Breaking News - Insurgents launch 8-hour attack on Afghan traffic cops

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Jan 21, 2013, 03:30 PM
Omar Sobhani / ReutersAfghan security forces run on the roof of the Kabul traffic police headquarters as it is attacked by insurgents on Jan. 21, 2013. Reuters reports — Suicide bombers and gunmen launched an eight-hour assault on the headquarters of  the Kabul traffic police on Monday, Afghan officials said, in the second  coordinated attack on a government building in less than a week.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the  operation in which all five attackers and three traffic police officers were  killed, interior ministry officials said.

The attack raised the possibility that  insurgents were shifting tactics, testing Afghan security forces in Kabul after  a series of high-profile attacks on Western targets last year. Read the full story.Omar Sobhani / ReutersAfghan police officers run to the Kabul traffic police headquarters as it is attacked by insurgents on Jan. 21, 2013. Shah Marai / AFP - Getty ImagesBlack smoke billows from the Afghan police headquarters during an attack in Kabul on Jan. 21, 2013.Slideshow: Afghanistan: Nation at a crossroadsAref Karimi / AFP - Getty ImagesMore than ten years after the beginning of the war, Afghanistan faces external pressure to reform as well as ongoing internal conflicts.Launch slideshowFollow @NBCNewsPictures 6commentintercourseplore related topics: afghanistan, terrorism, central-asia, kabul, world-news, suicide-bomb
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