At least 12 Taliban insurgents were killed and four injured in Pashtoonkot district of Faryab. Security officials in the province said that the insurgents were killed and injured in an airstrike yesterday. In a separate incident eight people were injured in an explosion in Maimana, provincial capital of Faryab, yesterday evening. Officials at Faryab police commandment said that the explosion was caused by an Improvised Explosive Device (IED).