Taliban insurgents killed 18 policemen in a series of attacks across Afghanistan in recent days, the interior ministry said today.
Ten police were killed in an attack on Sunday on an outpost in Dai Kundi province in central Afghanistan, the ministry said, while six officers were killed in a roadside bomb attack in southern Kandahar on Saturday.
Two others died in an attack in the south.
Some 21 militants were killed in the Dai Kundi clash, the ministry said. The Taliban could not be reached for comment.
The Taliban insurgency is at its strongest since the hardline Islamist group was overthrown in 2001, and 38 foreign troops have died in Afghanistan this month alone.
Reuters
