Five car bombs were detonated simultaneously on Tuesday in Afghanistan’s largest southern city, flattening buildings and killing at least 41 people, officials said.
Four US soldiers serving under the Nato force were killed in a bomb blast in southern Afghanistan, days after seven CIA agents died in a suicide bombing, the alliance said Monday....
The bomb shattered a window of the car that Governor Tooryalai Wesa was travelling in, but he was unhurt, spokesman Zalmai Ayoubi said. One bodyguard was lightly wounded, Reuters reported. ...
Two explosions struck downtown Kandahar within a minute of each other Monday, killing two civilians in a key southern city where the US is planning an offensive to clear out the Taliban, reports AP....
Five American troops died after fighting insurgents in troubled southern Afghanistan, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force said Friday....