Members of Afghan Crisis Response Unit (CRU) arrive at the site of a Taliban attack in the Afghan capital of Kabul, Afghanistan on December 11, 2015. (Reuters)
Kabul:
At least six people were killed in a Taliban siege near the Spanish embassy in Kabul's diplomatic quarter that ended on Saturday, the latest insurgent attack in the highly fortified area.
Below are some of the most high-profile attacks on embassies, the UN and NATO properties in and around the diplomatic quarter since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.
- July 7, 2008: A suicide attack carried out by a car bomber on the Indian embassy kills at least 60 people, including two senior diplomats and two guards.
- October 8, 2009: The Indian embassy is targeted again, leaving 17 dead.
- August 19, 2011: The Taliban claims a suicide attack against the British Council, a cultural organisation part-funded by London, that kills nine on the 92nd anniversary of Afghanistan's independence from Britain.
- September 13-14, 2011: At least 15 people are killed in a brazen Taliban attack targeting the US embassy and NATO headquarters, which raged for 19 hours in a hail of rockets, grenades and suicide blasts. Former president Burhanuddin Rabbani, who was leading efforts to seek peace with the Taliban, is assassinated at his home in the area a week later.
- February 25, 2012: Two US military advisors are shot dead in the interior ministry in Kabul, as the country is convulsed with protests over the burning of Korans at an American base.
- September 8, 2012: A teenage suicide bomber strikes outside NATO headquarters in Kabul killing six young people, including child hawkers, as Afghanistan marks a public holiday.
- November 27, 2014: A suicide bomber rams his explosives-packed car into a British embassy vehicle, killing one Briton and five Afghans. The attack is followed by a violent explosion and gunfire in a neighbourhood close to the diplomatic quarter.
- December 11, 2014: A suicide bomber blows himself up near a crowd attending a play at a French cultural centre, in the complex of the French-run Esteqlal high school, killing at least two people and injuring more than 20.
- January 5, 2015: An attack on the European Union police vehicle kills one person and injures six Afghan civilians just days after the end of the NATO combat mission.
Below are some of the most high-profile attacks on embassies, the UN and NATO properties in and around the diplomatic quarter since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.
- July 7, 2008: A suicide attack carried out by a car bomber on the Indian embassy kills at least 60 people, including two senior diplomats and two guards.
- October 8, 2009: The Indian embassy is targeted again, leaving 17 dead.
- August 19, 2011: The Taliban claims a suicide attack against the British Council, a cultural organisation part-funded by London, that kills nine on the 92nd anniversary of Afghanistan's independence from Britain.
- September 13-14, 2011: At least 15 people are killed in a brazen Taliban attack targeting the US embassy and NATO headquarters, which raged for 19 hours in a hail of rockets, grenades and suicide blasts. Former president Burhanuddin Rabbani, who was leading efforts to seek peace with the Taliban, is assassinated at his home in the area a week later.
- February 25, 2012: Two US military advisors are shot dead in the interior ministry in Kabul, as the country is convulsed with protests over the burning of Korans at an American base.
- September 8, 2012: A teenage suicide bomber strikes outside NATO headquarters in Kabul killing six young people, including child hawkers, as Afghanistan marks a public holiday.
- November 27, 2014: A suicide bomber rams his explosives-packed car into a British embassy vehicle, killing one Briton and five Afghans. The attack is followed by a violent explosion and gunfire in a neighbourhood close to the diplomatic quarter.
- December 11, 2014: A suicide bomber blows himself up near a crowd attending a play at a French cultural centre, in the complex of the French-run Esteqlal high school, killing at least two people and injuring more than 20.
- January 5, 2015: An attack on the European Union police vehicle kills one person and injures six Afghan civilians just days after the end of the NATO combat mission.
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