Sufi Prayer Group Attack - Kabul (2015)

Incident
Date
Mar 7, 2015
Year of incident
2015
District geolocation of incident

Latitude: 34.5168788437339

Longitude: 69.1499999975304

District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
Kabul
Town/Village
Kabul City, Kabul Province
Types of incident
  • Small Arms Fires
  • Targeted Killing
Conflict parties
  • Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
  • Haqqani Network (HN)
  • ISIL-KP
  • Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (IRA)
  • Taliban
  • Taliban Militants
  • Unknown
Alleged types of crimes
  • War crime: Attacking civilian objects
  • War crime: Attacking civilians
  • War crime: Murder
  • War crime: Wilful killing
  • Other Crimes : Killing
Summary of incident

Date: March 7, 2015 Location: Private home, Kabul City Victims: Eleven men killed and One boy injured

Perpetrators: Anti-Government Elements

Incident Type: Targeted shooting

Claimed Responsibility: No group claimed responsibility

Narrative:

On March 7, 2015, Anti-Government Elements entered a private home in Kabul City where Sufism practitioners were praying. The perpetrators shot at the group, killing eleven men and injuring one boy. While no group claimed responsibility for the attack, ISIL-KP was noted as the primary group that had regularly targeted Sufis and their mosques throughout Afghanistan at that time.

Source_1

1- AHRDO Incident Report

2- UNAMA Reports on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict, 2015 Annual Report (released February 2016), pg. 51

No of victims involved
12