It was the second attack on an educational institution in Kabul in two weeks. On October 24, IS claimed responsibility for attacking a learning center in Dasht-e-Barchi, a mostly Shiite neighborhood of Kabul. At least 24 students were killed in that attack. Over 100 others were wounded.
||1:The IS-allied group in Afghanistan has declared war on the country’s minority Shiite Muslims and claimed responsibility for many attacks since 2014.||2:An attack earlier this year on a Kabul maternity hospital — also in the Dasht-e-Barchi neighborhood — was blamed on the Islamic State group.||3:In that attack, militants killed 25 people, many of them newborn babies and mothers.