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“Nine insurgents have been killed, one other is injured”, the ministry said.
At least 37 people including women and children have been killed in a Taliban attack on an air base outside the southern Afghan city of Kandahar.
“Fifty of our innocent countrymen, including 10 soldiers, two policemen and 38 civilians, were martyred in the attack”, the defense ministry said in a statement.
Afghan, US, Pakistani and Chinese officials agreed during the meeting that they will immediately try to jump-start peace talks to end the 14-year Taliban insurgency.
Eleven suicide attackers on Tuesday breached the high-security complex, which also houses a joint Nato-Afghan base, taking families hostage. The coalition said conducted “force protection measures to ensure all service members and civilians at the airport remained safe”.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization says it needs to raise $4 billion a year to keep the security forces going up to 2020.
The Taliban has seen a resurgence in recent months, opening new battlefronts across the country with Afghan forces struggling to rein in the expanding insurgency. Recently, there’ve been reports that these tensions led to a gunfight in which Mansoor was injured and possibly killed.
The insurgents are regularly known to exaggerate battlefield claims.
“There will be an investigation”, said General Daud Shah Wafadar, commander of the 205 Afghan national army corps stationed in Kandahar airfield.
Taliban militants have intensified activities in their former strongholds across Afghanistan over the past months.
The attack came hours before Afghan President Ashraf Ghani visited Pakistan to speak at a conference attended by regional leaders to discuss the country’s future.
“The prime minister paid rich tributes to the Afghan government for its efforts of eliminating terrorism… terrorism is the common enemy of both Afghanistan and Pakistan”, Sharif’s office quoted him as saying.
In a separate incident in neighboring Helmand province, where the Taliban has been increasing pressure for weeks, insurgents captured the district of Khanishin, a major control point for drug smuggling routes through the south. Afghan forces returned fire.
Taliban fighters carrying machine guns had targeted foreign forces, a Taliban spokesman said in a statement.
At least 46 people are dead after the Taliban attacked an airport in Southern Afghanistan.
The Taliban spokesman, Ahmadi, confirmed the seizure of the district.
