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July 23, 2018

Afghanistan: At Least 23 Killed in Kabul Attack Targeting Vice President
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In Afghanistan, at least 23 people were killed and more than 100 others
were wounded Sunday after a suicide bomber struck near Kabul's main
airport. The attack ripped through a crowd of supporters of Afghan Vice
President Rashid Dostum, an ethnic Uzbek politician who had just
returned to the Afghan capital after more than a year of self-imposed
exile. Dostum was unharmed in the explosion. Dostum left Afghanistan
last year, after the country's attorney general ordered the arrest of
his bodyguards for allegedly torturing and sexually assaulting a rival
politician. Dostum was also involved in a massacre in 2001 that killed
up to 2,000 Taliban prisoners of war. Elsewhere in Afghanistan Sunday,
gunmen stormed a mosque in eastern Nangarhar province, opening fire and
killing four worshipers during evening prayers.


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