A Taliban fighter is photographed against a Taliban flag flying at Kabul International Airport on September 11, 2021.
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At least six people have been killed and 13 others injured in a suicide bombing in the Afghan capital Kabul.
Khalid Zadran, spokesman for Kabul’s police chief, told the Associated Press that one woman was among those killed, and all of the injured were civilians.
The explosion occurred in Kabul’s Qala Bakhtiar neighborhood, and quoted Zadran, Afghanistan’s Tolo News reported that the bomber had “hidden explosives on his person.”
No one has claimed responsibility for the bombing, although ISIS-Ka faction of the self-proclaimed Islamic State, which occasionally carries out attacks across the countryThey often target Afghanistan’s Shia minority, although school And maternity hospital was also fatally attacked.
As of August 2021, the Taliban was responsible for the majority of violence in Afghanistan. when they fight with US and NATO forces.
But after the group took over the country three years ago and US and NATO troops withdrew completely, it promised the Afghan people tighter security measures.
That promise was immediately tested when ISIS-K launched two attacks on Kabul International Airport and the nearby Baron Hotel on August 26, 2021.
Nearly 200 people were killed, including 13 US service members. Most of the dead were Afghan civilians.
Although ISIS-K and the Taliban are both Sunni groups, their ideologies are different.
As the Taliban reasserted the control they lost in Afghanistan in 2001, ISIS-K stepped up its recruitment and attack tactics, often targeting the very groups the Taliban had promised to protect: women, children, minorities and even foreign dignitaries.
In September 2022, an ISIS attack outside the Russian embassy in Kabul killed two embassy staff. Three months later, another attack targeted the Pakistani embassy in Kabul, wounding a guard inside the embassy grounds.
