The Taliban said they were targeting the local offices of the country’s intelligence agency, but the car blew up near a hospital
KABUL—A Taliban car bomb killed and wounded dozens of people in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, as the insurgents kept up military pressure after the collapse of negotiations with the U.S. and ahead of national elections.
The militant group, fighting to expel foreign forces from the country and institute its rigid brand of Islam, said they were targeting a building in the provincial capital Qalat that houses the local offices of the country’s intelligence agency. But the car blew up near the gate of the hospital, flattening...
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