ISIS takes credit for Kabul suicide bombing at Chinese restaurant

Afghanistan Blast killed seven people in Kabul's Shahr-e-Naw neighborhood NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The Islamic State claimed responsibility on Monday for a suicide blast at a Chinese restaurant in Afghanistan that killed more than half a dozen people. Abdul Mateen Qani, a spokesman for the Afghan Interior Ministry, told The New York Times the attack was carried out by one person linked to ISIS-Khorasan, commonly known as ISIS-K, one of the terrorist group’s most lethal branches.ISIS-K has claimed it targets Chinese citizens as retaliation for Beijing's treatment of Uyghurs, a Muslim minority group, and has also denounced the Afghan government's relationship with China, according to the Times. Workers clean the scene as Taliban police secure the area after an explosion at a Chinese restaurant, right, killed at least seven people, including a Chinese national, a day earlier in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. (Siddiqullah Alizai/AP)