February 2016 Kabul bombing

Overview

On February 1, 2016, a suicide bombing occurred at a police station in Kabul, Afghanistan. According to a Wikipedia list of terrorist attacks in Kabul, the bombing was carried out by the Taliban and resulted in the deaths of 20 police officers.

Details

The attack is listed among numerous terrorist incidents that have occurred in Kabul, Afghanistan's capital, across multiple years, reflecting a broader pattern of violence targeting security forces and civilians in the city during this period.

The primary source for this entry is a Wikipedia list-style article that catalogs terrorist attacks in Kabul chronologically, with only a brief description for this specific incident. Two additional sources were provided as corroborating references cited by the Wikipedia article — a Reuters report and a BBC News report — but their text was not made available for review in this dossier; therefore no additional facts have been drawn from them beyond confirming their existence as cited references. Because the substantive content of those two sources could not be verified against the claims in this dossier, the February 1, 2016 attack description rests on a single available source.

Status

This case is treated as solved/attributed in the sense that responsibility was attributed to the Taliban in the source material, though no named individuals have been charged or convicted according to the information available here.