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In the event of various attacks by the Islamic terrorist organization Taliban in the Afghan provinces of Farjab, Helmand and Kandahar, at least 27 people were killed this weekend.

In the southern Afghan province of Kandahar, after a week's delay due to a serious attack by the Taliban, the ballot boxes were opened. Voters can cast their votes for a new parliament under strict security measures.

On a military base in the province of Herat, in the west of Afghanistan, a Czech soldier was killed on Monday when an Afghan commando opened fire on NATO troops. Two Czechs were also injured. This has been announced by the Czech Ministry of Defense.

Heavy fighting between Taliban fighters on the one hand and police and army on the other hand in the Afghan city of Ghazni have claimed many lives. At least a hundred agents and soldiers were killed and many dozens of people were killed alongside the Taliban.

The radical-Islamic Taliban have resumed fighting in Afghanistan before the official end of the ceasefire. After three days of peace because of the Sugar Festival they attacked late (local time) targets of security forces in the provinces of Kandahar and Helmand. Among other things, the channel 1TV and the Pajhwok news agency have announced this.

The Taliban attack on a military camp in the Kandahar province in southeastern Afghanistan has killed around 40 soldiers, according to Afghan media. Two men men attacked stolen armored vehicles with explosives.

A Georgian soldier and two Afghan civilians have been killed Thursday night by a suicide attack on a convoy of the coalition forces in Kabul, reported the NATO coalition Friday. Wednesday were already two American NATO troops in Kandahar killed by a suicide bomber targeted the Taliban.

In a suicide attack on a NATO convoy in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar, victims have fallen. That reported NATO mission Resolute Support Wednesday in a Twitter message. The brief statement did not tell if there were killed or injured soldiers, how many victims there are or from which country they are coming.

Indeed, seven Afghan civilians were killed after being kidnapped earlier this week by warriors of the extremist Taliban. According to a senior official of the Afghan police, at least 30 people are still being held. About thirty others have already been released.

Again, Afghan rebels have attacked a military base in Kandahar Province. Thursday evening, fifteen soldiers were killed, a spokesman for the Afghan Ministry of Defense told the BBC on Friday. Five others were injured by the Taliban attack in the Shahwali Kot district.

The ambassador of the United Arab Emirates in Afghanistan succumbed to the injuries he sustained in a bombing last month in the Afghan city of Kandahar. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Emirates made on Wednesday, according to Arab media.

Five female security officers and their driver were killed Saturday in Afghanistan. This was done according to the BBC when two assailants on a motorbike opened fire on the van to the victims to work reason.

China and the West were already in contact with each other before the opening of the Silk Road. Chinese archaeologists establish a documentary of the famous Terracotta Army of the first Chinese emperor Qin Huangdi, who lived in the third century BC, based on Greek sculpture. They suspect therefore that the Chinese sculptors who made the thousands of images, are taught by Greeks.

Afghan troops on Thursday responded to the attack by the Taliban in Tarin Kowt and driven back the radical Islamist insurgents.

An accident involving two buses and a tanker in Afghanistan may have dozens of people killed. Many others were injured. The accident occurred Sunday morning on the road between Kabul and Kandahar city.

Afghan special forces have freed more than sixty prisoners who were being held by the Taliban in a house in the southern province of Helmand. At least two rebels were slain in the action and several injured or put in prison. The freed hostages were transferred to Kandahar, the governor of Helmand said Friday.

An Afghan policeman shot dead Tuesday ten colleagues after he had first poisoned their food. That happened at a checkpoint of the police in southern Afghanistan, said a police spokesman.

The head of the main intelligence service of Afghanistan NDS resigned out of dissatisfaction with the actions of President Ashraf Ghani. Rahmatullah Nabil made ​​his departure known by his resignation letter to send to the press.

The official death toll from the attack of the Taliban at the airport in the Afghan city of Kandahar to 61. This is according to the Ministry of Defence for 38 people, ten soldiers, two policemen and eleven attackers. Also, dozens of injuries.

The production of opium in Afghanistan this year is half lower than in 2014, according to A report from the UN agency for drugs and crime (UNODC) . In the country this year is expected to be 3300 tonnes of opium produced against 6400 tons last year. Opium, which is extracted from poppy, is a raw material for heroin.

The USA keep their troops in Afghanistan longer. The major part of 2016, the strength is maintained at 9800 people. Then the number of troops will be reduced gradually. President Obama makes the decision Thursday to the world.