Afghanistan

KABUL – A commando-style suicide raid on Afghanistan’s top hotel, frequented by foreigners and diplomats, shows a new style of Taliban attack aimed at soft civilian targets, diplomats and analysts said on Tuesday.

TEHRAN (FNA) Proposed by foreign minister and approved by the president, Fada Hossein Maleki was assigned as the Islamic Republic of Iran’s ambassador to Afghanistan.

Blast at a hotel in Kabul killed four hotel employees and injured six other people. ·Afghan Interior Ministry confirmed suicide explosion and gun-fighting went off at Serena Hotel.

STOCKHOLM, Jan. 14 – Two Norwegians are among the injured on Monday in an explosion and firing attack at a luxury hotel in Afghan capital Kabul, according to reports reaching here from Oslo.

KABUL – In a new effort to end the growing Taliban insurgency, a council of Afghan political and tribal leaders hopes to hold talks with elements of the Islamic group aimed at including them in the government.

KABUL – Suicide bombers attacked a luxury hotel in the Afghan capital Kabul on Monday, killing at least two guards, a police official said.

KABUL – Detained Taliban suspects, some held for years by the U.S. military in Afghanistan, were able to speak to family members by video link on Monday.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – Taliban guerrillas killed 10 policemen on Sunday in a raid in southern Afghanistan, provincial officials said.

The soldiers were killed in separate incidents on Saturday in the Deh Rawod area of southern Afghanistan and two Afghan soldiers also died in the fighting, Defense Chief of Staff Dick Berlijn said in a statement.

KABUL – Male tailors in an Afghan province have been barred from measuring female clients for fittings following a new local ruling that resembles the restrictions the ultra-conservative Taliban imposed on the country when in power.