At least 18 people including 14 foreigners were killed in a bloody Taliban-claimed assault on a luxury hotel in Kabul, an interior ministry spokesman said Sunday, hours after the overnight attack ended.
"Fourteen foreigners were killed and four Afghans," interior ministry spokesman Najib Danish told Afghanistan's Tolo News, without specifying the nationalities involved.
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Armed militants stormed an intelligence agency training facility in Kabul on Monday, triggering intense fighting with police, officials said, the latest attack to hit the Afghan capital.
"Around 10:10 am, a group of armed attackers entered an under-construction building in (the) NDS training centre in Afshar area of Kabul. The fighting is ongoing and we have also launched our operation,"Read more
Six rockets landed near Kabul’s international airport on Wednesday after US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis flew to the Afghan capital for talks, an official said.
The volley of missiles struck near the military section of the airport but there were no casualties or immediate claim of responsibility, interior ministry spokesman Najib Danish told AFP.
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Twelve people were killed in an hours-long suicide bomb and gun attack on a Shiite mosque in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Friday, an official said.
"We have ten civilians martyred and over 40 wounded. One police and one special forces member were also killed," Najib Danish, deputy interior ministry spokesman, told AFP, adding that the attack was overRead more
An explosion struck the entrance to a mosque in Afghanistan's main western city of Herat late Tuesday, injuring at least 10 people, police and government officials said.
"There has been an explosion at the gate of Jawadya mosque in Herat city, possible caused by a car bomb. Ten wounded have so far been reported," interior ministry spokesman Najib Danish toldRead more
At least 24 people have been killed and 42 wounded after a car bomb struck a bus carrying government employees in western Kabul Monday, an official told AFP, the latest attack to strike the Afghan capital.
"The car bomb hit a bus carrying employees of the ministry of mines during rush hour," interior ministry spokesman Najib Danish told AFP.
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At least 24 people have been killed and 42 wounded after a car bomb rocked Kabul just before 7:00 am Monday, an interior ministry spokesman told AFP.
"The car bomb hit a bus carrying employees of the ministry of mines during rush hour," the official, Najib Danish said.
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A car bomb exploded in western Kabul on Monday, police spokesman Najib Danish told AFP, adding there were no details yet about the target or if there were any casualties.
The neighborhood is home to many Najib Danish, a persecuted ethnic minority which was hit hard just a year ago in a strike which killed dozens -- in the firstRead more
At least five civilians were killed and three others wounded in a suicide bombing near the government office buildings in central of Afghan capital of Kabul on Wednesday, a spokesman of the Interior Ministry said.
"One suicide bomber detonated his explosive-jacket in a roadside in Pul-e-Yakpaysagi locality in police District Two of Kabul city. As a result five civilians wereRead more
A pair of suicide bombings, both claimed by the Taliban, struck the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Wednesday, an Afghan official said.
Najib Danish, deputy spokesman for the Interior Ministry, said that one bomber targeted the gates of a police station in western Kabul as part of a coordinated attack and that a gunbattle between police and an unknown number ofRead more