Soldiers Killed in Suicide Attack at U.S. Base in Kabul
Source: New York Times
KABUL, Afghanistan — Three soldiers with the American-led coalition were killed and five were wounded Tuesday after a suicide car bomber struck their convoy at the gates of an American military base in Kabul, according to Afghan and American officials.
The attack took place just outside an American special operations forces base. There was no confirmation from the International Security Assistance Force about the nationalities of the victims.
On the same day, the Afghan interior minister confirmed in testimony before Parliament that the past six months had been the deadliest of the 13-year-long conflict with the Taliban, with 1,368 Afghan policemen killed and 2,370 wounded since March 21, the beginning of the current Afghan year. Police casualties have generally run at twice the level of Afghan Army casualties through much of the war.
The interior minister, Mohammad Omar Daudzai, also said the Taliban had carried out 700 attacks against the police during that period, and he blamed many of the assaults on foreign fighters joining with Taliban forces — a description commonly understood to mean Pakistani militants.
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