KABUL: Ashraf Ghani, a one-time United States-based academic, was sworn in as the new president of Afghanistan on Monday, taking power as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization troops end their 13-year war without defeating the fierce Taliban insurgency.

A small bomb attached to a cart exploded in east Kabul early in the morning, injuring no one, police said, with much of the city under a security lockdown due to the threat of militant attacks.

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