AFGHANISTAN: Taliban insurgents targeted an Afghan army corps at their camp in southern Helmand province, killing at least 23, officials said on Saturday. He said Taliban fighters engaged both Afghan and foreign forces inside the camp and killed “scores”. Zwak said the attack began when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives at Shorab camp. Ghafor Ahmad Jawed, the spokesman for the Afghan Defense Ministry, confirmed the death toll at 23 and said a clearing operation ended on Friday night. Camp Shorab was previously a British air base known as Camp Bastion.

Source: Pakistan Today March 02, 2019 07:30 UTC