Smoke rises from the site of a blast in Kabul, Afghanistan July 1, 2019. REUTERS/Abdul Qadir Sediqi
KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban Islamist fighters killed six people and wounded 105 others by blowing up a truck bomb at morning rush hour near an Afghan Defence Ministry compound in Kabul on Monday.
The attack, which ended a period of relative calm in the capital, came as U.S. special peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad held a seventh round of peace talks with the Taliban in Qatar, aimed at bringing the 18-year-old war to an end.
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