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The Taliban have ramped up attacks against Afghan security forces in recent days, including one that nearly wiped out an army camp in the southern Kandahar province, officials said Thursday.
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The attack, which took place on Wednesday, involved two suicide bombers, and left at least 43 soldiers dead, spokesman Dawlat Wazir told reporters.
Elsewhere in the country, an attack by the insurgents in the northern Balkh province late Wednesday killed six policemen, according to Shir Jan Durani, a spokesman for the provincial police chief.
That same day, another attack in the western Farah province, killed nine policemen, said police chief Abdul Marouf Foulad.
Just a day earlier, the Taliban had also launched a number of attacks that killed at least 74 people.
As a result, Kabul has refused to hold peace talks with the group, with CIA Director Mike Pompeo still pressing the idea that they will push to bring the Taliban to the negotiating table.
As the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan reached its 16-year anniversary, the Taliban has reiterated its opposition to “America's arrogant politics and evil policy,” noting that it is “not tired nor will it feel fatigue” in its ongoing war to expel occupying forces from the country.
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