Taliban ambush kills 11 army soldiers in western Afghanistan
Iran Press TV
Mon Jun 29, 2015 1:28PM
At least 11 Afghan army forces have been killed and six others injured in a Taliban ambush in the western province of Herat, a provincial official says.
Asil Din Jami, Herat's deputy provincial governor, said on Monday that Taliban militants attacked a convoy of army soldiers in the Karrulh district of the troubled province on Sunday night.
"The soldiers were patrolling on the highway between Herat and Badghis province when they came under Taliban attack," media outlets quoted Jami as saying.
Some media reports said the Taliban militants seized a large amount of arms and ammunition from the soldiers.
Fighting across Afghanistan has intensified in recent weeks as the Taliban militants have vowed to target Afghan and foreign forces as part of their so-called spring offensive.
In a separate development on Monday, Afghan demonstrators held a massive rally in the eastern province of Parwan to protest against a series of recent night-time raids carried out by US troops across the volatile region.
The angry residents in the provincial capital, Charikar chanted anti-US slogans and demanded a quick withdrawal of all US forces from the war-raved country.
Nearly 14,000 foreign forces, mostly American, have remained in Afghanistan despite the end of the US-led combat mission on December 31, 2014.
Afghanistan is experiencing insecurity and bloodshed nearly 14 years after US and its Western allies invaded the country in 2001 as part of Washington's so-called war on terror.
JR/KA/HMV
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