5 Taliban forces killed in factional infighting in Takhar province

Several Taliban forces were killed and injured in a deadly fighting between the group’s Pashtun and Uzbek factions in the northeastern Takhar province.

Sources told KabulNow that the clash began on Friday night when forces of the Taliban’s Defense Ministry in coordination with its local Pashtun members tried to seize a military base run by the group’s Uzbek fighters in Masjid-e-Safed village in Baharak district.