A number of foreigners were killed and wounded when a minibus was hit by a bomb blast in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. Conflicting reports claim that up to 14 Nepalese guards inside the vehicle perished in the attack. AFP reported that at least 14 people died in the blast.[…]
The Taliban have claimed responsibility for an explosion that rocked central Kabul early on Tuesday, leaving a thick plume of black smoke rising from the vicinity of the sprawling US embassy in the Afghan capital. President Ashraf Ghani said a number of people were killed and wounded in the blast[…]
An explosion has hit near the Russian embassy in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, killing at least four people and wounding 24 others, the country’s interior ministry said. Sources told Al Jazeera that a suicide bomber targeted an Afghan vehicle, reportedly carrying government personnel, in the attack on Wednesday afternoon. Another witness[…]
A Taliban suicide bomber killed at least one person and wounded 13 in an attack on a road near a school close to Kabul airport, officials in the Afghan capital said on Monday, barely two weeks after a major Taliban assault in the city. Police said the target of the[…]
In Khawaja Ghar, a village in Deh Sabz district on the dusty outskirts of Kabul, there is little noticeable government presence, and Afghan soldiers and police are a rare sight. In fact, you are almost as likely to come across a Taliban fighter, residents of Khawaja Ghar and surrounding settlements[…]
A military helicopter has crashed at the NATO base in the Afghan capital, Kabul, killing five coalition members and injuring five others, authorities have said. A statement from the Resolute Support Mission did not give the nationalities of those killed and injured, all of them NATO personnel. However, Britain’s Ministry[…]
A car bomb exploded near the entrance to Kabul airport on Monday, killing at least five people and wounding 16, days after a series of suicide attacks in the Afghan capital killed dozens of civilians and wounded hundreds more. The wave of bombings in Kabul and provincial centers follows a[…]
A truck bomb has killed at least 15 people and injured about 400 more in central Kabul, near an Afghan army base in the city’s District 8, police sources have told Al Jazeera. The explosion occurred early on Friday morning, rattling nearby homes. “Moments ago there was a car bomb[…]
Gunfire and explosions have been reported in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, hours after a Taliban suicide bomber rammed a vehicle into a convoy belonging to foreign forces, security officials said. Police spokesman Ebadullah Karimi said that armed men entered a building close to an installation used by Afghanistan’s intelligence agency on[…]
Thousands have marched through the Afghan capital, demanding justice for a woman who was beaten to death by a mob a week ago after being falsely accused of burning a Quran. Men and women of all ages carried banners and some painted their faces red as a symbol of the[…]
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