US calls Kabul bombing ‘deeply troubling’

October 8th, 2009 KABUL/NEW DELHI - A Taliban suicide bomber exploded near the Indian embassy in Kabul Thursday, killing 12 people and injuring nearly 90 in the second such attack since July 2008. No Indian was killed in the devastating bombing on the busy road outside the embassy.

October 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - U.S. Ambassador to India Timothy J.

October 8th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The US has condemned Thursday's bombing near the Indian Embassy in Kabul that killed at least 17 people and injured 76, saying there's no justification for this kind of senseless violence. "The United States condemns the bombing today (Thursday) near the Indian Embassy and Ministry of Interior in Kabul that has killed several people and wounded many more," the State Department said in a statement.

October 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - British Foreign Minister David Miliband Thursday rang up his Indian counterpart S.M. Krishna and expressed his sympathies at the suicide car bomb attack outside the Indian embassy in Kabul.

October 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Condemning the suicide bombing outside the Indian embassy in Kabul, the Congress party Thursday said such incidents would hamper the reconstruction process in strife-torn Afghanistan. Such attacks are unfortunate, they should be condemned by the international community, Congress spokesperson Shakeel Ahmad told IANS.

October 8th, 2009 KABUL - No Indians had been killed in the suicide blast outside the Indian embassy here Thursday morning but some had been injured, Indian Ambassador to Afghanistan Jayant Prasad said. He described the explosion as being "of the same intensity" as the July 7, 2008 bombing in which 44 people, including two Indian diplomats, had been killed.

October 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India will not be intimidated by the criminal killers who perpetrated the attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul and will take all steps to protect Indians, Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor affirmed Thursday. "India will not be intimidated by these criminal killers.

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 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 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 7th, 2009 KABUL - An explosion, believed to be a bomb in a car driven by a suicide bomber, went off early Tuesday close to the airport of the Afghan capital Kabul, an airport official said. The official told DPA that casualties were likely, as the blast was strong enough to break his office windows some distance away, but did not give any further details.

August 19th, 2009 Gunfire reported in Kabul on election eveKABUL — Gunfire is being heard in the center of the Afghan capital Kabul on the eve of the country's presidential election. Interior Ministry spokesman Zemeri Bashary tells The Associated Press that three or four armed men have taken over a branch of the Pashtani Bank in the Jadi Maiwand area of Kabul and are battling police.

June 29th, 2009 KABUL - Four foreign soldiers were killed Monday in a roadside bombing outside Kabul, said a spokesman for the government of Maidan Wardak province. Shahidullah Shahid said the troopers died when their convoy was hit by a roadside bomb in the Jalrez district, about 40 km west of Kabul.

May 6th, 2009 Afghan president orders probe into US actionKABUL — President Hamid Karzai has ordered a probe into allegations that more than 30 civilians died in a U.S.-led bombing in western Afghanistan. Karzai said in a statement that Afghan and U.S.-led coalition officials headed to Farah province Wednesday to investigate the incident.

May 6th, 2009 Red Cross: Many Afghans dead in US bombingKABUL — The international Red Cross says its officials have seen dozens of bodies in each of two villages in western Afghanistan following a U.S. bombing run that villagers say hit civilians.