One killed and two wounded in multiple rocket attacks in Kabul on Saturday

A series of rockets have struck the Afghan capital, killing at least one person and injuring two others – the second such strike to hit Kabul in less than a month.

“This morning, ten rockets were fired from the Labe Jar neighbourhood of Kabul,” Tariq Arian -Interior ministry spokesman informed reporters on Saturday.

He announced three rockets landed near Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport and seven in suburbans, leaving one civilian killed and two other severely injured.

The missiles shot from a vehicle left on the northern edge of the capital hit the compound of Kabul airport, somewhat damaging a Kam Air aircraft.

Kam Air, which started in 2003 and provided domestic and international flights, is Afghanistan’s first commercially operated airline.

A window of one of the aeroplanes parked at the airport was destructed by a ricocheting part of a shell, as per an airport administrator who did not want to be named because he was not approved to communicate to the media. The plane was not carrying any passengers, and no one was hurt.

No group took direct accountability for the strike, and the target was not instantly clear.

Violence has increased throughout Afghanistan in recent months, with many deadly strikes carried out in Kabul, notwithstanding the Taliban and the administration joining in peace talks since September in Qatar.

On November 21, eight people were killed when 23 missiles hit the capital in an attack declared by an ISIL (ISIS) members.

The ISIL member also maintained two bloody attacks in Kabul that targeted institutional centres, including one on Kabul University that saw criminals spraying classrooms with bullets.

Officials condemned the attacks on educational centres on the Haqqani network, an associate of the Taliban.

United States’ outgoing President Donald Trump has regularly pledged to end “infinitely wars” including in Afghanistan, the longest-ever US battle that began with aggression to dislodge the Taliban following the September 11, 2001 attacks.

In November, the Pentagon announced it would pull 2,000 troops out of Afghanistan, racing up the timeline built in a February deal between Washington and the Taliban that envisions a full retreat by May 2021.

The agreement also specifies that the rebels will not target key towns in the country, although Afghan officials have accused them of such attacks.