On Wednesday at least 16 people were killed in a suicide attack on a construction company in eastern Afghanistan's Jalalabad city. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack,

but both the Islamic State group and the Taliban are active near the city, in Nangarhar province. Afghanistan has been stuck in nearly constant conflict since the Soviet invasion of 1979,

which was followed by civil war, the Taliban regime, and the US invasion in late 2001. _(Published in an arrangement with PTI)_