A suicide bombing in the Afghan capital on Wednesday killed the Taliban refugee minister, Interior Ministry officials said.

The Taliban ’s acting minister of refugees and repatriation, Khalil Haqqani, has been killed in a bombing in Kabul on Wednesday, according to media reports. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.

Khalil Ur-Rahman Haqqani, the Taliban’s minister for refugees and repatriation, was killed Wednesday in a suicide bombing at his office in Kabul, marking the highest-profile casualty since the group retook power three years ago.