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File photo showing Afghan security forces and investigators gather at the site of a suicide bomb attack outside a British security firm's compound in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Nov. 29, 2018. Noorullah Shirzada/AFP/Getty Images
KABUL—Taliban fighters detonated explosives planted in a tunnel below an Afghan military outpost, killing five soldiers, a police official said on Jan. 2.
Six soldiers were wounded in the attack on Jan. 1, in the Maiwand district of the southern province of Kandahar, police spokesman Mohammad Ashraf Watandost said.