Kabul: A Taliban suicide bomber attacked a convoy of foreign forces in Afghanistan late Thursday, killing one NATO soldier and wounding six other personnel, the coalition said.

"The patrol was conducting a partnered mission with the Afghan National Army when a personnel-borne IED (improvised explosive device) detonated," in Qarabagh district in Kabul province," NATO said in a statement.

The Taliban quickly claimed the attack on social media and in Whatsapp messages to journalists.

Qarabagh district is located 50 kilometres north of the capital Kabul and is near Bagram Airbase, the largest American base in Afghanistan.

"One Resolute Support Soldier was killed and six personnel (five troops and one interpreter) were wounded Thursday evening when their patrol was attacked by a suicide bomber," Nato said referring to the name of its Afghan mission.

"The RS personnel who were wounded are being treated at the US military hospital at Bagram Airfield. All of the wounded are listed in stable condition," it added.

The nationality of the dead soldier and injured was not immediately known.

Civilians were also reported to have been wounded in the night-time attack.

"#Afghanistan explosion in Qarabagh district, 12 wounded brought to our #Kabul hospital so far," tweeted an Italian-run hospital in the capital which specialises in dealing with victims of bombings.

The attack came a day after a Taliban suicide bomber killed two US soldiers in Afghanistan`s restive southern province of Kandahar when he rammed a vehicle filled with explosives into a convoy of foreign forces. </s> A series of explosions in Jalalabad marred Afghanistan’s Independence Day on Monday. As many as 19 people were injured in 10 blasts in and around the city in Nangarhar province, the governor’s spokesperson Attaullah Khogyani told AFP.

The number of those injured is not confirmed yet. While a spokesperson for a local hospital said about 40 wounded people had been brought in, senior health official Fahim Bashari said at least 34 people were injured.

The blasts took place in restaurants and public squares, reported Al Jazeera. No one has claimed responsibility for the attacks.

“The explosions were caused by IEDs [improvised explosive devices] in different parts of the city and as groups of people were celebrating independence day,” said Khogyani.

Late on Saturday, 63 people were killed in a suicide attack at a wedding hall in Kabul, which was claimed by the Islamic State group.

Several events to mark 100 years of Afghanistan’s independence from the British were cancelled in Kabul on Monday over fears of a fresh attack. “We postponed the celebrations to honour the victims, but we will definitely take revenge for our people,” said Afghan President Ashraf Ghani. “We will avenge the blood of our people, every drop of it.”

Earlier in August, 14 people died and 145 were injured in the same district after a suicide attack near the gate of the police headquarters. The Taliban had claimed responsibility for the explosion.

According to the United Nations, more than 1,500 civilians were killed or wounded in the Afghan conflict in July alone. This is the highest monthly toll so far in 2019 and the worst single month since May 2017. </s> At least five people were killed and 10 injured on Monday in an explosion in that targeted an bus, officials said.

The explosion occurred at 1.30 p.m. on Darul Aman road near the American University of Afghanistan, reports Tolo News.

confirmed that a magnetic IED targeted the bus which was carrying employees of the

Monday's blast comes a day after four serial explosions took place in on Sunday, that killed two people and injured over 24 others.

has been rocked by explosions in the last one week.

On May 31, five people were killed when a car bomb targeting a convoy of foreign troops exploded.

On May 30, six people were killed in a suicide attack on the </s> Baghlan [Afghanistan], Jun 4 (ANI): At least two people were killed while 14 others were wounded after an Improvised explosive device (IED) exploded here on Tuesday morning.

The news was confirmed by the provincial police, according to TOLOnews.

The incident comes after another magnetic IED blast killed five people in Kabul on Monday. The blast targeted a bus carrying employees of the Independent Administrative Reform and Civil Service Commission. (ANI) </s> KABUL (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 18th August, 2019) The death toll in the explosion that took place at a wedding hall in the Afghan capital of Kabul has risen to 63, a security source told Sputnik on Saturday.

"At least 63 people who attended the wedding ceremony in the west of Kabul have been killed and 182 more wounded," the source said.

An explosion took place at a wedding reception in the west of Afghanistan's capital at 10:40 p.m. local time (18:10 GMT). After the blast, the Afghan Interior Ministry said that all of the injured people were transported to a hospital.

No militant group has yet claimed responsibility for the bombing.

In the meantime, the Taliban movement in a statement has rejected the involvement of the group in the bombing and condemned the attack. </s> Afghanistan has blamed Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and the banned terror group - the Haqqani network - for Wednesday's deadly bomb blast in Kabul's diplomatic area which killed at least 90 people and injured 300 others.

Talking exclusively to India Today, Afghanistan Interior Ministry spokesperson Sediq Siddiqui said role of Pakistan's ISI has been established in Kabul explosion.

"We have nailed Pakistan's ISI role (in Kabul blast). Afghanistan expects Pakistan to crack down on Haqqani network. The attack will surely impact ties between the two (Afghanistan, Pakistan) countries," Siddiqui told India Today.

