Afghan policemen News

Militants wearing the googles launched a pre-dawn assault on a police post in Khan Abad district in the northern province of Kunduz today.

A US air strike killed as many as eight Afghan policemen outside the embattled provincial capital of Uruzgan province, Afghan officials said on Monday, as security forces, supported by U.S. strikes, battle resurgent Taliban militants.

However, it is unclear whether the victim, suspected to be a suicide bomber, survived the abuse.

Multiple blasts and gunfire rocked the high-security zone after the brazen raid began yesterday, just hours after President Ashraf Ghani voiced optimism that a peace process with the Taliban would resume within weeks.

At least five policemen were killed in a bomb attack in an eastern Afghan province while 23 civilians were wounded in the neighbouring area in an improvised explosive device explosion, authorities said on Sunday.