Five rockets were fired at Bagram Airfield in Parwan province at 6:00 am a major US air base north of Kabul, Afghanistan was targetted in a rocket attack on Saturday. The NATO and Afghan officials, however reported there were no casualties or damage to the airfield. As many as 12 rockets were mounted on a vehicle and five of them were fired at the base, whereas the police defused the other seven. 

"Rockets were fired towards Bagram Airfield this morning. Initial reporting is there were no casualties and the airfield was not damaged," a NATO official told news agency. Taliban denied involvement and no one else have claimed the responsibility. Saturday's rocket attack on the airfield was made immediately a day after 15 children were killed due to an explosives-laden motorbike blew up near a religious gathering in the eastern province of Ghazni. 

The Afghan officials claimed the Taliban for the motorbike explosion. IS has claimed several assaults in Kabul in the recent months, including two rocket attacks that struck several residential areas in the capital, causing fatalities. The Afghan government and the Taliban launching peace talks to end the country's grinding war but on the other side Violence has surged in Afghanistan in recent months. 

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