At least 20 killed in a suicide attack on NATO in Afghanistan

A suicide bomb attack in eastern Afghanistan on Monday at least 20 people have been killed. Among the dead were three NATO soldiers, said the office of the governor of Khost province on Monday. The attack on a joint patrol of the NATO-led ISAF and Afghan security forces were therefore also injured 62 people. The Taliban themselves to fact. Have in the morning ", a suicide bomber on a motorcycle joint patrol in a busy area of the city of Khost attack, "stated the Governor's office. The security forces were therefore walk out on the town. Besides the soldiers are in the process of an interpreter, six policemen and ten civilians were killed. An ISAF spokesman confirmed the death of three soldiers, but made no further information about the incident. The ISAF had limited its cooperation with Afghan security forces after several of insider attacks by terrorists in Afghan police or army uniforms in the meantime. Now she has this but partially resumed.

Drone attack in Pakistan

In northwest Pakistan, meanwhile, by a drone attack on Monday killed three insurgents. An unmanned aircraft had fired two missiles at a motorcycle in the tribal area of ​​North Waziristan, a Pakistani intelligence official told the news agency dpa. The attack took place in North Waziristan. In the autonomous tribal region along the border with Afghanistan to keep the Taliban and supporters of the terrorist organization Al Qaeda.