<p>A major US air base north of Kabul was targeted in a dawn rocket attack on Saturday but there were no casualties or damage to the airfield, officials said.</p>.<p>Five rockets were fired at Bagram Airfield at 6:00 am, said Parwan province spokeswoman Waheeda Shahkar, adding that police had defused another seven rockets mounted on a vehicle used in the attack.</p>.<p>A NATO official also confirmed the assault.</p>.<p>"Rockets were fired towards Bagram Airfield this morning. Initial reporting is there were no casualties and the airfield was not damaged," the official said.</p>.<p>No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, and the Taliban denied any involvement.</p>.<p>The jihadist Islamic State group previously claimed responsibility for a similar rocket attack on the base in April.</p>.<p>In recent months, IS has claimed several assaults in Kabul, including two deadly rocket attacks that struck residential areas in the capital.</p>.<p>The group also claimed brutal attacks on two separate educational centres in Kabul that killed dozens of people, most of them students.</p>.<p>Saturday's attack came a day after 15 children were killed when an explosives-laden motorbike blew up near a religious gathering in eastern Ghazni province.</p>.<p>Afghan officials blamed the Taliban for the blast.</p>.<p>Violence has surged in Afghanistan in recent months despite the government and the Taliban launching peace talks to end the country's grinding war.</p>.<p>The Taliban has carried out near-daily attacks targeting Afghan forces that have left hundreds of security personnel killed or wounded.</p>.<p>Attacks by the militants had killed nearly 500 civilians and wounded more than 1,000 others over the past three months, the interior ministry said on Saturday.</p>.<p>Earlier this week in Qatar, General Mark Milley, the US chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, held a rare meeting with Taliban representatives, calling on them to reduce violence in Afghanistan.</p>
<p>A major US air base north of Kabul was targeted in a dawn rocket attack on Saturday but there were no casualties or damage to the airfield, officials said.</p>.<p>Five rockets were fired at Bagram Airfield at 6:00 am, said Parwan province spokeswoman Waheeda Shahkar, adding that police had defused another seven rockets mounted on a vehicle used in the attack.</p>.<p>A NATO official also confirmed the assault.</p>.<p>"Rockets were fired towards Bagram Airfield this morning. Initial reporting is there were no casualties and the airfield was not damaged," the official said.</p>.<p>No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, and the Taliban denied any involvement.</p>.<p>The jihadist Islamic State group previously claimed responsibility for a similar rocket attack on the base in April.</p>.<p>In recent months, IS has claimed several assaults in Kabul, including two deadly rocket attacks that struck residential areas in the capital.</p>.<p>The group also claimed brutal attacks on two separate educational centres in Kabul that killed dozens of people, most of them students.</p>.<p>Saturday's attack came a day after 15 children were killed when an explosives-laden motorbike blew up near a religious gathering in eastern Ghazni province.</p>.<p>Afghan officials blamed the Taliban for the blast.</p>.<p>Violence has surged in Afghanistan in recent months despite the government and the Taliban launching peace talks to end the country's grinding war.</p>.<p>The Taliban has carried out near-daily attacks targeting Afghan forces that have left hundreds of security personnel killed or wounded.</p>.<p>Attacks by the militants had killed nearly 500 civilians and wounded more than 1,000 others over the past three months, the interior ministry said on Saturday.</p>.<p>Earlier this week in Qatar, General Mark Milley, the US chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, held a rare meeting with Taliban representatives, calling on them to reduce violence in Afghanistan.</p>