Collision between buses, fuel truck kills dozens in Afghanistan

[...] Sunday, the government hanged six Taliban prisoners convicted of various terrorism offenses — the first such executions of President Ashraf Ghani’s administration.

The executions in Kabul had been expected for some time, after the Taliban’s Haqqani network detonated a large truck bomb April 19 at the country’s intelligence agency, killing 64 people.

The executions reflected a lack of optimism among Afghan officials about efforts to restart the peace process with the Taliban, who have refused to attend recent sessions.