"Jalalabad City in Afghanistan’s east has become the urban frontline in the so-called Islamic ...

"Jalalabad City in Afghanistan’s east has become the urban frontline in the so-called Islamic State Khorasan Province’s war against, well, everything and everyone in Afghanistan. In Kabul, ISKP has wrought carnage on the city’s Shi’a Hazara population over the past 18 months with more than a dozen horrific bombing attacks against mosques and Shi’a gatherings, but in Jalalabad, which doesn’t have the Hazara population that the capital does, the group has primarily targeted the government, their security forces and non-government organisations. The wall pictured here was damaged when a group of suicide attackers tried to enter the city’s education ministry office. Unfortunately for the attackers, on the opposite side of the road was a heavily secured prison and a guard tower that overlooked the ministry compound. The policeman in the tower saw the attack begin to unfold and engaged the attackers with his machine gun. One, wearing a suicide vest, realising he’d be unable to make it inside the walls, detonated 20 metres from the gate, leaving the unmistakeable scorch marks and shrapnel divots of such devices."