KABUL, Nov. 7 (Xinhua) -- Up to 36 people mostly anti-government militants have been killed and more than three dozen others sustained injuries elsewhere in the conflict-riddled country over the past two days, officials said Wednesday.
A series of fighting between security forces and Taliban outfit in Qul area of Shinwari district in the eastern Parwan province have left 11 insurgents dead since Tuesday night, provincial police spokesman Mohammad Salim Nuri said.
According to Nuri, four more insurgents sustained injuries.
Similarly, in Pashton Kot district of the northern Faryab province, five insurgents were killed and three others wounded as the fighting aircrafts struck Taliban hideous late Tuesday, said Mohammad Hanif Rezae the spokesman for national army in the northern region.
Moreover, fighting between security forces and the Taliban fighters in Deh Yak district of western Farah province on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning left five Taliban fighters including their local commander Mullah Naser and two policemen dead and 11 others including two police personnel wounded, according to Muhebullah Moheb, the provincial police spokesman said.
Ten more militants, according to an army spokesman Ghulam Hazrat Karimi have been killed in Dand-e-Ghori district of the northern Baghlan province and 15 others injured since Tuesday morning.
Taliban militants, however, attacked Jaghori district in the eastern Ghazni province on Wednesday morning killing three security personnel and injuring five others.
Both the Taliban and government forces, according to local observers have been doing their best to gain more ground and consolidate positions ahead of snowfall in the mountainous country.
