9 dead in Afghan Taliban's first major attacks since power change

Taliban insurgents killed nine people in multiple attacks on police targets in Afghanistan Thursday, in their first major assaults since an acrimonious power transition after the announcement of leader Mullah Omar's death.

In the first attack a suicide truck bomber killed six people early Thursday when he struck a police compound in Pul-i-Alam, the capital of insurgency-racked Logar province just south of Kabul.