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Mushtaq Yusufzai
The leader of the Taliban has been killed in a U.S. airstrike, Afghanistan’s government confirmed Sunday.
“Mostly women and children are killed and injured in the blast,” Lahore Police Chief Haider Ashraf said.
The attack killed mostly women and children in a park in the city of Lahore on Sunday that was particularly busy due to the Easter holiday weekend.
Gunmen stormed a university in northwest Pakistan Wednesday morning, killing some 20 people and injuring around 60, according to a local lawmaker.
A magnitude-7.5 earthquake hit Afghanistan on Monday, killing more than 150 people there and in neighboring Pakistan and flattening at least 1,400 buildings.
The new Afghan Taliban leader appealed for unity in the insurgency in his first public message released on Saturday.
The Taliban’s longtime leader Mullah Omar was dead, the Afghan government announced Wednesday after a day of feverish speculation.
The leader of ISIS in Afghanistan and Pakistan was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province, Afghan officials told NBC News.