Residents of Faryab said because of road construction their homes were destroyed by the municipality.

 At least five people including a security personnel and four Taliban militants have been killed as clash erupted in Pashtunkot district of Afghanistan's northern Faryab province on Wednesday, said a statement of provincial police.

The Taliban insurgents hanged a tribal elder on Sunday in Faryab province for not paying 300 Afghanis.

The Independent Human Rights Commission says underage marriages are a matter of concern in the northern Faryab province.

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.

The Pentagon confirmed on Sunday that one U.S. soldier has died in combat operations in Afghanistan.

 Government forces have recaptured Bilchiragh district in the northern Faryab province, forcing the Taliban militants to retreat from the restive area, said a statement of provincial government released here Tuesday.

Units of Afghanistan special force stormed a Taliban bastion in Gurziwan district of the northern Faryab province, killing five insurgents and dismantled two hideouts, said a statement from the provincial government released here on Friday.

At least thirteen Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers have been killed, three injured and two others arrested in the Taliban attack in north western Faryab province, an official said.

Parents of two young girls from Andkhoi district of Faryab province on Sunday claimed that Taliban militants have gang-raped their daughters.

Two civilians are among 11 persons who lost their lives in the fighting between security forces and the Taliban outfit in Qaisar district of the northern Faryab province of Afghanistan on Sunday, an army spokesman in the northern region Ghulam Hazrat Karimi said.

More than 40 militants have been killed elsewhere in the conflict-battered Afghanistan over the past 24 hours as both the Taliban group and government forces have intensified operations, officials said Wednesday.

As many as 39 Taliban militants were killed and 10 others wounded following operations in Afghanistan's northern turbulent Faryab and Kunduz provinces, an army source said Monday.

 Taliban militants killed at least 15 security forces and injured as many more after attacking security posts overnight in the Qaisar district of northern Faryab province, the district chief said on Friday.

Nearly twenty militants affiliated with the Taliban and ISIS Khurasan (ISIS-K) groups have been killed during separate operations of the Afghan and Coalition Forces in the past 24 hours.

Eight security personnel have been killed in a landmine blast on their vehicle in north western Faryab province, a reliable source said on Wednesday.

 Eleven militants, including the Taliban’s intelligence chief, have been killed during Afghan forces airstrike and raids in north western Faryab province, an official said on Friday.

At least 50 Taliban rebels, including two shadow governors, were killed in a joint Afghan and U.S. operation in northern Afghanistan, officials and local media confirmed on Monday.

At least 29 extremist Taliban militants including two key commanders were killed in northern Faryab province over the past day, according to officials.

Two Uzbekistan nationals among dozens of militants killed in clashes with the Afghan security forces in the northern Afghan province of Faryab, officials said Saturday.