US serviceman among 44 killed in Friday’s Kabul terror wave

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.

Officials haven’t identified the U.S. service member killed in the attack.

The attacks “demonstrate again the insurgency’s complete disregard for the lives of innocent Afghans”.

“Such actions have no justification”.

Mullah Mohammed Omar, that keeps bring the Taliban seeing it came out of the Afghan friendly battle in the 1990s, is presumed to have passed on few in the past, said us government resource.

Camp Integrity is not well known outside of the military community and was (is) headquarters for Academi, the global security organization founded by Erik Prince.

Unlike the attack on the police station, the Taliban did not claim responsibility for the truck bombing, which caused mainly civilian casualties, killing and wounding people in their sleep and wrecking shops and homes.

The attacker walked into a group of recruits waiting outside the academy and detonated his explosives-laden vest, said a police officer, who goes by the name of Mabubullah.

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 said it was behind the attack on the police academy but has made no comment about the two other attacks. More than 280 people – including at least 30 children – were wounded in total.

The United Nations’ mission in Afghanistan said that Friday was the worst single day for civilian casualties since it began systematically documenting the number of civilians killed or injured in the war in 2009.

No one claimed responsibility for that attack and it was not immediately clear if there was any damage to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation base. Tons of have been wounded within the three assaults.

The attack occurred on Camp Integrity, an American base in Kabul.

The attacks occurred amid upheaval within the Taliban following public confirmation that their one-eyed leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, had died at least two years ago. The Taliban leadership confirmed his death – and even appointed a successor – but the revelation still sparked a leadership struggle among senior Taliban figures, raising concerns of a succession crisis that could splinter the group.

Friday’s explosions were the first major attacks since Mullah Akhtar Mansour was named as the new Taliban chief last week.

Pakistan is working with “outmost sincerity” and is “positive” about the future of Afghan peace talks, the officials insisted, requesting anonymity.

Waziri added that 97 percent of would-be attacks by the insurgents are thwarted by Afghan government forces before they can take place.

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”.

But analysts suggest there has been infighting within the group between supporters and opponents of Mansour. “Our goal and slogan is to implement Shariah and an Islamic system, and our jihad will continue until this is done”, he said in the message.