Backgrounder: Major attacks in Afghanistan since Jan. 1
Xinhua, February 28, 2016 Adjust font size:
The death toll of a Taliban suicide attack on an Afghan Defense Ministry's bus in Kabul on Saturday has risen to 15 and 31 others were injured, the ministry confirmed Sunday.
Those killed in the attack included 11 personnel from the ministry and four passersby, and the injured included 26 military workers and five civilians.
The following is the listing of major attacks in Afghanistan since January this year.
On Feb. 27, about 13 persons were killed and 40 others wounded after a suicide motorcycle bomber attacked a pro- government local leader, Khan Jan, in eastern Kunar province. Khan died in the attack.
On Feb. 22, a Taliban suicide attacker killed 13 people, including six Afghan Local Police (ALP) officers, and injured 11 others in eastern Parwan province.
On Feb. 17, three civilians were killed and 12 wounded by an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) attack in northern Faryab province.
On Feb. 11, five ALP officers were killed following a so-called insider attack in northern Kunduz province.
On Feb. 10, two police officers launched an insider attack, killing five policemen and injuring six officers in southern Kandahar province. One attacker was killed in shootout.
On Feb. 8, six civilians were killed and nine wounded in a suicide bombing in eastern Paktika province.
On Feb. 8, three military officers were killed and 18 injured when a suicide attacker struck an army bus in northern Balkh province.
On Feb. 1, 20 people, mostly police officers, died and 29 others were wounded when a suicide bomber detonated his explosive jacket at the gate of Civil Order Police station in western Kabul.
On Jan. 30, a police chief and an intelligence director were killed in an IED attack in the Dangam district of Kunar.
On Jan. 26, Zubair Khaksar, a local Journalist and cultural advisor to governor of Nangarhar, was killed in a targeted killing.
On Jan. 26, some nine police were killed in an insider attack in southern Uruzgan province.
On Jan. 20, up to seven media workers and a policeman were killed and 24 others wounded as a suicide car bombing struck a bus carrying employees of a local TV channel in western Kabul.
On Jan. 17, a suicide attack struck a guesthouse of a local leader Malik Usman Shinwari in Nangarhar, killing 12 civilians and injuring 13 others. Shinwari was among the injured.
On Jan. 13, seven security forces and two civilians were killed and 11 injured after three gunmen attacked a building near Pakistani consulate in Nangarhar.
On Jan. 4, one suicide bomber was killed after his car bomb went off along a main road near Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul. The target remained unknown.
On Jan. 4, three civilians were killed and 38 others, including two foreign soldiers and five policemen, wounded after a suicide truck bomb hit Camp Baron, a heavily protected residential compound of foreign civilian contractors near Kabul airport.
On Jan. 3, gunmen seized a building near Indian Consulate office in Balkh, killing one security force soldier and injuring nine others. The gunmen were killed after one-day clash with security forces.
On Jan. 1, three civilians were killed and 18 injured after a suicide car bomb targeted a local French restaurant in the Qala-e-Fatullah Khan area of Kabul. Endit