TRAC Senior Analyst, Daniel Lebowitz has been closing following tensions and attacks arising from an especially p olitically sensitive time, as the Taliban / Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA)  and United States have completed a peace accord on the future of U.S. forces in Afghanistan and setting the stage for an intra-Afghan dialogue to address the future of the country. This peace accord began on 10 March 2020.

Islamic State Khurasan (ISK) claimed attacks targeting the past two ceremonies commemorating the death Abdul Ali Mazari that are held each March in Kabul. On 06 March 2020, gunmen emerged from a nearby construction project and opened fire on the large group of civilians gathered to watch the annual ceremony.

On 09 March 2020, Islamic State Khurasan (ISK) claimed to have fired twenty (20) Katyusha rockets during Ashraf Ghani's inauguration speech at the presidential palace in Kabul.