‘Taliban kill five Afghan policemen’

The Taliban claim that they have killed five members of Afghan national police during an attack on a police checkpoint. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told Afghan Islamic Press that their forces shot dead five policemen in the central Logar province on Saturday.

The spokesperson added that there were no causalities to their forces during the assault.
A police officer, who did not want to be named, confirmed the incident, but rejected the alleged death toll.
Ill-equipped and under-trained Afghan police officers have largely fallen victim to the increasing frequent Taliban attacks in both urban and rural parts of the country.
Improvised Explosive Device (IEDs) are by far the most lethal weapon Taliban militants use against Afghan forces, US-led troops as well as civilians.
Taliban have concentrated their nine-year fight against the US-led forces in Afghanistan’s southern provinces of Helmand and Kandahar.
The United States and NATO have nearly 150,000 troops in Afghanistan, with 30,000 deployed in Helmand province.
Western public opinion has been growing increasingly tired of the war since October 2001 when Washington unleashed the US-led invasion of Afghanistan to overthrow Taliban militants.
Thousands of Afghan civilians were killed and many others sustained injuries in US-led operations in the war-ravaged country.

Source: Press TV