Key Taliban Commander Killed In Deadly Kabul Military Hospital Attack
NDTV
Kabul Military Hospital Attack: At least 19 people were killed in attack claimed by Taliban's hardline rivals, Islamic State-Khorasan (IS-K), on Kabul's military hospital.
A Taliban military commander in Kabul was among the fighters killed when his men responded to an Islamic State attack on a hospital, officials said Wednesday.
Hamdullah Mokhlis, a member of the hardline Haqqani network and an officer in the Badri Corps special forces, is the most senior figure to have been killed since the Taliban seized the capital.
"When he got the information that Sardar Daud Khan Hospital was under attack, Maulvi Hamdullah (Mokhlis), the commander of the Kabul corps, immediately rushed to the scene," the Taliban media official said.
"We tried to stop him but he laughed. Later we found out that he was martyred in the face-to-face fight at the hospital," he added.
