Dozens of people were killed or wounded when as many as five suicide bombers attacked a police headquarters in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, officials said.
Najib Danish, deputy spokesman for the Interior Ministry, confirmed the attack in Gardez, the provincial capital.
The assault involved at least seven attackers, one of whom blew himself up at the entrance to the site in Gardez to clear the way for the others.
Al Jazeera's Rob McBride, reporting from Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, said North Atlantic Treaty Organisation soldiers were training their Afghan counterparts at the base where the attack took place.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid praised the attack in a statement sent to the media.
The vehicle bomb was used to open the way for other attackers to enter the police headquarters compound.
Special forces soldiers in the Afghan army, generally referred to as commandos, are much more highly trained than regular troops and work in proximity to USA soldiers, including serving as partners in ground combat operations, as well as in training exercises.
Of the seven attackers involved, one blew himself up in a auto at the entrance to clear the way for the others to rush into the building, the office of the Paktia provincial governor said in a statement announcing the end of the raid.
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On 11 June, the Taliban claimed responsibility for a similar operation in the east of the country, perpetrated by an infected Afghan soldier who had killed three USA soldiers and wounded a fourth in an operation in eastern Nangarhar province, Of the fighters of the Islamic State group.
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In Afghanistan, at least seven USA troops were injured in a firing by an Afghan soldier at a military base near Mazar-e-Sharif city.
In the meantime, the lawmakers of the Lower House of the Parliament said they will once again hold talks with the protesters in a bid to resolve the issue. According to an April report by the Modern War Institute at America's West Point it was in 2011 that "insider attacks became the preferred war-fighting tactic of the Taliban, an organization that understood well how to apply limited resources for maximum effect".
An uptick in attacks by Afghan National army soldiers against foreign troops would seem a worrisome trend ahead of the deployment of another 4,000 US troops to Afghanistan in the latest attempt by Washington to turn around the protracted war against insurgents. He went on to say that it had been a joint effort between the two countries to get the air cargo route going.
Paktia province borders Pakistan, which has been accused by Afghanistan of facilitating the Afghan Taliban.
President Trump recently gave James Mattis, the secretary of defense, the authority to increase us troop levels in the country - and "right now, this new troop request is being worked by the commander in Afghanistan, the National Security Council under H.R. McMaster and senior leaders at the Pentagon", NPR's Tom Bowman told All Things Considered.
The bulk of the extra forces will train and advise Afghan troops, the official said, while a smaller number would be assigned to counterterror operations against the Taliban and Islamic State (IS) extremists.
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