Fifteen (15) soldiers Killed: Taliban Fighter attack on Afghan Soldiers

Members of Afghan commando unit in Qala-i-Zal, the district to the northwest of Kunduz, Afghanistan

Fifteen (15) Afghan soldiers were killed when Taliban fighters attacked their army base in the southern province of Kandahar, the defense ministry said Friday, in the second such assault this week.

“Taliban launched a coordinated assault on an army base last night in Shah Wali Kot district of Kandahar province,” ministry spokesman Dawlat Waziri told AFP. A provincial official gave a higher death toll of 20
  
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