KABUL – Daesh has claimed responsibility for the deadly suicide attack onthe Shiite mosque in Kabul.

Afghan officials have raised the death toll for the latest attacks in thecountry — the suicide bombing in the capital, Kabul, and an overnightTaliban assault on an army outpost in the north.

Basir Mujahid, spokesman for the Kabul police chief, says the bomber whoblew himself up at a police checkpoint outside a Hazara gathering inwestern Kabul killed nine, including a policeman. He says 18 were woundedin Friday’s attack.

Earlier reports said seven were killed and 15 wounded.

Meanwhile, Defense Ministry spokesman Dawlat Waziri said that six soldierswere killed and five were wounded in the hours-long Taliban assault an armyoutpost in a remote region of northern Takhar province.

Earlier, provincial police spokesman Khali Aseir had reported that 10 localpolicemen were killed and nine were wounded in a Taliban ambush as theytried to make their way to the outpost to help the besieged soldiers in thedistrict of Khwaja Ghar.