At least 21 people, including four journalists, have been killed and dozens wounded after two explosions hit Kabul, according to Afghan health officials. The blasts went off during rush hour on Monday morning in the Shashdarak area of the Afghan capital. In the first explosion, a suicide bomber detonated himself[…]
Bombings at voter registration centres in the Afghan capital, Kabul, and in Baghlan province have killed at least 63 people and wounded more than a hundred others, health officials said. At least 57 people were killed in Kabul when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives at the doorway of an[…]
At least 29 people have been killed and 52 others wounded in a mid-day explosion in the Afghan capital, Kabul. Tolo News reported that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) claimed responsibility for Wednesday’s attack, which happened close to Kabul University and Ali[…]
A military academy in the Afghan capital, Kabul, has come under attack leaving at least two soldiers dead, days after more than 100 people were killed in an explosion near the interior ministry building. A presidential spokesman said on Monday that the gunmen did not manage to get inside the[…]
At least 24 people have been killed and more than 40 wounded after a suicide car bomb targeted a bus carrying ministry staff in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, officials said. Intelligence officials told Al Jazeera that the bus was carrying staff of the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum when it came[…]
Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani has condemned the “cowardly” truck bomb attack that ripped through the heart of Kabul’s diplomatic district, killing at least 90 people and wounding hundreds. The powerful explosion on Wednesday was described by officials as “one of the biggest” to have hit the Afghan capital. The explosives[…]
The US has dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb it has ever used in combat in eastern Afghanistan on a series of caves used by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group, according to the Pentagon. The GBU-43 bomb was dropped on Thursday from a MC-130 aircraft in[…]
Civilians, mostly women and children, were killed last week in air raids by NATO forces in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, an initial United Nations inquiry suggested. On Thursday and Friday as many as 18 civilians died in air strikes in Helmand’s Sangin district, according to a UN statement released on Sunday.[…]
The United Arab Emirates says five of its diplomats were killed in a bombing in Afghanistan’s Kandahar that killed at least 11 people and wounded 17 others, including the UAE Ambassador. The official Emirati news agency, WAM, said the officials were “on a mission to carry out humanitarian, educational and development projects”.[…]
Fighters have killed at least 30 civilians after abducting them in the remote Afghan province of Ghor, according to an Afghan police official. Suspected ISIL fighters killed dozens of civilians on Tuesday in the Firoz Koh district in revenge for the death of one of their commanders, a provincial official[…]
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