Four policemen killed in Afghan Tahar

Four Afghan policemen died during a shootout with militants on the outskirts of Talukana (Tahar province, Afghanistan) on the morning of June 26, Xinhua reports. In addition, eight more law enforcement officers were injured. The shootout lasted two hours. According to Mohammad Javad Hajari, the official representative of the Tahar government, the Taliban attacked the Afghan police (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation). The incident occurred in the Chaklo area: Islamists attacked a police checkpoint. As a result of the retaliatory shelling, three Taliban were killed (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) and five more of them were injured. The Taliban themselves (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) have not yet appreciated what happened. As previously reported by the news agency, on June 24, six civilians were killed in an explosion in the Mardiyan region (Jauzjan province, Afghanistan).