Afghanistan: Senior Taliban Commander Killed in Response to IS Attack on Kabul Hospital

Hamdullah Mokhlis, one of the Taliban leaders, has been killed following Tuesday’s multiple blasts near the Daoud Khan Military Hospital in Kabul, AFP reported on Wednesday citing a Taliban source. “When he got the information that Sardar Daud Khan Hospital was under attack, <…> Hamdullah Mokhlis, the commander of the Kabul corps, immediately rushed to the scene,” the Taliban source told AFP. “Later we found out that he was martyred in martyred in the face-to-face fight at the hospital.” According to the news agency, Mokhlis was the most senior figure to have been killed since the Taliban seized Kabul in…