In blistering 4-hour-long attack, Taliban kills 30 Afghan cops
Afghan officials said the Taliban has killed 30 policemen in a blistering overnight attack in Afghanistan's Farah province. Provincial council member, Dadullah Qani, said today that the onslaught on the police outpost in the province's district Khaki Safed began late yesterday and continued for more than four hours. In Kabul, lawmaker Samiullah Samim said the district police commander, Abdul Jabhar, was among those killed.
Taliban attacks kill, injure 45 police/soldiers daily, say unofficial estimates
Meanwhile, the Taliban managed to flee with a large amount of weapons and ammunition. Samim says retaliatory air strikes killed 17 Taliban fighters. The Taliban has, in recent months, been staging near-daily attacks across Afghanistan, inflicting heavy casualties on Afghan forces. Authorities no longer regularly provide casualty figures but unofficial estimates say about 45 Afghan police or soldiers are killed or wounded daily.
