The Taliban have killed the “mastermind” behind the Kabul airport suicide attack in 2021 carried out by an ISIS-affiliated terrorist group that killed 13 U.S. troops and many more civilians during the United States’ chaotic evacuation from the country, U.S. officials said on Tuesday. The bombing occurred on Aug. 26, 2021, as U.S. troops were…

KABUL, Afghanistan—The ISIS terrorist group claimed responsibility Thursday for a deadly bombing that killed at least five people near the Foreign Ministry in the Afghan capital the previous day. The bombing was the second major attack in Kabul in 2023 and drew condemnation from the international community. The extremist group said in a statement that…

RIYADH/KABUL—ISIS terrorist group on Monday claimed responsibility for an attack on Taliban forces in Kabul. The terrorist group said on Telegram that the attack on Sunday had killed 20 people and wounded 30. A spokesman for Afghanistan’s Taliban-run interior ministry said an explosion outside the military airport in the capital Kabul had caused multiple casualties….

KABUL, Afghanistan—A bomb exploded near a checkpoint at Kabul’s military airport Sunday morning killing and wounding “several” people, Taliban said, the first deadly blast of 2023 in Afghanistan. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, but the regional affiliate of the ISIS terrorist group—known as ISIS in Khorasan Province—has increased its attacks since the…

KABUL—At least four people are dead and 10 wounded after an explosion went off near a mosque in Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul on Friday, with a hospital confirming the number of casualties. A column of black smoke rose into the sky and shots rang out several minutes after the blast in the city’s diplomatic quarter….

Some of President Joe Biden’s remarks on his 2024 plans, the pandemic, and Taiwan depart from what the White House has said. To break down Biden’s “60 minutes” interview, we sit down with Florida Congresswoman Kat Cammack. The Biden administration returns a kidnapped American home in exchange for releasing a Taliban prisoner. The prisoner swap…

ISLAMABAD—At least three Afghan crew members were killed Saturday when a U.S.–manufactured Black Hawk helicopter they were flying crashed, the Taliban’s defense ministry said. The statement said that five others were wounded in the accident during a training session overseen by Afghanistan’s defense ministry at the capital of Kabul. It is not known how many…

The ISIS terrorist group has claimed credit for Monday’s deadly suicide bomb attack near the entrance of the Russian embassy in the Afghanistan capital, Kabul. In a statement on the extremist group’s Telegram channel, ISIS said one of its fighters “blew up his suicide vest in a gathering attended by Russian employees” near the embassy….

KABUL—A blast that tore through a Kabul mosque during evening prayers on Wednesday killed 21 people, Kabul police said on Thursday, as the United Nations expressed concern over a growing number of civilian casualties from explosions. Police spokesperson Khalid Zadran said that another 33 people had been injured in the blast, which witnesses told Reuters…

KABUL—A bomb blast in a busy shopping street in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Saturday killed at least eight people and injured 22, hospital officials and witnesses said. The bomb exploded in a western district of the city where members of the minority Shi’ite Muslim community regularly meet. ISIS terrorist group claimed responsibility for the attack,…