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 The December 2017 Kabul suicide bombing occurred on 28 December 2017, when militants attacked a Shiite cultural centre in Kabul, Afghanistan.

[4][5] The cultural centre also housed the Afghan Voice Agency, with victims including journalists and university students.

The bombing occurred during a discussion held to mark the 38th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

The attack is among a series that has targeted Afghanistan's Shia minority, who are seen as heretics by the Islamic State.

[1][4][5] According to the United Nations, 12 attacks have targeted Shiites in Afghanistan since the beginning of 2016, in which more than 700 people have been killed.