Taliban Kills 20 in Third Day of Surging Violence in Afghanistan
Taliban operatives detonated a truck bomb on Thursday in the southern Afghan city of Qalat, killing at least twenty people and injuring 95 others as the blast leveled a hospital. The attack came on the heels of an Afghan government-led drone strike, backed by the U.S., in the east of the country late Wednesday. The strike was meant to target Islamic State fighters, but ended up killing up to 30 civilians, many of whom were farmers. It wasn’t yet clear if Thursday’s attack was in response to the drone strike. The blast at the hospital ...
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