Suicide blast in Afghanistan’s capital marks the highest-profile casualty since the Taliban retook power three years ago.

Khalil Ur-Rahman Haqqani, the Taliban’s minister for refugees and repatriation, was killed Wednesday in a suicide bombing at his office in Kabul, marking the highest-profile casualty since the group retook power three years ago.

The Afghan Taliban's acting minister for refugees, Khalil Rahman Haqqani, and six other people were killed in an explosion in the capital Kabul on Wednesday, his nephew Anas Haqqani said. Khalil Haqqani became a minister in the Taliban's interim government after foreign forces withdrew from Afghanistan in 2021.