In the Zabul violence, six suicide bombers assaulted the provincial council's compound.
KABUL, Afghanistan — Taliban suicide bombers assaulted a joint United States-Afghan air base in the eastern part of the country early on Sunday, detonating explosives at the gate and engaging in a gun battle that killed at least one member of the Afghan security forces, allied coalition officials said.
KABUL, Afghanistan — The Afghan insurgency sent 13 suicide bombers to assault two high-profile government targets on Monday, one in the capital and the other in a southern province, in a striking signal of its willingness to expend followers on missions that have relatively little military impact but command headlines.
The British Army, backed by bomber planes, assaulted Deir Ghassaneh after gaining knowledge of the meeting, and sought to arrest or kill the commanders.
Ilyushin Il-2, also called Stormovik, single-seat assault bomber that was a mainstay of the Soviet air force during World War II.
"The brigade members have been betrayed twice, once in April 1961, and now in December 2014," said Julio González-Rebull, 78, who flew combat and resupply missions aboard a B-26 bomber from the assault team's base in Guatemala during the failed invasion.
Actually, even that statement is of dubious accuracy -- unless one discounts post-9/11, Bush-in-the-White-House moments like the anthrax attacks, the airplane shoe bomber, the lethal assault on an El Al ticket counter in Los Angeles and, for that matter, the D.C. sniper shootings that killed 10 people and terrorized Washington and its environs.
Guided by RF-4 reconnaissance planes and OA-10 and TR-1 observation aircraft, American and British fighter bombers continued their assault on the missile sites and other military targets today.
The Taliban has increased suicide bombings around the country in recent weeks as national and regional elections near, but Kabul has been largely spared; this was the first major attack in the capital since February, when suicide bombers mounted an assault on the Justice Ministry, killing 20 people.
In a lot of traditional thinking, power projection involves big-ticket, sexy stuff like aircraft carriers, long-range bombers, and amphibious assault ships.
