Taliban insurgents trying to seize a southern Afghan city killed 14 people including 10 policemen in a coordinated attack which started with a car bombing Monday, officials said. The assault was the militants’ latest attempt to capture the besieged Helmand provincial capital of Lashkar Gah after they gradually expanded their ...
A bomb explosion in eastern Afghanistan’s Nangarhar Province has injured at least two US soldiers, US Forces-Afghanistan (USFOR-A) said. “2 US troops were injured in #Nangarhar today after their vehicle hit an IED [improvised explosive device]. No other casualties resulted,” USFOR-A said on Twitter.