Militants from the Taliban Islamist movement attacked an Afghan military base in the province of Kandahar leaving five people dead and six more injured, local media reported on Wednesday.
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 02nd January, 2019) Militants from the Taliban Islamist movement attacked an Afghan military base in the province of Kandahar leaving five people dead and six more injured, local media reported on Wednesday.According to the Pajhwok news agency, the incident took place in the early hours of Wednesday with the militants having excavated a tunnel to the base before exploding several bombs and attacking the facility.
The Taliban claims that the attack had killed about 30 Afghan servicemen.
Afghanistan has long been in a state of turmoil, with the government fighting the Taliban radical movement, which has been holding vast territories in rural areas under its control and regularly launches offensives on key big cities. The situation has been exacerbated by the activities of the Islamic State terrorist group (banned in Russia), which has been operating in Afghanistan since 2015.
