In Afghanistan, a suicide bomber and a gunman killed more than 20 people at a Shiite mosque in Afghanistan's main western city of Herat today. <br/><br/>The assault on the Jawadya mosque in Herat, which is close to Afghanistan's border with Iran, came a day after the Islamic State group claimed a deadly attack on the Iraqi embassy in Kabul. <br/><br/>After the mosque attack, Rafeeq Shirzai, a spokesman for the hospital, said, more than 20 bodies, and more than 30 wounded have so far been brought to the hospital. <br/><br/>Herat police spokesman Abdul Ahad Walizada said, based on initial information two terrorists were involved one of them wearing a suicide vest, who detonated himself while the second one was armed with a rifle. They are both dead.<br/><br/>
News On AIR | August 1, 2017 11:35 PM
20 killed in Shiite mosque attack in Afghanistan's Herat