Gunmen kill high-ranking Taliban official in Afghanistan in rare targeted attack
Security guards killed one attacker and captured another as authorities investigated a rare targeted killing of a senior Taliban official, the ministry said.
- On Tuesday, gunmen killed Zabihullah Amiri, Badakhshan's director of information and culture, while he traveled to Faizabad, the Information Ministry reported.
- Targeted killings of high-ranking Taliban officials have remained rare since the group seized power in Afghanistan in 2021 following the withdrawal of U.S. forces.
- Past violence includes the March 2023 killing of Balkh's governor and the June 2023 car bombing in Faizabad that killed deputy governor Nisar Ahmad Ahmadi.
- A regional affiliate, the Islamic State in Khorasan Province, claimed responsibility for the attack and a suicide bombing at a memorial service that killed at least 13 people.
- Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani leads a powerful network within the Taliban; the refugee minister Khalil Haqqani, killed in December 2024, was his uncle.
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One of the two gunmen was killed in an exchange of fire, the second was arrested
Gunmen killed a high-ranking local Taliban official in northwestern Afghanistan today, after which they were captured, the authorities announced.
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Gunmen kill high-ranking Taliban official in Afghanistan in rare targeted attack
Gunmen have killed a high-ranking local Taliban official in Afghanistan's Badakhshan province. The country's Information Ministry said Tuesday that two gunmen shot Zabihullah Amiri, the Badakhshan director of information and culture.
Armed men today killed a high Taliban leader in Badakhshan province in northwestern Afghanistan in a rare selective murder in Central Asia.
Gunmen killed a high-ranking local Taliban official in northwestern Afghanistan today, after which they were captured, the authorities announced. Two attackers
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