Afghan official: 3 suicide bombers attack Kandahar governor’s compound, killing 5 police

September 12th, 2009 2 US troops among 50 killed in Afghan violenceKABUL — Nearly 50 Afghan civilians, security forces and militants were killed in a spate of attacks around the war-torn country, including an overnight military raid targeting insurgents in the increasingly violent north, officials said Saturday. A roadside bomb killed two U.S.

September 12th, 2009 48 Taliban, Afghan civilians, security forces dieKABUL — Some 48 Afghan civilians, security forces and militants were killed in a spate of attacks around the war-torn country, including an overnight military raid targeting insurgents in the increasingly violent north, officials said Saturday. Two Taliban suicide bombers attacked an office of intelligence officers in the southern city of Kandahar, killing one agent.

August 21st, 2009 Officials: Suicide attacks in Chechnya kill 4GROZNY, Russia — Officials say that suicide bombers have detonated explosives in Chechnya's provincial capital, killing at least four police officers. Emergency Situations Ministry spokesman Alexei Zemskov says that four other policemen were wounded in Friday's attacks.

July 21st, 2009 13 die as Taliban bombers attack 2 Afghan citiesKABUL — Five Taliban suicide bombers attacked government centers in an eastern Afghan city Tuesday in a complex attack that has become a signature of major Taliban assaults. Five bombers and five Afghan security forces died, officials said.

July 21st, 2009 Militants attack Afghan city; 2 burqa bombers dieKABUL — Militants attacked several government centers in an eastern Afghan city Tuesday in a complex attack that has become a signature of major Taliban assaults. Police shot and killed two militant suicide bombers hiding under women's burqas, officials said.

July 21st, 2009 14 die as Taliban bombers attack 2 Afghan citiesGARDEZ, Afghanistan — Eight Taliban militants attacked three government buildings and a U.S. base in two eastern cities Tuesday in near-simultaneous attacks — a signature of major Taliban assaults.

June 29th, 2009 Gunbattle in south Afghanistan kills top policemanKANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A gunbattle erupted Monday inside a government complex in this key southern Afghan city, killing a top police official and seriously wounding a provincial police chief, an official said. The shooting started after Afghan and U.S.

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 18th, 2009 KABUL - A younger brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai escaped unharmed after an attack on his convoy in eastern Afghanistan Monday, but one of his bodyguards was killed in the ambush. Ahmadi Wali Karzai, who is head of the provincial council of southern Kandahar province, said that he was returning from eastern Nangarhar province when his convoy came under rocket and machine gun fire in Sorobi district on the Kabul-Jalalabad highway.

May 13th, 2009 KHOST - Seven people were killed in a suicide car bomb attack in eastern Afghanistan Wednesday, an official said. A suicide bomber Wednesday morning drove his explosives laden car towards the gate of a US military base outside Khost city, capital of Khost province in eastern Afghanistan, killing seven people and injuring 21, said an official from Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) media office.

May 12th, 2009 Hostages held in attack on Afghan govt buildingKABUL — Teams of suicide bombers and insurgents attacked two government buildings in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, sparking running gun battles in a major Afghan city, officials said. Armed insurgents took government workers hostage and ambushed an American quick-reaction force, wounding one U.S.

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 1st, 2009 KABUL - Four militants outfitted with explosives and automatic rifles attacked a provincial council office in southern Afghanistan Wednesday, killing seven civilians and three police officers, an interior ministry spokesman said. One attacker detonated an explosives-laden vehicle in front of the office in Kandahar, the capital of Kandahar province, killing a police officer guarding the compound, ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary said.

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.