Topic: Kabul

India to reopen Kabul mission: report

India is to reopen a medical mission in the Afghan capital Kabul that was hit by militant suicide attacks in February, a report in New Delhi said Wednesday. Nine Indians were killed in one of the deadliest Taliban strikes on foreigners in ...

Suicide attack hits Western security company in Kabul

Two Taliban suicide bombers blew themselves up at the entrance of a Western private security company's house in central Kabul on Tuesday, killing two drivers, Afghan police and witnesses said. The attack came as President Hamid Karzai's spokesman said all international and ...

Taliban bombers target security villa in Kabul

Two Taliban suicide bombers blew themselves up at the entrance of a guesthouse occupied by a Western security company in central Kabul on Tuesday, killing two drivers, police and witnesses said. "There were two suicide bombers who detonated themselves at the entrance. ...

Suicide bombers attack in Afghan capital: police

KABUL (Reuters) - Two suicide bombers staged an attack in a central Kabul street often frequented by foreigners, three police sources said on Tuesday, but there was no immediate word on casualties. One police source said at least one of the bombers ...

Three dead, 35 injured in Kabul suicide blast

Three people were killed Sunday and another 35 injured in a suicide attack in the Afghan capital, a spokesman for the ministry of public health told AFP. "Three people are dead, and one of them is a child," said Kargar Norghli. "And ...
Three foreigners were among five killed when Taliban militants stormed a US aid organisation in Afghanistan Friday, as General David Petraeus arrived in Kabul as the new war commander. Another 20 people were wounded in the pre-dawn attack on the compound of ...

Suicide attacker blows himself up in Kabul

A suicide attacker with explosives strapped to his body blew himself up Saturday outside a military caterer in Kabul but caused no casualties, Afghanistan's interior ministry said. The explosion took place east of the capital, close to a warehouse and supermarket run ...

Afghan Taliban launch brazen attack on NATO base

BAGRAM (Reuters) - Suicide bombers carrying rockets and grenades launched a brazen pre-dawn attack on one of the biggest military bases of NATO in Afghanistan on Tuesday, leaving at least seven guerrillas dead and six foreign troops wounded. The fighting, which was ...

Canadian colonel among dead in Afghan attack

A suicide attack on a NATO convoy in Kabul Tuesday claimed the life of a Canadian colonel, the highest-ranking Canadian officer to be killed in Afghanistan, the Canadian defense ministry said. Colonel Geoff Parker, 42, was among 18 people killed when a ...

Kabul suicide attack on NATO convoy kills 18

A suicide car bomber attacked a NATO convoy in Kabul on Tuesday killing 18 people, including five US soldiers, a Canadian soldier and 12 civilians in the deadliest strike on the capital in over a year. The Taliban, which is leading a ...
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