KABUL, Dec 12 (NNN-XINHUA) – The Taliban outfit has claimed responsibility for the attack on the main U.S. military base in Bagram, 50 km north of Kabul that left eight dead including six attackers, two civilians and over 70 civilians injured.
In the bloody offensive, which begun with a truck bomb at 05:50 a.m. local time, outside the south wall of the largest base of the U.S.-led coalition forces in Bagram, according to Interior Ministry spokesman, Nasrat Rahimi, two civilians, including a woman, were killed and more than 70 others wounded.
According to Rahimi, the six insurgents involved in the deadly attack had all been killed in the explosion.
Although there is no statement by the U.S.-led military coalition, on the possible casualties of alliance forces, media reported, five Georgian soldiers were wounded.
Zabihullah Majahid, who claims to speak for the Taliban, posted in his Twitter account, “At around 06:00 a.m. local time, a suicide bomber targeted the main military base of the American occupying troops at the Bagram airbase, killing dozens of American soldiers.”
According to the statement, the militants also entered the airbase and exchanged fire with the troops.
Majahid also rejected the report of inflicting casualties on civilians, stressing that a few people were wounded.
The attack on the U.S. military took place, after the peace talks between the U.S. delegation, headed by Zalmay Khalilzad and the Taliban representatives resumed, in Qatar’s capital Doha on Saturday, where reports said the Taliban agreed not to target the U.S. military, stationed in Afghanistan.– NNN-XINHUA
