EghtesadOnline: The clashes are underway between the government forces and Taliban militants in the Afghan city of Kunduz in the northern part of Afghanistan as most people have taken shelter in their homes and helicopters and fighter jets hit Taliban military positions.

EghtesadOnline: Pockets of Taliban fighters held out overnight against Afghan government forces in the northern city of Kunduz , a police official said on Tuesday, a day after the militants pushed deep into the city center.

EghtesadOnline: Taliban fighters mounted a coordinated assault on the northern city of Kunduz overnight, attacking from four directions and entering the city itself, a senior city police official said.

EghtesadOnline: The Afghan Taliban captured a strategic district in the northern province of Kunduz on Saturday, forcing troops to retreat to the provincial capital which fell briefly to the insurgents last year, officials said.