Nangarhar

A soldier of Afghan Taliban forces patrols on the vicinity of Torkham border of Nangarhar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2024.

A key border crossing between Pakistan and Afghanistan that remained closed for three days following skirmishes has reopened, an official said on Thursday.

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More than 60 dead and 36 injured in a mosque explosion in eastern Afghanistan, BTA reported.

A spokesman for the governor of the eastern province of Nangarhar said there were children among the victims.

During the explosion, the roof of the temple collapsed.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan official says a suicide bomber has struck an election rally in the country's eastern Nangarhar province, killing at least 13 people and wounding more than 30.

Attahullah Khogyani, spokesman for the provincial governor, says some of the wounded are in critical condition, which increases concerns that the death toll could rise further.

AFP - The death toll from a suicide attack on Afghan protesters has soared to 68, officials said Wednesday, as violence flares across the country ahead of elections and a key Islamic holy day.

BBC - A suicide bombing in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad has killed at least 19 people, most of them members of the country's Sikh minority.

Police said they had been travelling in a vehicle to meet President Ashraf Ghani, who is visiting Nangarhar province, when the bomber struck.

Afghan forces mistakenly killed nine people, most of them civilians, during raid on a house in eastern Nangarhar province which has been a base for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and other militants, officials said May 29.

Afghanistan's Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) affiliate has claimed responsibility for a bombing outside a sports stadium in eastern Nangarhar province that killed three people and wounded 10.

At least 65 extremists from the Islamic State terrorist group were killed and 18 injured in Afghan army operations in the eastern province of Nangarhar, TASS reported.

The operations were carried out on land and air. A peaceful citizen died, 13 other people, including women and children, were injured.

Islamic State beheaded 15 of its own fighters due to infighting in Afghanistan's eastern province of Nangarhar, officials said, while a separate suicide attack on Thursday tore into a crowd in the provincial capital, Jalalabad, killing at least eight, reported Reuters.