A Taliban attack in Khanabad district of Kunduz claimed the lives of three Afghan army soldiers, local officials said on Saturday.

Kunduz governor’s spokesperson Esmatullah Moradi said that on Friday night, Taliban militants attacked security checkpoints on the public highway near Aks Dawood village.

Moradi said the Taliban also suffered casualties, but their exact figures are not known.
The 217th Pamir Corps said that 24 Taliban militants, including a Pakistani national, were killed and 18 were injured in clashes in Aliabad and Dasht-e-Archi districts of the province.