Officials said on Monday that a Tajikistan jet carried out airstrikes in Darqad district in Takhar province along the border.
Earlier in the day, the provincial governor’s spokesman Mohammad Jawid Hejri confirmed the incident and said a clash broke out on Sunday afternoon between drug smugglers in Afghanistan and Tajik border guards.
He said Tajik border security fired a number of rockets into the area before “fighter jets” carried out an airstrike early Monday morning.
Hejri said the jets were “foreign” and were either from Russia or Tajikistan.
However, officials confirmed later in the day that there had been one fighter jet involved and that it was from Tajikistan.
