The Taliban Islamist movement, which is active in Afghanistan, announced on Wednesday its decision to cease cooperation with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), local media reported.

At least 10 people, including six children, have been killed in two blasts in Afghanistan, media reported on Wednesday, citing local authorities.

Optimistic assessments of US progress in the 16-year Afghan war belie stunning battlefield losses in recent weeks that reflect a shift in the conflict from stalemate to probable defeat of American-backed forces, the private intelligence firm Soufan Group said in a new report on Tuesday.

At least seven policemen were killed and two others wounded in Afghanistan's Zabul province in a Taliban attack on a security forces checkpoint along the Kabul-Kandahar highway, local media reported on Tuesday.

Taliban militants have captured a military base in Afghanistan's northern province of Faryab, a spokesman for Shaheen Camp Mohammad Hanif Rezaee told Sputnik.

Afghan Defense Minister Tariq Shah Bahrami said at a press conference on Monday that nearly 200 militants belonging to the Taliban radical movement had been eliminated over the past four days in the country's eastern province of Ghazni, which has been besieged by the Taliban movement since Friday.

A bomb explosion near the Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission (IEC) office building in the capital of Kabul on Monday claimed the life of a police officer and injured another, local media reported.

The Uzbek Foreign Ministry on Monday dismissed reports alleging that the Taliban had opened its political office in Tashkent, noting that the issue was not on the agenda.