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Kabul hotel used by Chinese citizens attacked for alleged ally of Taliban rulers in Afghanistan targeted

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Smoke rises from a hotel building after explosions and shootings in Kabul, Afghanistan, December 12, 2022.

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Kabul police said loud explosions and gunshots were heard in downtown Kabul on Monday afternoon as attackers attacked a guest house mostly used by Chinese. An Italian-run emergency hospital, less than 1.6 km (1 mile) from the Afghan capital, said he had received 21 patients from the attack, three of whom died on arrival.

A photo shared by Kabul police with CBS News showed a Chinese sign on the wall of a multi-story building. A Kabul resident told his CBS News by phone that the hotel was frequented by Chinese nationals.

“At around 2:30, a hotel named Kabul Hotel in the Charenau district of Kabul city was attacked,” Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran told CBS News. local Afghans. “

Smoke billows out of the windows of a hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan, used by many Chinese during the attacks on December 12, 2022.

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Videos posted on social media showed flames and thick smoke rising from the lower-floor windows of the hotel building. Another video, taken from a building across from the hotel, showed a man escaping through another window.

Principal spokesperson from Taliban regime in AfghanistanZabiullah Mujahid said the attack ended after three assailants were killed in a shootout.

No group was quick to claim responsibility for the attack, but Afghanistan branch of ISIS terror groupISIS-K or ISIS Khorasan, known as ISIS, has stepped up its offensive since the Taliban regained control of the country and the US-led military coalition withdrew in the summer of 2021.

Monday’s complex attacks, which are believed to have targeted Chinese citizens, appeared to be the latest in a series of acts of violence directed against several countries that the Taliban can count among their allies.

On Sunday, Chinese Ambassador Wang Yu met in Kabul with the Taliban regime’s deputy foreign minister, Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, and called on the group to “pay more attention to the security of the Chinese embassy in Kabul.” Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Taliban.

Last week, gunmen attacked the Pakistani ambassador in Kabul inside the embassy compound, injuring a Pakistani security guard. The attack is claimed by his ISIS-K, and the Taliban are said to have arrested the suspect.

In September, a suicide bomber blew himself up outside the Russian embassy in central Kabul, killing two Russian diplomats. The attack is believed to be the first attack on a foreign diplomatic mission in Afghanistan since Afghanistan fell to the Taliban.

Afghanistan’s neighbors Pakistan, Russia, China and Iran have all been accused of aiding the Taliban at various times over the past two decades. The Russians have even been accused of placing a bounty on American forces in Afghanistan.

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A member of the Taliban security forces walks near the attack site in Scharenau, one of Kabul’s main commercial districts, December 12, 2022.

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Political analysts believe attacks on Taliban supporters highlight an increasingly dangerous situation for the country, with ISIS and other opposition groups criticizing the Taliban’s ability to defend the country. They believe that the more they try to show what they can’t do, the more dangerous it becomes.

“Attacks against countries and individuals who directly and indirectly support the Taliban will increase,” political analyst and former diplomat Ahmad Saidi told CBS News. “Afghanistan is suffering from a regional intelligence war in which everyone is seeking their own interests.”

Tariq Farhadi, a former adviser to Western-backed Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and now working as a political analyst, also said the Taliban should expect more such attacks against its allies. He also warned that many of the militant group’s foot soldiers did not directly benefit much from their seizure of power, so they could be tempted to join conflicting and possibly even more militant groups.

“In the future, more brutal groups than the Taliban and ISIS could emerge in Afghanistan,” Farhadi said.

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