A senior Taliban commander Mullah Firoz Jahadi has been killed during an anti-terror operation, according to the Afghan interior ministry.

The explosion has rocked the German consulate in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif.

Una explosión sacude el consulado alemán en la ciudad afgana de Mazar e Sharif. Un grupo talibán ha asumido la autoría del ataque, que habría dejado al menos una víctimas mortal y tres decenas de heridos, todos ellos civiles.

The Afghan Taliban have recaptured a strategic district in the northern province of Kunduz, which they briefly overran last September before being pushed back by the Afghan army.

The blast was so powerful it was heard all across Kabul.

The Taliban have claimed responsibility for a truck bomb attack on a compound housing foreign contractors in the Afghan capital.