AFP, KABUL: A motorcycle-riding Taliban suicide bomber killed six NATO soldiers near Kabul Monday, in a brazen attack as the resurgent militant group battled to seize a key southern district in Afghanistan’s opium-growing heartland.
The military coalition did not disclose the nationality of the soldiers killed in the attack outside Bagram airbase, which highlights a worsening security situation a year after the NATO combat mission ended.
“Six service members were killed in a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device attack in the vicinity of Bagram Air Field,”  NATO spokesman in Kabul told AFP.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the bombing, which marks one of the deadliest attacks on foreign troops in Afghanistan this year and coincides with a fierce militant offensive to capture Sangin district in Helmand province.