عربي English Türkçe اردو فارسى
Logo
Latest News
World

ISIS Claims Responsibility for Deadly Explosion in Afghanistan

Afghan athletes and police personnel inspect the Mellat boxing club, a day after an explosion took place at the site in the Dashti Barchi neighborhood of Kabul on October 27, 2023. (Photo by Wakil KOHSAR / AFP)
Afghan athletes and police personnel inspect the Mellat boxing club, a day after an explosion took place at the site in the Dashti Barchi neighborhood of Kabul on October 27, 2023. (Photo by Wakil KOHSAR / AFP)
TT
TT

ISIS Claims Responsibility for Deadly Explosion in Afghanistan

Afghan athletes and police personnel inspect the Mellat boxing club, a day after an explosion took place at the site in the Dashti Barchi neighborhood of Kabul on October 27, 2023. (Photo by Wakil KOHSAR / AFP)
Afghan athletes and police personnel inspect the Mellat boxing club, a day after an explosion took place at the site in the Dashti Barchi neighborhood of Kabul on October 27, 2023. (Photo by Wakil KOHSAR / AFP)

ISIS claimed responsibility for an explosion in a Shiite neighborhood in Afghanistan’s capital that killed at least four people.
Seven others were critically wounded in the attack Thursday evening, according to Khalid Zadran, a spokesman for the Kabul police chief.
ISIS affiliates claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement late Friday through its news agency Aamaq, saying it “managed to leave a booby-trapped suitcase" inside a gathering place that exploded, killing and wounding about 35 people and inflicting heavy damage on a sports club.
Video taken after the explosion shows part of a building with its windows blown out and a fire inside. Shattered glass and other debris are strewn across the street below.
The scale of the damage was clearer Friday morning. There were craters in the ground and most of the interior was gutted, The Associated Press reported. Workers picked their way through boxing gloves and gym equipment on the blood-splattered floor.
The Dashti Barchi area of Kabul has been repeatedly targeted by the ISIS affiliate in the country, which has carried out major assaults on schools, hospitals and mosques.

Most Viewed

 
 
World

Israeli Government Orders Public Entities to Stop Advertising in Haaretz Newspaper

A woman reads the 13 February issue of the Haaretz daily newspaper in Jerusalem (AFP)
A woman reads the 13 February issue of the Haaretz daily newspaper in Jerusalem (AFP)
TT
TT

Israeli Government Orders Public Entities to Stop Advertising in Haaretz Newspaper

A woman reads the 13 February issue of the Haaretz daily newspaper in Jerusalem (AFP)
A woman reads the 13 February issue of the Haaretz daily newspaper in Jerusalem (AFP)

The Israeli government has ordered all public entities to stop advertising in the Haaretz newspaper, which is known for its critical coverage of Israel’s actions in the Palestinian territories.
Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi said Sunday that the government had approved his proposal after Haaretz’ publisher called for sanctions against Israel and referred to Palestinian militants as “freedom fighters.”
“We advocate for a free press and freedom of expression, but also the freedom of the government to decide not to fund incitement against the State of Israel,” Karhi wrote on the social platform X.
Noa Landau, the deputy editor of Haaretz, accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of “working to silence independent and critical media,” comparing him to autocratic leaders in other countries.
Haaretz regularly publishes investigative journalism and opinion columns critical of Israel’s ongoing half-century occupation of lands the Palestinians want for a future state.
It has also been critical of Israel’s war conduct in Gaza at a time when most local media support the war and largely ignore the suffering of Palestinian civilians.
In a speech in London last month, Haaretz publisher Amos Schocken said Israel has imposed “a cruel apartheid regime” on the Palestinians and was battling “Palestinian freedom fighters that Israel calls ‘terrorists.’”
He later issued a statement, saying he had reconsidered his remarks.
“For the record, Hamas are not freedom fighters,” he posted on X. “I should have said: using terrorism is illegitimate. I was wrong not to say that.”