PLEASE NOTE: QUALITY AS INCOMING<br/> <br />ROUGH CUT - NO REPORTER NARRATION<br/> <br />A suicide bomber killed at least 15 people and wounded 28 more in an attack on a busy marketplace in Afghanistan's northern province of Faryab on Tuesday (March 18), the provincial governor said.<br/> <br />Faryab governor Mohammadullah Batash told Reuters it was a busy bazaar day and the market was full of activity when the bomber detonated the explosives.<br/> <br />He said the target was unclear.<br/> <br />Afghanistan faces security challenges, such as preventing hard-to-govern areas from reverting to militant safe havens, as foreign forces begin to withdraw.<br/> <br />With foreign troops due to end combat operations in Afghanistan at the close of 2014, NATO has been planning to keep a slimmed-down force there to train and assist Afghan forces who continue to fight Taliban insurgents.
