IED event in Kabul area, Afghanistan on Mon 19th January 2026

The Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) has claimed responsibility for January 19, suicide attack on a Chinese restaurant in Kabul’s Shahr-e Naw area that killed seven people, including one Chinese national, Afghanistan International reports on January 20. Taliban officials said the Chinese national killed in the blast was a Muslim from China’s Xinjiang region, identified as Abdul Rahman. In a statement published by ISIS’s Amaq News Agency, the group said a suicide bomber entered a Chinese restaurant, China Lanzhou Beef Noodle, in Shahr-e Naw and detonated explosives among Chinese nationals and their guards. ISKP claimed the attack killed and wounded Chinese citizens, Afghan civilians and Taliban members guarding the site. Without providing evidence, the group said the total number of dead and wounded was 25. The statement said Chinese nationals were targeted over what the group described as China’s treatment of Uyghur Muslims.