2023 Kabul airport bombing explained
On 1 January 2023, a bombing occurred at a checkpoint outside the military airport in Kabul, located about 200 metres from the civilian Kabul International Airport in Afghanistan.[1] It killed and injured several people.[2] [3] The following day, on 2 January, the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the bombing on Telegram, stating to have killed 20 people and injured 30. The Taliban-run ministry of interior denied those numbers, saying it would be releasing an official toll.[4]
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- Web site: 2023-01-01 . Taliban: Kabul checkpoint bomb blast kills, wounds several . 2023-01-01 . Associated Press . 17 March 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230317223719/https://apnews.com/article/islamic-state-group-kabul-afghanistan-government-taliban-cb03f7488c1320a305f0853fc21d43bd . live .
- Web site: 2023-01-01 . Several Killed, Wounded In Blast Near Kabul Military Airfield . 2023-01-01 . Barron's . Agence France-Presse . 17 March 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230317203918/https://www.barrons.com/articles/bank-panic-svb-economy-growth-e2c05150?jsondata=r . live .
- News: Yawar . Mohammad Yunus . Peshiman . Gibran . 2023-01-01 . Blast outside Kabul's military airport, multiple casualties, interior ministry says . Reuters . Kabul . Fullick . Neil . limited . 2023-01-01 . Kim . Coghill . 17 March 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230317223924/https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/blast-outside-kabuls-military-airport-multiple-casualties-feared-interior-2023-01-01/ . live .
- News: Awadallah . Nadine . Yawar . Mohammad Yunus . 2023-01-02 . Islamic State claims responsibility for Kabul attack . Reuters . Cawthorne . Andrew . MacSwan . Angus . limited . 2023-01-03 . 2 January 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230102122550/https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/islamic-state-claims-responsibility-kabul-attack-2023-01-02/ . live .
