Afghan security force member take part in a military operation against of Taliban in Helmand province, Afghanistan, July 29, 2016.
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Kabul’s deputy chief of police says the blast happened east of the city’s global airport.
An Afghan policeman guards on a road leading to the site of an explosion, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 1, 2016.
According to the official, the Taliban insurgents forced into a residential house in the village and attacked the woman and raped her in front of the children, including a 14-year-old boy.
In the meantime, an Afghan official says the Taliban has seized control of a strategic district in the poppy-growing province of Helmand, although the governor’s office said there was ongoing fighting between militants and Afghan forces. He said that bodies still littered the ground. The Taliban regularly exaggerates the impact of attacks.
He said the Air Force has started supporting the ground troops in the district and almost 20 Taliban rebels have been killed in the air raids.
Helmand is a key opium producing and smuggling region.
It said that, of Afghanistan’s 407 districts, 268 were under Government control or influence, 36 or 8.8 per cent were under insurgent control or influence, and 104 or 25.6 per cent were considered “at risk”.
The report released earlier this week said that about 65.6 percent of districts across Afghanistan were under government “control or influence” at the end of May, “a decrease from the 70.5 percent” at the end of January. In a brief statement sent to VOA, he said the insurgents inflicted heavy casualties on Afghan security forces before they abandoned Khanashin.
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The Junbish militia last month killed at least 13 civilians and wounded 32 in the northern province of Faryab after accusing them of supporting the Taliban, the New York-based rights group said.
