The Kabul police chief resigned on Sunday after three Taliban attacks in 10 days on foreign guest houses in the capital, while officials said Afghan forces had ousted insurgents who tried to seize Camp Bastion in the south, a former U.S. and British base.
Taliban fighters breached the perimeter of Camp Bastion in the southern Afghan province of Helmand three days ago, just one month after the base was handed over to the Afghan army.
The attacks of recent days have renewed fears that Afghanistan’s army and police are unable to secure the country.
The U.S.-based Partnership in Academics and Development, the charity whose Kabul guest house was targeted in the latest such assault on Saturday, said on its website that three people were killed by insurgents who used guns and explosives.
They were identified as members of the same South African family — a father and his two teenage children — by a colleague of the mother, who survived the attack.
The Taliban, meanwhile, said on Saturday they had attacked the foreign guesthouse because they believed it to be a Christian centre.
