KABUL – In Afghanistan, twenty-four soldiers were killed and eleven otherswounded after Taliban attacked defensive posts in Badghis province today.
In a statement, district chief Fazil Seddiq Seddiqi said hundreds ofmilitants armed with guns and rocket-propelled grenades stormed securityposts in Jar-e-Assyia in Bala Murghab district early in morning.
He said several militants were also killed and injured during the gunbattlebut the number is not immediately known.
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The militants took control of two security posts before the arrival ofreinforcement.
