Terror attacksby Islamic terrorist. Islamic religious or political cause have occurred globally. The attackers have used such tactics as suicide attacks, bombings, spree killings, hijackings, kidnappings and beheadings. The following is a list of Islamic terrorist attacks that have received significant press coverage since 1980.The black flag of jihad as used by jihadist militants since ca. the late 1990s.1980–1989A view of the damage to the U.S. Embassy afterApril 1983 U.S. Embassy bombing.*.April 18, 1983 – TheApril 1983 U.S. Embassy bombing,Beirut,Lebanonby theIslamic Jihad Organization. 63 dead, 120 injured.[1]*.December 12, 1983 –1983 Kuwait bombings. The 90-minute coordinated attack of six key foreign and Kuwaiti installations including two embassies, the airport, and the countrys main petro-chemical plant, was more notable for the damage it might have caused than what was actually destroyed. What might have been the worst terrorist episode of the twentieth century in the Middle East, succeeding in killing only 6 people because of the bombs faulty rigging.[2]*.July 7, 1989 –Tel Aviv Jerusalem bus 405 suicide attack, nearKiryat Yearim. 16 dead.[3]1990–1999Osama bin Laden(1957–2011) was the founder of Al-Qaeda, the jihadist organization responsible for many high profile attacks, including the1998 U.S. embassy bombings.The1998 United States embassy bombingin Nairobi where 214 people were killed including 12 Americans, 4000 others were wounded.*.February 26, 1993 –World Trade Center bombing, in New York City. 6 killed.[4]*.December 24, 1994 –Air France Flight 8969hijacking inAlgiersby 3 members ofArmed IslamicGroup of Algeriaand another terrorist. 7 killed including 4 hijackers.[5]*.June 25, 1996 –Khobar Towers bombing, 20 killed, 372 wounded.[6]*.November 17, 1997 –Luxor massacre, 6 armed Islamic terrorists attacked tourists at the Luxor ruins. 62 killed, 26 injured.[7]*.August 7, 1998 –1998 United States embassy bombingsin Tanzania and Kenya. 224 dead, 4000+ injured.[8]2000–2009The north face ofTwo World Trade Center(south tower) immediately after being struck by United Airlines Flight 175Hasib Hussain, who detonated the bus bomb in Tavistock Square in the7 July 2005 London bombings, is captured on CCTV leaving*.October 12, 2000 –Attack on theUSS Colein the Yemeni port of Aden. 17 American sailors were killed, 39 injured.[9]*.December 24, 2000 –Christmas Eve 2000 Indonesia bombingsof churches in eight cities, 18killed.[10]*.September 11, 2001– 4 planeshijackedby 19al-Qaedahijackers: two planes crashed intoWorld Trade Centerand one into theThe Pentagon. Nearly 3000 dead.[11]*.December 13, 2001 –Suicide attack on Indian parliamentin New Delhi byPakistan-based Islamist terrorist organizations Jaish-E-Mohammad and Lashkar-e-Toiba, aimed at eliminating the top leadership of India and causing anarchy in the country. 7 dead, 12 injured.[12]*.October 12, 2002 –2002 Bali bombingsin the tourist district ofKutaon theIndonesianisland ofBali, killing 202 people and injuring 240.[13]*.August 5, 2003 –2003Marriott Hotel bombinginMega Kuningan,South Jakarta,Indonesia; suicide bomber detonated a car bomb outside theJWMarriott Jakartalobby, killing 12 and injuring 150*.November 15–20, 2003 –2003 Istanbul bombings, killed 57 people and wounded 700.*.March 11, 2004 –Madrid train bombings, killed 191 people and wounded 1,800.[14][15]*.September 1, 2004 –Beslan school hostage crisis, approximately 344 civilians including 186 children killed.[16][17]*.September 9, 2004 –2004 Australian Embassy bombing in Jakarta,Indonesia; suicide bomber exploded a one-tonnecar bomb, which was packed into a smallDaihatsudelivery van, outside the Australianembassy atKuningan District,South Jakartakilling 9 and injuring over 150*.November 2, 2004 – The murder ofTheo van Goghby Amsterdam-born jihadistMohammed Bouyeri.[18]*.July 5, 2005 –Attack on the Hindu Ram templeinAyodhya, India. 6 dead.*.July 7, 2005 – Multiplebombings in London Underground. 53 killed by four suicide bombers. Nearly 700 injured.*.July 23, 2005 –Bomb attacks at Sharm el-Sheikh, an Egyptian resort city, at least 64 people killed.*.October 1, 2005 –2005 Bali bombingsinJimbaran&Kuta,Bali,Indonesia; a series of bombings kills at least 20 and injures over 100.*.October 29, 2005 –2005 Delhi bombings, India. Over 60 killed and over 180 injured in a seriesof three attacks in crowded markets and a bus.[19]*.November 9, 2005 –2005 Amman bombings. aseries of coordinated suicide attacks on hotels inAmman, Jordan. Over 60 killed and 115 injured.[20][21]Four attackers including a husband and wife team were involved.[22]*.July 11, 2006 –2006 Mumbai train bombings,Mumbai. Seven bomb blasts over a period of 11 minutes on the Suburban Railway in Mumbai. 209 killed and over 700 injured.[23]*.February 1, 2007 – The2007 plot to behead a British Muslim soldier– A group of British Pakistanis in Birmingham, England planned to kidnap and behead a British Muslim soldier in order to undermine the morale of the British Army and inhibit recruitment of Muslims.