Taliban says targets Cheney in Afghan suicide blast
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A Taliban suicide bomber killed up to 12 people at the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan on Tuesday in an attack the rebels said was aimed at Dick Cheney, but the visiting U.S. vice president was not hurt.
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BAGRAM, Afghanistan -- An explosion outside the main US military base in Afghanistan killed 19 people and wounded 11 early today during a visit by Vice President Dick Cheney, though the vice president was apparently not in danger, US and Afghan officials said.
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A Taliban suicide bomber detonated an explosives-filled car near a NATO vehicle in southern Afghanistan, killing one of the alliance's soldiers, NATO and the militia said.
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BAGRAM, Afghanistan  - Vice President Dick Cheney made surprise visits to Afghanistan and Pakistan on Monday to discuss a planned spring offensive against the Taliban after the most violent year since the hard-line group was ousted in 2001.
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The Taliban vowed to intensify their attacks on American and coalition forces in Afghanistan, a day after a car bomb ripped through the offices of a US security company in Kabul, killing 10 people.
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A suicide blast hit the Afghan capital, wounding three NATO soldiers and three civilians in the latest in a surge of attacks in Kabul claimed by the extremist Taliban movement.
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TANI, Afghanistan -- A suicide bomber struck Monday at a funeral for a provincial governor assassinated by the Taliban a day earlier, and four senior members of the government at the service escaped unhurt, officials and witnesses said. Five people were killed and at least 30 wounded.
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LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan  - A suicide bomber   killed 18 people outside the governor's office in a southern   Afghan town on Tuesday while an Italian soldier died in a blast   near Kabul, officials said.
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LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan  - A suicide bomb killed   18 people outside the governor's office in the southern Afghan   province of Helmand on Tuesday, provincial officials said.
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A suspected Taliban suicide attack killed seven people on Monday at a luxury hotel in Kabul where the Norwegian foreign minister was staying.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- A convoy carrying Vice President Nematullah Shahrani was attacked by remote-control explosives yesterday in northern Afghanistan, just four days after a rocket was fired at President Hamid Karzai's helicopter as it was landing at a school in southern Afghanistan.
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A suicide blast in the Afghan capital has wounded three NATO soldiers and three civilians, while officials said 14 people had died in other attacks blamed on the extremist Taliban movement.
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LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan, Sept. 26 -- A Taliban suicide bomber killed 18 people outside a provincial governor's compound Tuesday, including several Muslim pilgrims set to travel to Mecca. It was the latest in a series of attacks directed at senior figures in President Hamid Karzai's U.S.-backed...
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A blast near the gates of the main U.S. base in Afghanistan, where Vice President Dick Cheney is visiting, killed several people on Tuesday, a witness said.
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A suicide bomber blew himself up at a governor's house in southern Afghanistan, killing eight people, in the latest bloodshed linked to a spiralling Taliban insurgency.
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Suspected Taliban suicide bombers killed four people in an attack on Monday on a luxury hotel in Kabul where the Norwegian foreign minister was staying, Afghan officials said.
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The Taliban has said that it is aiming to disrupt the inaugaration ceremony of Afghanistan&#39;s new president, Hamid Karzai, which will be attended by Dick Cheney, the American vice-president, Donald Rumsfeld, the defence secretary.