Dr Hannelie Groenewald was in a meeting in Kabul when the Taliban wiped out her entire family at their Afghanistan compound, the Pretoria News reported on Saturday. “An attack was expected on that day. Little did I know it would take place a few hours later at my house, killing[…]
A series of attacks across Afghanistan have killed more than a dozen people, including 12 workers clearing land mines in the country’s south and seven Afghan soldiers in Kabul. The largest attack on Saturday targeted the Shorab camp in Helmand province, where the demining workers were based, Afghan police spokesman[…]
An explosion has hit a French cultural centre inside a high school in the Afghan capital, Kabul, Al Jazeera has learned. A senior Afghan official told the Associated Press news agency that a teenage suicide bomber carried out the attack inside the compound of Istiqlal High School, killing at least[…]
A suicide attack on a foreign convoy in Afghanistan capital Kabul has left at least five people dead, including a British national, and 20 others wounded, according to the country’s Health Ministry. General Ayoub Salangi, the deputy interior minister, said the bomber was riding a motorcycle on Jalalabad Road during[…]
Taliban suicide bombers struck two buses carrying Afghan soldiers in Kabul early Wednesday, killing seven people and wounding 21, just a day after the signing of a key U.S.-Afghan security pact. The long-awaited deal allows U.S. forces to remain in the country past the end of 2014, ending the uncertainty[…]
A Taliban suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden car into a convoy carrying foreign troops in Kabul on Tuesday, triggering a massive blast that shook the city, causing an unknown number of casualties. At the side of the road, foreign troops gave first-aid to some blood-stained fellow soldiers from the convoy,[…]
Two car bombs targeting local police and intelligence offices have exploded in the city of Ghazni south of the Afghan capital Kabul, sources have told Al Jazeera. At least 18 people were killed and more than 130 others were injured in the attack, which also destroyed dozens of shops near[…]
Taliban fighters have attacked Kabul’s international airport, setting off explosions and trading gunfire with Afghan soldiers as a major alert was raised in the capital. A rapid response force was sent to the airport by the Afghan military after an explosion and bursts of gunfire were heard on Thursday morning.[…]
A suicide bomber blew up a car packed with explosives near a busy market and a mosque in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing at least 89 people in the deadliest insurgent attack on civilians since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion. The explosion destroyed dozens of mud-brick shops, flipped cars over and[…]
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