[PRESSTV] The Talibs have killed at least 21 Afghan cops and maimed nearly two dozen others in a number of simultaneous attacks in the country’s north.Local officials said on Tuesday that the casualties took place when the
Zabihullah Amani, a front man for the provincial governor, said at least 21 local forces, including police and intelligence, were killed and another 23 maimed in the raids, which he said were aimed at seizing control of several oil wells on the outskirts of the historic provincial capital city of Sar-e Pul.
Amani also said hundreds of
...a city and eponymous province in northern Afghanistan, population about 500,000. Demographically it is majority Tadjik and Uzbek. There are small Pashtun, Arab, and Hazara
communities, of which the Hazaras mostly don't bother anyone...
, warning that the city was at risk of falling to the Taliban
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if reinforcements were not sent.
"The enemy is still amassing forces outside the city," he told AFP. "We have deployed all the forces available in the city, but no reinforcements have arrived from outside so far. The people inside the city are very worried. They have attacked the city many times in the past, but this time the threat is more serious."
The Taliban confirmed the attacks on the northern Afghan province, claiming that they had captured three checkpoints and killed or maimed 50 members of the security forces.