QALA-I-NAW (Pajhwok): A top Taliban commander has been killed along with 11 fighters during a clash with security forces in Badghis province, police claimed on Sunday.
The gunbattle was touched off by an overnight Taliban assault on a security checkpoint in Aab-i-Kamari district, police spokesman Naqibullah Amini told Pajhwok Afghan News.
He said Maulvi Nazir Motmain, commander of Taliban’s so-called Red Unit for the province, was among 12 attackers killed in the firefight . . .
