three foreign advisers and an Afghan interpreter. July 24 – In Herat, two Finnish women working for a foreign aid organization are shot and killed. July 25 – Afghan insurgents killed 17 Shia civilians travelling from Kabul. July 26 – Insurgents stop minibuses in Ghōr Province and execute 14 Shiite Muslims. July 29 – A suicide bomber kills Hashmat Karzai, the cousin of the President of Afghanistan and a regional powerbroker, in the city of Kandahar. August August 5 – A U.S. major general Harold J. Greene is killed, and a German brigadier general and several American troops are among the 15 wounded, in an attack by an Afghan soldier gunman – who was killed by Afghan soldiers – at Kabul's Marshal Fahim National Defense University. August 14 – A roadside bomb detonates next to a police car in Laghman Province, killing three police officers and injuring another four. August 30 – Taliban insurgents attack the National Directorate of Security building in Jalalabad resulting in at least six deaths. September September 8 – A suicide bomb attack kills the police chief of southern Kandahar Province. September 16 – A large bomb explodes in Kabul resulting in the death of three international troops (including a U.S Army Major) and five injuries. September 30 – A double suicide attack killed seven people and wounded 21 others including Afghan soldiers in Kabul. October October 1 – Taliban suicide bombers attack an Afghan National Army convoy in Kabul, killing at least seven people and injuring 19. October 8 – A suicide bomber kills at least four people and wounds 16 in Helmand province. October 13 – A Taliban attack killed 22 Afghan military in northern Afghanistan October 21 – A Kabul roadside bomb kills at least four Afghan National Security Force soldiers with six other soldiers and six civilians injured. November 10 November – Ten policemen, including a commander, are killed by bomb blasts in Jalalabad and Logar Province. 13 December – Assassination of Atiqullah Raufi. 18 November – A suicide bomber attacks in Kabul and kills at least two people. 27 November – A suicide attack in Kabul killed six people including a Briton. December December 1 – A suicide bomb kills at least nine, including two policemen, at a funeral for a tribal elder in Baghlan Province. December 11 – A Taliban suicide bomber kills at least six Afghan National Army soldiers