Attack on Hotel Inter-Continental

Date: January 20, 2018 • Location: Kabul, Afghanistan

This milestone marked the outbreak and beginning of this historic period, which spanned 2018.

A group of Taliban gunmen attacked and took hostages at the Hotel Inter-Continental Kabul, Afghanistan, sparking a 12-hour battle that left at least 21 people dead.

The Taliban is a Sunni Islamist political and militant organization which has governed Afghanistan since 2021. Having previously ruled the country from 1996 to 2001, the group was overthrown following the United States invasion of Afghanistan and fought a twenty-year war which ended in their return to power.