller assaults on Monday, a full of at to the lowest degree ix members of the safety forces were killed inward the provinces of Zabul, inward the south; Faryab together with Sar-i-Pul inward the north; together with Badghis, inward the northwest, local officials said.
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