Nearly 400 civilians killed in Afghanistan since Taliban takeover, UN says

More than 50 people with suspected ties to the Islamic State Khorasan had been killed in the same period, it said, with some tortured and beheaded and cast by the roadside.

Nearly 400 civilians have been killed in attacks in Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover, more than 80 percent of them by a group affiliated to Islamic State, a UN report shows, underscoring the scale of the insurgency faced by the new rulers.