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2021 Kabul airport attack

suicide bombing in Afghanistan
Event suicide_bombing Q108285843
2021 Kabul airport attack
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Summary

2021 Kabul airport attack is a suicide bombing[1]. It ranks in the top 8% of suicide bombing entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,236 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Kabul[3]
  • Country: Afghanistan[4]
  • Instance of: coordinated terrorist attack[5], mass shooting[6]
  • Location: Kabul International Airport[7]
  • Part of: Islamic State–Taliban conflict[8]
  • Commons category: 2021 Kabul airport attack[9]
  • Located in time zone: UTC+04:30[10]
  • Armament: explosive device[11], firearm[12]
  • Target: 2021 Kabul Airlift[13], Kabul International Airport[14]
  • Point in time: August 26, 2021[15]
  • Number of deaths: 182[16]
  • Number of injured: 150[17]
  • URL: https://mobile.twitter.com/samueloakford/status/1489718716724137989[18]
  • Perpetrator: Islamic State – Khorasan Province[19]

Why It Matters

2021 Kabul airport attack has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[20] It is known by 37 alternative names across languages and contexts.[21]

Related Entities

Afghanistan

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . apnews.com. apnews.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . bbc.com. bbc.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . reuters.com. reuters.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [20] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [21] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 7w ago · DeltaBot bot · 2026-08-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Perpetrator → Islamic State – Khorasan Province
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:1||1 */ Perpetrator: Islamic State, move qualifier Reference url to reference"
  2. 7w ago · ~2026-46803-93 · 2026-08-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Location → Kabul International Airport
    Aliases → —
    Point in time → —
    Country → Afghanistan
    + 17 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Perpetrator: Islamic State"
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