Gunmen have killed 27 people and wounded at least 29 in attack on Shiite leader's memorial in Kabul, Afghan officials said Friday.
paving the way for an American withdrawal from the country, denied involvement in the attack. The Islamic State group has attacked Afghan Shiites in the past, and views the religious minority as heretics.
The memorial marked 25 years since the death of Abdul Ali Mazari, the leader of Afghanistan's minority ethnic Hazaras, who are mostly Shiite Muslims. He was killed in 1995 by the Taliban as they moved to take control of Kabul, which had been destroyed by a brutal civil war among mujahedeen groups, including Mazari's.
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