Afghan Taliban claim attack on NATO convoy in Kabul


  • World
  • Sunday, 05 Jan 2014

An Afghan security personnel keeps watch near the site of an explosion in Kabul January 4, 2014. REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail

KABUL (Reuters) - The Afghan Taliban claimed responsibility for an attack on a military convoy belonging to the NATO-led ISAF security force in Kabul on Saturday, striking at the heart of the capital but without causing any casualties.

Security sources said the bomb had targeted a military convoy near Camp Eggers, an ISAF base in the diplomatic quarter of the capital close to both the German and Italian embassies.

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