A suicide bomber killed at least 30 people inside a Shi‘ite mosque in Kabul on Friday, a security official said. He said that was the latest in a string of violent attacks on the country’s Shi‘ite minority. The attack occurred at Imam Zaman mosque in the western Dasht-e-Barchi part of Kabul, as Shi‘ite worshippers gathered […]
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A soldier in Afghanistan has attacked US troops at a military base, in the northern Balkh province on Saturday, wounding seven. The US soldiers were evacuated after the “insider attack” a spokesman for the US military command said. The Nato-led Resolute Support mission said one Afghan soldier was killed and another injured in the incident […]
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The death toll in the May 31 bomb attack in the Afghan capital has risen to 150, President Ashraf Ghani said on Tuesday at the start of an international security conference in Kabul. Mr. Ghani said the attack near the German embassy had not been aimed at a specific target but the whole of the […]
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At least 20 people have been killed after three consecutive explosions occurred at the funeral ceremony of a protester in the Afghan capital Kabul, officials said. “Until now we don’t know if the explosions were suicide bombings or previously placed explosives,” a police official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told dpa. High-ranking officials, […]
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A suicide bomb attack hit Kabul, Afghanistan near the German Embassy during rush hour of Wednesday morning, killing at least 80 people close to a highly secure diplomatic area. Apart from the death reported, some 300 others were injured, the health ministry said. A towering plume of smoke rose over the Afghan capital as emergency […]
Continue ReadingBritish Prime Minister, David Cameron, in a conversation with Queen Elizabeth on Tuesday described Nigeria and Afghanistan as “fantastically corrupt” countries.Cameron is due to host an international anti-corruption summit on Thursday aimed at stepping up global action to combat corruption in all walks of life. In a pooled video feed made available to the ITN […]
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