Local officials say the militants attacked a police outpost in Khaki Safed district late on Wednesday.
Mohammad Younes Rasouli, the deputy governor of Farah, told Press TV that “about 50 Taliban militants opened fire on a security checkpoint, killed the soldiers and took their car and weapons.”
A Taliban spokesman has confirmed the attack, claiming that at least 12 Afghan soldiers were killed in the ambush.
Farah Police Chief Shamsul Rahman Zahid said that two policemen were captured by Taliban militants.
Afghan and US-led military officials expect more violent Taliban-led attacks in spring and summer, known as the fighting season.
Insecurity continues to climb across Afghanistan despite the presence there of tens of thousands of US-led troops.
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