The group’s most prominent fatality since it came back to power in Afghanistan in 2021 has been killed in a suicide bombing inside the interior government in Kabul.
According to sources from the inside department, six people died in the explosion as Haqqani left his job.
Khalil Haqqani was a top leader of a strong Taliban organization known as the Haqqani network, and the US has labeled him a world criminal.
The Taliban accused Islamic State militants of carrying out the attack, but there was no immediate say for it.
Jalaluddin, Khalil Haqqani’s brother, was a well-known rebel leader who fought Russian forces in Afghanistan in the 1980s and founded the Haqqani system, which was responsible for numerous attacks during the Taliban’s 20-year rebellion.
Sirajuddin Haqqani, the minister’s brother and brother of Jalaluddin, is the latest interior minister in the Taliban authorities.
Despite the Taliban’s full control of Afghanistan with the complete removal of international troops in 2021, there still are dozens of bombings and suicide attacks in the country every year.
Many have been claimed by Islamic State Khorasan Province, or ISKP, the regional affiliate of the so-called Islamic State group, a major rival of the Taliban.