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In addition, nine
Taliban were killed and another wounded with a final survivor
still resisting security forces, said the Ministry of Defence
said in a statement.
Officials said fighters attacked a perimeter area of the huge
and heavily fortified complex on Tuesday evening, initially
taking up position in a school in a residential area of the
site, which houses both a civilian airport and military base.
The attack coincided with the start of the Heart of Asia
regional security conference in Islamabad, where Afghan
President Ashraf Ghani made a plea for more regional support to
fight the Islamist insurgency.
(Reporting by Mirwais Harooni; Writing by James Mackenzie;
Editing by Robert Birsel)
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