Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Monday a coordinated Taliban attack showed a “failure” by Afghan intelligence and especially by Nato, as heavy street fighting between insurgents and the security fo

Afghanistan’s Taliban said they launched a spri-ng offensive on Sunday with multiple attacks against Western embass-ies in the central diplomatic area and at Parliament in Kabul, with heavy explosions

The Pakistan-based Haqqani network is suspected to have carried out the brazen suicide attacks on Western embassies and Parliament here, the Afghan interior minister has said.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai Monday blamed intelligence failures, particularly on the part of NATO forces supporting his government, for the worst coordinated insurgent attacks in 10 years of war.

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Several large explosions and bursts of gunfire were heard on Sunday near the United States embassy in the Afghan capital Kabul, although the target was not immediately clear.

The US embassy sounded a

Several attackers tried to enter the Afghan parliament in Kabul but were engaged by security forces and driven back, an official said.

They had taken cover in a building near the parliament and fight

Suicide bombers struck across Afghanistan in coordinated attacks on Sunday, with explosions and gunfire rocking the diplomatic enclave in the capital as militants took over a hotel and tried to enter

The United States embassy in Kabul was in lockdown on Sunday as explosions and gunfire rocked the capital, a spokesman said.

All staff were accounted for and safe, with no reports of injuries, spokes

At least one attacker was killed on Sunday as fighting raged in several locations in the Afghan capital, Kabul police chief, Mohammad Ayoubi Salangi told.

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Gunmen launched multiple attacks across the Afghan capital Kabul on Sunday, with assaults in possibly seven different places, Afghanistan's NATO-led force said.

A spokesperson for NATO's Internationa