World | Afghanistan Afghanistan's Insurgency Endures Attacks highlight security decline By Dustin Lushing Posted Aug 14, 2008 12:26 PM CDT Copied An Afghan police officer inspects the wreckage of a car used by suicide bomber after an attack on a NATO convoy in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug 11, 2008. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul) The insurgency in Afghanistan is mushrooming, and targeting the refurbished highway that provides a weak connection between the country's ethnic halves, the New York Times reports. A series of deadly attacks in June has exposed the tribulations of the United States' 6-year-old effort to defeat the Taliban. The provinces surrounding the Afghan capital have grown more unstable in recent months as local government and police units fail to assert control over the region, and the international military presence remains undermanned. And the country's most important supply route—a symbol of US commitment to the country—is riddled with IEDs and constantly ambushed. Read These Next Beyonce leaves national anthem unfinished. A space capsule carrying ashes of 160 people crashed in the ocean. A lesson in minding your own business ... at 30,000 feet. The death toll in the Texas floods has risen to 27, including 9 kids. Report an error