Gunmen killed 19 people and wounded 22 others at Kabul University on Monday. Islamic State’s local affiliate claimed responsibility for the attack, which caused thousands of students to flee campus.

In Kabul, university students should be getting ready for the start of a new term. Instead, many are destroying evidence of their previous lives as the Taliban patrol the streets outside.

Forty-eight people have been killed and 67 injured in a bomb explosion at an education centre in Afghanistan's capital, Kabul ... tuition as they prepared for university entrance exams.