Heavily armed militants attacked an Afghan intelligence agency facility in Kabul Monday, sparking fierce clashes with security forces.
Afghan officials said several assailants wearing police uniforms stormed and occupied a partially constructed building before firing rockets at the nearby training center of the National Directorate of Security, or NDS.
Afghan special forces swiftly arrived and encircled the building to try to neutralize the attackers, interior ministry spokesman Nusrat Rahimi told VOA. He had no immediate information on whether there were any casualties.
Residents in nearby areas have reported hearing several back-to-back explosions from the area in Kabul where militant siege is underway.
So far, neither the Taliban insurgency nor any other militant group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Meanwhile, Afghan officials in the western province of Badghis have confirmed that Taliban insurgents ambushed a security convoy early Monday morning and killed the police commander of the remote Aab Kamari district.
The slain Abdul Rasoul and his men were ambushed while they were on their way reportedly to help security forces at an outpost under attack from the Taliban.
Monday's violence came a day after insurgents assaulted security posts in the southern province of Helmand, killing at least 14 Afghan police personnel.
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