A devastating suicide car bombing outside the US embassy in Afghanistan today, killed 16 people including.
The blast explosion ripped through one of Kabul's busiest, most protected streets just outside the US embassy, killing seven foreigners.
British soldiers stand over bodies after a suicide blast in Kabul today
Al Jazeera television reported that at least three US soldiers had been killed.
The explosion occurred at a big intersection less than 100 yards from the heavily fortified embassy.
Taliban fighters began using suicide attacks late last year as part of a strategy to harry Western forces in Afghanistan and destabilise President Hamid Karzai's government.
More than 2,000 people have been killed this year due to a Taliban resurgence that has led to the heaviest fighting since US-led troops toppled the Taliban regime in 2001.
Although most of the violence has come in the Taliban's southern heartland, there have been increasing attacks in Kabul.