Taliban kills head of Afghanistan gov’t’s media department

Taliban assassinates top media officer in Kabul as clashes between the group and government forces intensify.

Taliban fighters have assassinated the Afghanistan government’s top media and information officer in capital city of Kabul, the group’s spokesman and Afghan officials say. The killing on Friday came days after Taliban warned it would target senior administration officials in retaliation for increased air strikes. Dawa Khan Minapal, who was the head of Government Media and Information Centre, had been killed, an official in the federal interior ministry confirmed.