Seven members of Taliban 'Red Unit' including their commander were killed by Afghan forces in northern Jowzjan province on Saturday, an official said.

Eighteen insurgents including a Taliban commander had been killed in operations in the eastern Laghman province over the past two weeks, an army statement said here Saturday.

The Afghan security forces killed at least 35 Taliban militants including one of the commanders of the Red Unit of Taliban during the clashes in Kunduz city.

At least 12 people were killed on the outskirts of Kabul on Tuesday when explosives in a vehicle detonated near a convoy of security forces, Afghan officials said, and at least 12 others were wounded.

 At least twenty seven militants of the Red Unit of Taliban were killed during the airstrikes in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan.

 Soldiers from an Appleton-based Army National Guard unit will be heading to Afghanistan soon.

Taliban insurgents killed at least 57 Afghan police officers and soldiers in four attacks in northern Afghanistan on Monday, a day after more than 60 people were killed in a separate barrage, Afghan officials said.