Bethan McKernan, The Independent: Kabul bombing: Who was responsible for the attack that killed 90 people?
Taliban denies carrying out massive suicide truck bombin
The people of Kabul are losing patience with the weak and divided government of President Ashraf Ghani after a suicide truck bomb ripped through the city’s diplomatic quarter, killing 90 people and wounding more than 400.
Wednesday’s grisly attack - the latest in a series of grim extremist incidents carried out by the Taliban and Isis across Afghanistan since the withdrawal of international troops in 2014 - occurred at rush hour at a busy intersection, setting dozens of cars on fire and shattering windows a kilometre (0.5 miles) away.
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- June 1, 2017
Kabul bomb: Who carried it out? -- AFP
Short of allies, Syria’s rebels are down but not out -- Sarah El Deeb, AP
Turkish-German showdown over Incirlik Air Base -- Semih Idiz, Al-Monitor
Iran's Growing Casualty Count in Yemen -- Joshua Koontz, War on the Rocks
Why deadly Kabul bombing is crisis for all of Afghanistan -- Emma Graham-Harrison, The Guardian
Afghanistan: sent back to a war zone -- Sandra Petersmann, DW
Is China Headed for a Recession? -- Christopher Balding, Bloomberg
Can a Beleaguered Opposition Prevail in Cambodia’s Local Elections? -- Cristina Maza, WPR
DRC's homemade refugee crisis -- Martina Schwikowski, DW
What's gone wrong with the Conservative campaign? -- George Eaton, New Statesman
The Most Interesting Poll in Britain Right Now -- Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg
The Old German Problem -- Victor David Hanson, NRO
The Parti Québécois is on the brink of extinction -- Konrad Yakabuski, The Globe and Mail
OPEC Can Still Do What It Takes to Prop Up Oil -- Robin M. Mills, Bloomberg
Why Is the World So Unsettled? -- Hal Brands & Eric Edelman, CSBA