The Taliban-led government in Afghanistan has denied the forceful arrest of a female protester from her home, the media reported. On Wednesday, Tamana Zaryab Paryani said in a video clip that Taliban.
A bomb attached to a packed minivan exploded in Afghanistan’s western Herat Province on Saturday, killing at least seven civilians and injuring nine, Taliban officials said.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the explosion, but the Islamic State group has claimed credit for similar attacks on civilians and the country’s new Taliban leaders elsewhere in the country since the group seized power on Aug. 15 last year.
Saturday’s bombing was the first such attack in Herat.
Local Taliban official Naeemulhaq Haqqani said that investigations were ongoing.
A Taliban intelligence official in western Herat told The Associated Press that the bomb was attached to
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