Suspected Taleban militants have killed three Afghan soldiers in violence overnight in the south-east, the authorities say. Up to 200 fighters are said to have taken part in the attack on a district headquarters at Terwah in Paktika province near the Pakistan border. “They set the police station on fire, took four of our men and fled to Pakistan,” provincial police chief Dawlat Khan told the Associated Press. Hours earlier, at least 22 people died in a gun battle in nearby Birmal district, six of them Afghan troops. The others killed are suspected of having links to the former Taleban regime. Full Story
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