Afghan Insurgents Attack Red Cross

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BY MARGHERITA STANCATI, NATHAN HODGE AND EHSANULLAH AMIRI
KABUL—Men in suicide vests stormed a Red Cross compound in eastern Afghanistan, the second insurgent attack on a humanitarian organization in the country in less than a week, one of two attacks Wednesday that signaled a widening offensive.
Earlier in the day, a Taliban suicide squad tried to storm the provincial government offices in Afghanistan’s Panjshir Valley, taking the war to an area that has been the heart of anti-Taliban resistance, and largely been spared from bloodshed.
One suicide bomber blew himself up at the gate of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Jalalabad on Wednesday, police officials …
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