Topic: Kabul

Taliban gunmen with suicide vests and rockets launched spectacular, coordinated attacks in Kabul Tuesday, targeting the US embassy and NATO's headquarters and killing at least seven people.Afghan forces had not managed to end the siege after ten hours and at least ten ...
Nine people including a New Zealand special forces soldier died as suicide bombers attacked Britain's cultural centre in Kabul Friday, a holiday marking Afghan independence from London in 1919.Militants blasted their way into the British Council compound at dawn by blowing up ...

Three Afghan police hurt by bomb near parliament

A bomb blast apparently targeting a police post near the parliament building in Kabul on Sunday injured three officers, police and the interior ministry said."It was an explosion near a police post. Three officers are injured and investigations to determine the cause ...

Taliban suicide bombers attack top Kabul hotel

Taliban suicide bombers and gunmen attacked a Kabul hotel popular with foreigners and Afghan officials, sparking a five-hour assault that left several casualties and part of the building in flames.NATO helicopters were called in to help crush the brazen attack on the ...

35 killed in suicide bombing in southeast Afghanistan

KABUL (Reuters) - Thirty-five people were killed in a suicide bombing by a hospital in Afghanistan's Logar province south of Kabul, provincial officials said on Saturday.(Created by Alistair Scrutton)101212112&bid=informcom" /> Copyright 2011  Reuters US Online Report World News

Taliban kill nine in Kabul police station attack

Nine people were killed Saturday when three attackers armed with suicide vests and machine-guns stormed a police station in the heart of the Afghan capital Kabul, officials said.The militants, at least one of whom was in army uniform, got into a compound ...

Suicide attack on Kabul police station kills three

KABUL (Reuters) - Suicide bombers in army uniform attacked a Kabul police compound on Saturday, killing two policemen and a civilian in the second major attack inside the Afghan capital in under a month, Afghan officials said.The Taliban vowed last month to ...

Four insurgents hit Kabul police station: official

KABUL (Reuters) - Four suicide bombers attacked a Kabul police compound in the old city on Saturday, and two were holed up inside a building there to battle Afghan security forces, the spokesman for the Interior Ministry said."One bomber blew himself up ...
Six members of the Afghan security forces died Sunday when the Taliban stormed a traffic police office and two suicide bombers detonated themselves, triggering a nine-hour stand-off.The attack in restive Khost province, which borders Pakistan in the east, came the day after ...

Police surround compound in east Afghanistan siege

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan security forces have surrounded a government building in a volatile eastern province after at least four Taliban insurgents, including suicide bombers, staged a brazen assault on Sunday, government officials said.At least three police were killed in the early ...