Nineteen Afghan forces were killed in Taliban attacks in northern Takhar and southern Zabul provinces last night, officials said Monday.

Six other security force members were wounded in the fighting, officials said.

At least seven civilians were killed and 17 others were wounded in a "Taliban attack" in Kashk Rabat Sangi district in the western province of Herat, the provincial governor’s spokesman Jailani Farhad said.

Cases of militancy and attacks by armed insurgents on the security forces have been registered in the militancy-plagued Afghanistan while the Taliban group was observing the seven-day reduction in violence over the past couple of days, local media reported Wednesday.

Afghan acting defense minister confirmed Saturday that Taliban attacks dropped significantly during the early 12 hours of a seven-day reduction in violence negotiated between the militant group and the United States.

At least 10 people were killed when Taliban insurgents attacked a security convoy in northern Afghanistan, an official confirmed on Nov. 3.

Taliban militia attacked the town form various directions and the sound of gunfire echoed outside the city.

Last night Twitter users posted to social media “#AFG Taliban are 3 KM away from Tarin Kot the provincial capital of Uruzgan.”

The militant attack on the 215 Maiwand Corps here, the responsibility for which has been claimed by Taliban, ended after 16 hours on Friday.

At least two persons were killed and four others were wounded following Taliban attack on employees of a private company in Shabarghan-Mazar highway late on Wednesday.

At least 78 pro-government forces and 23 civilians were killed in Afghanistan during the past week.

A Taliban attack in central Afghanistan on Monday killed scores of security personnel, officials said, with some estimates putting the death toll at more than 100, amid government silence about one of the most deadly insurgent attacks in months.

More than 20 people were killed, including members of government forces and insurgents, in a Taliban attack on a security checkpoint in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar, local authorities said today.

At least 11 police and Afghan national army officers have been killed in fresh Taliban attacks, officials said Wednesday.

Twenty policemen have been killed and five others wounded in overnight Taliban attacks in western Farah and northwestern Faryab provinces, sources said on Monday.

Eight Afghan security forces and two public uprising forces were killed after Taliban raided over a security outpost in Qaisar district of northern Faryab province, a local official said on Monday.

Dozens of people including government forces and civilians were killed in an overnight attack by Taliban militants in central-eastern Ghazni province, a source told 1TV Sunday.

10 Afghan forces were killed in two separate Taliban attacks which stroke a voters registration center and a security outpost in different parts of the western Badghis province, according to local officials.

US intelligence agencies have warned that the Taliban and their affiliate groups could launch more deadly attacks on Afghanistan from Pakistan this year.