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Six people were killed and dozens wounded when two car bombers and Taliban gunmen attacked an office of the Afghan intelligence agency in the eastern city of Jalalabad on Saturday, a provincial government spokesman said.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Seven militants were also killed during several hours of heavy fighting with Afghan security forces at the Jalalabad headquarters of the National Directorate of Security (NDS), said Ahmad Zeya Abdulzai, a spokesman for the governor of eastern Nangarhar province near the border withPakistan.<\/span>
Abdulzai said four NDS agents and two civilians were killed when a truck and a smaller car, both loaded with explosives, attacked the compound and a gunfight between Afghan forces and insurgents broke out.<\/span>
Reuters was not able to reach the NDS immediately for comment.<\/span>
Apart from the two bombers, Abdulzai said five gunmen, also armed with suicide vests, were shot and killed by security forces before the fighting ended.<\/span>
Nangahar’s public health director, Najib Kamawal, said: “So far six bodies and 45 wounded have been transferred to the local hospital.”<\/span>
“Most of the victims are civilians,” Kamawal said.<\/span>
Abdulzai said the toll was likely to rise.<\/span>
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, part of a broader pattern of bold offensives by militants across Afghanistan that has emerged in recent weeks during the summer “fighting season.”<\/span>
The violence coincides with a political deadlock in the capital, Kabul, where rival presidential candidates have been unable to resolve months-long disputes over an election meant to mark the first democratic transfer of power in Afghan history.<\/span>
Most foreign combat troops are due to leave by the end of the year but the deadlock over the presidential election has meant a prolonged delay in signing a security pact with the United States governing how many troops would remain.<\/span>
Afghan forces have been struggling to fight off large numbers of fighters in provinces to the east, north and south of Kabul in recent weeks.<\/span>
“This is part of an alarming trend across the country,” said Graeme Smith, a senior analyst at the International Crisis Group in Kabul. “They are longer in duration, bigger in size and against more ambitious targets than we’ve seen previously.”<\/span>
In northern Kunduz province, security forces were in a standoff with insurgents in a weeks-long battle for control over the province that was the last Taliban stronghold before they were driven out by the U.S.-backed Northern Alliance in 2001.<\/span>
“The insurgents are better armed than us,” said Kunduz police chief Mustafa Mohseni.<\/span>
“They use heavy machine guns, RPGs (rocket-propelled grenades), and 82mm rockets against our forces,” he said.<\/span>
Another Kunduz police spokesman said security forces were concentrated on a district just next to the provincial capital.<\/span>
Many Kunduz residents have fled to nearby provinces to escape the violence but those who have stayed behind are fed up.<\/span>
“There is no job, no security, no life,” said Kunduz shopkeeper Sayed Malek. “We don’t care if the Taliban come back and take over the whole country. We want a peaceful life.”<\/span>
Hundreds of Taliban fighters have also launched attacks this month in Logar province, strategically located to the south of Kabul.<\/span><\/p>\n

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