Taliban Suicide Bombers Kill Seven in Kabul, Injure 19

Seven people were killed and 21 injured after Taliban suicide bombers targeted two buses carrying Afghan soldiers in Kabul, Wednesday.

The attacks come a day after Afghanistan signed a deal to allow the U.S troops to remain in the country after this year.

Two suicide bombers were involved in the attacks targeted at buses carrying Afghan troops in Kabul.

The first attacker struck a bus carrying Afghan National Army officers, killing seven and wounding 15 in West Kabul, said Kabul's criminal investigation police chief Mohammad Farid Afzali, reports the Associated Press.

In the second incident, the suicide bomber blew himself up in front of a bus in northeastern Kabul. The attack left six army personnel wounded, Afzali said.

Taliban claimed responsibility for the attacks.

Taliban also condemned Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani and his government for permitting foreign troops to stay in the country after the year ends. The militants called  Ghani's government a stooge regime that was ignoring the country's long term interests.

"The signatories of this pact and its backers shall all be forever ingrained as foreign slaves in the history books and memories of the Afghans," Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said in a statement, reports Reuters.

The deal signed between U.S. and Afghanistan will permit 12,000 foreign troops to stay in Afghanistan mainly to continue training the Afghan national security force. However, it also comprises a small U.S. force of 1,800 personnel who will conduct counter- terrorism operations.

Afghan authorities say the pact will increase the morale of the country's security forces and restore confidence in the economy.