KABUL, Afghanistan – Taliban suicide bombers blew up two vehicles in the western city of Herat on Monday, killing at least five Afghans, displaying the militants' reach into an area considered secure enough to revert soon to government control from NATO.
Also Monday, four NATO soldiers were killed in other parts of the country,
In the first blast in Herat, a suicide attacker blew up an explosives-packed car at the gates of an Italian military base in Herat. Five Italian soldiers were wounded, one of them gravely, Italian Defense Minister Ignazio La Russa said.
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