Taliban bombing kills at least 20 policemen in Kabul

February 01, 2016 22:27

A Taliban suicide bomber struck near a Kabul police complex on Monday, killing at least 20 policemen and wounding 29 people, Afghan officials said, in the latest of a rapid-fire series of militant attacks on the capital this year.

The attack came as the American military issued a grim confirmation of the war's toll on the Afghan security forces, saying that casualties among Afghan soldiers and policemen in 2015 were up by almost a third.

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