The bloodshed comes because the Taliban and authorities negotiators have interaction in peace talks to finish the almost two-decade battle.
Two members of an Afghan militia opened hearth on their colleagues in western Herat province, killing 12 in what police described as an “insider assault”.
Herat police spokesman Abdul Ahad Walizada mentioned on Saturday the attackers fled with the slain militiamen’s weapons and ammunition, including Afghan authorities forces regained management of the realm.
A Taliban spokesman, Yousuf Ahmadi, in a tweet claimed accountability for the assault, which happened late on Friday.
In the meantime, a sticky bomb connected to an armoured police Land Cruiser SUV exploded on Saturday within the western a part of the capital, Kabul, killing two policemen and wounding one other, Kabul police spokesman Ferdaws Faramarz mentioned.
Faramarz didn’t specify the identities of the casualties. Nevertheless, two members of the Afghan police power, talking on situation of anonymity as a result of they weren’t authorised to temporary the media, mentioned Kabul’s deputy police chief Mawlana Bayan was wounded within the assault.
No group instantly claimed accountability for the bombing in Kabul.
In southern Helmand province, a suicide automobile bomber focused a police compound late on Friday, killing one policeman and wounding two others, provincial police spokesman Zaman Hamdard mentioned.
The assault happened in Lashkar Gah district on the freeway between Helmand and town of Kandahar. Nobody instantly claimed accountability.
The armed group ISIL (ISIS) has taken credit score for a number of assaults within the capital in latest months, together with on academic establishments that killed 50 individuals, most of them college students.
ISIL has claimed accountability for rocket assaults in December focusing on the foremost US base in Afghanistan. There have been no casualties.
Frustration and worry
The violence comes as representatives of the Taliban and the Afghan authorities earlier this month resumed peace talks in Qatar.
Nevertheless, the negotiations had been off to a gradual begin whereas the armed group continues assaults on Afghan authorities forces, however has stored a promise to not assault American and NATO troops.
The talks are geared toward ending many years of relentless battle. Frustration and worry have grown over the latest spike in violence and either side blame each other.
Doubts have grown just lately over the US-Taliban deal brokered by outgoing President Donald Trump’s administration.
That accord was signed final February. Below the deal, an accelerated withdrawal of US troops ordered by Trump means simply 2,500 American troopers will nonetheless be in Afghanistan when President-elect Joe Biden takes workplace on January 20.