Quick Glance: Over 40 Killed in Bombing at Political Rally in Pakistan
- More than 130 injured in explosion, according to police
- Pakistan PM labels bombing as an attack on democratic system
- Pakistani Taliban condemn bombing in official statement
Quick Glance: The mastermind of the Kabul airport massacre has been slain by the Taliban, according to the US.
- Among those dead were Marine Lance Cpl.
- Since then, the US has conducted strikes against the Islamic State in Syria and Somalia, as well as a solitary CIA drone strike in Afghanistan in July 2022 against Ayman al-Zawahiri, then the leader of al-Qaeda.
- Officials from the Biden administration have argued that the Taliban has been an effective counterterrorism force in Afghanistan, conducting attacks on Islamic State hideouts while the Islamic State continues to target government buildings and ethnic minorities.
- Kurilla added that the US can only see "broad contours" of the Islamic State's planning in Syria - not "the full picture."
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Quick Glance: Suicide attack at a tutoring center in Afghanistan's capital kills 19 people
- According to Kabul police spokesperson Khalid Zadran, the official death toll is 19 dead and 27 injured.
- He said the attack occurred at a private tutoring center during an exam.
- According to a Taliban source, 33 individuals were killed, including female students.
- Teenage pupils were among the 24 persons killed in an Islamic State-claimed attack on a similar education center in west Kabul in 2020.
Quick Glance: 19 Killed in Suicide Bombing at Kabul Educational Center: Cops
- "Students were preparing for an exam when a suicide bomber struck at this educational centre."
- "Unfortunately, 19 people have been killed and 27 others wounded," said Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran.
- Although no group claimed responsibility, IS claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on an educational center in the same neighborhood a year earlier, which killed 24, including kids.
- The organization was implicated for a violent gun attack on a maternity ward of a hospital in Dasht-e-Barchi in May 2020, which killed 25 people, including new mothers.