Sunday, April 15, 2012

Kabul attacks

  • Teams of insurgents struck within Kabul and three other cities in coordinated attacks on Sunday in what Taliban are calling the insurgencys opening salvos of the spring fighting season.
  • (The Christian Science Monitor)
  • As in the earlier attack, armed insurgents took over half-built buildings Sunday and used them to fire down on nearby embassies and bases.
  • (msnbc.com)
  • KABUL, Afghanistan, April 15 (UPI) -- The commander of Western forces in Afghanistan said officials were analyzing the significance of Sundays blunted Taliban raid on Kabul.
  • (United Press International)
  • Smoke rises from a tower belonging to the British embassy after gunmen launched multiple attacks in Kabul, April 15, 2012.
  • (Winnipeg Sun)
  • Kabul: Militants launched a series of coordinated attacks in the Afghan capital on Sunday, with blasts and gunfire rocking three neighborhoods that are home to Afghan government buildings, Western embassies and NATO bases.
  • (in.com)
  • Nader Shah Afshar invaded and occupied the city briefly in 1738 but was assassinated nine years later. Ahmad Shah Durrani, who commanded 4,000 Abdali Afghans under Nader Shah, asserted Pashtun rule in 1747 and further expanded his new Afghan Empire.
  • (Worldnews.com)
  • KABUL: The attacks in Afghanistan on Sunday bore several of the hallmarks of the American embassy assault by suicide bombers in Kabul on September that lasted for 19 hours and was blamed on the Haqqani network.
  • (Times of India)
  • An Afghan Army soldier is armed with a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) during the attacks in the city of Kabul.
  • (YAHOO!)
  • KABUL: The Taliban launched a series of coordinated attacks on as many as seven sites across the Afghan capital on Sunday, targeting NATO bases, the parliament and Western embassies.
  • (Express Buzz)

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