90 dead in Afghan explosion as Taliban distributes fuel (Second Lead)

October 8th, 2009 Taliban claim Afghan bomb, say embassy was target KABUL — The Taliban have claimed responsibility for Thursday's suicide car bomb in the Afghan capital, saying their target was the Indian Embassy. Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said in a statement posted on the group's Web site that the attacker was an Afghan man who blew up his a sporty utility vehicle laden with explosives just outside the embassy.

September 30th, 2009 Blast aimed at Afghan powerbroker kills 4 in westKABUL — Police say four people have been killed in an explosion targeting Afghanistan's energy minister outside a school in the country's west. A Taliban official is claiming responsibility.

September 17th, 2009 KABUL - A suicide attack against an Italian military convoy shook the Afghan capital Thursday, leaving 10 Afghan civilians and six Italian soldiers dead, officials said. "The attack left 10 civilians dead," General Zahir Azimi, a spokesman for defence ministry told DPA.

September 11th, 2009 KABUL - The commission appointed by Afghan President Hamid Karzai to investigate last week's NATO airstrike on two fuel tankers that claimed dozens of Taliban and civilian lives has exonerated the German Army, which ordered the strike, a German television station reported Friday. Civilians were indeed among the victims, but responsibility for the incident lies with the Taliban, ARD television reported, citing investigators in the commission.

September 4th, 2009 KUNDUZ - Ninety people were killed Friday when a NATO airstrike hit two Taliban-hijacked oil tankers in the northern Afghan province of Kunduz as the militants were distributing fuel to civilians, Kunduz's governor said. The militants stopped the two oil trucks, which were bound for German forces stationed in Kunduz, Thursday night on the highway connecting Kunduz with the neighbouring province of Baghlan, Governor Mohammad Omar said.

September 4th, 2009 KUNDUZ - Ninety people were killed Friday when two hijacked oil tankers exploded in the northern Afghan province of Kunduz as Taliban militants were distributing fuel to civilians, said provincial governor Mohammad Omar. The militants stopped the two oil trucks Thursday night on the highway connecting Kunduz with the neighbouring province of Baghlan, Omar said.

September 4th, 2009 Afghan official: Airstrike on fuel trucks kills 40KABUL — NATO launched an airstrike on two fuel tankers hijacked by Taliban militants in northern Afghanistan, killing at least 40 people, an Afghan official said Friday. Militants seized the two trucks, which were delivering fuel to NATO forces, around midnight and the alliance launched an airstrike while the Taliban fighters tried to drive the vehicles across a river in Kunduz province, Police Chief Gulam Mohyuddin said.

September 3rd, 2009 Afghan officials: A NATO airstrike kills 40KABUL — Officials in northern Afghanistan say a NATO airstrike on hijacked fuel tankers has killed at least 40 people. Chief of Police Gulam Mohyuddin says the airstrike hit two tankers in Kunduz Province near the Tajikistan border.

September 3rd, 2009 KUNDUZ - Ninety people were killed Friday when two hijacked oil tankers exploded in the northern Afghan province of Kunduz as Taliban militants were distributing fuel to civilians, said the provincial governor, Mohammad Omar.

August 30th, 2009 Pakistan: Border blast sets NATO fuel trucks afireCHAMAN, Pakistan — An explosion ripped through a line of trucks ferrying fuel to NATO troops in Afghanistan, setting several oil tankers ablaze Sunday at a backed-up Pakistani border crossing, police said. The blast appeared to be the second terrorist attack Sunday in Pakistan and the second in a week to target a border crossing.

August 25th, 2009 Official: Explosion hits southern Afghan cityKANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A large blast rocked Afghanistan's largest southern city after nightfall Tuesday, sending flames into the sky, officials said. Casualties were likely but officials could not immediately say how many there were.

August 11th, 2009 12 Taliban fighters killed in Afghan clashKABUL — An Afghan official says clashes and airstrikes in southern Afghanistan have killed a dozen Taliban fighters. Wazir Khan says the militants were killed late Monday inside a compound in an area bordering Ghazni and Zabul provinces.

August 10th, 2009 Bomb blast kills 6 Taliban while planting IEDKABUL —Six Taliban militants are dead after a roadside bomb they were planting exploded prematurely. Abdul Zarif, an Afghan official in Zabul province, says the six militants were planting the bomb around 3 a.m.

July 30th, 2009 4 Afghan guards killed in blastKABUL — The government says a roadside blast has killed four Afghan guards in the south of the country. An Interior Ministry statement says the explosion hit the guards' vehicle in Helmand province on Thursday.

May 30th, 2009 KABUL - Twenty-four people, including 18 suspected Taliban insurgents, were killed as fighting flared up in Afghanistan's northwest Badghis province, its governor said Saturday. "Taliban fighters ambushed a unit of national army soldiers in Balamurghab district Friday and troops returned fire, leaving 18 Taliban rebels dead," Governor Dulbar Jan Arman told Xinhua.