The Hit Farm

Details are still unclear, but it appears that as many as six jihad/martyrdom suicide bombers descended upon the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul Tuesday night. As many as ten people have been murdered, and the Taliban is thumping its chest in victory. Smoke billows from the Intercontinental Hotel during the battle between Afghan and international security [...]

He and colleagues face allegations of failing to act on warnings about widespread corruption at Kabul Bank, which nearly collapsed last year. Rahmatullah Nazari, Afghanistan's deputy attorney general, told reporters that an arrest warrant for Mr. NATO helicopters fired rockets at gunmen on the rooftop of a besieged Kabul hotel, ending a more than four-hour [...]