JALALABAD, Afghanistan, Jan. 3, 2021 (BSS/Xinhua) – Eight Taliban militants
were killed and six others wounded after Afghan government security forces
repelled a militants’ attack at security checkpoints in the country’s eastern
Nangarhar province, the military said Sunday.
“The clashes erupted after militants armed with guns and Rocket Propelled
Grenades (RPGs) attacked Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
checkpoints in Bati Kot district, in the eastern of provincial capital
Jalalabad city on Saturday,” army’s Selab 201 Corps said in a statement.
The ANDSF personnel deployed at the checkpoints retaliated effectively,
forcing the militants to flee from the scene, the statement said.
The ANDSF remains in control of most of Afghanistan’s population centers
and all of 34 provincial capitals, but Taliban insurgents control large
portions of rural areas, staging coordinated large-scale attacks against
Afghan cities and districts from time to time.
The militant group has not responded to the report so far.