Asmatullah Shaheen Bhittani is killed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. March March 11 – Gunmen in Kabul kill Swedish Radio foreign correspondent Nils Horner. March 12 – Three Taliban insurgents are killed by a team of Afghan police and private commandos after attacking a former National Directorate of Security headquarters in Kandahar. The Taliban claims they killed four commandos and five policemen, which police deny. March 18 – A suicide rickshaw bomber detonates in a marketplace in Maymana, killing 15 people and wounding dozens. March 20 – Four suspected Taliban members attack the luxurious Kabul Serena Hotel, killing at least nine people, including four foreigners. Suicide bombers attack a police station in the city of Jalalabad resulting in at least 11 deaths and 22 people being injured. April April 2 – A suicide bomber wearing a military uniform strikes a voter registration office in Kabul, killing six police officers. April 4 – Two members of the Associated Press are shot by an Afghan wearing a police uniform in Khost. One of them, Pulitzer Prize winner and photojournalist Anja Niedringhaus, is killed. The other is seriously injured. May May 8 – A roadside bomb near the Afghan border in North Waziristan, Pakistan, kills eight Pakistani soldiers. May 21 – The Taliban launch attacks in Badakhshan and Laghman provinces, killing 10 policemen and three civilians. May 23 – Gunmen attack the Indian consulate in Herat Province. June June 9 – Five NATO International Security Assistance Force troops are killed in fighting the Taliban. July July 2 – A suicide bomber attacks an Afghan National Army air force bus in Kabul killing at least five people. July 8 – The Taliban claims responsibility for an attack in central Afghanistan that claims the lives of 10 civilians, four Czech members of the International Security Assistance Force and two Afghan police officers. July 12 – A cross border attack by the Afghan Taliban kills three Pakistan Army soldiers in Bajaur Agency of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas. July 15 – A car bomb explodes at a market in the eastern Afghanistan province of Paktika, killing at least 89 people and injuring scores more in one of the deadliest attacks of the war. July 17 – Explosions and gunfire are reported near Kabul International Airport as militants temporarily capture a building under construction. July 22 – A Taliban suicide bomber blows himself up outside Kabul International Airport, killing