This would be the eighth suicide bombing I’ve witnessed here in Kabul, and I am sick to death of them. I was a civilian, not a journalist, at the first suicide bombing I witnessed: the Enlightenment Movement Bombing in 2016. (Like others who have experienced international acts of terrorism — 9/11, the Munich Massacre, London Bridge — we Afghans name our bombings.) Advertisement Continue reading the main storyA lot of my friends and family members ask why I keep doing this kind of reporting. It’s hardly news anymore: 150 killed on a Wednesday, 84 killed on a Thursday, 10 killed on a Friday, oh well.

Source: New York Times March 24, 2018 07:00 UTC