Afghan Truck Bombing Kills Dozens as US-Led Foreign Troops Exit

ISLAMABAD - A powerful vehicle-borne bomb in an eastern Afghan city has killed at least 25 people and wounded more than 90 others, officials in Afghanistan said Friday.

The deadly violence came a day before the United States and its NATO partners officially begin withdrawing the last of their troops from the conflict-torn country. An Afghan interior ministry spokesman, Tariq Arian, said he expected the death toll to increase. He said the late-evening attack occurred outside a crowded civilian guest house in Pul-e-Alam, the capital of Logar province, about 70 kilometers east of the Afghan capital, Kabul.  There were no immediate claims of responsibility for the violence, but officials quickly accused the Taliban insurgency of plotting it.