Afghanistan: Taliban Attack NATO HQ, US Embassy, Afghan Intelligence Agency

Video of the building from where the Taliban launched rocket attacks

Later Report: The Latest on the Taliban Attacks in Kabul

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From Al Jazeera English:

Taliban gunmen armed with suicide vests and heavy weaponry have launched co-ordinated attacks in Kabul, targeting NATO's headquarters, the US embassy, and the Afghan intelligence agency.

Heavy gunfire continued to be heard on Tuesday as Afghan forces battled to clear a building in the city's diplomatic quarter which had been taken over by heavily armed fighters. Rockets have reportedly been fired at the US and other embassies in the area. 

At least four policemen and two civilians have been killed and 22 others injured, according to AFP.

Police have surrounded the occupied building, calling in air support to end a siege carried out by gunmen resisting inside the building.

Sediq Seddiqi, spokesman to the Afghan Ministry of Interior, said three of the Taliban fighters in the building had been killed and two were continuing to resist.

NATO has confirmed that they are providing Afghan forces ground and air support in the operation.

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Afghanistan Latest: 12 Dead in Suicide Attacks on British Council (Pajhwok and BBC))

Twelve people, including four suicide bombers, were killed and as many others wounded after multiple suicide bombers stormed the Cultural Centre of the British Consulate Friday, officials said....

It was a three-phase attack: First, a suicide attacker detonated his explosive vest at a main square in western Kabul where police were guarding a key intersection shortly after 05:30 (01:30 GMT).

Ten minutes later, a suicide car bomber detonated his vehicle outside the front gate of the British Council.

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