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 Taliban terrorist group’s takeover in 2021. Targets have included Taliban patrols and members of Afghanistan’s Shiite minority.
The military airport is around 200 meters (219 yards) from the civilian airport and close to the Interior Ministry, itself the site of a suicide bombing last October that killed at least four people….