Afghan Taliban’s minister for refugees killed in Kabul blast
- 11-Dec-2024
KABUL: The Afghan Taliban’s acting minister for refugees, Khalil Rahman Haqqani, has been killed in a blast in the country’s capital Kabul, his nephew Anas Haqqani said on Wednesday. Khalil Haqqani became a minister in the Taliban’s interim government after foreign forces withdrew from Afghanistan in 2021. He was a senior leader of the Haqqani […]
At least 7 dead, 20 injured in Kabul blast
- 08-Nov-2023
KABUL: At least seven people dead while 20 others sustained injuries in a blast that occurred Kabul Afghanistan, ARY News reported. According to Afghan media, the incident occurred in the western part of the city in Dashti Barchi area where a blast in a minibus took lives of seven people. In January this year, an […]
Blast at education institute in Kabul kills 19: police
- 30-Sep-2022
KABUL: A suicide attack at an education institute in the Afghan capital of Kabul killed 19 people and wounded dozens, police said on Friday, but there was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. Many of those living in the western area where the blast occurred are Hazara, an ethnic minority targeted in past […]
Blast tears through Kabul mosque, killing at least 5
- 25-May-2022
A blast tore through a mosque in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Wednesday evening, killing at least five people, authorities and hospitals said, the same day deadly explosions hit passenger vehicles in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif. A spokesman for the capital’s commander said at least two people were injured in the blast on a mosque […]
Blast kills more than 50 at Kabul mosque, its leader says
- 29-Apr-2022
A powerful explosion killed more than 50 worshippers after Friday prayers at a Kabul mosque, its leader said, the latest in a series of attacks on civilian targets in Afghanistan during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The blast hit the Khalifa Sahib Mosque in the west of the capital in the early afternoon, said […]
At least 7 killed in Kabul car bomb blast: interior ministry
- 13-Nov-2019
The spokesman, Nasrat Rahimi, said the bomb had gone off in a neighbourhood which is near the interior ministry and north of Kabul airport.
Massive blast hits Kabul wedding, at least 20 wounded: hospital
- 18-Aug-2019
Interior ministry spokesman Nasrat Rahimi said the blast occurred in a west Kabul wedding hall around 10:40 pm (1810 GMT).
Car bomb blast near high-security compound in Kabul kills four, 90 wounded
- 14-Jan-2019
KABUL: At least four people were killed and 90 wounded when a bomb-laden car blew up near a high-security compound in the Afghan capital Kabul on Monday, officials said. An Afghan government security official said the blast occurred on Jalalabad Road in eastern Kabul near the Green Village compound, home to several international companies and […]
Rights groups condemn Kabul school blast as outrage grows
- 17-Aug-2018
Rights groups Thursday condemned a suicide blast inside a school that killed dozens of students in Kabul a day earlier, as outrage over the attack grew while tearful families buried loved ones in the war-weary Afghan capital. The Islamic State-claimed blast hit an education centre in an area of western Kabul where students were studying […]
Ambulance bomb kills 95, wounds 158 in Kabul: official
- 27-Jan-2018
KABUL: An explosives-packed ambulance blew up in a crowded area of Kabul on Saturday, killing at least 95 people and wounding 158 others, officials said, in one of the biggest blasts to rock the war-torn city in recent years. The Taliban-claimed assault — the second carried out by the militant group in the Afghan capital in […]









