MAZAR-I-SHARIF, AFGHANISTAN—At least 27 members of security forces in northern Afghanistan were killed by the Taliban in a series of coordinated attacks on Tuesday, officials said, and dozens of others were wounded. The deadliest violence took place in Sar-i-Pul province, where the Taliban attacked Afghan security forces in three areas, killing a total of 21 people, officials said. A Taliban fighter stands in the early morning shade as a Taliban tank rolls through north of Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1996. The Taliban, in a series of coordinated attacks in Sar-i-Pul province on Tuesday, killed 27 security officers. Separately, in the northern province of Balkh, the Taliban struck a security outpost in the Chemtal District, killing six police officers and wounding seven others, said Rahmatullah Khan, a local police commander.

Source: thestar January 01, 2019 17:48 UTC