Many feared dead in suicide attack in Kabul

October 7th, 2009 KABUL - At least three people were killed in a suicide bombing near the Indian embassy in the Afghan capital Thursday morning. The explosion occurred on the road on which the India embassy and the Afghan interior ministry is located.

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 17th, 2009 KABUL - A suicide attack against an Italian military vehicle shook the Afghan capital Kabul Thursday, leaving at least two people dead, witnesses and officials said. A spokesman of the public health ministry told DPA the bodies of two civilians had been brought to a hospital.

September 17th, 2009 KABUL - A suicide attack against an Italian military convoy shook the Afghan capital Kabul Thursday, leaving six soldiers and at least three civilians dead and 38 others wounded, officials said. The defence ministry in Rome and the Italian military in Afghanistan said that six of its soldiers, members of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), were killed in the attack, which took place in the eastern part of the city on the road leading to Kabul's international airport.

September 8th, 2009 KABUL - A suicide bomber detonated his explosives-laden vehicle early Tuesday near a part of Kabul's international airport used by the military, killing two civilians and wounding seven, officials said. "It was a suicide attack which was carried out by a car near the gate of the military side of Kabul airport," Zemarai Bashary, an Interior Ministry spokesman, told DPA.

September 8th, 2009 KABUL - At least two civilians were killed and six others were injured when a suicide car bomb exploded near Kabul's military airport on Tuesday. The windows of the city center were rattled due to the blast.

September 7th, 2009 Car bomb explodes near military airport in KabulKABUL — A car bomb exploded near the entrance to the military airport in Afghanistan's capital early Tuesday, police said. The blast rattled windows more than a mile (1.6 kilometers) away.

August 18th, 2009 KABUL - Two rockets fired by militants slammed into the Afghan capital Tuesday morning, two days ahead of the presidential elections, police said. "The rockets were fired from an unknown location and hit residential areas at around 7.10 a.m.," a police officer said.

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.

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 16th, 2009 KABUL - At least five policemen were killed and over 10 injured Monday in a suicide bombing attack in southern Afghanistan, officials said. 'A man with an explosive device tied to his body blew himself up in front of the gate of police department, leaving five policemen dead and injured 10 others,' senior police officer Kamaludin Khan told Xinhua.

March 13th, 2009 KABUL - A top Taliban commander has said his fighters are poised and ready to attack Kabul and could strike virtually anywhere in the city. It would be tempting to put this down to Taliban propaganda, except that one of Kabul's top cops is saying the same thing.

January 16th, 2009 KABUL - A blast believed to have been triggered by a suicide bomber wounded at least seven Afghans and four US soldiers near the German embassy in Kabul Saturday, officials said. The attack took place in the front the embassy, which is across from a US military base and some 200 metres from the presidential palace, officials said.

January 16th, 2009 KABUL - A blast believed to have been triggered by a suicide bomber wounded at least seven Afghans near the German embassy in Kabul Saturday, officials said. The attack took place in the front the embassy building, which is across from a US military base and some 200 metres from the presidential palace, officials said.

December 28th, 2008 KABUL - Sixteen people have been killed and 58 others wounded in a suicide car bomb attack in Afghanistan's eastern Khost province, officials said. The incident took place Sunday morning when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives laden car near a police station in the province.