26 people killed in bombings, Taliban attacks across Afghanistan

With no apparent end in sight for bloodshed in Afghanistan, at least 26 people have been killed in bombings and attacks across the country.

On Friday evening, eight people died and 60 others sustained injuries when an explosives-ridden car went off near a police outpost in district 14 of Herat, the capital of an eponymous province in western Afghanistan, the provincial governor Waheed Qatali said on Saturday.

The wounded included at least 20 women and 12 children.

No group has yet claimed responsibility for the bombing. A spokesman for the Taliban militant group said it had nothing to do with the car bomb attack.

President Ashraf Ghani, however, blamed the militants.

He said the Taliban “continued their illegitimate war and violence against our people” and “demonstrated once again they have no intention” for a peaceful resolution to the conflict.

On Saturday morning, a roadside bomb also exploded in Tarinkot, the capital of the southern province of Uruzgan. Three civilians were killed and four others were injured. 

Seven people of Hazara ethnic group brutally killed in Afghanistan’s restive east

At least seven members of the Hazara ethnic group have been killed in Afghanistan’s restive province of Nangarhar.

On Friday night, Taliban militants killed 11 members of Afghan security forces in two almost simultaneous attacks in the northern provinces of Kunduz and Balkh.

In one attack on an outpost in the Khan Abad district in Kunduz, the Taliban killed six soldiers. Sources told TOLO news agency that the outpost fell to the militants following the clashes. They added that the militants also lost five of their forces but took five troops hostage.

In the other attack, the militants killed five members of the Afghan National Army in Sholgara district of Balkh.

In recent months, deadly attacks and high-profile assassinations have seen a rise in Afghanistan. Journalists, religious scholars, activists, and judges have been victims of the recent wave of violence.

Afghan and US officials blame the string of assassinations on the Taliban, which have struck a peace deal with the United States and are in talks with the government. The militants deny responsibility for the killings.

Speculation is rife over the United States’ future involvement in what has been labeled the ‘forever war.’

The administration of US President Joe Biden has been working to wind up the war, which has claimed thousands of lives and cost ‘trillions of dollars.’

Biden’s White House plans to review the agreement signed with the Taliban last year.

While Washington mulls withdrawal of the 2,500 US troops from Afghanistan, the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group works to further establish its foothold in eastern and northern Afghanistan.

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