A bomb exploded in the entrance of a mosque in the Afghan capital on Sunday, leaving a "number of civilians dead," a Taliban spokesman said, in the first major attack on the city after the departure of U.S. forces.
A bomb exploded in the entrance of a mosque in the Afghan capital on Sunday, leaving a "number of civilians dead," a Taliban spokesman said, in the first major attack on the city after the departure of U.S. forces.
Every night in yet another house in Afghanistan's capital, a U.S. green card-holding couple from California take turns sleeping, with one always awake to watch over their three young children so they can flee if they hear the footsteps of the Taliban.
The Taliban raised their flag over the Afghan presidential palace Saturday, a spokesman said, as the U.S. and the world marked the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
The Islamic State-Khorasan, the Afghanistan-embedded terrorist group blamed for the Aug. 26 killings of 13 U.S. troops at the Kabul airport, has maintained a "tactical accommodation" with the Haqqani Network, which previously carried out mass killings in the capital, said a United Nations report.