KABUL — Taliban forces nearly wiped out an entire Afghan army post on Wednesday, killing 43 soldiers when they stormed a base with suicide bombers in the strife-torn southern province of Kandahar. The group also launched two attacks elsewhere that killed 15 people.
In total, 58 security officers died in the bloody string of attacks on military facilities, following suicide bomb attacks this week that killed 74 people in three provinces.
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