Six civilians were wounded in the attack, according to the Interior Ministry.
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The charity said: “An armed group launched an attack on what is believed to have been an Afghan government compound located close to the Kabul office of CARE”.
Explosions and gunfire rocked the campus in that attack, which came just weeks after two university professors – an American and an Australian – were kidnapped at gunpoint near the school.
One person died and 42 were rescued after terrorists attacked the building of the US-based CARE International NGO in Kabul on Tuesday.
Afghan security personnel investigate the site of a twin suicide bombing near the Ministry of Defence in Kabul on September 5, 2016.
The statement added there were three suicide bombers in the explosives-laden vehicle that attacked the organization in Shar Naw area.
The area is home to several guest houses frequented by foreign diplomats.
An Afghan walks near the shattered windows of a damage shop near the site of a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2016.
The assault on CARE International began late Monday with a massive vehicle bombing, just hours after the Taliban carried out a brazen double bombing near the defence ministry.
The blast targeted ministry employees as they were leaving work during rush hour, and an army general and two senior police officers are among the dead.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was were targeting the ministry of defense.
The standoff, which lasted overnight after special forces surrounded the area, was mostly quiet with sporadic gunfire until the situation was resolved with explosions and shots in the morning.
Militants had taken hostages, thought to be all Afghan citizens, in a hotel in the centre of the capital where the militants holed themselves up after a suicide attack outside the building late Monday night, a security source said.
Security forces blocked all roads leading to the Shar-e Naw neighbourhood throughout the operation to end the siege.
President Ashraf Ghani condemned the incident and said Afghanistan’s enemies – an official terminology for Pakistan – have again showed that they were against Kabul’s development.
The Taliban’s ability to conduct coordinated high profile attacks in the capital Kabul has piled pressure on the Western-backed government, which has struggled to reassure a war-weary population that it can guarantee security.
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US forces and their allies overthrew the Taliban government in 2001, but the militant group continues to wage guerilla war, attacking soldiers, politicians and civilians.
