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Dozens Killed, More Than 100 Wounded In Taliban Car Bombing In Kabul

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, just a week after another attack — also claimed by the Taliban — in Kabul that left at least 22 people dead.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, which killed and injured dozens of people in Kabul, Afghanistan.

A suicide car bombing in Afghanistan Saturday killed dozens and wounded more than 100 people near a police checkpoint in the country's capital of Kabul.

The Taliban claimed

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