Fresh suicide attacks kill two Afghan security personnel

August 14th, 2009 Suicide attack kills 1 Afghan soldier in the southKANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A suicide bomber attacked an Afghan army base in southern Afghanistan on Friday, killing a soldier and wounding four other people, an official said. The bomber rammed his vehicle into the base's gate in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand province, said Daud Ahmadi, the provincial governor's spokesman.

June 7th, 2009 Taliban attacks kill 9 in AfghanistanKABUL — A Taliban ambush in northwestern Afghanistan killed four policemen early Sunday, while militants killed five other people at the eastern border near Pakistan, officials said. Militants attacked a police security post in northwestern Faryab province, sparking a one-hour battle that killed four police, said Khalil Andrabi, the provincial police chief.

May 20th, 2009 KABUL - Thirteen Taliban militants have been killed in a gunfight with the security forces near the Afghan capital, an official said Wednesday. The incident took place Tuesday evening after Taliban militants attacked Afghan soldiers in the Salar area, 70 km west of Kabul.

May 13th, 2009 BRUSSELS - Civilian casualties in Afghanistan were down 44 percent in the first four months of this year, compared to the same period in 2008, despite a 64 percent rise in insurgency attacks, a NATO report said Wednesday. However, the security situation remains precarious, with the latest polls showing that 35 percent of Afghans say security has improved over the past six months and a further 13 percent saying it has got worse.

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 11th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Three security personnel were killed and five others injured when a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-packed vehicle into a check post in northwestern Pakistan, TV reports said Saturday. The incident took place in the Khawazakhela area of Swat.

May 4th, 2009 KABUL - A provincial mayor along with six others were killed in a suicide attack in eastern Afghanistan Monday, while 15 civilians, six private security guards and two Taliban militants were killed in separate attacks elsewhere in the country, officials said. In the latest attack, a mayor, three of his bodyguards and three civilians were killed and three civilians were wounded Monday when a suicide bomber attacked the municipal office in Metarlam, the capital of Laghman province, the interior ministry statement said.

April 24th, 2009 BAGHDAD - Two suicide bombers blew themselves up in northern Baghdad Friday, killing 30 people and injuring 100, an interior ministry source said. The two attacks occurred almost simultaneously.

April 18th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - A suicide car bomber attacked a military convoy and checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan Saturday, killing at least 18 soldiers and two civilians, a senior police official said. The bomber rammed his explosives laden car into a security wall around the army post when a military convoy was passing by in Doaba town of the restive Hangu district.

April 18th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Two separate bombings Saturday killed at least 24 people, including 18 soldiers, in Pakistan's restive northwestern region, police officials and media reports said. A suicide car bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into a security wall around an army post when a military convoy was passing by in Doaba town in the restive Hangu district in North West Frontier Province (NWFP).

April 18th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Two separate bombings Saturday killed at least 31 people, including 25 soldiers, in Pakistan's restive northwestern region, police officials and media reports said. A suicide car bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into a security wall around an army post when a military convoy was passing by in Doaba town in the restive Hangu district in North West Frontier Province (NWFP).

April 17th, 2009 KABUL - Three people were killed and three others injured Friday in a suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan's western Nimroz province, an official said. Two militants, with explosives strapped to their bodies, wanted to target the Afghan minister for refugees.

March 24th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - A policeman was killed and several people were injured Monday in a suicide bombing outside an office of the police's intelligence wing in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, security officials said. The bomber blew himself up when a police guard stopped him at the gate of the police's special branch, located in the heart of the city, just a few hundred yards away from the headquarters of the premier military Inter-Service Intelligence agency.

February 11th, 2009 KABUL - Afghan police boosted their presence on Kabul's streets and erected new checkpoints Thursday as the new US envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, arrived. The beefing up of the security also came a day after eight Taliban suicide bombers breached the city's defences in near-simultaneous attacks on three government buildings that left 26 people dead.

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.