The Afghan military killed at least 13 Taliban fighters on Sunday, a day after the insurgent group rejected an Afghan government team created for talks aimed at ending the country's 18-year conflict.

At least 10 Afghan army soldiers and eight Taliban militants were killed during predawn clashes in Jurm district of the Afghanistan's northern Badakhshan province on Saturday, sources said.

An Afghan army chopper made an emergency landing in the western Nimroz province on Monday, leaving a pilot injured, the Defense Ministry said in a statement.

At least 29 members of the Afghan security forces have been killed in Taliban attacks that followed air and ground assaults by government forces on the Islamist group at the weekend.

More than 500 newly graduated officers and soldiers joined the Afghan national army in southern region, an army source said on Saturday.

The Afghan Defense ministry says, the country’s armed forces have recaptured some key areas in western Afghanistan after nearly one and a half decade.

Sixteen Taliban militants were killed and six others wounded in five provinces since early Tuesday, the country's defense ministry confirmed on Wednesday.

A total of 314 army soldiers graduated from an Afghan army's training center and joined the country's security forces, authorities said Wednesday.

Afghan local officials say at least 17 Taliban insurgents have been killed and wounded in Ghazni province.

A group of 50 female Afghan army cadets is set to travel to the United Arab Emirates soon for military training, Afghanistan's acting defense minister said on Sunday.

More than 1,550 army cadets, including officers and soldiers, graduated from the army's Kabul Military Training Center (KMTC) and joined the Afghan army as fighting rages in the war-torn country, a military source said Monday.

At seven Afghan army personnel were dead after a military helicopter crashed in Mazar-i-Sharif, capital of northern Balkh province on Tuesday, local police said.

Afghanistan has been witnessing a serious escalation in violence especially targeting innocent civilians and this has to end.

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Five Afghan army soldiers and 11 Taliban militants were killed in checkpoint clashes in Afghanistan's northern Faryab province overnight, a military source said Tuesday.

 At least 20 armed insurgents were killed and 14 others wounded during separate airstrikes conducted by Afghan air force in south Afghanistan on Monday, Afghan army said in a statement released on Tuesday.

Some Taliban fighters hid inside a sewage tanker truck, hoping the smelly interior would prevent a close inspection — as it did. They rode it into the most important military base in Afghanistan and then hid in an empty warehouse.

Afghanistan's government is making no headway in rolling back territory controlled by the Taliban, a Pentagon watchdog found, even as the Trump administration tries to negotiate a peace agreement that would let the U.S. withdraw troops after 18 years of war.

Three senior leaders of Taliban group have been killed during the joint operations of Afghan army and Afghan intelligence forces in northern Kunduz province.