Taliban Attack on National Directorate for Security in Kabul (2017)

Document
Date
AP ۱۳۹۵ کب ۱۱
Year of Incident
2017
Province of incident
Kabul: Kabul City
Geolocation (province level)

Latitude: 34.5168788437339

Longitude: 69.1499999975304

Geolocation (province level) (linked Document)
Kabul
Town Village
Kabul City, Kabul
Types of Incident
  • Complex attack
  • Explosion
  • Suicide attack
  • Targeted Killing
Conflict Parties
  • Afghan National Army (ANA)
  • Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
  • Afghan National Police (ANP)
  • Haqqani Network (HN)
  • National Directorate of Security (NDS)
  • Taliban
  • Taliban Militants
Perpetrators
  • Republic of Afghanistan
Summary

On March 1, 2017, Taliban militants attacked the National Directorate for Security (NDS) facility in Kabul. During the assault, one Taliban member detonated a suicide bomb while a second attacker was shot and killed by Afghan security forces. The explosion caused an unspecified number of civilian deaths and injuries. This was part of coordinated Taliban attacks in the Afghan capital that day.

Sources

AHRDO Incident Report

Source_2

Reuters

No of victims involved
15