Multiple rockets strike Kabul, kill at least one civilian  

At least one Afghan civilian has been killed after multiple rockets hit the country’s capital of Kabul, the second such attack to rock the city in less than a month.

According to Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry, some 10 rockets were fired from Lab-e-Jar district in northern Kabul early on Saturday and landed in central and eastern parts of the capital city.

Two of the projectiles struck near the Kabul airport and the other two hit a residential area, with the ministry and media reports saying the attack had left at least one dead and two others wounded.

No group or individual has so far claimed responsibility for the deadly attack, but the Afghan government has implicitly blamed the Taliban militant group for the assault.

The assault on Saturday came less than a month after a similar attack, claimed by the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group, killed at least eight people and wounded 31 others.

One of the 23 rockets in the November 21 attack landed close to the Iranian embassy in Kabul.

Kabul hit by multiple deadly blasts; rocket lands at Iranian Embassy

Multiple blasts have rocked the densely populated parts of Kabul and left a number of civilian casualties, with one hitting the Iranian Embassy in the Afghan capital.

Kabul was also the scene of two horrific assaults on educational institutions last month that killed nearly 50 people and injured dozens of others.

In the past six months, the Taliban militant group has conducted 53 bomb attacks and 1,250 explosions that left 1,210 civilians dead and 2,500 wounded, according to the Afghan Interior Ministry.

On December 2, Afghanistan’s government and the Taliban militant group reached a preliminary deal that sets out rules for further talks, the first written agreement between the two sides since the US-led invasion of 2001.

Afghan government, Taliban reach ‘preliminary’ deal on rules for peace talks

‘The procedure including its preamble of the negotiation has been finalized and from now on, the negotiation will begin on the agenda,’ said a member of the government

Representatives from the government in Kabul and those from the Taliban held the first round of the much-awaited intra-Afghan negotiations in the Qatari capital of Doha on September 12. The talks are also attended by politicians from Afghanistan, international organizations and the United States.

The talks were set to take place in March, but were repeatedly delayed over a prisoner exchange agreement made as part of a deal between the Taliban and the US.

Under the deal, signed on February 28, the Taliban agreed to halt their attacks on international forces in return for the US military’s phased withdrawal from Afghanistan and the prisoner exchange with Kabul.

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