Gunmen kill high-ranking Taliban official in Afghanistan in rare targeted attack

Gunmen killed Zabihullah Amiri, Badakhshan’s director of information and culture, in a targeted attack in Afghanistan. Security forces killed one attacker and captured the other. The article notes prior rare attacks on Taliban officials, including a 2024 suicide bombing that killed refugee minister Khalil Haqqani and a 2023 car bomb in Faizabad.