A powerful explosion rocked a mosque in the Afghan capital late Wednesday during evening prayers, according to witnesses and police. Kabul police said the blast left behind several casualties, but did not specify the number. A Taliban intelligence official told Reuters the dead and wounded could reach 35, adding that the number could rise further. […]
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Afghanistan: Bomb explosion in Kabul – At least 22 injured
LAST UPDATE: 17:12 A bomb exploded on a busy shopping street in the Afghan capital Kabul today, wounding at least 22 people, hospital officials and witnesses said. The explosion occurred in a western district of the city where members of the minority Shiite Muslim community meet. Video posted online shows ambulances rushing to the scene, […]
Afghanistan: Bomb blast in Kabul – Eight dead and at least 22 injured
LAST UPDATE: 19:15 A bomb exploded on a busy shopping street in the Afghan capital Kabul today, killing eight people and wounding at least 22, hospital officials and witnesses said. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack. The explosion occurred in a western district of the city where members of the minority Shiite Muslim […]
Eight killed in Kabul blast – Islamic State claims responsibility
LAST UPDATE: 21.04 Eight people were killed and 18 wounded today in a bomb attack on a commercial street in a Shiite district of Kabul, according to the latest Afghan police report. “Security teams are trying to identify the perpetrators” of the attack, police spokesman Khalid Zadran said of the bomb, which exploded inside a […]
Afghanistan: Long-hour battle with jihadists and at least 6 dead in Kabul
Two members of the Taliban’s security forces were killed on Wednesday in a long-hour battle with jihadists that unfolded in a district of the Afghan capital, Kabul. Another four members of the Taliban forces were wounded in the fighting in the Shiite district of Kart-e-Sahi, according to the de facto government’s interior ministry. The Taliban […]
Afghanistan: The Taliban’s supreme leader appeared at the major rally being held in Kabul
Taliban supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada, who usually stays out of the public eye, appeared today at a meeting of Afghan religious leaders and tribal elders in Kabul, the government’s deputy spokesman said. Akhundzada, who has never been photographed or filmed in public since the Islamists seized power in August and lives in seclusion in Kandahar, […]
Afghanistan: One dead and 7 injured in mosque attack
At least one person was killed and seven others were injured in a bomb blast near a mosque in northeastern Afghanistan during Friday prayers, local police said. The bomber struck shortly after noon in front of a mosque in the Imam Sahib district of Kunduz province, killing at least one person and wounding seven others, […]