Recent major attacks in Afghanistan

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2011

-Oct. 29: A suicide bomber driving a van loaded with explosives hits a NATO convoy, killing 13 American troops and four Afghans in Kabul.

-Sept. 20: An insurgent with a bomb wrapped in his turban assassinates former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani, who was leading a government effort to broker peace with the Taliban. The explosion kills four bodyguards and also wounds of a key presidential adviser working to lure Taliban fighters off the battlefield.

-Sept. 13: Taliban insurgents fire rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles at the U.S. Embassy, NATO headquarters and other buildings, killing seven Afghans in the coordinated daylight attack. No embassy or NATO staff members were hurt.

-Aug. 19: Taliban suicide bombers storm the British Council, the U.K.'s international cultural relations body, killing eight people during an eight-hour firefight as two English language teachers and their bodyguard hid in a locked panic room on the anniversary of the country's independence from Britain.



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