Taliban suicide attack kills up to 20 in Kabul

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KABUL, May 18 (AFP): A suicide car bomb attack targeted NATO troops in the Afghan capital on Tuesday, killing up to 20 people near parliament in one of the deadliest strikes on Kabul in more than a year, officials said.
The Taliban, the militia leading a nearly nine-year insurgency against the Western-backed government and US-led military in Afghanistan, claimed responsibility for the attack.
The bomber reduced the busy rush hour to blood and chaos on a clogged street near parliament, a hospital run by foreigners, an army recruitment centre and the ministry of water and energy.
The American University of Afghanistan is just across the road and the Kabul museum about 100 metres away.
The NATO International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) confirmed one of its convoys had been hit and said a casualty assessment was underway.