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Combination of small-arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades in their assaults. and so far, we havent been told about any casualties. but u.s. army convoys and afghan police soon arrive to try to take control of the situation. as far as local reports are concerned, the attack is still continuing. we just heard some gunfire behind us, because this is only a half-mile from us. and we can still hear sporadic gunfire. with the odd explosion. sources on the ground say they saw the rockets landing on ...

Westerners, and a market. now all these compounds are all within the same area, and its the hub for western officials. they also targeted the afghan parliament, which, as i mentioned before, was the scene of one of last nights battles, and three provinces surrounding kabul were also part of the taliban offensive. but they were under control earlier in the day yesterday. now the taliban told nbc news yesterday that this was the start of the spring offensive, that these attacks had been planned fo...

With a text message to reporters, a taliban spokesperson took responsibility for the attacks, the u.s.-led military coalition said on its twitter account that attacks were under way in as many as seven neighborhoods in kabul. joining us from kabul, nbc news producer, suheil mudin. whats your information? >> reporter: it started with small arms fire that we could hear a half-mile from our compound. according to nato, the assaults took place in possibly seven different places the our contacts clos...

Within afghanistan who have used the koran as target practice. although these where is isolated incidents and the incident that occurred yesterday seemed to have been an accident. apparently u.s. soldiers at bagram air base were cleaning out a library because they felt there was insurgent messages within these books. they didnt realize they were throwing out religious materials, including the koran. but afghan staffers saw what was happening. they took some of those burnt korans showed it to the...

Situation is right now? >> reporter: well, the situation has calmed down a little bit right now. as you know, the british compounds were raided earlier today. there was the residence by british diplomats which was raided and the embassy in downtown tehran. now, the residence where the british employees work, order has been restored there. have i to tell you, six people at that embassy were taken hostage for several hours. but then they were released to the custody of the police and now they are ...

Henneberg, fox news. >> bret: taliban insurgent coordinated attack on buildings in kabul today. and dominique di-natale is in the capital and shows us how it went down. >> reporter: it started with sudden gunfire in difrent locations across the city. people ran for their lives and unable to tell which direction the bullets came from. witnesses focused on multiple attacks. >> when i heard gunfire i walked away and saw gunfire in the corolla car and they were in uniform near the u.s. embassy. >> r...