WORLD BRIEFING / AFGHANISTAN
TIMES WIRE REPORTS
A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-rigged car into a military convoy, killing three U.S. soldiers and three civilians in eastern Afghanistan.
The attack against the American convoy came in Kapisa province, an stronghold of insurgents loyal to the Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. The soldiers killed in the blast served with NATO’s International Security Assistance Force.
Taliban fighters regularly use suicide attacks and roadside bombs in assaults on foreign and Afghan troops.
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