KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Fighting erupted anew in the embattled northern Afghan city of Kunduz on Tuesday after the Taliban attacked a police headquarters overnight and officials warned that food and other emergency aid cannot get through to the city.

The clashes and the dire warnings underscored the tenuous hold authorities have on this strategic city whose fall to the Taliban was an embarrassing blow to President Ashraf Ghani. The Afghan government has been criticized for ignoring warnings earlier of Taliban threats to the city.

Moreover, a bombing early Saturday of a hospital in Kunduz belonging to Doctors Without Borders - in which at least 22 people were killed - has raised wider questions as to the circumstances that led to the prominent medical charity being hit in an apparent U.S. airstrike.

The Taliban managed to overrun and hold Kunduz for three days last week, until government forces launched a counter-offensive on Thursday. The insurgents have since largely been pushed out, but skirmishes have continued on the outskirts.

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KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan's president palace says skulls and bones belonging to two bodies have been uncovered beneath a kitchen during renovation work on the palace grounds.

The gender, cause of death and identity of the skeletons are a mystery.

Tuesday's palace statement says the remains have been sent for forensic examination. It also says that a commission, including representatives of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission and Physicians for Human Rights, has been set up to identify the bodies.

Afghanistan has had a long history of unearthing mass graves of unidentified victims of war, many linked to former warlords.

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By Najeebullah Hazem and Subel Bhandari, dpa
Kabul (dpa) - Four suicide bombers attacked the house of a former Afghan governor in Kabul but failed to kill their target, police said Tuesday.

One suicide bomber blew up an explosives-packed car at the gate of the house of Naeem Baluch, the former governor of Helmand, while three others went inside, said Kabul police spokesman Ebadullah Karimi.

"The only fatalities were the four suicide bombers. Seven guards were lightly injured," Karimi said.

The attack began late Monday, and the assailants battled police until early Tuesday. Baluch was not in his residence when the attack happened and no civilians were hurt, police said.

http://www.dpa-international.com/news/asia/suicide-bombers-attack-former-governors-house-in-kabul-a-46778075.html

Officials in US Government have decided to convert the 8 military basses located in different parts of Afghanistan into industrial and investments center.

Afghan officials in Ministry of Commerce and Industry and Chamber of Commerce and industry have stated that by finding those 8 military bases converted into a business centers the Afghanistan economy will boost.

Both Afghan-US officials have commented that business has remarkable been down in Afghanistan specially by the International investors.

Afghan officials in chamber of commerce have reported that for drawing of more International investors a joint business summit will be held on December 2015.

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KABUL, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) -- Afghan security forces after five days of fierce fighting were able to reopen the road linking Baghlan to Kunduz city and sent reinforcement there to bolster government positions against Taliban fighters, police said.

"The security forces were finally able to evict Taliban militants from Jar-e-Khushk area and reopened the road linking Baghlan to Kunduz city," Baghlan provincial police chief, Abdul Jabbar Purduli told reporters.

At least nine Taliban militants have been killed and over a dozen others injured during the operations to reopen the road, he said, adding security forces are chasing militants to kill or capture.

Taliban militants, after capturing Kunduz provincial capital the Kunduz city on Sept. 29, blocked Baghlan-Kunduz road in Jar-e- Khushk area and didn't allow Afghan reinforcement caravans to reach Kunduz city.

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After being largely driven out by government forces of the strategically important city of Kunduz, Taliban fighters have set their sights on neighboring provinces in northern Afghanistan. Following Kabul's counter-offensive last week, most of the Islamist militants seem to have fled the country's fifth-largest city, taking looted vehicles, weapons and ammunition with them.

As a result, the fighting has now spread to the northeastern provinces of Takhar, Baghlan and Badakhshan, where the insurgents have reportedly infiltrated and temporarily captured some districts, including an area close to Fayzabad - where the German military had a base just like in Kunduz city.

This alarming development points to a larger Taliban strategy aimed at either tightening their grip across northern Afghanistan, or portraying a picture of chaos - in what has traditionally been a more peaceful region - to discredit the Kabul administration.

The move also raises questions as to whether government troops can prevent another provincial capital from falling into the hands of the increasingly bold and resilient Islamist movement.

http://www.dw.com/en/taliban-take-fight-beyond-kunduz/a-18763955

Putin pretty much hates the Wahabbis of all stripes. China might join him too. They agree on that.

KABUL, Afghanistan — Reports from Afghan security officials and local residents in Kunduz on Tuesday sharply contradicted testimony by the American military commander, Gen. John F. Campbell, that most of the city had been retaken from the Taliban.

By the end of the day Tuesday, according to local residents, the Taliban’s white flag was once again hanging on the flagpole over Chowk Square, and half of the city was again under Taliban control. The insurgents continued to fight pitched street battles against Afghan forces, and pressed into service armored Humvees and pickup trucks they had seized from the troops.

During his testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee in Washington on Tuesday, General Campbell played down the significance of the Taliban’s gains in taking Kunduz, the first provincial capital and largest city to fall to the insurgents in 14 years of fighting. He said that the continued fighting had been relegated to isolated pockets in the city, and the Taliban “for the most part melted away, left the city.”

Public assessments issued by Afghan leaders on Tuesday mostly lined up with General Campbell’s portrayal. “The enemy was pushed out of the city yesterday, the Afghan security forces, especially the Afghan National Army, recaptured the city yesterday,” said Lt. Gen. Afzal Aman, director of operations for the Afghan Ministry of Defense.

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