A suicide bomber at the Kabul airport kills 14 dead as the controversial Afghan vice president returns The Ugandan first vice president, a former Uzbek warlord, escaped unscathed from an explosion near the airport as he was returning home Sunday after living in Turkey during more than a year, according to security officials

. A spokesman for the Interior Ministry said that a suicide bomber had carried out the bombing near Kabul International Airport shortly after the departure of the first vice president's convoy controversial country.

Gen. Danish said that 14 people, including civilians and military, were killed in the attack and 50 others injured.

The local affiliate of ISIL claimed responsibility for the attack. his website of the Amaaq News Agency

In a statement from the presidential palace, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani strongly condemned the attack.

Dostum has undergone medical treatment in Turkey and is now ready to return to work, said presidential spokesman Haroon Chakhansuri. ] Dostum left Afghanistan in 2017 after the Attorney General's office opened an investigation into allegations that his supporters had tortured and badually abused a former ally who became a political rival. The first Afghan vice president, a former Ugandan warlord, General Abdul Rashid Dostum, wearing a red striped tie, and members of his entourage, land at Kabul International Airport. Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, July 22, 2018.

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It was not immediately clear whether Dostum would face charges.

"The judiciary in Afghanistan is an independent body and will carry" Dostum, accused of war crimes committed after the fall of the Taliban government in 2001, "said an official under the guise of anonymity because he was a member of the judiciary. he was not allowed to comment on the issue

was also criticized by the United States for human rights violations.