1 Death toll in Afghan mosque bombing rises to 33, Taliban say
- Author: pbs.org
- Published Date: 12/24/2021
- Review: 4.81 (632 vote)
- Summary: · KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A Taliban official says a bombing at a mosque and religious school in northern Afghanistan on Friday killed at
- Matching search results: No one immediately claimed responsibility for the bombing, but Afghanistan’s Islamic State affiliate on Thursday claimed a series of earlier bombings, the worst of which was an attack on a Shiite mosque in northern Mazar-e-Sharif that killed at …
2 U.S. killing of al-Qaeda leader in Afghanistan heightens scrutiny of Taliban
- Author: cbc.ca
- Published Date: 05/23/2022
- Review: 4.67 (595 vote)
- Summary: · The safe house where al-Zawahri was staying in Kabul’s upscale Shirpur neighbourhood was the home of a top aide to senior Taliban leader
- Matching search results: The safe house where al-Zawahri was staying in Kabul’s upscale Shirpur neighbourhood was the home of a top aide to senior Taliban leader Sirajuddin Haqqani, according to a senior U.S. intelligence official. Haqqani is deputy head of the Taliban, …
3 Death toll in Afghan mosque bombing rises to 33, Taliban say
- Author: abcnews.go.com
- Published Date: 06/21/2022
- Review: 4.46 (488 vote)
- Summary: · KABUL, Afghanistan — A Taliban official says a bombing at a mosque and religious school in northern Afghanistan on Friday killed at least 33
- Matching search results: Last October the IS-K claimed a brutal bombing also in northern Kunduz province at a Shiite mosque that killed at least 50 people and wounded more than 100. In November the Taliban’s intelligence unit carried out sweeping attacks on suspected IS-K …
4 Al Qaeda leaders death raises concerns over Taliban links, Afghanistans future
- Author: latimes.com
- Published Date: 07/31/2022
- Review: 4.36 (433 vote)
- Summary: · A view of the upscale Shirpur neighborhood in Kabul, Afghanistan, where a U.S. drone strike killed Al Qaeda leader Ayman Zawahiri. (Sayed
- Matching search results: “A lot of people thought he was already dead. Strategically and operationally for Al Qaeda he was no longer that important,” said Ashley Jackson, co-director of the Center for the Study of Armed Groups. She added that Al Qaeda had become more …
5 Afghanistan death toll in &039Pakistan strikes&039 rises to at least 47: officials
- Author: france24.com
- Published Date: 01/19/2022
- Review: 4.1 (466 vote)
- Summary: · Kabul (AFP) – The death toll from Pakistani military air strikes in the eastern Afghanistan provinces of Khost and Kunar has jumped to at
- Matching search results: “A lot of people thought he was already dead. Strategically and operationally for Al Qaeda he was no longer that important,” said Ashley Jackson, co-director of the Center for the Study of Armed Groups. She added that Al Qaeda had become more …
6 Nearly 400 civilians killed in Afghanistan under Taliban rule: UN

- Author: aljazeera.com
- Published Date: 10/02/2021
- Review: 3.96 (540 vote)
- Summary: · A new United Nations report has said nearly 400 civilians have been killed in attacks in Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover, more than
- Matching search results: “A lot of people thought he was already dead. Strategically and operationally for Al Qaeda he was no longer that important,” said Ashley Jackson, co-director of the Center for the Study of Armed Groups. She added that Al Qaeda had become more …
7 More than 900 people have reportedly been killed in an earthquake in Afghanistan
- Author: npr.org
- Published Date: 02/01/2022
- Review: 3.75 (575 vote)
- Summary: · Taliban officials expressed their condolences and called on Afghans to help each other — and many are doing so. The Afghan Red Crescent society
- Matching search results: She added the disaster has struck a country already shaken by so many hardships. “This is a population that is deeply impoverished, where there is high unemployment, where they are suffering from the worst drought in 37 years. There’s also a chronic …
8 What Ayman al-Zawahris death says about terrorism in Taliban-run Afghanistan
- Author: brookings.edu
- Published Date: 06/23/2022
- Review: 3.39 (236 vote)
- Summary: · Taliban fighters drive a car on a street following the killing of Al Qaeda leader … picture in Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover?
- Matching search results: This impressive show of the effectiveness and persistence of U.S. counterterrorism efforts is also an important demonstration to the world — and to terrorist groups in Afghanistan and beyond — that despite not having U.S. troops on the ground in …