Some of the deadliest insurgent attacks in Afghanistan since the U.S.-led offensive began on Oct. 7, 2001:
July 7, 2008 _ A suicide car bomb detonates at the gates of the Indian Embassy in Kabul, killing some 40 people.
Feb. 18, 2008 _ A suicide car bomber trying to hit a Canadian military convoy kills 38 Afghans at a crowded market in Spin Boldak, Kandahar province.
Feb. 17, 2008 _ A suicide bomber penetrates a crowd watching a dogfighting competition in the Taliban's former stronghold of Kandahar, killing more than 100 people, including an Afghan militia leader.
Nov. 6, 2007 _ Six lawmakers, including Sayed Mustafa Kazimi, a spokesman for the main opposition group, are killed by a suicide bomber in northern Baghlan province during a visit to a sugar factory. Sixty-one students also die in the bombing and the subsequent shooting by guards.
Sept. 29, 2007 _ A suicide bomber in an Afghan army uniform blows himself up on military bus in Kabul, killing 28 soldiers and two civilians.
Sept. 10, 2007 _ A suicide bomber on a motorized rickshaw attacks in busy market in Gereshk in Helmand province, killing 28 people, including 13 police.
June 17, 2007 _ A bomb rips through a bus carrying police instructors in Kabul, killing 35 people.
May 20, 2007 _ A suicide bomber detonates himself in a crowded market in the eastern city of Gardez, killing 14.
Feb. 27, 2007 _ A suicide bomber detonates himself outside the main U.S. base at Bagram Air Field, killing 23 people, during a visit by Vice President Dick Cheney.
Sept. 30, 2006 _ A suicide bomber outside the gates of the Interior Ministry in Kabul kills 12 people.
Sept. 26, 2006 _ A suicide bomber on foot kills 18 outside the compound of Helmand's provincial governor in the town of Lashkar Gah.
Sept. 8, 2006 _ A car bomber rams a U.S. convoy in Kabul, killing 16, including two American soldiers.
Aug. 28, 2006 _ A suicide bomber targets an ex-police chief in Lashkar Gah, killing 21 civilians.
Aug. 3, 2006 _ 21 civilians are killed in a suicide car bombing near Canadian military vehicles in a market in Kandahar province.
Jan. 16, 2006 _ A man with explosives strapped to his body drives a motorbike into a crowd watching a wrestling match in Kandahar province and kills 21 people.
Jan. 5, 2006 _ A militant blows himself up in a town in central Uruzgan province during a supposedly secret visit by the U.S. ambassador, killing 10 Afghans.
June 1, 2005 _ A suspected al-Qaida fighter detonates explosives strapped to his body in a mosque in Kandahar city, killing 20 worshippers.
Aug. 13, 2003 _ An explosion tears apart a bus in southern Afghanistan, killing at least 15 civilians.
Sept. 5, 2002 _ A car bomb in Kabul kills 30 people and wounds 167.
