Taliban kill 23 in attacks on Afghan checkpoints
At least 23 Afghan security forces were killed in a series of Taliban attacks across the country, officials said yesterday, despite winter snowfall that usually leads to a lull in violence. The assaults targeted vulnerable checkpoints in at least three northern provinces. In Balkh, militants stormed a checkpoint early yesterday and killed at least seven policemen, according to provincial police chief Ajmal Fayez. 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.
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