In a second incident in another village, two children, ages 7 and 8, were killed playing with a device, said Shamsullah Mohammadi, Faryab provincial information and culture head. In these strikes at least 47 civilians, including women and children, were killed and another 23 were severely wounded.
NextTheir influence centred in the provinces of Paktika, Paktia and Khost, the Haqqanis were kept out by the Kandaharis around Taliban patriarch Mullah Muhammad Umar.
In October, up to 80 worshippers at the Gozar-e Syedabad mosque in Kunduz were blown up in a suicide attack.
At least three explosions targeted various locations.
NextIn November the Taliban's intelligence unit carried out sweeping attacks on suspected IS-K hideouts in eastern Nangarhar province, where the deadly affiliate is headquartered.
Read from the University of California at Long Beach. No one claimed responsibility. The first Afghan volunteers to fight in Syria had left around 2012, drawn from the ranks of the Taliban and its Pakistani counterpart, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP.
NextThe existance of cultural ties was abused by the Pakistanis, and also the Soviets, to provoke internal conflict between insurgent groups.
Last November, the Taliban's intelligence unit carried out sweeping attacks on suspected ISIS-K hideouts in eastern Nangarhar province. Officials said that it targeted a truck carrying Taliban-contracted mechanics.
NextMeanwhile late on Thursday a Pakistani soldier was killed in southwestern Baluchistan province after militants raided a security outpost.
The group had been relatively inactive in Afghanistan since last November, but in recent weeks it has stepped up its attacks in Afghanistan and in neighboring Pakistan, taking aim at Shiite Muslim communities reviled by Sunni radicals. Dozens of people were injured at the Sai Doken mosque, several critically. I actually saw the blast.
Pakistan has not confirmed the strikes but has warned Afghanistan's Taliban to stop its territory being used to attack across the border into Pakistan.
Earlier this month two bombs exploded in Kabul's Shiite neighborhood of Dasht-e-Barchi, killing at least seven students and wounding several others.
Anas Haqqani, a brother of Sirajuddin Haqqani, and his paternal uncle, Khalil-ur-Rehman Haqqani, played a key role in bringing about the collapse of the Afghan republic last year.
The attacks on Hazaras spiked in 2018, with a series of lethal attacks on Hazara-linked institutions in Kabul, among others a wrestling club and a tuition centre. Praveen Swami is National Security Editor, ThePrint. Earlier this month, two bombs exploded in Kabul's Shiite neighborhood of Dasht-e-Barchi, killing at least seven students and wounding several others..
NextDozens of extremist groups are active.