In the Afghan capital Kabul, at least thirty people have been confirmed dead and hundreds wounded when a truck bomb exploded in the city centre on Tuesday. 

The Taliban said on their Pashto-language website they had carried out the attack on "Department 10", a National Directorate of Security unit responsible for protecting government ministers and VIPs. This was the worst single militant strike in Kabul since 2011, when about 60 people died in a suicide blast outside a mosque.