KABUL – The Taliban attack on an Afghan intelligence base on Monday inwhich dozens were killed is among the deadliest since the fall of thegroup’s regime in 2001.
Here is a summary of the deadliest attacks, which have all occurred after2007:
– 2018 –
– December 24: An hours-long bomb and gun attack on a Kabul governmentcompound kills at least 43 people. The Taliban denies responsibility.
– November 20: A suicide bomber blows himself up among religiousscholars inside a Kabul wedding hall, killing at least 55 people andwounding 94 others.
– April 22: An Islamic State bomber kills 57 people, including women andchildren, and wounds more than 100, all civilians, outside a voterregistration centre amid preparations for legislative elections in October.
– September 11: A suicide attack on Afghans protesting the appointment of alocal police chief in the eastern province of Nangarhar kills at least 68people and wounds another 165.
– January 27: An ambulance packed with explosives detonates in a crowdedstreet in the heart of Kabul, killing more than 100 people, mostlycivilians. The attack is claimed by the Taliban.
– 2017 –
– October 17: Two separate Taliban suicide and gun attacks on police andsoldiers leave 80 dead and scores wounded.
The deadliest, which claims 60 lives, is on a police compound in the cityof Gardez in Paktia province where militants disguised as police detonatebomb-filled vehicles that clear the way for gunmen to enter.
Another 15 security officials and five civilians are killed in a separateambush in the neighbouring province of Ghazni.
– May 31: More than 150 people are killed and hundreds wounded when amassive truck bomb rips through Kabul’s diplomatic quarter, shatteringwindows hundreds of metres away.
– April 21: Taliban militants in soldiers’ uniforms enter a military basein the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif and open fire on unarmed troops atclose range in the mosque and dining hall. At least 135 are killed.
– March 8: Gunmen disguised as doctors storm Afghanistan’s largestmilitary hospital in Kabul in a six-hour attack claimed by the IslamicState. The official death toll is 50 but security sources and survivors sayit exceeds 100.
– 2016 –
– July 23: Twin explosions rip through crowds of Shiite Hazaras in Kabul,killing at least 85 people. It marks the first major Islamic State assaulton the capital.
– April 19: A truck bomb followed by a shootout leaves 64 people dead andnearly 350 injured injured in central Kabul in a Taliban-claimed attack.
– 2011 –
– December 6: An attack in Kabul targeting the Shiite minority on the holyday of Ashura kills 80 people. A second attack in the northern city ofMazar-i-Sharif kills another four. The Taliban deny responsibility.
– 2008 –
– July 7: 60 people, including two Indian diplomats and two Indian guardsare killed in a suicide car bombing on the Indian embassy in the capital.The Taliban say they were not involved.
– February 17: 140 boys and men, including more than 50 auxiliary policeofficers, are killed in a suicide attack among a crowd at a dogfight in thesouthern city of Kandahar. The Taliban deny responsibility.
– 2007 –
– November 6: 79 people are killed, including 59 children and sixparliamentarians, in a suicide attack on a delegation of VIPs visiting asugar factory in Pul-i-Khumri north of Kabul. The Taliban deny involvement.- APP/AFP