WAR DEVELOPMENTS

AFGHANISTAN

> A rare rocket attack in the capital, Kabul, on Saturday night demolished two rooms of a mud-brick home and killed three sisters, ages 13, 15 and 16, the family and police said. The rocket in the attack on the southern end of Kabul landed on a house adjacent to an Afghan police training center. Police did not say who was believed responsible for the attack.

> A suicide car bomber attacked a police checkpoint in southern Kandahar province, killing five —- three police and two civilians —- police said.

> The U.S. coalition and Afghan forces killed six militants during a patrol in southern Helmand province.

IRAQ

> A car bomb killed at least 22 people in a square in northern Baghdad on Saturday, shattering a recent period of calm. It was the first major attack in the capital in more than a week.

> An Iraqi soldier and two other people were killed when a car bomb exploded as they were trying to defuse it in Musayyib, about 60 miles south of Baghdad, an Iraqi police officer said.

> A suspected al-Qaida in Iraq fugitive was killed in a gunbattle with police in Ramadi, police said. He was one of four suspected insurgents who escaped during a jailbreak and ensuing riot at a Ramadi police station on Friday that left six policemen and seven insurgents dead.