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Several Taliban fighters have launched an attack on an international airport in the southern Afghanistan city of Kandahar early Tuesday and the gunbattle is still ongoing.
According to spokesman for the Kandahar provincial governor, Samim Khpalwak, the Talibani fighters managed breaching the first gate of the complex.
No casualties have yet been reported but the residents of military blocks have been urged to remain inside their homes and take cover to help the US or NATO forces not to mistake them for Isis.
Taliban has taken responsibility of the attack saying several suicide bombers have entered the airport complex.
The Taliban has strong hold in southern part of Afghanistan whore a good percentage of the population are Pashtuns.
A pro-Taliban website writes the fighters have launched attack against the domestic as well as foreign forces present in Afghanistan.
Militant violence has scaled up across the country after the departure of US and NATO forces in 2014. Some 10,000 US forces remains now.
The airport attack is second major incident in a span of 24 hours. Kandahar police station was stormed by the insurgents Monday night and three police officers were wounded after lengthy firefight. The two suicide attackers were killed in the gunbattle.
Earlier, in September this year the militants captured strategic northern city of Kunduz and it is considered as their most spectacular victory in past fourteen years. As an aftermath they have opened new battlefronts across Afghanistan.
The Talibans have enjoyed several more victories in recent months.
