Taliban targets US embassy in attack

KABUL / HONG KONG - Taliban suicide fighters launched a multi-pronged attack in Kabul on Tuesday, firing rockets toward the US and other embassies in central Kabul, and sending two suicide bombers to the city's west later in the afternoon.

The Taliban have launched high-profile attacks on multiple targets in the capital in the past, but this is the first time they have organized simultaneous assaults on such separate parts of the city.

Near the heavily fortified diplomatic district, insurgents took over a multi-story building under construction and fired rockets in the direction of several embassy and NATO compounds.