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Afghan Taliban attacks aid group, 2 guards killed

A Taliban suicide car bomber and five heavily armed gunmen attacked an international aid group's guest house in the Afghan capital on Friday, killing two guards and setting off an hours-long battle with security forces in an upscale Kabul neighborhood, authorities said.The International Organization for Migration said four of its workers were wounded, including an Italian badly burned by a grenade. Police said at least five attackers also died.The Taliban quickly claimed responsibility for the assault on the staff quarters for the IOM, the second major strike inside Kabul in a little more than a week.The insurgents have unleashed a wave of bombings and assassinations around the country, testing Afghan security forces' ability to respond with less help from international forces who have begun a withdrawal that will see most foreign troops gone by the end of 2014.A Nepalese guard and an Afghan police officer providing security to the compound died in the assault, and at least five of the...

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