Introduction

On January 17, 2014, a suicide bomber detonated explosives at the gate of the Taverna du Liban, a heavily fortified restaurant in Kabul popular with foreign nationals, including diplomats, aid workers and journalists; two gunmen then entered the building and began "shooting indiscriminately." 21 people were slain.

The Taliban immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.

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Casualties

Victims by nationality

Nationality	Dead
Afghanistan	8
Lebanon	2
United Kingdom	2
Canada	2
United States	2
Denmark	1
Malaysia	1
Russia	1
Pakistan	1
Somalia	1
Total	21

• Wabel Abdallah, head of the Afghanistan office of the International Monetary Fund.
• Alexandros Petersen, a scholar of energy and of the geopolitics of the Caucasus and Central Asia. Petersen had recently joined the faculty at the American University in Kabul.