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A wave of attacks on Afghan army and police bases and American special forces in Kabul has killed at least 50 people and wounded hundreds, during the deadliest day in Kabul for years.

At least 50 people have been killed and hundreds wounded in a wave of attacks on the Afghan army, police and U.S. special forces in the Afghan capital Kabul.

The Taliban have claimed responsibility for the attacks on the Afghan police academy and the U.S. base.

An Afghan store clerk waits for customers at a news stand where local papers carry headlines about the new leader of the Afghan Taliban, Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, August 1, 2015.

The victim, identified as 63-year-old Lance Crosby, per NPR, was discovered Friday roughly one-half mile from the Elephant Back Loop Trail near Lake Village.

The foreign trooper is American and the remaining eight victims are Afghans, according to Afghan sources. “I think that was a little over-optimistic”. “Anything is possible”.

Mulla Omar’s brother, Abdul Mannan is already member of the Taliban Leadership Council, though he reportedly didn’t agree to Mansour selection as the new leader in the council’s previous meeting.

“I am deeply, deeply sorry – that isn’t even the word”. They could have opted to give Holmes the death penalty.

In his closing argument to the jury, District Attorney George Brauchler had argued that the gunman deserved to die for the “horror and evil” he wrought inside the screening of “The Dark Knight Rises” at the Century 16 multiplex in Aurora. NBC 7’s...

Meeta Brown, one of Bobbi Kristina’s cousins, dismissed the outburst and Leolah as “crazy”.

“My hanging has been politicised”. Now 59, Ajmera said the blast broke his ribs and forced him to undergo about 20 surgeries that have cost him thousands of dollars.

Although it is too soon to know how these dynamics will play out, analysts and diplomats said the Taliban now faces an acute existential crisis that could lead to a permanent split, with some factions deciding to reconcile with the government and others lured into the embrace of...

The aircraft will fly to Madurai, from where the mortal remains will be flown in to Rameswaram by an IAF helicopter.

The names and nationalities of the foreign military and civilian contractors killed were not released. WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP/Getty Images Afghan firefighters hose down the street outside Camp Integrity Saturday.

Pakistani High Commissioner Abdul Basit and Israeli Ambassador to New Delhi Daniel Carmon, too, paid homage to the former Indian president.