The Taliban Islamist movement has attacked positions of the Afghan security forces in the eastern province of Nangarhar, leaving 16 servicemen dead and some more injured, a local source told on Friday.
At least 27 Taliban fighters were killed in an encounter with Afghan security forces in Shirzad district in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said that his government is ready to allow the Taliban to open an office in Kabul, Kandahar or Nangarhar provinces to bring “lasting and honourable peace to the country”.
At least three people were killed in an explosion which rocked Afghanistan’s Jalalabad city in the eastern province of Nangarhar on Tuesday afternoon.
A clash between the insurgents and the United States (US) special forces broke out in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province.
At least 65 militants, belonging to the Islamic State(IS) group, have been killed by the Islamic State(IS) in eastern parts of the country.
At least twenty terrorists belonging to Pakistan and ISIS have been killed in a joint military operation conducted in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan.
The Afghan forces in coordination with the US forces are conducting counter-terrorism operations to eliminate the militants affiliated with the ISIS terrorist group in Nangarhar province.
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