Explosions, Gunbattles Shake Kabul

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BY MARGHERITA STANCATI AND CHARLES LEVINSON
KABUL—Large explosions followed by pitched gunbattles shook Kabul on Friday as the Taliban attacked the Afghan capital, the latest thrust in the insurgency’s annual spring offensive.
The heaviest fighting was in the Shahr-e-Naw neighborhood, close to the United Nations compound.
A car bomb exploded by the entrance of the International Organization for Migration, a refugee agency, in the afternoon and four insurgents then took over the building, an Afghan official said. Two of the four were later killed in a shootout with Afghan …
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