Heavy Fighting Reported Throughout Afghanistan

The Afghan mountains are reflected in the visor of a US Army Airborne window gunner. The Afghan army has said it killed more than fifty insurgents in the past 48 hours. Photograph: Mark Wilson/ Reuters

Dozens Killed In Afghanistan Fighting As Foreign Troops Head Home -- Sydney Morning Herald

Kabul: The Afghan Taliban killed a Supreme Court official, a dozen mine clearers and several national and foreign soldiers but also suffered heavy losses from intensifying violence ahead of the withdrawal of most international troops in the next two weeks.

In Kabul on Saturday, a bomb ripped through a bus carrying soldiers in Kabul, killing at least six of them, mangling the vehicle and sending a column of black smoke over the capital.

"A suicide bomber on foot detonated his explosives at the door of a bus carrying army soldiers," said Hashmat Stanekzai, a spokesman for the Kabul police chief.

Earlier, gunmen shot dead senior Supreme Court official Atiqullah Raoufi as he left his home in the city.

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