10 August 2015 Kabul Suicide Bombing

On 10 August 2015, a suicide bombing occurred on Kabul International Airport street, near the entrance to Kabul Airport in Afghanistan. A suicide bomber drove a vehicle into the first checkpoint on the road leading into the airport, detonating the device at that location.

The attack killed five people and wounded 16 others. Those who died included four civilians and a child. The bombing occurred just days after a separate series of suicide attacks in the Afghan capital that had killed dozens of people and wounded hundreds more, indicating a period of heightened violence in Kabul at the time.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the bombing. The group stated that the attack was intended to target a group of foreigners near the airport checkpoint.

The incident is one of several attacks near or within Kabul during August 2015, a period marked by an escalation of suicide bombings and other violence in the Afghan capital as part of the broader War in Afghanistan.