Afghan Taliban attack central Kabul, at least 28 dead

Afghan security forces keep watch after a suicide car bomb attack on a government security building in Kabul, Afghanistan April 19, 2016.

AFGHAN: A major Taliban suicide bomb and gun attack on a government security office in central Kabul during rush hour on Tuesday killed at least 28 people and wounded more than 320, a week after the militant group announced a spring offensive.

President Ashraf Ghani condemned the assault "in the strongest possible terms" in a statement from the presidential palace, only a few hundred meters away from the scene of the blast in the Afghan capital.