Taliban raids Afghan state offices

About 30 Taliban fighters wearing suicide vests and using AK-47s and grenades, have attacked government buildings in the Afghan city of Khost, the Taliban says.Battles on Tuesday are ongoing and all roads in and out of the city in the south eastern Khost province are closed. A Taliban spokesman had told that the 30 fighters were in the city of Khost targeting government buildings and police stations and checkpoints.The unnamed spokesman said that Khost was targeted because of the heavy US military presence there.She said that locations in other areas of the province, as well as Khost city, had been targeted."There have been four to five suicide bombers targeting a number of locations in Khost province," Khodr reported."We have now confirmation that one of the suicide bombers targeted the governor's house.""Details are still sketchy, but we know that there was heavy fighting between the Taliban and government forces."