KABUL, Afghanistan — Eighteen people, including 14 civilians, were killed and 61 others injured in seven armed attacks and explosions across Afghanistan in the last quarter of 2024, according to a quarterly report from the United Nations.
Among the casualties, 55 of the injured were civilians.
The report says in two attacks by the national resistance front (NRF) in Kabul and Takhar, one civilian was killed and 11 more, including children, were wounded.
According to the report, the deadliest incident occurred on November 21, when an ISIS attack on a Sufi shrine in Baghlan Province left 11 people dead.
In December, an explosion at the Ministry of Refugees in Kabul killed the Taliban minister for refugees and three other Taliban members, while injuring four others, according to the report.
The report says that on November 3, eighteen people were injured in a bombing in Pul-e-Khumri city in Baghlan.
The U.N. also reported that 64people were killed or injured in the past three months by landmines left behind from previous conflicts, further underscoring the lingering dangers of Afghanistan’s decades of war.
