Islamic State terrorist group claimed responsibility for car bombing in Afghanistan

ISIS has claimed responsibility for bombing two minivans in a mostly Shi’ite neighbourhood in the Afghan capital Kabul that killed seven people.

In a statement issued late on Saturday, the terror group’s Afghan affiliate said its operatives had blown up the vans carrying “disbeliever Shi’ites” with sticky bombs.

Sticky bombs slapped onto cars held up in the city’s chaotic traffic are the newest weapons terrorising Afghans in the increasingly lawless nation.

US President Joe Biden and his Nato counterparts are due to bid a symbolic farewell to Afghanistan tomorrow at their meeting in Brussels.

The 18-year war cost the United States $2.26 trillion (£1.6tn) and took the lives of over 3,500 US and allied troops, according to figures from Brown University.

Those casualty figures are dwarfed by Afghan losses, which include more than 47,000 civilians, up to 69,000 members of the national armed forces and police, and over 51,000 opposition fighters.

Over 54 per cent of Afghanistan’s population live in poverty, crime and corruption are rampant, and the black market far outstrips the legal economy.

Source: Morning Star Online