2019 Bagram Airfield attack

2019 Bagram Airfield attack
LocationBagram Airfield
DateDecember 11, 2019
Weapons1 Garbage Truck and suicide attack
Deaths2
Injured80 (first attack) 6 (second attack)
PerpetratorTaliban
DefendersU.S. Army, Georgian Army, U.S. Marine Corps

In the early morning of December 11, 2019, the Taliban attacked Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, which at the time was controlled by the United States military. The attackers used a VBIED garbage truck with 25,000 lb of home-made explosives which killed two civilians and injured 80 others.