KABUL, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Two U.S. soldiers were killed in a suicide car bomb attack in a market in southern Afghanistan, the alliance said on Friday, adding the Taliban had claimed responsibility. The attack happened on Thursday in the Maywand district of Kandahar province and a district police chief told Reuters three civilians were also killed. NATO-led forces identified one dead civilian. The attack wounded 21 civilians. (Reporting by Golnar Motevalli; Editing by Dean Yates)
Supporters of Pakistani Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami chant slogans as they protest against the launch of an offensive by security forces against militants in Khyber tribal agency, in Peshawar January 3, 2009. ...
