Bomb kills at least 30 as it explodes outside Kabul girls’ school with pupils aged between 11 and 15 among dead as final US and UK troops leave Afghanistan The Taliban condemned the attack, denied responsibility and claimed ‘only Islamic state could be responsible’ Interior Ministry spokesman Tariq Arian said the death toll is expected … Read more
Bomb kills at least 30 as it explodes outside Kabul girls’ school with pupils aged between 11 and 15 among dead as final US and UK troops leave Afghanistan The Taliban condemned the attack, denied responsibility and claimed ‘only Islamic state could be responsible’ Interior Ministry spokesman Tariq Arian said the death toll is expected … Read more
The State Department is ordering home most remaining staff at the U.S. embassy in Kabul due to security concerns after President Joe Biden announced earlier this month a full troop withdrawal from Afghanistan by September 11, 2021. All personnel have been instructed, according to a Tuesday report, to depart Afghanistan unless their jobs require them … Read more
Two Afghan women judges have been assassinated in the country’s capital in an attack that has been blamed on the Taliban. Gunmen shot dead the two unnamed judges, who worked for the Supreme Court, on Sunday in Kabul, where a new trend of targeted killings of high-profile figures have sown fear in the restive city. … Read more