Taliban kill six Islamic State members in raid in Kabul
The Hindu
The Islamic State terrorists killed in the raid on their hideout by Taliban, were involved in two major attacks in recent weeks.
Taliban security forces killed six Islamic State members in an overnight operation in the Afghan capital, Kabul, a spokesman for the ruling group's administration said on Saturday, October 22, 2022.
The Islamic State members killed in the raid on their hideout were involved in two major attacks in recent weeks, one on a city mosque and the other on a tutoring institute in which dozens of female students were killed, said the spokesman, Qari Yusuf Ahmadi.
"They were the attackers of the Wazir Akbar Khan mosque and also ... of Kaaj Institute," said Ahmadi, who said one Taliban security force member was killed in the operation.
No group claimed responsibility for either attack.
The blast at the female section of the Kaaj Institute education centre on Sept. 30 killed 53 people, most of them girls and young women.
On Sept. 23, at least seven people were killed and more than 40 wounded in blast near a mosque in Wazir Akbar Khan, a heavily fortified neighbourhood once home to a "Green Zone" of embassies and foreign force bases.
Since the Taliban took over in 2021, they say they have focused on securing the country after decades of war.
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