At Least 12 Afghan Security Forces Killed In Suicide Attack Smoke billows from the scene after six rockets were fired near the airport in Kabul following the arrival of the U.S. defense secretary and the NATO secretary-general on September 27   September 28, 2017 -- At least 12 members of the Afghan security forces were killed when a suicide attacker driving an explosives-packed Humvee blew himself up in the southern province of Kandahar, police said on September 28. The deadly attack on the government and police headquarters in Maroof district was claimed by the Taliban. 'Twelve security forces were killed and four others were wounded,' Kandahar police spokesman Zia Durrani said. The Taliban said that they had captured the center of Maroof district. However, Durani and two Kandahar provincial council members, Haji Agha Lali Dastgiri and Haji Sayed Jan Khakrezwal, denied the claim. Durrani said the Taliban attackers had been 'defeated....