MOSCOW (Sputnik) — At least one police officer was killed in a suicide bomb attack on a foreign troop convoy in southern Afghanistan, local media reported on Sunday.
11 November 2015, 12:11 GMT
According to the Kabul-based TOLOnews network, 11 people were injured in the bombing in Helmand Province.
Afghanistan has long been in political and social turmoil, with the armed Taliban movement redoubling their insurgency across the country and the violent extremist Islamic State taking advantage of the instability to gain a foothold in the country.
The US-led NATO mission formally ended its International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) combat operations in Afghanistan on December 31, 2014, transitioning to a non-combat mission in the country.
