Violence and chaos have increased in Afghanistan

Violence and chaos have increased in Afghanistan in recent months with an attack last week on Kabul University that killed 22 people, many of them students. The Islamic State affiliate claimed that attack as well as another assault on an educational institution on October 24, also in the capital, that killed 24 people.The surge in violent attacks comes even as government negotiators and the Taliban are meeting in Qatar to find an end to decades of relentless war in Afghanistan. The two sides have made little progress.

The talks were part of a negotiated agreement between the United States and the Taliban to allow US and NATO troops withdraw from Afghanistan, ending 19 years of military engagement. Latest incident is a killing of a former TV presenter on Saturday.A bomb attached to the vehicle of a former presenter on Afghanistan’s TOLO TV exploded killing the journalist and two other civilians, Kabul police said. Mohammad Rafi, said Siawash’s father and brother were the first to reach the vehicle that was engulfed in flames.Rafi said all three of those killed were inside the car.