[ToloNews] Four security force members, including Shafiq Jahid, acting police chief for Farsi district in Herat
...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns...
, were killed in a Taliban
 ...Arabic for students ...
attack on an outpost in Farsi district on Thursday night, the provincial governor Waheed Qatali said.
Qatali said that the Taliban launched attacks on security outposts in Farsi, Gulran and Adraskan districts of Herat on Thursday night.
He added that 21 Taliban were also killed in the festivities in the Farsi district.
Sources from Herat said that a police outpost in Karwangah village in Adraskan district fell to the Taliban following an attack by the group and four soldiers from the outpost were maimed and three more were captured by the Taliban.
Meanwhile,
...back at the shouting match, the spittle had reached unprecedented levels...
the Ministry of Defense in a statement said that 183 Taliban were killed and 58 more were maimed in Afghan forces operations in Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
, Ghazni, Zabul, Uruzgan, Jawzjan, Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
, Takhar and Kunduz provinces in the last 24 hours.
Taliban has rejected the figures provided by the ministry. 
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