Taliban blast kills US soldier, several civilians in Kabul

A Taliban car bomb exploded and killed U.S. and Romanian service members and 10 civilians in a busy diplomatic area near the U.S. Embassy in Kabul on Thursday, the second major attack this week as the Afghan government warned that a U.S.-Taliban deal on ending America's longest war was moving at dangerous speed.U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, under pressure after announcing earlier in the week that "on principle" he and the Taliban had reached an agreement, returned abruptly to Qatar, site of the t