Officials: Explosion hits US-run base in Afghanistan
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An explosion tore through the entrance of a heavily-guarded US-run civil-military base in eastern Afghanistan Thursday, causing an unknown number of casualties, an Afghan official said.
The Taliban, the main militant group behind a escalating insurgency, said the group had attacked the base, in Gardez, the capital of eastern Paktia province, with a suicide car bomb. (AFP)
