KABUL / MUMBAI — Afghan security forces, with the help of airstrikes, repelled an assault by Taliban fighters on the provincial center of a key northern province bordering Tajikistan on Sunday, officials said.
The Taliban assault was the latest in a string of offensives that has seen insurgents capture territory across Afghanistan as U.S.-led foreign forces are in the final stages of withdrawing troops after almost 20 years of fighting.
“The enemy’s offensive attacks were repelled, and they suffered heavy and unprecedented casualties, as a result of which 55 enemy soldiers were killed and 90 were wounded,” the governor of Takhar province, Abdullah Qarluq, said.
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