He added that Kabul expects Islamabad to act against the Haqqani network while expressing fears of more such attacks in the country.

India and Pakistan both are victims of Pakistan sponsored terror, Siddiqui added.

The Haqqani Network is an Afghan insurgent terror outfit based in Pakistan's Waziristan and has carried out many high-profile attacks on US forces, high ranking Afghan officials and foreigners in Afghanistan. The network has ties with Taliban and Al Qaeda and the US considers it a major threat to Afghanistan's stability.

Kabul's high-security diplomatic zone was rocked by a powerful blast on Wednesday morning. The explosion occurred near the German embassy at one of the entrances to Kabul's unofficial Green Zone.

While the sewage tanker carrying the bomb was stopped from entering the zone, it was unclear how such a large quantity of explosives could get through the ring of checkpoints set up around Kabul to protect the capital.

A huge crater ripped into the ground at the site of the blast and shattered windows in houses more than a kilometre away were testament to the power of the explosion, which was set off by a bomb concealed in the tanker.

In scale, it was one of the worst such attacks since the US-led campaign to oust the Taliban in 2001 but in kind, it was only the latest in a grim series that has killed thousands of civilians over the years.

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At least 18 soldiers were killed in another attack on a checkpoint in West Afghanistan’s Farah province. In a separate incident, three security personnel were killed in two suicide blasts in Helmand province, an official said.

Taliban spokesperson Qari Yusouf Ahmadi claimed responsibility for the Helmand and Farah attacks.

The toll from the Kabul attack may rise, Interior Ministry spokesperson Najib Danish said. The blast site was near the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation headquarters in the country.

Taliban insurgents attacked the checkpoint in Farah province, Defence Ministry spokesperson Dawlat Waziri said. Two soldiers were injured in the attack.

Soldiers shot down one of the Helmand suicide bombers, but the explosive in his car detonated at the entrance of the Nad Aali district Army base before they could diffuse it, provincial governor’s spokesperson Omar Zwak said. Two people were wounded in the attack.

One security official succumbed to injuries sustained in the second suicide bomb attack at another military base in Helmand’s Lashkar Gah city. Seven civilians were injured in the attack, Zwak said.

There has been a spate of attacks in Afghanistan. At least five Afghan National Army soldiers were killed and 10 wounded in an attack at a military academy in Kabul on January 29. A suicide bombing in Kabul claimed 103 lives and left 235 people injured two days before the attack on the military academy. On January 20, Taliban militants had killed 22 people in a hotel in Kabul. </s> Kabul: An explosion occurred on a busy shopping street near the heavily-fortified United States embassy in central Kabul on Tuesday, officials said, killing at least one and injuring eight.

"An explosion has happened near Massoud Square in Kabul. We have no more details yet," Najib Danish, a spokesman for Afghanistan's interior ministry, told AFP.

An official in the ministry added that the blast happened outside a bank at a time when many security forces personnel were expected to be collecting their salaries ahead of this week's Eid holiday.

"One dead and eight wounded people have been brought to Kabul hospitals so far," Waheed Majroh, health ministry spokesman, told AFP.

The blast occurred around 10 am (0530 GMT) on a street lined with banks and shops leading to Massoud Square near the United States embassy, close to Kabul's diplomatic area.

It was the latest explosion to rock the war-weary Afghan capital and comes a week after United States president Donald Trump committed American soldiers to Afghanistan indefinitely.

In May a massive truck bomb ripped through Kabul's diplomatic quarter, killing about 150 and wounding around 400 people, mostly civilians. </s> Two Australians injured during a deadly car bombing attack in Afghanistan.

Two Australians injured during a deadly car bombing attack in Afghanistan.

Two Aussies injured in car bomb The West Australian

Two Australian security contractors have been wounded in a car bomb blast in Kabul, which killed at least three Afghan civilians.

“Our hearts and thoughts go to the families of those injured,” she told reporters on Saturday.

No one has claimed responsibility for the explosion that went off near Australian embassy vehicles as they travelled in the Afghanistan capital.

The suspected suicide car bomber killed up to three civilians and injured a number of bystanders, according to local media, Ms Bishop said.

Four Australian embassy vehicles were also damaged in the attack.

“Our deepest sympathies to the people of Afghanistan for this attack and we are certainly deeply concerned about the safety of all people in the area,” Ms Bishop said.

The attack highlighted the risk of risk of terrorism and insurgent groups to the stability of Afghanistan, she said.

The attack came two days after President Ashraf Ghani offered to start peace talks with the Taliban, and just over a month after an ambulance packed with explosives was detonated in the city centre, killing about 100 people.

Much of the centre of Kabul is already a zone of concrete blast walls, razor wire and police checkpoints, but security has been tightened even further after the January 27 ambulance attack and another attack on the city’s Intercontinental Hotel earlier in the month.
Five people are killed and over 10 injured in an IED bomb explosion in Kabul, Afghanistan.