After struggling to get pregnant for years, Zainab gave birth to a baby boy at a small hospital in the southwestern corner of Kabul. She named the boy Omid, meaning 'hope' in Dari https://reut.rs/3fKwABY  1/6

An hour before she and her family were set to return home, three gunmen disguised as police burst into the hospital's maternity ward and started shooting 2/6

Omid was killed. Zainab had spent seven years trying to have a child, waited nine months to meet her son and spent just four hours with him after his birth 3/6

The massacre killed 24 people. No group claimed responsibility. At least six babies lost their mothers in the attack which shook the war-torn nation already numbed by years of militant violence 4/6

The raid happened on the same day a suicide bomb attack on a funeral killed at least 32 people in the eastern province of Nangarhar. Now at threat: progress towards U.S.-brokered peace talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government 5/6

Read more about the massacre that's rocked Afghanistan and its peace process https://reut.rs/3fKwABY  via @HamidShalizi, @qadir_sediqi, @OroojZuhra 6/6