Taliban twin attack in Kabul

 AFP, KABUL: Two suicide attacks in Kabul yesterday targeting first NATO then the Afghan spy agency left one person dead and five wounded, officials said, as the Taliban step up their annual summer offensive.
In the first incident, a Taliban suicide car bomber targeting a NATO vehicle rocked the southeast of the city, wounding three people including one described by the police as a "foreigner".
An hour later three Taliban attackers tried to storm a branch office of the National Directorate of Security (NDS), Afghanistan's main intelligence agency.
One militant on a motorcycle blew himself up, killing a guard, before other guards killed his two colleagues.
It is the third time in three weeks that the Afghan capital has come under significant attack, and a week ago another NATO convoy was hit by a suicide bomber on the road to the airport.
NATO ended its combat mission in the war-torn country in December, maintaining a smaller residual force for training but leaving Afghan troops and police to face their first "fighting season" battling the Taliban on their own.
The Taliban claimed the attacks in messages on their Twitter account.
In the wake of the car bomb the street was strewn with rubble and broken glass after the blast, which left a white SUV badly damaged and on fire.
Kabul police spokesman Ebadullah Karimi said two of the three wounded in the first attack were civilians
who suffered minor injuries and described the third as a "foreigner", but there was no confirmation of identity or nationality.
"We can confirm an attack on coalition forces occurred in Kabul at approximately 11:30am," a spokesperson for the coalition told AFP adding that no foreign forces were killed in the attack.

 

Taliban twin attack in Kabul

AFP, KABUL: Two suicide attacks in Kabul yesterday targeting first NATO then the Afghan spy agency left one person dead and five wounded, officials said, as the Taliban step up their annual summer offensive. In the first incident, a Taliban suicide car bomber targeting a NATO vehicle rocked the southeast of the city, wounding three people including one described by the police as a foreigner. An hour later three Taliban attackers tried to storm a branch office of the National Directorate of Security (NDS), Afghanistans main intelligence agency. One militant on a motorcycle blew himself up, killing a guard, before other guards killed his two colleagues. It is the third time in three weeks that the Afghan capital has come under significant attack, and a week ago another NATO convoy was hit by a suicide bomber on the road to the airport. NATO ended its combat mission in the war-torn country in December, maintaining a smaller residual force for training but leaving Afghan troops and police to face their first fighting season battling the Taliban on their own. The Taliban claimed the attacks in messages on their Twitter account. In the wake of the car bomb the street was strewn with rubble and broken glass after the blast, which left a white SUV badly damaged and on fire. Kabul police spokesman Ebadullah Karimi said two of the three wounded in the first attack were civilians who suffered minor injuries and described the third as a foreigner, but there was no confirmation of identity or nationality. We can confirm an attack on coalition forces occurred in Kabul at approximately 11:30am, a spokesperson for the coalition told AFP adding that no foreign forces were killed in the attack.