Afghanistan: Gunmen attack Kabul military academy

Afghanistan: Gunmen attack Kabul military academy

A military academy in the Afghan capital, Kabul, has come under attack leaving at least two soldiers dead, days after more than 100 people were killed in an explosion near the interior ministry building.

A presidential spokesman said on Monday that the gunmen did not manage to get inside the Marshal Fahim National Defense University - the third major attack in Kabul in the past two weeks.

The attack on Monday was claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) via the group's Amaq website.

In addition to the two dead soldiers, at least 10 soldiers were wounded, officials said, while four attackers were killed and one was arrested.

The assault is continuing at a police battalion next to the academy, officials said.

Monday's attack comes as Kabul residents are grieving over the suicide bombing on Saturday in the city centre, which killed more than 100 people and left 191 people wounded.

Kabul was already on high alert, with security beefed up particularly near the blast scene - an area close to an interior ministry building, the Jamhuriat hospital, government offices, businesses and a school.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for Saturday's assault, saying its target was government officials.

Abdullah Fahimi, lecturer at Abu Rayhan University in Kabul, told Al Jazeera that the city has seen a sharp increase of attacks by armed groups in the past two winters.

"This comes in response to the aggressive strategy followed by the Afghan government as well as the US government, which slapped sanctions on six members of Taliban and the Haqqani Network," Fahimi said.

My Response:

Audience: I think that the audience of this article is people who are being affected by these attacks. People of Afghanistan.

Purpose: I feel like the purpose of this article is to warn people of the fast moving attack groups that are posing a lot of problems all over the world. 

Bias: I think that there is bias against the system of Afghanistan government because of the fact that there have been so many attacks lately. They should have been stopped. I also think that there is bias against the terrorist groups, which is understandable based on the circumstances of this article's topic. I think that there is also bias as a reader because when we hear these types of stories, we always feel like the governments of these countries should be doing more. There are lots of stories about these middle eastern countries, or eastern Asian countries and all of their terrorist attacks that happens. It makes us feel like they have no defense systems.

My Opinion: I hate hearing these kinds of stories where there are relentless attacks that devastate and terrify people all over. I feel like there definitely needs to be some sort of action by the government that can better help police and the country respond to these kinds of attacks.