2015 Spanish Embassy attack in Kabul

On December 11, 2015, Taliban militants detonated a car bomb and stormed a guesthouse near the Spanish embassy in the Shirpour district of Kabul—home to many foreign embassies and high-ranking government officials. Nine people died in the attack, including four Afghans, two Spanish guards and three Taliban fighters. Security forces, including Norwegian special forces took more than ten hours to bring the area back under control.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.