FACTBOX-Major bomb attacks in Afghanistan

Nov 7 (Reuters) - Afghans began three days of national mourning on Wednesday for the 41 victims of the country's bloodiest suicide attack, most of them children.

The Taliban, who have carried out more than 130 suicide attacks in Afghanistan this year, have denied responsibility.

Here is a chronology of major bomb attacks mounted by suspected Taliban or allied militants in Afghanistan since 2002:

Sept. 5, 2002: A car bomb explodes near Kabul's Information Ministry, killing at least 26 and injuring 150 in the worst bombing since the pro-Western government came to power.

Aug. 13, 2003: At least 15 die, including a woman and children, when a suspected Taliban bomb blows up bus in Helmand.

Jan. 6, 2004: At least 12 die, eight of them children, and dozens are injured when a blast rips through a truck in Kandahar.

June 13, 2005: A suicide bomber wearing a police uniform kills 20, including a police chief, in an attack on a mosque in the southern city of Kandahar, as mourners gathered to pay respects to an assassinated anti-Taliban cleric.

Jan. 17, 2006: Taliban suicide bombers kill at least 20 in the town of Spin Boldak, bordering Pakistan.

Aug. 3: A suicide car bomb attack aimed at a convoy of NATO troops in Kandahar kills at least 21.

Sept. 8: Fourteen including two U.S. soldiers are killed in a suicide car-bomb blast near the U.S. embassy in Kabul.

Sept. 30: A suicide bomber detonates explosives at the gate of the Interior Ministry in Kabul, killing 13.

Feb. 27, 2007: A suicide bomber kills 14 outside the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan, at Bagram north of Kabul.

May 17: Roadside explosions kill 11 Afghan police officers. Information Minister Karim Khurram is wounded in a suicide bombing in Kandahar province. Earlier in the day, two blasts kill 10 police officers in Kandahar city.

June 17: A Taliban suicide bomber blows up a police bus in Kabul killing 24 and wounding dozens.

July 5: A suicide bomber in police uniform kills 10 Afghan policemen at a checkpoint near southeastern town of Spin Boldak.

July 10: A suicide car bomber kills 17 civilians in an attack aimed at NATO forces in a bazaar of the Deh Rawud district of Uruzgan province.

Aug. 18: Suicide car bomb attack kills 15 outside the base of a U.S. security firm in Kandahar province.

Sept. 10: At least 26, many of them civilians, are killed in two simultaneous suicide attacks in Girishk district of the southern province of Helmand.

Sept. 29: Suicide bomb attack on an army bus kills 28 Afghan troops and two civilians in Kabul. Taliban claim responsibility.

Oct. 2: At least 11 civilians and police are killed in a suicide bomb attack which completely destroys a bus carrying Afghan police in Kabul.

Nov. 7: Suicide attack on a parliamentary delegation kills at least 41 in northern town of Baghlan, in the country's worst such attack.

Source: Reuters (Writing by Gill Murdoch and Nagesh Narayana)