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AFGHANISTAN

9 police killed in Taliban attack

At least nine Afghan police officers were killed and three others injured after the Taliban stormed a security checkpoint in the country's northern Baghlan Province, a local official said on Tuesday. The incident happened late on Monday night, when a group of the militants attacked the security checkpoint in Khawja Alwan, an area on the outskirts of the provincial capital Pul-e-Khumri, on the Baghlan-Samangan highway.