Kabul Classroom Attack

Forty-six girls and young women were among those killed in a suicide bombing on an Afghan education centre last week, the UN said Monday as it announced the total death count had risen to 53.

After dozens of Afghans were killed in a deadly attack on the Kaj educational center in Kabul, Taliban said that it was an act carried out by "evil circles on mosques, educational centers, and other public places".

The death countof a suicide bombing on a Kabul classroom has risen to 35, the UN said Saturday, as Shiite Hazara women who bore the brunt of the attack staged a defiant protest against the "genocide" of their minority community.

Afghan forces have captured the "mastermind" of a brutal attack on Kabul University when terrorists entered classrooms and gunned down dozens of students earlier this month, a top official said Saturday.

Explosions and gunfire rang out as terrorists stormed the elite American University of Afghanistan in Kabul on Wednesday, prompting desperate calls for help from students trapped inside classrooms, in the latest attack in the Afghan capital.

Forty-six girls and young women were among those killed in a suicide bombing on an Afghan education centre last week, the UN said Monday as it announced the total death count had risen to 53.

After dozens of Afghans were killed in a deadly attack on the Kaj educational center in Kabul, Taliban said that it was an act carried out by "evil circles on mosques, educational centers, and other public places".

The death countof a suicide bombing on a Kabul classroom has risen to 35, the UN said Saturday, as Shiite Hazara women who bore the brunt of the attack staged a defiant protest against the "genocide" of their minority community.

Afghan forces have captured the "mastermind" of a brutal attack on Kabul University when terrorists entered classrooms and gunned down dozens of students earlier this month, a top official said Saturday.

Explosions and gunfire rang out as terrorists stormed the elite American University of Afghanistan in Kabul on Wednesday, prompting desperate calls for help from students trapped inside classrooms, in the latest attack in the Afghan capital.