11 Afghan troops killed in Kabul military academy raid

By Monitoring report

KABUL: Militants on Monday raided a military academy in Kabul, the Afghan capital, killing 11 soldiers, the fourth major attack in a spate of violence over the past nine days that is putting a new, more aggressive US strategy under the spotlight.

Five gunmen attacked an army outpost near one of Afghanistan´s main military academies on Monday and 11 soldiers were killed and 15 wounded before the attackers were subdued, the Defence Ministry said.

Pakistan and China strongly condemned attack on a military academy in Kabul on Monday. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack near the Marshal Fahim military academy on the city´s western outskirts, in which four of the gunmen were killed and one captured.