Over 180 killed in deadliest week of current year

KABUL during the past week, the deadliest seven days of the current year.

The New York Times, noting a spike in militant attacks, reported on Friday the deadliest incident occurred in Ghor Province, where the rebels stormed a village and killed 18 people.

Three members of the Afghan special forces, two police personnel and 13 residents -- supporting the security forces -- were among the fatalities.

In Badghis, 16 Afghan commandos were killed and 15 others wounded when the fighters assaulted the Bala Murghab district centre, capturing the district police headquarters.

US and Afghan Special Forces killed two growers working in a wheat field in the village of Larkhabi in Gul Tepa district, where Taliban hideouts were bombed.

On May 30, two police officers and one civilian were killed by Taliban in the Qosh Tepa district of northern Jawzjan province.

Most of the casualties happened in Faryab, Jawzjan, Badghis, Balkh, Kabul, Khost, Baghlan, Maidan Wardak, Samangan, Ghor , Ghazni, Zabul, Sar-i-Pul, Kunduz, Badakhshan, Paktia, Kandahar and Paktika provinces,

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