A Taliban suicide bomber targeted NATO forces in Kabul on Tuesday, wounding three people, officials said, as the group step up attacks as part of their annual summer offensive.
The blast in the southeast of the city is the third significant attack in the Afghan capital in the last three weeks and comes a week after another NATO convoy was hit by a suicide bomber on the road to the airport.
NATO ended its combat mission in the war-torn country in December, maintaining a smaller residual force for training, leaving Afghan troops and police to face their first “fighting season” battling the Taliban on their own.
The Taliban claimed the attack in a message on their Twitter account.
The street was strewn with rubble and broken glass after the blast, which left a white SUV badly damaged and on fire.
Kabul police spokesman Ebadullah Karimi said the attack in the southeastern part of the city was a suicide car bombing that wounded three people.
Karimi said two of the wounded were civilians who suffered minor injuries and described the third as a “foreigner”, but there was no confirmation of identity or nationality.