Hospital raid leaves Kabul stupefied
Kabull - A powerful blast targeting a convoy of foreign forces near the US embassy in Kabul killed at least eight people and wounded 25 on Wednesday, mainly civilians, officials said, the latest attack in the Afghan capital.
Interior ministry spokesperson Najib Danish confirmed the toll from the attack, which came during the busy morning rush hour, telling AFP: "Unfortunately most of (the victims) are civilians."
"We are still checking the nature of the explosion, but I confirm a convoy of foreign forces was passing by when the explosion happened," he said.
Witnesses and social media images showed the foreign troops were travelling in the armoured personnel carriers that are standard for international forces moving around Kabul.
One security source told AFP the blast came when a white Toyota Corolla exploded as the convoy drove by. It was not immediately clear if it was a car bomb or a suicide attack.
'Fighting season'
No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack, which came days after the Taliban launched their so-called "spring offensive", in which they vowed to target international troops.
The annual offensive normally marks the start of the "fighting season", though this winter the Taliban continued to battle government forces.
Pentagon chief Jim Mattis, who visited Kabul last month as the US seeks to craft a new strategy in Afghanistan, warned of "another tough year" in the war-torn country for both foreign troops and local forces.
He would not be drawn, however, on recent calls by NATO commander in Afghanistan General John Nicholson for a "few thousand" more troops to break the "stalemate" against the insurgents.
Suicide attack on U.S. convoy in Kabul kills 8 Afghan civilians, wounds 3 American service members, officials say.
3 May 2017
The Afghan conflict is the longest in US history - US-led NATO troops have been at war there since 2001, after the ousting of the Taliban regime for refusing to hand over Osama bin Laden following the 9/11 attacks in the United States.
The US has around 8 400 troops in the country with about another 5 000 from NATO allies.
A recent UN report showed that Kabul province had the highest number of civilian casualties in the first quarter of the year due to attacks in the capital.
The body had called on all groups to "take every measure possible to prevent unnecessary and unacceptable harm to Afghan civilians".
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Italy salutes hero cops
Rome - Italian police said on Friday they had helped their German counterparts neutralise a Berlin-based Islamist terror cell with links to Christmas market attack suspect Anis Amri.
The dismantling of the 11-strong group was completed at the end of January after nearly two months of investigations triggered by two of them being picked up at the Italian port of Ancona on December 4 2016, according to the anti-terrorism wing of Italy's state police force.
Italian authorities believe Congolese national Nkanga Lutumba, 26, and Moroccan Soufiane Amri, 22, were planning to travel to Istanbul en route to joining Islamic State in Iraq or Syria.
Their departure was delayed by a Greek ferry strike and it was during the unexpected delay that they were subject to an identity check which revealed that Germany had banned Soufiane Amri from leaving the country.
Amri was deported to Germany while Lutumba was detained in a centre for failed asylum-seekers awaiting deportation in the southeastern port of Brindisi.
Subsequent investigations and monitoring of Lutumba's telephone calls from the centre established that the two men had been travelling with false documents and were in regular contact with other members of the cell based in the central Berlin district of Moabit.
Three other members of the group were arrested on December 4 at Bajakovo at the border between Croatia and Serbia, the Italian police said. Emrah Civelek, Feysel Hermann and Husan Saed Hussein were also said to have been trying to get to Iraq or Syria.
Mosque closed down
Civelek was described as a Berlin taxi driver who was involved in the running of the "Fussilet 33" mosque which was closed down in February because of concerns it was a meeting place for Islamists.
Several members of the Berlin group had contact with Anis Amri and the suspected marketplace attacker was a regular visitor to lodgings shared by Soufiane Amri and Lutumba, according to the Italian police.
A Tunisian national unrelated to his Moroccan namesake, Anis Amri was shot dead by Italian police in Milan on December 23, four days after the market attack claimed by Islamic State left 12 people dead.
German police did not immediately respond to requests for details of the operation against the Berlin cell which the Italians described as "a very diverse group of militants".
They were all legally resident in Germany, between 20 and 30 years of age and with identical records of radicalisation.
All members of the group have been indicted in Italy for having links to international terrorism while the two suspects initially detained on Italian soil are also specifically charged with links to Islamic State and raising funds for the group.
Separately, Italy's interior ministry said Friday it had expelled a 32-year-old Tunisian and a 27-year-old Egyptian as suspected sympathisers with Islamic extremism, based on their social media activity.
Italy has carried out 38 expulsions of this type this year and 170 since the start of 2015, the ministry said.
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