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Afghanistan Says Pakistan Airstrike on Kabul Killed Over 400

HeadlineMar 17, 2026

In Afghanistan, the Taliban government says 408 people were killed and 250 injured Monday evening after Pakistan targeted a drug treatment center in Kabul with an airstrike. Pakistan denied bombing any health facilities, but reporters who visited the wreckage of the Omar Addiction Treatment Hospital found the 2,000-bed facility on fire and in ruins, with dozens of bodies being carried out on stretchers. The U.N. reports scores of civilians have been killed since Pakistan’s defense minister last month declared “open war” on Afghanistan.

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