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Blast hits foreign military convoy outside Kabul

An explosion struck a foreign military convoy outside the Afghan capital on Sunday, a Nato spokesman said.

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  • Published: 11:35 August 3, 2008
  • Gulf News

Kabul: An explosion struck a foreign military convoy outside the Afghan capital on Sunday, a Nato spokesman said.

Details of casualties in the blast, in Bagrami district on the eastern outskirts of Kabul, were not provided immediately.

Resurgent Taliban militants have stepped up their campaign against the government and foreign forces in Afghanistan this year, mostly relying on suicide attacks and roadside bomb blasts.

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