Kabul Gunfighting

A powerful car bomb struck near Kabul's international airport today evening, just hours after a suicide bomber blew himself up in the war-scarred Afghan capital.

Four gunmen were killed after they entered one of the highest secured areas in Kabul - Serena Hotel - barely 100 metres from Kabul's Presidential Palace late on Thursday night.

A group of suicide bombers attacked a US base near the border with Pakistan on Monday morning, leading to multiple explosions, a gunfight and the closure of a key road used by NATO supply trucks, officials said.

An explosion hit a shopping mall in the Afghan capital Kabul on Monday, where gunmen were inside exchanging fire with government security forces, a senior police official said."There was an explosion at the entrance of Kabul City Centre. There are gunshots being heard right now as I'm heading off towards it," Mohammad Zahir, Kabul police criminal i...

A powerful car bomb struck near Kabul's international airport today evening, just hours after a suicide bomber blew himself up in the war-scarred Afghan capital.

Four gunmen were killed after they entered one of the highest secured areas in Kabul - Serena Hotel - barely 100 metres from Kabul's Presidential Palace late on Thursday night.

A group of suicide bombers attacked a US base near the border with Pakistan on Monday morning, leading to multiple explosions, a gunfight and the closure of a key road used by NATO supply trucks, officials said.

An explosion hit a shopping mall in the Afghan capital Kabul on Monday, where gunmen were inside exchanging fire with government security forces, a senior police official said."There was an explosion at the entrance of Kabul City Centre. There are gunshots being heard right now as I'm heading off towards it," Mohammad Zahir, Kabul police criminal i...