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TrendingAdvertisementAfghan security officials show a group of suspected Taliban militants allegedly accused of planning attacks on government on March 10. The Taliban was blamed for a wave of attacks across northern Afghanistan Sunday and Monday. Photo by Ghulamullah Habibi/EPA-EFEThe Taliban led a wave of attacks Sunday and Monday through northern killing dozens of security force members in the latest sign of the breakdown in peace talks between the militant group that once ran the country and current government.One attack on at the Imam Sahib district in Kunduz province left six police officers killed and nine others wounded. The fighting went from dusk Sunday to dawn Monday morning.AdvertisementOfficials said the Taliban militants suffered casualties but the numbers were not known.Security forces faced fire in the Badakhshan province's Arghanjkhwa district. Seven security force members were killed and two others wounded."Seventy Taliban, Al-Qaeda and [ militants] including foreign fighters have attacked security checkpoints," Nik Mohammad Nazari, a spokesman for the provincial governor said. "Five insurgents were also killed in the attack and several others were wounded in the clashes."Nazari said the militants were eventually pushed back by the security forces.In yet another attack, the Taliban waged a on an intelligence complex in Aybak Monday, killing 11 and wounding 60 more. Militants detonated a car bomb at the entrance of the National Directorate of Security, about 150 miles northwest of Kabul.AdvertisementThe explosion also damaged a nearby municipal compound, giving insurgents a way into the complex where they fought Afghan security forces for hours, Sefatullah Samangani, the deputy governor of the province, said.Afghanistan's president, , said the Taliban's attacks are meant to gain an upper hand in stalled negotiations, calling them "criminal and inhumane.""Turning to violence and killing people for leverage in negotiations is the worst approach that, unfortunately, the Taliban have taken up," Ghani said in a statement.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement

TrendingAdvertisementAfghan security officials show a group of suspected Taliban militants allegedly accused of planning attacks on government on March 10. The Taliban was blamed for a wave of attacks across northern Afghanistan Sunday and Monday. Photo by Ghulamullah Habibi/EPA-EFEThe Taliban led a wave of attacks Sunday and Monday through northern killing dozens of security force members in the latest sign of the breakdown in peace talks between the militant group that once ran the country and current government.One attack on at the Imam Sahib district in Kunduz province left six police...

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