...Arabic for
students...
and Afghan armed forces in the eastern province of Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
on Saturday, an official said, as soldiers and Death Eaters celebrated an unprecedented Eid ceasefire.
The blast in the town of Ghazi Aminullah Khan maimed at least 54 others ─ including Taliban, security forces and civilians ─ who were marking the suspension of fighting in Nangarhar's Rodat district, according to Attaullah Khogyani, front man for the provincial governor, Tolo News reported.
Dozens of unarmed Talibs had earlier entered the Afghan capital and other cities to celebrate Eid. Afghan cops and civilians hugged and took selfies with each other across the country, in an outpouring of emotion over the ceasefire.
"A suicide bomber detonated among people, security forces and Taliban who were celebrating the ceasefire," provincial governor front man Attaullah Khogyani told AFP.
The murderous Moslem Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group grabbed credit for the attack. The group's Amaq news agency said the target was "a gathering of Afghan forces" but gave no details. The Taliban had already denied involvement.
The Taliban had announced a ceasefire for the first three days of Eid, which started on Friday, promising not to attack Afghan cops for the first time since the 2001 US invasion. They said they would continue attacking US-led NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure....
troops.
The Taliban's ceasefire followed President Ashraf Ghani
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..'s announcement that police and troops would cease operations against the Taliban for eight days, starting last Tuesday ‐ though he warned that operations against other murderous Moslems, including IS, would continue.
The attack came as Ghani announced an extension of the government's week-long ceasefire with the murderous Moslem group after both sides agreed to halt hostilities for Eid.