List of deadly attacks by insurgents since '02

Some of the deadliest insurgent attacks in Afghanistan since the U.S.-led offensive began on Oct. 7, 2001:

• Sept. 29, 2007 — A suicide bomber in 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 compound of Helmand provincial governor in town of Lashkar Gah.

• Sept. 8, 2006 — Car bomber rams U.S. convoy in Kabul, killing 16, including two American soldiers.

• Aug. 28, 2006 — 21 civilians killed by suicide bomber targeting an ex-police chief in Lashkar Gah.

• Aug. 3, 2006 — 21 civilians killed in a suicide car bombing near Canadian military vehicles in town 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 — 30 people killed and 167 wounded in a Kabul car bombing.