Kabul Guesthouse Attack

Afghan authorities say an overnight attack on a Kabul guesthouse for foreign contractors that was claimed by the Taliban left one policeman dead and four wounded.

A massive Taliban truck bomb struck a hotel for foreigners on the outskirts of Kabul early Monday, officials said, just days after the deadliest attack in the Afghan capital for 15 years.

Afghanistan's intelligence agency has arrested a group of militants from the Haqqani network who plotted a terror attack on a guesthouse in Kabul last month. The attack killed 14 people -- four of them were Indians.

Gunfire and explosions rang out Wednesday in a diplomatic quarter of Kabul as security forces waged an all-night battle with Taliban militants who tried to storm a guesthouse owned by a prominent political family.

Heavily armed insurgents stormed a guesthouse in the diplomatic quarter of Kabul late on Tuesday night and were still resisting Afghan security forces more than five hours after the assault began.

The seven-hour long siege at a Kabul guest house on Wednesday that killed four Indians and ten others will not scare New Delhi away from Afghanistan, Indian Ambassador Amar Sinha has said in an exclusive interview to NDTV.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today spoke to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and offered his condolences over the loss of lives in the Kabul guesthouse siege in which four Indians and an American were among those killed.

The Taliban have claimed responsibility for the seven-hour overnight siege on a Kabul guest house on Wednesday in which 14 people, including four Indians and an American, were killed.

Gunmen stormed a guest house popular with foreigners in the Afghan capital Kabul on Wednesday evening, police said, with at least one American killed and dozens others trapped by fighting between the attackers and rescuers.

The fighting is over at a major foreign guesthouse complex used by Westerners in Kabul and all attackers have been killed, a spokesman for the US-led NATO mission in Afghanistan said on Wednesday."Afghan security forces have killed all the attackers and it is over," said Lieutenant Colonel Jimmie Cummings, a spokesman for NATO's International Secur...

Afghan authorities say an overnight attack on a Kabul guesthouse for foreign contractors that was claimed by the Taliban left one policeman dead and four wounded.

A massive Taliban truck bomb struck a hotel for foreigners on the outskirts of Kabul early Monday, officials said, just days after the deadliest attack in the Afghan capital for 15 years.

Afghanistan's intelligence agency has arrested a group of militants from the Haqqani network who plotted a terror attack on a guesthouse in Kabul last month. The attack killed 14 people -- four of them were Indians.

Gunfire and explosions rang out Wednesday in a diplomatic quarter of Kabul as security forces waged an all-night battle with Taliban militants who tried to storm a guesthouse owned by a prominent political family.

Heavily armed insurgents stormed a guesthouse in the diplomatic quarter of Kabul late on Tuesday night and were still resisting Afghan security forces more than five hours after the assault began.

The seven-hour long siege at a Kabul guest house on Wednesday that killed four Indians and ten others will not scare New Delhi away from Afghanistan, Indian Ambassador Amar Sinha has said in an exclusive interview to NDTV.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today spoke to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and offered his condolences over the loss of lives in the Kabul guesthouse siege in which four Indians and an American were among those killed.

The Taliban have claimed responsibility for the seven-hour overnight siege on a Kabul guest house on Wednesday in which 14 people, including four Indians and an American, were killed.

Gunmen stormed a guest house popular with foreigners in the Afghan capital Kabul on Wednesday evening, police said, with at least one American killed and dozens others trapped by fighting between the attackers and rescuers.

The fighting is over at a major foreign guesthouse complex used by Westerners in Kabul and all attackers have been killed, a spokesman for the US-led NATO mission in Afghanistan said on Wednesday."Afghan security forces have killed all the attackers and it is over," said Lieutenant Colonel Jimmie Cummings, a spokesman for NATO's International Secur...