Attacks on army, police and US special forces kill 50 in Kabul

There was no immediate claim of responsibility.

After the Taliban confirmed Mullah Omar’s death, a leadership struggle engulfed the upper echelons of the group, which is holding meetings in the Pakistani city of Quetta in an effort to resolve the crisis.

The attacks underscored the country’s volatile security situation amid a faltering peace process and the potency of the Taliban insurgency, despite it being riven by growing internal divisions.

American and Afghan officials on Saturday identified U.S. soldiers as among the casualties.

In a separate statement Saturday, the Taliban rebutted media reports that the leader of the Haqqani network, Jalaluddin Haqqani, had died in eastern Afghanistan a year ago.

The bomber managed to place himself in a queue as police trainees were waiting to be searched before entering the academy, the official added.

The bombings were the first major attacks after Mullah Akhtar Mansour was last week named as the new Taliban chief in an acrimonious power transition after the insurgents confirmed the death of longtime leader Mullah Omar. “The new attacks is a tactic by the Taliban’s leadership to show that they are capable, potent and operational”, said security analyst Abdul Hadi Khaleed.

The Taliban deny Mullah Omar ever left Afghanistan, however the secretive nature of his demise raised the likelihood that the senior Taliban management – a Supreme Council with simply seven members – had hid his demise from the broader motion, which has tens of hundreds of fighters. “Hitting Kabul with a wave of powerful attacks is a way of showcasing their strength”.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday condemned the separate bomb attacks in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, which killed at least 35 people.

North Atlantic Treaty Organisation officials said authorities were still gathering information about the attack on the facility near Kabul airport.

The names and nationalities of the foreign military and civilian contractors killed were not released.

It is claimed that insurgents struck Camp Integrity in Kabul with a vehicle bomb and then followed it up with gunfire.

Hours earlier, a truck bomb detonated near an army base in the neighbourhood of Shah Shaheed, rattling homes across the city, ripping off the facades of buildings and leaving scattered piles of rubble.

According to Sayed Zafar Hashimi, the deputy spokesman for President Ashraf Ghani, the final death toll of the first blast was 15, with 240 people wounded, including 47 women and 33 children. But these suggestions should be sent To avoid distracting other readers, we won’t publish comments that suggest a correction.

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) called on anti-government armed militant groups to cease attacks in civilian populated areas.