Large-Scale Assault Hits Afghan Capital After Relative Lull by Ehsanullah Amiri and Craig Nelson – Wall Street Journal
Suspected Islamic State militants attacked a government building in teeming central Kabul on Saturday, killing seven and triggering a gunbattle with government forces that sent terrified workers scurrying for safety and left others huddled in their offices awaiting rescue.
In a revival of the large-scale violence that has afflicted the exhausted and anxious Afghan capital, a suicide attacker set off his bomb near the entrance of the telecommunications ministry, the Interior Ministry said.
Four gunmen then stormed the entrance, the ministry said, seeking to break into the 18-story building and apparently to wreak as much death and destruction as possible before being outnumbered and outgunned by government reinforcements…