A suicide bombing in the Afghan capital on Wednesday killed the Taliban refugee minister, Interior Ministry officials said.

An Islamic State suicide bombing in Kabul on Wednesday killed a Taliban minister who was a senior member of the notorious Haqqani family, with a U.S. bounty on his head for terrorist activities, in the highest-profile casualty since the Taliban took power in Afghanistan three years ago.

The Afghan Taliban's acting minister for refugees, Khalil Rahman Haqqani, and six other people were killed in an explosion in the capital Kabul on Wednesday, his nephew said. The Taliban spokesperson said in a statement that Khalil Haqqani had been killed by the Islamic State militant group,

Khalil Ur-Rahman Haqqani, a minister in Afghanistan's de-facto Taliban government and a member of a notorious family, was among those killed in an explosion in Kabul.

A suicide bombing in the Afghan capital on Wednesday killed the Taliban refugee minister, Interior Ministry officials said. The explosion struck inside the ministry and killed Khalil Haqqani, the refugee minister,

The Afghan minister for refugees was killed on Wednesday in a suicide bombing at the ministry's offices in the capital Kabul, government sources said, blaming the Islamic State group for

A suicide bombing in the Afghan capital on Wednesday killed the Taliban refugee minister and two others, officials said, in the most brazen attack on a member of the Taliban inner circle since they returned to power three years ago.