KABUL: Twenty-five people were killed in two attacks in Afghanistan Saturday, including one in the capital, with the blasts potentially jeopardizing attempts by Kabul to persuade the Taliban to join peace talks set for next month.

Witnesses and officials described how the suicide bomber detonated near the Defense Ministry in the center of Kabul just as offices closed for the day, in an attack later claimed by the Taliban.

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