KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton ate breakfast with soldiers from New York and Indiana at the main American base in Afghanistan before meeting with the top U.S. general in the country and President Hamid Karzai on Sunday, officials said.

Clinton, a Democrat from New York who is considering running for president, has said she wants to see more troops in Afghanistan.

She traveled here with U.S. Senator Evan Bayh, a Democrat from Indiana, and Representative John McHugh, a Republican from New York state.

All three are members of armed services committees.

Clinton on Friday said she was hearing “increasingly troubling reports out of Afghanistan,” and would be searching for “accurate information about the true state of affairs,” militarily and politically, during her trip.

The Taliban last year launched a record number of attacks, and about 4,000 people died in insurgency-related violence in Afghanistan’s bloodiest year since a U.S.-led coalition ousted the Taliban in late 2001.

Some 23,000 U.S. troops are stationed in Afghanistan, about half under the NATO flag and half under control of the U.S.-led coalition.

Clinton’s meetings with U.S. military officials and Karzai were closed, and the senator made no statements to media.

The delegation’s trip to the Afghan capital, Kabul, comes a day after a visit to Iraq, where Clinton expressed doubt that Iraq’s government would follow through with its promises to secure Baghdad as she met with top Iraqi officials and U.S. commanders there.

South of Kabul in Qalat, a suicide bomber blew himself up near a convoy of foreign construction workers and Afghan soldiers, wounding a civilian, said Mohammmad Asif, a police official.

Qalat is about 350 kilometers (220 miles) south of Kabul, and Clinton and her colleagues were far from any danger.