KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Insurgents killed six Afghan soldiers in an assault on an army base Friday that lasted more than 14 hours, a day after attacks on foreign targets in Kabul killed two British embassy employees.
Nearly 30 insurgents, including seven suicide bombers, swarmed Camp Bastion in southern Helmand province in the early hours of Friday morning, said the deputy head of the Afghan National Army in the province, Ghulam Farooq Parwani.
British forces handed over Camp Bastion to the Afghan army in late October as part of a transition that will see the U.S. and NATO combat mission end on Dec. 31. The Taliban claimed responsibility for Friday’s attack.
