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Taliban Attacks Continue as Peace Negotiations Progress

Ayesha Tanzeem

   ISLAMABAD - Multiple Taliban attacks in three provinces across northern
   Afghanistan since Tuesday killed at least 17 people, including six
   civilians, and wounded scores of others even as a Taliban political
   team was negotiating peace with Afghan government representatives in
   Doha, Qatar.

   According to local officials, Taliban fighters targeted security
   checkpoints or outposts of local anti-Taliban militias that operate
   with government support.

   In Balkh province, the chief of Char Kent district, Salima Mazari,
   confirmed two separate Taliban attacks, one on a local force outpost
   and the other near the district center. She said three local fighters
   and six civilians were killed and multiple others wounded. This was in
   addition to a third attack the previous day that killed two security
   personnel.

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