Spanish Embassy Attack

At least six people were killed in a Taliban siege near the Spanish embassy in Kabul's diplomatic quarter that ended on Saturday, the latest insurgent attack in the highly fortified area.

Attackers entered the Spanish Embassy in Kabul after a deadly car bombing in a diplomatic neighborhood of the Afghan capital, engaging in an hour-long shootout with security forces while staff hid in bunkers, the Spanish government said today in an account of the attack a day earlier.

Afghan security forces suppressed a suicide attack on a guest house attached to the Spanish embassy in Kabul, killing three Taliban fighters after hours of intermittent gunfire and explosions that lasted into the early hours of today.

A second Spanish policeman has died following a Taliban attack near Spain's embassy in Kabul that also killed at least 4 Afghan policemen, Madrid's interior ministry said today.

At least four Afghan policemen and one Spaniard were killed in an hours-long Taliban siege near the Spanish embassy in Kabul that ended early today after all the attackers were killed, officials said.

A Spanish policeman was killed in an attack near the country's embassy in Kabul on Friday, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said in a statement on his party's Twitter account.

Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said on Friday the attack in Kabul's diplomatic district was not targeted at the country's embassy, contradicting earlier statements by the foreign ministry and local police.

A bomb exploded outside Spain's embassy in the Libyan capital on Monday night without causing injuries, a security source told AFP, an attack later claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group.

At least six people were killed in a Taliban siege near the Spanish embassy in Kabul's diplomatic quarter that ended on Saturday, the latest insurgent attack in the highly fortified area.

Attackers entered the Spanish Embassy in Kabul after a deadly car bombing in a diplomatic neighborhood of the Afghan capital, engaging in an hour-long shootout with security forces while staff hid in bunkers, the Spanish government said today in an account of the attack a day earlier.

Afghan security forces suppressed a suicide attack on a guest house attached to the Spanish embassy in Kabul, killing three Taliban fighters after hours of intermittent gunfire and explosions that lasted into the early hours of today.

A second Spanish policeman has died following a Taliban attack near Spain's embassy in Kabul that also killed at least 4 Afghan policemen, Madrid's interior ministry said today.

At least four Afghan policemen and one Spaniard were killed in an hours-long Taliban siege near the Spanish embassy in Kabul that ended early today after all the attackers were killed, officials said.

A Spanish policeman was killed in an attack near the country's embassy in Kabul on Friday, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said in a statement on his party's Twitter account.

Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said on Friday the attack in Kabul's diplomatic district was not targeted at the country's embassy, contradicting earlier statements by the foreign ministry and local police.

A bomb exploded outside Spain's embassy in the Libyan capital on Monday night without causing injuries, a security source told AFP, an attack later claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group.