New Taliban attack on Afghan base kills 15 soldiers

No less than 15 Afghan troopers were killed when Taliban contenders assaulted their base in Kandahar, authorities said Friday, in the third significant guerilla strike this week on the military in the southern region.

The attack in Shah Wali Kot locale late Thursday comes after several extremists raged different bases in a similar territory and Maiwand region prior this week, bringing the loss of life among Western-sponsored troops to around 60.

The assaults highlight a developing extremist hostile in Kandahar, a Taliban hotbed where security has moderately enhanced as of late under the iron grasp of police boss and territorial strongman General Abdul Raziq.

"The Taliban propelled a planned attack on an armed force base the previous evening (Thursday) in Shah Wali Kot," safeguard service representative Dawlat Waziri told AFP.

"Fifteen Afghan armed force troopers were martyred and five others injured... be that as it may, the base stays under the control of our strengths."

A common authority who talked on the state of namelessness gave a higher loss of life of 20, including that a few troopers were lost after the assault and the Taliban had seized four military Humvees.

No less than 30 warriors were killed in a comparable assault in Shah Wali Kot late Monday and after two days, 13 others kicked the bucket in another extremist strike in Kandahar's Maiwand area, a commonplace authority told AFP.

The Taliban guaranteed obligation regarding the assaults as their yearly spring hostile escalates and the revolt grows over 15 years after they were toppled from power in a US-drove attack.

Raziq, seemingly the most capable security officer in southern Afghanistan, has lashed out at the focal government in Kabul over the developing frailty in Kandahar, blaming them for a plot to destabilize his area.

"Some political figures inside the National Solidarity Government are attempting to destabilize Kandahar like (neighboring) Helmand and Uruzgan regions," Raziq told an open assembling on Thursday.

"At whatever point there is an assault in Kandahar, the focal government does not help."

His scorching comments did not instantly incite a reaction from Kabul.

Stinging Blow -

The assaults stamp another stinging blow for NATO-sponsored Afghan powers. They come only a month after the Taliban killed no less than 135 troopers in the northern area of Balkh in the deadliest guerrilla assault on an Afghan army installation since 2001.

The front line misfortunes have raised worries about the limit of Afghan strengths, plagued by uncommon losses and reprimanded for debasement, abandonment and "apparition fighters" who exist on the finance however whose compensations are usurped by false officers.

Amid another savage Taliban assault on security stations in southern Zabul territory on Sunday, nearby authorities made urgent calls to Afghan TV channels to look for consideration since they were not able to contact senior experts for offer assistance.

The requests for consideration, a noteworthy humiliation for the Western-sponsored government, highlighted the confuse in security positions.

As of February, just around 60 percent of Afghanistan's 407 regions were accounted for to be under government control, with the experts in Kabul attempting to counter the ascendant Taliban, as per the US guard dog office SIGAR.

The Taliban propelled their yearly "spring hostile" in late April, proclaiming a surge in battling as the US tries to create another Afghan technique.

US Guard Secretary Jim Mattis a month ago cautioned of "another intense year" for security constraints in Afghanistan.

The Assembled States and a few NATO partners are thinking about sending thousands of more troops to break the stalemate against the resurgent activists.