Powerful blast hits US convoy in Kabul, kills at least sixteen

At least 6 American military advisers and 10 Afghanis were killed including two children and 30 more injured when an explosives-packed car was blown up by a suicide bomber next to two American military vehicles Thursday in the Karta-e Naw district of Kabul.  The explosion was powerful enough to rattle windows across the city. It left bodies strewn along the street and one of the American vehicles – an armored Chevrolet Suburban that weighed nearly five tons – lying in ruins.