ShareKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a bombing at a Chinese restaurant in Afghanistan’s capital that killed at least seven people, including a Chinese national, and wounded more than a dozen others. The group said in a statement posted on its Aamaq news agency late Monday that a suicide bomber entered the restaurant frequented by Chinese nationals in Kabul and detonated an explosive vest. He said that one Chinese national was killed and five others were wounded. The attack happened at a Chinese restaurant in the Shahr-e-Naw district in the city, according to police spokesperson Khalid Zadran, who said one Chinese national and six Afghans were killed in the blast. He said Monday that the restaurant was jointly owned by an Afghan man, a Chinese national and his wife.

Source: Ethiopian News January 20, 2026 15:30 UTC