In Afghanistan suicide blasts and gun attacks killed 17 people and injured more than 37 in the Uruzgan province on Thursday. Official sources said a local BBC reporter is also among the dead. The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the coordinated assault that began with suicide bombings on official buildings and a militia base in the provincial capital Trinkot. AIR correspondent reports, it is the deadliest insurgent attack in Afghanistan for several weeks and comes after the completion of the first phase of security transition in which seven places were handed over from NATO troops to Afghan forces.