A suicide attack on a Shi'ite mosque in Kabul killed at least 16 people including two police officers and women and children during Friday prayers.
Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman Najib Danish confirmed that at least one attacker blew himself up at the gate of the Imam Zaman mosque while several others stormed inside.
Police cordoned off the area soon after the attack. Residents of the area reported hearing gunfire from inside the mosque.
This is one of the main Shi'ite mosques in the area and more people attend mosques on a Friday, the Muslim holy day of the week.
No one has claimed responsibility, but previous attacks on the Shi'ite population in Kabul have almost always been claimed by the local chapter of Islamic State (IS Khorasan Province).
The attack happened days after U.S. President Donald Trump announced his new policy for Afghanistan in which he gave battlefield decision-making powers to his ground commanders, demanded Pakistan “immediately” change its behavior and stop providing havens to the Afghan Taliban, and asked the Afghan government to hasten reform and not take American support for granted.
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