Scores of Afghan security forces were killed Monday when a suicide bomber in a Humvee rammed a training compound of the national intelligence agency in Wardak province, officials there said. Taliban insurgents immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, which some security officials in Kabul said had killed more than 120 people inside the facility and wounded many others. But provincial officials insisted that the toll was much lower. Contradictory reports on the number of dead and wounded in the Wardak attack caused confusion until late Monday night. One military official, speaking to a news agency on the condition of anonymity, expressed frustration that intelligence officials had forbidden other agencies from speaking about the incident.

Source: Washington Post January 21, 2019 14:42 UTC