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KABUL: Senior US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad has arrived in Kabul for talks with Afghan leaders, an official said Sunday, in his first trip to the Afghan capital since being appointed to lead peace efforts with the Taliban.
The visit by Khalilzad, a former US ambassador to Kabul, Baghdad and the United Nations, comes as the Afghan government and international community intensify efforts to end the 17-year war.
A spokesman for Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said Khalilzad would have dinner with Ghani and other officials on Sunday. He would not provide further details about Khalilzad鈥檚 visit.
The US embassy in Kabul did not immediately respond to AFP鈥檚 request for comment.
Khalilzad is also scheduled to visit Pakistan, the United Arab Emirates, 抖阴短视频 and Qatar as part of a 10-day trip to 鈥渃oordinate and lead US efforts to bring the Taliban to the negotiating table,鈥� the US State Department said last week.
His arrival comes as the Taliban and Daesh ramp up attacks across the country ahead of this month鈥檚 long-delayed parliamentary elections that are seen as a dry run for next year鈥檚 presidential vote.
In the latest incident, Taliban fighters killed 14 members of the security forces in a district in eastern Afghanistan that straddles the strategic Kabul-Kandahar highway linking the Afghan capital and the group鈥檚 southern strongholds.
The Sayedabad district police chief was among those killed in the heavy fighting overnight, Wardak provincial governor spokesman Abdul Rahman Mangal told AFP.
Another seven were wounded, deputy interior ministry spokesman Nasrat Rahimi said in a statement.
The Taliban also suffered 鈥渉eavy casualties,鈥� Rahimi added. The group claimed its fighters had killed dozens of security forces.
An electricity cable was destroyed in the battle, severing power to Wardak, Ghazni, Logar and Paktia provinces, power utility Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat said in a statement.
The attack on Sayedabad district, which is less than two hours鈥� drive from Kabul, came shortly after militants destroyed several bridges along the same highway in neighboring Ghazni province, forcing its temporary closure.
A major Taliban assault on Ghazni鈥檚 provincial capital in August triggered five days of fighting with security forces that left hundreds dead.
Separately, the defense ministry is investigating reports of 鈥減ossible civilian casualties鈥� during clashes in Paktia province on Saturday, spokesman Ghafoor Ahmad Jawed said.
Provincial police chief Raz Mohammad Mandozai told AFP that 10 civilians were killed and 20 were wounded in an air strike on Garda Serai district.
Other local sources said at least 10 people had been wounded in the aerial bombardment.
US Forces, which is the only international force known to conduct air strikes in Afghanistan, denied it carried out the attack.