Taliban Claims Responsibility for Car Bomb Attack That Killed Three Foreign Troops

This story has been updated.

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KABUL, Afghanistan (TheBlaze/AP) — The NATO-led international military coalition in Afghanistan says that a car bomb attack struck one of its convoys in Kabul, killing two American troops and one Polish service member and wounding five others, according to Fox News.

Aftermath photos of #Kabul explosion pic.twitter.com/XRe8pmTLMk

— Mustafa Deveci (@Mustafa_DVC) September 16, 2014

The attack, which happened on a main road in Kabul, unfolded next to an ISAF base that houses many Americans.

Kabul blast updates: 3 ISAF soldiers killed,18 Afghan civilians -including 5 ISAF troopers- wounded in the suicide car bombing: Officials

— Esmatullah Kohsar (@EKBNL) September 16, 2014

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, which occurred just a couple hundred yards (meters) from the U.S. Embassy.

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