3 police killed by suicide car bomber in southern Afghanistan; supply convoy attacked

September 19th, 2009 Danish soldier killed in southern AfghanistanCOPENHAGEN — A Danish soldier was killed and another injured after they came under fire during a patrol in southern Afghanistan, the Danish military said Saturday. Kim Grunberger of The Army Operational Command said the troops were patrolling on foot in Afghanistan's Helmand province when they came under attack from insurgents.

August 31st, 2009 Afghan police: Taliban ambush supply convoyKANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Police say Taliban militants ambushed a supply convoy for NATO troops in southern Afghanistan, killing an Afghan guard who was escorting the trucks. Zabul province police chief Ghulam Jailani Farhai says the militants opened fire on the line of trucks on the main highway from Kandahar province into Zabul early Monday.

August 18th, 2009 KABUL - A suicide bomber attacked an international military convoy in the Afghan capital Kabul Tuesday, killing six people and wounding 44 others, officials said. Another bomber attacked an army checkpoint in the southern province of Uruzgan, killing five people.

July 16th, 2009 KABUL — Taliban militants attacked a military supply convoy in southern Afghanistan, sparking a gunbattle that killed 21 insurgents and three border police, a provincial official said Thursday. The convoy was targeted Wednesday soon after it crossed the border from Pakistan, said Hamidullah Zhwak, a spokesman for the governor of Paktika province.

June 23rd, 2009 Suicide bomber kills 2 civilians in AfghanistanKABUL — A suicide car bomber attacked a convoy of international troops in central Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing two Afghan civilians, officials said. The driver of the car rammed into the convoy on a highway in Ghazni province about 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) west of Ghazni city, said Ismail Jahangir, a spokesman for the provincial governor.

June 22nd, 2009 Suicide bomber kills 6 civilians in AfghanistanKABUL — A suicide bomber on a motorbike killed six civilians Monday when he drove into the center of an eastern Afghan city and set off explosives. It was unclear who the bomber was targeting when he detonated a bomb on his motorbike in front of Khost city's electric power headquarters and then explosives on his body a few minutes later, said Kuchi Naseri, a spokesman for the governor of Khost province.

June 22nd, 2009 Suicide bomber kills 5 civilians in AfghanistanKABUL — A suicide bomber on a motorbike killed five civilians Monday when he drove into the center of an eastern Afghan city and set off his explosives. It was unclear who the bomber was targeting when he detonated his bomb in front of Khost city's electric power headquarters, said Tahir Khan Sabari, the deputy governor of Khost province.

June 3rd, 2009 5 Afghan security guards killed in suicide attackKABUL — Police say five Afghan private security guards escorting a supply convoy have been killed in a suicide bombing near the southern border with Pakistan. The attack Wednesday comes a day after 10 more local security guards were killed by a roadside bomb elsewhere in the country.

May 10th, 2009 Afghanistan suicide bombs kill, wound at least 20KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A double suicide bomb attack in southern Afghanistan has killed and wounded at least 20 police, soldiers and civilians. Helmand deputy provincial police chief Kamaluddin Khan says the attack began when a first suicide bomber detonated his explosives near a taxi stand in the town of Gereshk.

April 9th, 2009 KANDAHAR - At least five people were killed and 17 wounded when a suicide bomber attacked a police drug eradication unit in southern Afghanistan on Thursday. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.

March 2nd, 2009 KABUL - An Afghan child was killed and five civilians were wounded when a suicide bomber targeted a convoy of NATO forces in eastern Afghanistan, while eight militants were killed in two clashes elsewhere in the country, officials said Sunday. The bomber detonated his explosives-laden vehicle near a convoy of NATO forces outside of Nangahar provincial capital Sunday, wounding six people including three children, Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, spokesman for the provincial governor said.

February 11th, 2009 KABUL - Two suicide attacks in eastern and western Afghanistan killed two Afghan security personnel and wounded 12 others, officials said Thursday. A suicide bomber with explosives strapped to his body attacked the provincial police headquarters Thursday in southeastern province of Paktika, killing one policeman, the interior ministry said in a statement.

February 10th, 2009 KABUL - Several blasts and gunfire rocked the Afghan capital Kabul Wednesday ahead of a visit by US special envoy Richard Holbrooke, causing an unknown number of casualties, police and witnesses said. A senior police official said that a suicide bomber attacked the justice ministry, located in the heart of the city, and which is also close to the finance ministry and the south gate of the Presidential Palace, causing an unknown number of casualties.

February 1st, 2009 KABUL - A suicide bomber blew himself up Monday in a government building in southern Afghanistan, killing 21 policemen and wounding 20 while the Afghan army arrested three would-be suicide bombers in the same region, officials said. The attack in the Uruzgan provincial capital, Tarin Kot, occurred when the bomber entered a police-training centre and detonated his explosives vest.

January 8th, 2009 KABUL - A suicide attack Friday morning killed at least 10 people, including a police official, in southern Afghan province of Nimroz, an official said. 'It occurred at around 11.45 a.m.