At least ten security forces were killed on Wednesday in an insurgent attack in western Afghanistan. No one claimed responsibility for the attack that targeted a checkpoint in the Farah province, which borders Iran. The province has been a target by the Taliban however in recent months. The latest assault in the area left at least 38 security forces dead last week. Abdul Samad Salehi, a member of the Farah provincial council, said four of those killed in Wednesdays attack were from the intelligence service and six were police. "We have asked the central government for additional troops before Farah city falls into the hands of the Taliban," Salehi said. He said security forces are battling the Taliban on three different fronts, and the insurgents have launched several attacks on checkpoints around the provincial capital. Elsewhere in Afghanistan, a suicide truck bomb struck a checkpoint in the southern Helmand province, killing at least two border police, according to General Abdul Ghafar Safi, the police chief of the province, which borders Pakistan. He said another three police were wounded in the blast. The Taliban claimed the attack. The Taliban have seized a number of districts across the country in recent years, expanding their footprint after US and NATO forces formally concluded their combat mission at the end of 2014. Earlier, officials said that Kabul was deploying more troops to Farah to counter the frequent Taliban attacks and protect a planned multi-billion-dollar pipeline. "When commando forces were deployed they (the militants) retreated," Jamila Amini, a member of the Farah provincial council, told AFP. "We have sent more troops and commando forces to Farah to contain the situation," defense ministry spokesman Dawlat Waziri told AFP, adding the army chief of staff had also visited the province. "The situation will soon come under control," he said. Taliban fighters on Monday briefly took control of the administrative building of Farahs Anar Dara district, killing eight police, before they were beaten back by security forces, officials said. Farah is a poppy-growing province in a hard to reach part of Afghanistan which a section of the multi-billion-dollar TAPI gas pipeline will traverse. The conduit is named for the four countries involved: Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. Despite security concerns, the Taliban have pledged to cooperate with the project. "The security situation has been deteriorating day by day in Farah," Faqiri confirmed, estimating around a dozen security forces are killed in the province every day. Former Farah governor Mohammad Aref Shah Jahan resigned in January after days of protests in the provincial capital over rising insecurity.