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A Taliban suicide vehicle bomber killed five people Monday near the entrance of Kabul s worldwide airport, the latest in a barrage of violence that has convulsed the Afghan capital since Friday.

The attacks took place in the Shawal area of the North Waziristan tribal region, hours after a suicide attack killed 18 people, including the home minister of the northeastern Punjab province.

Earlier in the day, two intelligence officials, who declined to be identified as they were not authorised to speak on the record, told Reuters that air strikes on Monday morning killed militants in the Zoi Nari, Lataka, Mizer Madakhel and Shawal areas of North Waziristan.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani excoriated Pakistan on Monday about a recently occurred insurgent attacks in the capital city of Afghanistan killing at least 56.

While nine casualties were reported at the US base, Camp Integrity, including one global service member and eight Afghan contractors Nato-led coalition forces confirmed.

The new Taliban leader scored an important victory Thursday, however, when al Qaeda boss Ayman al-Zawahiri – one of the most prominent jihadists in the world – pledged allegiance to the Taliban.

A suspected suicide auto bombing at a busy intersection near the entrance to Kabul’s worldwide airport today has killed at least five people and wounded another 16, said Afghan officials.

The acknowledgment, made in a statement released by Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid, came a day after Afghanistan’s government announced that the reclusive Islamic cleric had died in April 2013.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing that killed dozens of cadets at the police academy but no claim was made for the other attacks.

“Anything is possible”.

Following the death of longtime Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, a Taliban spokesman has confirmed that Mullah Akhtar Mohammad has been named as the group’s new leader.

Defence Minister Khawaja Asif said Friday (August 7) that deceased Taliban chief Mullah Omar was neither killed nor buried in Pakistan.

“Since I took office, Afghans have been waiting for Pakistan to show their tangible commitment” to peace, Ghani said, speaking in Afghan Pashto.

The statement on Monday from President Ashraf Ghani’s office also says it will not accept any “parallel political structure” opposed to the Afghan government. Mullah Omar’s death will have serious ramifications not just for the future of Afghanistan, but...