January 2014 Kabul restaurant attack

On January 17, 2014, a suicide bomber detonated explosives at the gate of the Taverna du Liban, a heavily fortified restaurant in Kabul popular with foreign nationals, including diplomats, humanitarian aid workers and journalists; two gunmen then entered the building and began "shooting indiscriminately." 21 people were slain.

The Taliban immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.

Casualties + Victims by nationality Nationality Dead 8 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1Total 21

Wabel Abdallah, head of the Afghanistan office of the International Monetary Fund. Alexandros Petersen, a scholar of energy and of the geopolitics of the Caucasus and Central Asia. Petersen had recently joined the faculty at the American University in Kabul.

See also List of terrorist attacks in Kabul

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