PESHAWAR: The Taliban said they have attacked a base of the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISIS-K) militant group in the Khair Khana Mena area of Kabul killing several militants.
A Taliban source said in a Twitter message that three members of the group were killed in the operation last nights. “A stronghold of ISIS has been completely destroyed and all ISIS members have been killed,” the Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid said in a Twitter post on Monday. However, Mujahid did not identify the slain members of the terrorist group.
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Earlier in the day, eight people were killed and at least eight others injured in an explosion at the gates of the central Eidgah in the capital Kabul. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack, but hours after the incident, the Taliban attacked ISIS militants in north of Kabul. The ISIS fighters have claimed responsibility for such attacks in the past.
The bomber struck shortly after noon in front of the Eidgah mosque, where the funeral prayers of mother of the Taliban’s spokesman and deputy minister of information and culture, Zabihullah Mujahid, was offered. The Kabul Emergency Hospital, run by an Italian NGO, wrote on Twitter that four injured people had been taken to their hospital. No group has claimed responsibility for the blast.
Mr Mujahid’s Twitter message also did not say about any link between yesterday’s attack and today’s operations against the ISIS militants. However, Taliban interior ministry spokesman Qari Saeed Khosti said that they have arrested three suspects in connection with the incident.
In the past few days, there have been reports of bomb blasts in eastern Nangarhar, Afghanistan, which have reportedly killed several people. Two days ago, Maruf Sadat, a writer and journalist in Jalalabad, was shot dead by unknown assailants. The Taliban have not yet commented on the bombings in Nangarhar.