KABUL — An overnight Taliban assault on a border post in southern Afghanistan left 11 police officers dead, while in the north of the country gunmen assassinated a district intelligence chief on his way to work, officials said Monday.
Meanwhile, authorities in Romania said two of their soldiers serving with the NATO coalition in Afghanistan died in a roadside bombing in the east. This brings the number of NATO troops killed this month to seven, while 122 have been killed so far this year, 92 of them Americans.
The Taliban had stepped up attacks on the security forces, officials, and government employees during their spring offensive this year.
In the latest ambush, gunmen sprayed official Abdul Hussain with bullets as he was riding on his motorcycle Monday morning near the city of Kunduz, the capital of the province with the same name, according to Ghulam Mohayuddin, the local police chief. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.