Dozens killed in Afghan wedding attack
Nato blamed the Taliban on Thursday over an attack on an Afghan wedding that killed more than 40 people.
Nato blamed the Taliban on Thursday over an attack on an Afghan wedding that killed more than 40 people.
About 100 militants were killed in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, half in air strikes that thwarted a major attack on a key town overnight.
Thirteen people were killed, mostly police, when a suicide bomber loyal to the ousted Taliban regime blew himself up at the police headquarters in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on Tuesday, officials said. A man claiming to be a spokesperson for the Taliban militia said the radical Sunni Muslim movement was responsible for the blast.
Afghanistan’s border town of Spin Boldak was in shock on Tuesday after one of the biggest suicide bombings since the Taliban’s fall in 2001 killed 22 people leaving a wrestling match. Monday’s bombing in the town on the Pakistan border struck hours after another suicide blast in the nearby city of Kandahar killed three soldiers and a civilian.