At least two people were injured in a bombing near the United State Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan on Monday.
The bombing happened at a main square in Kabul, the country’s capital, located near the Afghanistan Supreme Court as well as the U.S. Embassy.
"I’m certain no U.S. or NATO forces were wounded," Col. Michael T. Lawhorn, a Kabul-based U.S. military spokesman, told Fox News. An army officer was one of the two people wounded, according to Faredoon Obiadi, chief of the police’s criminal investigations department.
Obiadi said the explosive used was a sticky bomb that was attached to a military vehicle when it went off. A sticky bomb is a kind of grenade made to attack enemy vehicles.
So far no group has claimed responsibility for this attack, which comes amid a strong Taliban resurgence in Afghanistan.
The Taliban captured an important district in the northern province of Baghlan, officials said Monday. The insurgents, dedicated to kicking the NATO-led coalition out of Afghanistan and imposing an Islamic caliphate on the country, also overran a police headquarters in the Dahna-e-Ghori district and said they captured several policemen.
The Taliban’s traditional strongholds are in the southern parts of Afghanistan, making its movements in the north all the more significant.
The jihadist group has been launching attacks and retaking territory despite efforts by the United States and other coalition troops.
President Obama recently announcing that he would be decreasing the number of U.S. soldiers in the country from 9,800 to 8,400.