At least five police, five civilians and 10 militants were reported dead following separate Taliban attacks and a government airstrike in Afghanistan, officials said Monday, according to dpa. "Armed men ambushed a police vehicle in Farsi district at 6 am [0130 GMT]" in the western province of Herat, "killing district police chief Shir Ahmad and other four police officers," said the province's police spokesman Abdul Raouf Ahmadi. Shir Ahmad's vehicle was hit with a rocket, he said. One police officer was also injured. In Chahar Dara district of northern province of Kunduz, 10 Taliban were killed and nine wounded by an airstrike called in to defend a police checkpoint that came under attack from a group of militants late Sunday, provincial police spokesman Saeed Sarwar Husaini said Monday.
