Taliban Attack U.S. Base In Afghanistan

Afghan, NATO Troops Repel Taliban Attack On U.S. Base Near Pakistan Border -- CNN

Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- NATO and Afghan forces fought back Taliban attackers who launched an assault Monday on a U.S. base in eastern Afghanistan, near the border with Pakistan.

The insurgents detonated explosives and then began firing guns in an area where NATO supply trucks were parked in Nangarhar province, said Ahmed Zia Abdulzai, a spokesman for the province's governor.

The initial attack was repulsed and Afghan and NATO troops engaged the militants in a firefight for about two hours, during which all the attackers were killed, Abdulzai said.

No civilians or military personnel were killed, he said, and only a few NATO supply trucks caught fire during the violence.

Firefighters are trying to put out the flames, he said.

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