Kabul Serena Hotel Shooting

Date: March 20, 2014 • Location: Kabul, Afghanistan

Taliban militants killed nine civilians in a mass shooting at the Kabul Serena Hotel in Afghanistan.

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.