Taliban kidnap 10 soldiers in north Afghanistan

Taliban militants have abducted at least 10 Afghan National Army soldiers along with a doctor in the country’s northeastern province of Badakhshan.

According to Press TV, provincial governor spokesman Abdul Marouf Rasikh said on Monday that the individuals were abducted by Taliban members during a military operation in the rugged Warduj district three days earlier.
Rasikh added that negotiations have been started to free the army soldiers and the doctor from the Taliban captivity.
Earlier this month, Taliban members killed as many as 17 Afghan soldiers in the Badakhshan province.
The incident began when a supply convoy of Afghan soldiers was ambushed by the militants on March 3, with one soldier killed and 22 others captured in the Warduj district.
Negotiations using tribal elders as go-betweens were carried out and six of the soldiers were released alive, but 16 more were executed by the Taliban.
The bodies of the slain army personnel were later turned over to Afghan authorities.