Taliban; Suicide Bombing Kills 19

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – A Taliban-appointed spokesman for the Kabul police chief says a suicide bomber has killed 19 people and wounded 27 at an education center in a Shiite area of the Afghan capital. Khalid Zadran, the spokesman, says the explosion in the Dashti Barchi neighborhood of Kabul took place on Friday morning. The area is populated mostly by members of Afghanistan’s minority Shiite community. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. The Islamic State group – the chief rival áof the Taliban since their takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021 – has in the past targeted the Hazara community.