At least 12 people, including three children, were killed when a minivan packed with explosives rammed into a vehicle carrying foreigners during Kabul’s morning rush hour Wednesday, officials said. Four foreign nationals were among those wounded in the attack that targeted an SUV belonging to a private Canadian security company, ...
The ISIL group’s Afghan branch has been defeated in one of the key eastern provinces where it first sought to establish a stronghold, a top Afghan security official said Sunday. ISIL “were defeated in Nangarhar, their centers were destroyed”, acting interior minister Massoud Andarabi told reporters in Jalalabad, the Nangarhar ...