Islamic State claims responsibility for attack on Iraqi embassy in Kabul

Record ID: 904727

  • Title: Islamic State claims responsibility for attack on Iraqi embassy in Kabul
  • Date: 31st July 2017
  • Summary: KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (JULY 31, 2017) (REUTERS) EXTERIOR OF IRAQI EMBASSY WHICH WAS ATTACKED BY ISLAMIC STATES MILITANTS / SECURITY PERSONNEL STANDING GUARD IRAQI FLAG AMBULANCE DRIVING OUT OF IRAQ EMBASSY VARIOUS OF SCORCHED WALLS AND BROKEN WINDOW OF IRAQI EMBASSY VARIOUS OF SECURITY PERSONNEL STANDING GUARD AT ENTRANCE OF IRAQI EMBASSY AFGHAN INTERIOR MINISTRY FLAG (SOUNDBITE) (Dari) AFGHAN INTERIOR MINISTRY SPOKESMAN, NAJIB DANISH, SAYING: "At first when the attack happened we started evacuating diplomats. We managed to transfer the ambassador, his deputy along with other diplomats to a safe place. Fortunately, none of them was hurt. Only two embassy workers, including a woman, who are Afghan citizens, were martyred in this brutal terrorist attack." VARIOUS OF DAMAGES TO IRAQI EMBASSY
  • Embargoed: 14th August 2017 16:19
  • Keywords: Militant group Islamic State claimed responsibility attack on Iraqi embassy in Kabul suicide bomber
  • Location: KABUL, AFGHANISTAN
  • City: KABUL, AFGHANISTAN
  • Country: Afghanistan
  • Reuters ID: LVA0016S1TEMF
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Militant group Islamic State claimed responsibility for an attack on the Iraqi embassy in Kabul on Monday (July 31) that began with a suicide bomber blowing himself up at the main gate, allowing gunmen to enter the building and battle security forces.
    Although there has been no confirmation of direct planning links with the main Islamic State movement in Iraq and Syria, the attack, just three weeks after the recapture of Mosul, underlines fears of a spillover into Afghanistan from fighting in Syria and Iraq.
    Afghan security forces confronted three gunmen for hours before the Interior Ministry announced in mid-afternoon that the attack, in a normally busy business district of the capital, had been suppressed.
    Najib Danish, an Interior Ministry spokesman, said two Afghan embassy workers had been killed but no Iraqi personnel had been hurt.
    The embassy building, partly blackened by smoke and flames from the fighting, was damaged but otherwise the impact from the attack was relatively limited, compared with other recent attacks in Kabul.
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