Sufi Prayer Group Attack - Kabul 2015

Document
Date
AP ۱۳۹۳ کب ۱۶
Year of Incident
2015
Geolocation (province level)

Latitude: 34.5168788437339

Longitude: 69.1499999975304

Geolocation (province level) (linked Document)
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 Militant
  • Unknown
Alleged crimes in the incident
  • War crime: Attacking civilian objects
  • War crime: Attacking civilians
  • War crime: Murder
  • War crime: Wilful killing
  • Unknown: Killing
Summary

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.

Sources

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