In pictures: Kabul attacks
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Images from Kabul, where Taliban fighters have launched co-ordinated attacks targeting the diplomatic district and other parts of the Afghan capital.
Kabul embassy area is under attack; 6 dead
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Taliban gunmen with suicide bombs and heavy weaponry on Tuesday launched coordinated attacks in Kabul targeting Nato's headquarters and the US embassy, killing at least six people.
Explosions, gunfire in Kabul, near embassy district
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Police and other security officials block roads around U.S. embassy and other diplomatic missions in Afghanistan, warning the attackers that they would be relentlessly pursued.
Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid said his party sent two suicide bombers to the western Kabul. They were armed with the rocket grenade launchers, AK-47 assault rifles and suicide vests. They fired rockets at the U.S. embassy and took a high rise building which was being built on Abdul Haq, Wazir Akhbar Khan district, a location where there are the American and British embassies. From the building Taliban fired rockets at a number of embassies and the headquarters of NATO.
That was the first time they launched a major offensive to a number of separate locations in Kabul. This is the second major attack in this month. In mid-August they also attacked the British Council office and killing nine people. The attack coincided with the commemoration of 92 years of Afghanistan's independence from British colonization. At the end of June, the Taliban also attacked a hotel -- that was a favorite hotel of Westerners -- and killing at least 10 people.
Currently, the violence by the Taliban are achieving its peak (since the U.S. and NATO forces overthrew the Taliban government in 2001). This is a reminder that Afghanistan is still far from stable since the U.S. invasion. And this happened when the U.S. was seeking to reduce their troops from Afghanistan.
At least 25 dead in Kabul attacks
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At least 25 people died in Kabul during Tuesday's attack which the US ambassador has described as "not a very big deal".
Recent Kabul attacks
- August 2011: Gunmen storm British Council HQ, killing 12 people
- June 2011: Seven people killed in gun and bomb attack at Intercontinental Hotel
- April 2011: Two soldiers killed after gunman opens fire inside defence ministry
- January 2011: Eight killed by suicide bomber at Kabul Finest supermarket
- Feb 2010: At least 17 people killed in gun and bomb attack on foreign
- Jan 2010: 12 dead in attack on government targets and shopping malls
Taliban siege in central Kabul ends
A nearly day-long Taliban siege on the U.S. Embassy and NATO command center in Kabul ended early Wednesday, Afghan and NATO officials said.
Kabul attack ends after 20 hours, 6 attackers dead
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KABUL (Reuters) - An assault by Taliban insurgents on the heart of Kabul's diplomatic and military enclave has ended after 20 hours, when security forces killed the last of six attackers.
Afghanistan: 6 Taliban killed as 20-hour assault quelled
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Security forces kill remaining Taliban terrorists involved in attack on US, NATO, foreign embassies; at least 9 killed, 23 wounded in 4 assaults.
How much longer it will end?
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Haqqani network created by CIA: Malik
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ISLAMABAD (Agencies) - Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that the Haqqani network was created and trained by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), reported private TV channels.Speaking to the media in Islamabad on Sunday, Malik rejected US claims of the Haqqani network operating from Afghanistan.
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