Militants have attacked an army base near a military academy in the Afghan capital, Kabul, killing at least 11 soldiers.<\/p>\n
Sixteen other Afghan soldiers were injured, a defence ministry spokesman told the BBC.<\/p>\n
Five militants were involved, said the spokesman. Four were killed in the attack but one was arrested.<\/p>\n
The attack has been claimed by the Islamic State (IS), according to the militant group’s Amaq news agency.<\/p>\n
Earlier reports said the attack had taken place at Marshal Fahim National Defense University, which is near the military base.<\/p>\n
It comes days after the deadliest bombing for months hit Kabul\u00a0when Taliban militants in an ambulance packed with explosives killed at least 100 people.<\/p>\n
How did Monday’s attack unfold?<\/strong><\/p>\n Several explosions were heard, as well as small-arms fire, as the attack began at about 05:00 local time (00:30 GMT) at the military base in western Kabul.<\/p>\n Two attackers blew themselves up, two others were killed by security forces and a fifth was arrested, defence ministry spokesman Gen Dawlat Waiziri told the BBC.<\/p>\n Four AK-47 assault rifles, one suicide vest and one rocket-launcher were seized, he said.<\/p>\n The president’s spokesperson said none of the attackers had been able to get further than the first gate, Afghan news website Tolo reports.<\/p>\n Afghan military institutions are frequently targeted by militants.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Militants have attacked an army base near a military academy in the Afghan capital, Kabul, killing at least 11 soldiers. Sixteen other Afghan soldiers were injured, a defence ministry spokesman told the BBC. Five militants were involved, said the spokesman. Four were killed in the attack but one was arrested. The attack has been claimed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":396159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[6909,16543],"class_list":["post-396152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-afghanistan","tag-kabul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=396152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/396159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=396152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=396152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=396152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}