As death toll rises to 80, ISIS claims responsibility for Kabul explosions

At least 80 people were killed and 231 were wounded on Saturday in a suicide attack on a demonstration in Kabul claimed by Islamic State, an official from the Public Health Ministry said.


Islamic State claimed responsibility on Saturday for the suicide attack in Kabul targeting members of the country's Shi'ite Muslim minority, the group's Amaq news agency reported. "Two fighters from Islamic State detonated explosive belts at a gathering of Shi'ites in... the city of Kabul in Afghanistan," Amaq said in a brief news alert.