Two female teachers took refuge in a panic room as Taliban suicide bombers waged an eight-hour gun battle around them at the British Council in Kabul, it has emerged.[Read more...]
All the Britons affected by a Taliban attack on the British Council in Kabul are now safe, the Foreign Office has said.[Read more...]
Reuters - The Taliban laid siege to a British cultural center on Friday, killing at least nine people during an hours-long assault in what the group called a warning to London as the country celebrated 92 years of independence from British rule.[Read more...]
Image 1 of 3 Police remove the body of a colleague at the site of a suicide attack in Kabul August 19, 2011 Photo: REUTERS Image 1 of 3 Police investigators inspect the site of a suicide attack in Kabul August 19, 2011 Photo: REUTERS [...]
Reuters - Taliban bombers killed at least four Afghans when they attacked the British Council in the Afghan capital on Friday, sending what they said was a warning to London as the country prepared to celebrate independence from British rule.[Read more...]
Reuters - Taliban bombers killed two Afghan policemen and a civilian when they attacked offices belonging to the British Council and the United Nations in the center of the Afghan capital on Friday, police said.[Read more...]
AP - Six suicide bombers attacked a governor’s security meeting in one of Afghanistan’s most secure provinces, killing 22 people and driving home the point that the Taliban is able to strike at will virtually anywhere in the country.[Read more...]
AP - Insurgents shot down a U.S. military helicopter during fighting in eastern Afghanistan, killing 30 Americans, most of them belonging to the same elite unit as the Navy SEALs who killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, U.S. officials said Saturday. It was the deadliest single loss for American forces in the decade-old war against [...]
Reuters - A NATO helicopter crashed during a battle with the Taliban in Afghanistan, killing 31 U.S. soldiers and seven Afghans, the Afghan president said on Saturday, the deadliest single incident for foreign troops in 10 years of war.[Read more...]
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