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Reports say the blast took place in the Macrorayon locality of downtown Kabul, when a suicide vehicle bomb was set off targeting the foreign forces convoy.

“The company extends its thoughts and prayers to all involved and to their families and loved ones”, the company said in a statement.

North Atlantic Treaty Organisation confirmed that a suicide bomber who attacked one of its convoys as it traveled through a neighborhood in Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul Saturday killed 10 people, including three civilian contractors.

A suicide vehicle bomb targeting a convoy in the Afghan capital has killed a dozen people, including three American contractors, North Atlantic Treaty Organisation say.

More than 60 people have been wounded and at least 12 are dead following a fatal vehicle bomb that exploded outside a hospital in the capital city of Kabul on Saturday, according to The Guardian.

At least 11 people were killed and more than 60 wounded when a vehicle bomb exploded outside a hospital in central Kabul on Saturday afternoon, the latest in a wave of attacks to hit the Afghan capital in recent weeks.

A Taliban suicide vehicle bomber killed five people Monday near the entrance of Kabul s worldwide airport, the latest in a barrage of violence that has convulsed the Afghan capital since Friday.

A wave of attacks on the Afghan army and police and U.S. special forces in Kabul have killed at least 50 people and wounded hundreds, dimming hopes that the Taliban might be weakened by a leadership struggle after their longtime leader’s death.

The target appeared to be a vehicle carrying a foreign citizen, a security source and witness said.

At least one woman and two children were among those killed in the attack, said Najib Danish of the interior ministry. Scores of others were wounded.

The Turkish government has censured the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) for airing a report on the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), saying the news organization is “overtly” supporting “terrorism”. Instead of allowing the Republican...

Reprinted from Baptist Press (www.baptistpress.com), news service of the Southern Baptist Convention.

The attacks took place in the Shawal area of the North Waziristan tribal region, hours after a suicide attack killed 18 people, including the home minister of the northeastern Punjab province.

Funeral prayers were held late Sunday for Shuja Khanzada, the home minister for Pakistan’s populous Punjab province, who was killed in a suicide bombing, along with 14 other people. One of the bombers detonated his device at the entrance to the hall, and the other in a back...

A pair of suicide bombers have detonated their explosives at the home of an anti-Taliban provincial minister, killing him and 13 others in eastern Pakistan, officials said.