KABUL — For Sayed Mushtaq Hossaini, much of the day last month when an Islamic State suicide bomber struck a seminar at a Shiite cultural centre in the Afghan capital of Kabul remains a blur. The centre was marking the anniversary of the 1979 Soviet invasion with an academic seminar about its impact on the country. ”In October, Azimi lost his father in another IS attack, when a suicide bomber killed 57 people and wounded 55 inside a Shiite mosque in Kabul, according to a U.N. report in November detailing recent IS attacks. The bomber first lobbed a grenade into the women’s section of the Imam-e-Zaman Shiite Mosque, then detonated his suicide vest. Jan Ali Hossaini, 47 and a father of nine, was badly wounded in the mosque attack, which killed his 14-year-old son Mustafa and badly wounded his 17-year-old son Mehdi.

Source: National Post January 24, 2018 06:07 UTC