Suicide bombing strikes restaurant in Kabul

A suicide bomber attacked the Le Jardin restaurant in Kabul on Jan. 1.
(Image credit: Wakil Kohsar/AFP/Getty Images)

The Taliban has claimed responsibility for a New Year's Day suicide bombing at a restaurant in Kabul, the latest in a series of attacks in the Afghan capital.

A 12-year-old boy was killed and more than a dozen people were injured, Reuters reports. On Twitter, the Taliban claimed that numerous "invaders" were killed or injured in the attack at Le Jardin, a restaurant popular with foreign visitors. Earlier in the week, one person was killed and 33 injured in a suicide bombing near the Kabul airport, and six U.S. soldiers patrolling near Bagram Air Base outside of the city were killed Dec. 22 after an attacker drove a motorcycle laden with explosives into their military convoy.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.