It was also the third major attack in Afghanistan in a week. On Monday morning came yet another attack, this time on an Afghan army base near Kabul. One poll, from July 2017, found 61 percent of Afghans believe the country is moving in the wrong direction. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani attends a ceremony at Kandahar Airfield after receiving two Black Hawk helicopters from the U.S. government in 2017. Afghanistan's own security forces are weak and understaffed — some 10,000 of them died in fighting over the last year.

Source: Washington Post January 29, 2018 06:00 UTC