Taliban attacks kill 28, wound 56 in Afghanistan

At least 28 people were killed and 56 wounded Wednesday in a spate of attacks by Taliban militants in and around the Afghan capital as the United States president considered a plan to double troops in the Afghanistan.

Taliban attacks on three government buildings in Kabul with suicide bombs and gunfire killed 26 and wouded 55, sowing panic across the city.

Meanwhile, a French officer and an Afghan interpreter were killed in an ambush south of Kabul, bringing France's death toll in Afghanistan to 26.

Another French soldier was seriously wounded in the double ambush, in which French and Afghan soldiers were hit by a mine explosion and were then attacked by insurgents, said Christophe Prazuck, armed forces spokesman.