One North Atlantic Treaty Organisation force member, two insurgents killed in Kabul attack

Explosions and gunfire also erupted when Camp Integrity, a US special forces base in Kabul, came under attack late yesterday, killing nine people.

The bomber managed to place himself in a queue as police trainees were waiting to be searched before entering the academy, the official said.

Divisions have broken out within the Taliban high command following last week’s appointment of Mullah Akhtar Mansour as new leader. The service member’s nationality was not launched.

The Taliban has claimed responsibility for at least two of the bombings.

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said the insurgentslaunched both the police academy and Camp Integrity attacks, buthe earlier refused to comment on Friday’s early morning truckbomb that tore through buildings in central Kabul, killing and wounding over 250 people.

One service member was killed, along with two insurgents, according to Colonel Brian Tribus, a spokesman for global forces in Afghanistan.

A North Atlantic Treaty Organisation member and eight contractors were killed in the first attack that took place near an army base in the neighbourhood of Shah Shaheed when a truck packed with explosives blew up.

President Ashraf Ghani threatened a rapid and forceful response, saying the attack was aimed at diverting public attention from the Taliban’s leadership struggle but that it would not sway his determination to carry on with efforts to bring peace to the country.

The Taliban distanced themselves from the first bombing that struck near a Kabul military base – as they usually do in attacks that result in a large number of civilian casualties. Although, if the Afghan National Army does a raid, the U.S. Special Ops troops will hang back, a special operations soldier who recently returned from Afghanistan tells Fox News. Previously seen as open to reviving peace talks, the Taliban have since pledged to press on with the insurgency that has killed and wounded thousands this year.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday condemned the separate bomb attacks in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, which killed at least 35 people.

“Those responsible for suicide and complex attacks in civilian-populated areas can no longer shrug off the disproportionate harm to the civilian population they cause”, Haysom said in a statement.

Michael Semple of the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation and Social Justice at Queens University Belfast told CNN that Mansour’s rise may bode poorly for the peace talks. “Actions speak louder than words”.

Scores of women and children were among the victims. Overall, the report found 1,592 deaths and 3,329 injuries.

Meanwhile Saturday in eastern Nangarhar province, a roadside bomb killed a traffic police officer and a civilian and wounded three near a checkpoint in Surkh Rod district, authorities said. During the first six months of 2015, nearly 5,000 civilians were killed or wounded.