Hours-long battle ends in Kabul after militants killed
Wakil KOHSAR
The attack, near the presidential palace in Kabul, was claimed by the Islamic State group (AFP Photo/WAKIL KOHSAR)
Militants rattled the Afghan capital Kabul Tuesday in an hours-long attack that saw parts of the city showered with mortar fire, sparking intense clashes with security forces who used air strikes to quell the assault.
The attack, claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group, was near the presidential palace as President Ashraf Ghani was addressing the nation on the first day of the Eid al-Adha holiday, and came days after he offered the Taliban a conditional three-month ceasefire.
The clashes follow what has already been a bloody month in Afghanistan with the Taliban ramping up assaults on security forces across the country and IS targeting Kabul, with hundreds killed according to estimates.
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Really, the fight, as you can see in the picture above, was apparently, a bit like something you'd see in the movies (think Rambo), where a helicopter attacked a Mosque from where the militants were fighting from. Apparently, they faced Afghan security troops too, I hope there were no friendly fire incidences on our side <--- meaning the Afghan government, our guys directly don't seem to have been there.
