The Taliban continue their attacks on Afghan security forces across the country, the Afghan Ministry of Defense said.

Nineteen Afghan forces were killed in Taliban attacks in northern Takhar and southern Zabul provinces last night, officials said Monday.

The Special Forces community is mourning the loss of another brother killed in Afghanistan this year: Sgt. 1st Class Dustin B. Ard, of 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne).

Ten Taliban were killed and 17 others were injured in a series of air raids conducted by security troops in Zabul province last night.

More than 40 fighters, mostly militants, have been killed in clashes between security forces and the Taliban outfit in conflict-plagued Afghanistan over the past 24 hours, officials said Wednesday.

More than 40 militants have been killed elsewhere in the conflict-battered Afghanistan over the past 24 hours as both the Taliban group and government forces have intensified operations, officials said Wednesday.

At least 78 pro-government forces and 23 civilians were killed in Afghanistan during the past week.

 Afghan security forces killed 41‘terrorists’ and wounded 40 others in fire exchange as part of a crackdown on terrorist hideouts across Afghanistan.

The residents of southern Zabul province have demanded the Independent Election Commission (IEC) and the government to increase the number of polling stations in the province in order to facilitate all people to exercise the right of vote in upcoming presidential election.

The Afghan security forces have thwarted a suicide attack on a governmental compoiund in southern Zabul province of Afghanistan, the local government officials said.

At least eight Taliban insurgents and three Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers have been killed during a clash in Arghandab district of southern Zabul province, officials said Wednesday.

A key Taliban group leader who was also the executioner of the group in southern Zabul province was killed in an airstrike of the U.S. forces.