Massacre in Afghanistan with 12 dead from explosion in a mosque during prayer

The temporary truce of Eid al-Fitr was shattered Afghanistan A car bomb had exploded at an Iraqi police recruiting center at Kisak, west of Kabul, shortly after noon in front of a rally on Friday, killing at least 12 people.

The blast occurred during Friday prayers, injuring at least 15 worshipers, police said on the second day of the truce. Taliban and Afghan forces on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr, the Muslim celebration of the end of Ramadan fasting.

According to AMPE, from May 1, the date of the beginning of the American withdrawal from Afghanistan, the country is at the mercy of a new wave of violence, as the U.S. military continues to withdraw.

Last week, US fighter jets took off from a base in Kandahar to support Afghan forces trying to repel a large-scale Taliban attack.

Washington and NATO have pledged to withdraw all their forces until September 11, 2021, the twentieth anniversary of the 2001 attacks.

The US military announced yesterday that the withdrawal from Afghanistan has reached 6% to 12% of its forces.

Few believe that Afghan forces will be able to confront the Taliban without the protection of the US Air Force and Special Forces.

In recent weeks, fighting has intensified in some Afghan provinces, and on Tuesday, the Taliban occupied an area controlled by the Afghan government in Kabul province.

Taliban fighters surround Afghanistan’s major urban centers, awaiting the withdrawal of US forces to launch attacks on Afghan cities.

On May 8, more than 50 people were killed and about 100 injured in a Shiite district of Khazar west of Kabul in a series of bomb blasts in front of a girls’ school. It was the deadliest attack in a year.

Afghan authorities have blamed the attack on the Taliban, which has denied it was the perpetrators.

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