KABUL (TCA) — Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani has vowed to "eliminate" all safe havens of the extremist Islamic State (IS) group after at least 63 people, including children, were killed in a Kabul bombing at a wedding hall late on August 17 claimed by a local IS affiliate, RFE/RL's Radio Free A»»»

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo condemned the August 17 bombing of a wedding reception in Kabul in his congratulatory message on Afghanistan's 100th anniversary of independence. "Sadly Afghanistan's 100-year history has also been marked by conflict. The terrorist attack against a Kabul wedding »»»