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

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.

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.