Al-Jazeera correspondent in Afghanistan quoted a government source that 18 people were killed and 110 others injured in a car bomb targeting this morning an Afghan police station west of the capital Kabul, claimed by the Taliban.

The attack occurred at 9:30 am Kabul time, an Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman said. The bomb exploded when a car was stopped at a checkpoint in front of the police station.

Sources in the Ministry of Interior that the death toll is likely to rise because of the magnitude of the explosion, which was heard throughout the capital.

A spokesman for the movement, Zabihullah Mujahid, said an attack on a center belonging to Afghan forces in the center of the capital, killing and wounding a number of members of these forces, in return the Interior Ministry says most of the victims were civilians.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah have denounced the suicide attack, saying it contained a threatening message from the Taliban that they did not want to hold presidential elections on September 28.

Night clashes
Al-Jazeera correspondent pointed out that the attack on the police station comes after a night witnessed unprecedented clashes between Islamic State militants and Afghan forces in the east and north of the capital, has been Afghan intelligence wanted to arrest the militants of the group.

Afghan special forces stormed a hideout of ISIS fighters near Kabul airport on Wednesday night, the AFP news agency said.

In a separate incident in the northern Afghan province of Baghlan, authorities said they thwarted an attack on a convoy of security forces.The Afghan army said in a statement that three attackers were in a Humvee vehicle packed with explosives, but the troops spotted and destroyed their car with a rocket-propelled grenade, killing the attackers.