Timeline: main attacks in Kabul since 2008

December 15 At least eight die and 40 are wounded in a suicide attack
near a hotel used by foreigners.

2010

January 18 Five people die and at least 71 are injured by Taliban
guerrillas in a wave of coordinated bomb and gun attacks in the city.

May 18 A suicide bomber kills at least 18 people, including five US
soldiers and one Canadian soldier, in an attack on a Nato convoy.

2011

January 28 Eight people are killed in a suicide bombing at a central
Kabul supermarket popular with Westerners.

June 18 Nine people are killed when suicide attackers storm a police
station in the old city area of the capital.

June 28 Twenty-one people are killed, including 10 civilians, when
suicide bombers storm the luxury Intercontinental Hotel.

August 19 Nine people, including a New Zealand special forces soldier,
die when suicide bombers attack the British Council cultural centre.

September 13/14 Taliban attacks targeting locations including the US
embassy and headquarters of foreign troops kill at least 14 during a 19-hour
siege.

September 20 Burhanuddin Rabbani, Afghanistan’s former president leading
efforts to find a peace deal with the Taliban, is assassinated in a suicide
attack at his home in Kabul’s supposedly secure diplomatic zone.

October 29 Thirteen US troops operating under Nato are among 17 people
killed in a car bomb attack on a foreign military convoy in Kabul.

December 6 At least 54 people are killed in a bombing at a shrine, with
four more dead in another blast at a shrine in the northern city of
Mazar-i-Sharif, a day after an international conference
in Germany on Afghanistan’s future pledged sustained support for another
decade.

2012

February 25 Two US military advisers are shot dead in the interior
ministry, while anti-US protests rage in the country after the burning of
copies of the Koran at a US-run military base.

April 15 Coordinated attacks claimed by the Taliban rock the diplomatic
enclave as militants take over a hotel and try to enter parliament, while
multiple attacks take place across the country.

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