A senior Taliban* commander was reportedly killed during the attack on the Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan military hospital. Hamdullah Mukhlis was among the fighters killed when his men responded to the assault, a source told Sputnik on Wednesday.
"Hamdullah [Mukhlis], the commander of the Kabul corps, was killed in... the Daesh attack", the source said.
The commander was a member of the Haqqani network* and an officer in the Badri Corps special forces.
The situation in the country remains uneasy after the Taliban takeover in August. In the meantime, recent reports suggest that ex-security personnel have been joining the Daesh terrorists since the collapse of the US-backed government.
In early August, the Taliban launched a major offensive against Afghan government troops, amid the US withdrawal from the country. The Taliban entered Kabul on 15 August and in September seized control over all the Afghan provinces.
*The Haqqani network, the Taliban, and Daesh (also known as Islamic State/ISIS/IS) are terrorist groups banned in Russia and many other nations.