Islamist State has claimed the suicide attack on a mosque in the eastern Afghan province of Khost. That is what Amaq reports, the mouthpiece of the extremists. In addition, according to the Afghan authorities, at least 26 soldiers were killed on Friday and 50 were injured. Amaq speaks of fifty dead and 110 wounded.
In a suicide attack on a mosque in the eastern Afghan province of Khost, at least 26 people were killed and fifty wounded. The blast was in a house of prayer on a military base, an army spokesman said.
In a bomb attack on a mosque in East Afghanistan, dozens of victims have fallen. In the province of Khost, according to a local driver, at least twelve people were killed and 33 wounded.
The first day of the Islamic month of Ramadan started bloody in Afghanistan. Certainly fourteen people were killed by suicide bombing and in fighting between militants and Afghan security forces 36 people died.
Taliban rebels committed a bomb attack on a US base in the Afghan eastern province of Khost on Monday. Local officials gave little details about the attack, coinciding with a visit to the capital city of Kabul of the US Secretary of Defense James Mattis.
