Timeline Major operations Airstrikes Major insurgent attacks 2002 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 Massacres Other On 8 May 2021, a car bombing, followed by two more improvised explosive device (IED) blasts, occurred in front of Sayed al-Shuhada school in Dashte Barchi, a predominantly Shia Hazara area[1][2] in western Kabul, Afghanistan,[3] leaving at least 90 people dead and 240 injured.

[14] The Dashte Barchi area of Kabul is populated by members of Afghanistan's Hazara ethnic group.

[17] Afghanistan in general had also seen a large increase in fighting between Afghan security forces and Taliban insurgents as both sides tried to gain control of strategic areas ahead of the withdrawal of U.S. and NATO troops.

[21] An Interior Ministry spokesman backed the statement stating the initial explosion was a car bomb followed by two IEDs.

[23] Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani condemned the terrorist attack and called 11 May as a national day of mourning in wake of the incident.

[14] Many of the residents held Ghani responsible for the attack and raised loud chants against the Afghan government and security forces.