8 police killed, 18 injured in N. Afghan checkpoint clashes

AYBAK, Afghanistan –About eight police personnel were killed and 18 others wounded after Taliban militants attacked security checkpoints in Afghanistan's northern province of Samangan Thursday night, a local official said . 2017 -- October 17: Two separate Taliban suicide and gun attacks on police and soldiers leave 80 dead and scores wounded. 

The deadliest, which claims 60 lives, is on a police compound in the city of Gardez in Paktia province where militants disguised as police detonate bomb-filled vehicles that clear the way for gunmen to enter. 

Another 15 security officials and five civilians are killed in a separate ambush in the neighbouring province of Ghazni. 
- May 31: More than 150 people are killed and hundreds wounded when a massive truck bomb rips through Kabul's diplomatic quarter, shattering windows hundreds of metres away. 

- April 21: Taliban militants in soldiers' uniforms enter a military base in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif and open fire on unarmed troops at close range in the mosque and dining hall. At least 144 are killed. 
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