ISIS Suicide Attack Kills at Least 20 in Kabul<br />4, 2018<br />KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide bomber working for the Islamic State attacked a market where shopkeepers were protesting against the police in Kabul late on Thursday, killing at least 20 people<br />and wounding more than two dozen others, officials said.<br />While the group has faced intense pressure from Afghan commandos<br />and American airstrikes in its foothold in Nangarhar Province, officials have struggled to gain a clear understanding of the urban cells behind the latest spate of attacks claimed by the group.<br />Najib Danish, another spokesman for the Interior Ministry, said<br />that on Wednesday, city police officers raided a market where alcohol, drugs and other banned substances were being sold and arrested two people.<br />Nasrat Rahimi, a deputy spokesman for the Interior Ministry, said<br />that civilians and members of the security forces were among the casualties, which he put at 20 dead and 30 wounded.<br />In recent months, the group also carried out what officials called the deadliest terrorist attack<br />in modern Egyptian history, which took the lives of more than 300 people at a Sufi mosque.<br />The Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, has caused more casualties in Kabul than the Taliban,<br />and in Yemen, the number of the group’s fighters has doubled in the past year, according to the United States military.
