The explosion rocked central Kabul on Sunday, in what authorities say was a suicide attack against a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation convoy.
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A helicopter crash a year ago killed five British troops in the south of the country when their special forces Lynx helicopter ploughed into the ground during a practice sortie outside Kandahar Airfield.
There was no indication if the victims, or the helicopter, were American, according to a statement from Resolute Support, the NATO-led military mission in Afghanistan that includes American forces.
However, spokesman Colonel Brian Tribus said, “No casualties are reported at this time”.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack via a Twitter account known to be associated with the Islamic militant group.
The Taliban seized the northern city late last month, and a USA airstrike, requested by counter-attacking Afghan forces on October. 3, killed 22 people and injured dozens of others when it hit a hospital used by Doctors Without Borders, also known as Médecins Sans Frontières. Six US servicemembers and five civilian contractors were killed, as well as several Afghan civilians on the ground.
There are about 12,500 North Atlantic Treaty Organisation personnel in the capital of Afghanistan to support and train Afghan security forces.
The bombing follows the Taliban’s capture of the city of Kunduz in September.
The medical charity shut down the trauma centre, branding the incident a war crime and demanding an worldwide investigation into the incident, which sparked an avalanche of global condemnation.
The British Defense Ministry told NBC News that two British Royal Air Force members were among the dead in the crash.
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In a statement on Sunday, MSF said it had officially not received any details of the compensation.
