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To: Les H who wrote (43464)	9/3/2024 9:36:53 PM
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Deadly suicide blast kills at least six in Kabul September 2, 20244:10 PM ET By D. Parvaz At least six people have been killed and 13 more have been injured in a suicide bombing in the Afghan capital of Kabul. Khalid Zadran, the spokesman for the Kabul police chief, told the Associated Press that the dead included a woman, and that all of the injured were civilians. The explosion took place in the Qala Bakhtiar neighborhood of Kabul, and quoting Zadran, Afghanistan’s Tolo News reported that the bomber “concealed explosives on their body.” No one has claimed responsibility for the bombing yet, although ISIS-K, a faction of the self-proclaimed Islamic State, sporadically carries out attacks around the country. They frequently target Afghanistan’s minority Shia population, although schools and maternity hospitals have also been struck by deadly attacks. Until August 2021, the Taliban were responsible for much of the violence in Afghanistan as they fought with U.S. and NATO forces. But once the group took over the country three years ago and U.S. and NATO troops fully withdrew, they promised Afghans a greater measure of security. That promise was immediately tested when ISIS-K launched twin attacks on Kabul’s international airport and the nearby Baron Hotel on Aug. 26, 2021. Nearly 200 people were killed, including 13 members of the U.S. military. Most of those killed were Afghan civilians. Although ISIS-K and the Taliban are both Sunni groups, their ideologies differ. npr.org One is also a popular militia that primarily represents the Pashtun population in Afghanistan. ISIS-K is primarily a multinational mercenary group with origins in Syria's war and the Pakistani Taliban militia. ISIS has claimed the attack was in response to the arrests of suspected IS fighters and their imprisonment and likely torture in the notorious Bagram air base.