[24]*.August 14, 2007 –Qahtaniya bombings. Dour suicide vehicle bombings in two predominantly Yazidi towns in northern Iraq. 796 killed, 1,562 wounded.[25]*.July 26, 2008 –2008 Ahmedabad bombings. 56dead, over 200 injured.[26][27]*.September 13, 2008 –Bombing series in Delhi, India. Pakistani extremist groups plant bombs at several places includingIndia Gate, out of which the ones at Karol Bagh,Connaught PlaceandGreater Kailashexplode leaving around 30 people dead and 130 injured, followed byanother attacktwo weeks later at the congested Mehrauli area, leaving 3 people dead.*.November 26, 2008 – Muslim extremists kill at least 166 people and wound numerous others inaseries of coordinated attackson Indias financialcapital,Mumbai. The government of India blamed Pakistan based militant groupLashkar-e-Taibaand stated that the terrorists killed/caughtwere citizens ofPakistan, a claim which the Pakistani government first refused but then accepted when given proof.Ajmal Kasab, one of the terrorists, was caught alive.[28][29]*.June 18, 2009 –2009 Beledweyne bombingbyAl-Shabaab. 35 dead.*.July 17, 2009 –2009 Marriott and Ritz-Carlton Hotels bombinginMega Kuningan,South Jakarta,Indonesia; suicide bombers hit theMarriottand 5 minutes later the Ritz-Carlton. 9 killed and 53 injured*.November 5, 2009 –Fort Hood shooting, at Fort Hood near Killeen,Texas. 13 dead, 33 injured.2010–current*.March 29, 2010 -Moscow Metro bombings. 40 dead, 102 injured.Caucasus Emirateclaimedresponsibility[30]*.May 1, 2010 –2010 Times Square car bombingattempt,New York, New York, USA.Faisal Shahzad, anIslamicPakistani Americanwho received an American citizenship in December 2009, attempted to detonate acar bombinTimes Squareworking with thePakistani TalibanorTehrik-i-TalibanPakistan.*.May 28, 2010 –Attacks on Ahmadi Mosques Lahore, Pakistan.Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistanclaimed attacks on two mosques simultaneously belonging to theAhmadiyya Muslim Community, killing nearly 100 and injuring many others.[31]*.December 7, 2010 –2010 Varanasi bombing, India. 2 dead, 37 injured.*.December 10, 2010 –2010 Stockholm bombing, Sweden. killing the bomber and injuring two people.*.January 21, 2011 -Domodedovo InternationalAirport bombing. 37 killed,173 wounded[32]*.March 2, 2011 –2011 Frankfurt Airport shooting,Frankfurt, Germany. 2 dead, 2 injured.*.July 18, 2011 –2011 Hotan attack,Hotan, China. A group of 18 young Uyghur men who opposed the local governments campaign against the full-face Islamic veil perpetrated a series of coordinated bomb and knife attacks and occupieda police station on Nuerbage Street, killing two security guards and taking eight hostages. Theattackers yelled religious slogans, including ones associated with Jihadism, 4 killed, 4 wounded.*.July 30, 2011 -A series of knife and bomb atacks occurred in Kashgar, China. Uyghur men hijacked a truck, killedits driver and drove into a crowd of pedestrians. They then got out of the vehicle and attacked pedestrians with knifes. On July 31, a chain of two explosions started a fire in a restaurant, 15 killed, 42 wounded.*.December 25, 2011 -Christmas Day bombingswere bomb blasts and shootings at churches inMadalla,Jos,Gadaka, andDamaturu. Over 41 people are reported dead.[33]*.5 January 2012 Iraq bombings,BaghdadandNasiriyah,IraqbyIslamic State of Iraq. 73 dead, 149injured.*.February 14, 2012 -A series of explosions occurred in Bangkok, Thailand, 5 wounded.*.23 February 2012 Iraq attacks,Baghdad,Iraqby Islamic State of Iraq. 83 dead, 250+ injured.*.20 March 2012 Iraq attacks,Baghdadand at least 9 other cities,Iraq. 52 dead, ~ 250 injured.*.March 20, 2012 –Toulouse and Montauban shootingsin France. 7 dead, 5 injured.*.May 3, 2012 -Makhachkala attack. 14 dead, including 2 suicide bombers, 130 wounded[34]*.September 11, 2012 –2012 Benghazi attackon the U.S. Consulate. 4 dead, 11 injured.*.February 21, 2013. –2013 Hyderabad blasts, two bomb blasts killed 16 people and injured 119.*.April 15, 2013. –Boston Marathon bombings. Two brothers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnev, planted two bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. The blast killed 3 and injured 183 others.[35]*.May 11, 2013 –Reyhanlı bombings, killed 52 people and wounded 140.*.May 22, 2013 – Two men with cleaverskill British soldier Lee RigbyinWoolwich.[36][37]*.September 21, 2013 –Westgate shopping mall attack, 67 killed, 175 wounded.[38][39][40]*.September 22, 2013 –Peshawar church attack, 80-83 killed, 250 wounded.*.September 29, 2013. -Gujba college massacre. 44 students killed byBoko Haram*.October 28, 2013 -A 4x4 vehicle crashed into a crowd and burst into flamesin Tiananmen Square in Beijing, 5 killed, 38 wounded.*.March 1, 2014 - A group of 8 individualsattacked civilians at Kunming Railway Station, 28 dead, 143 wounded.*.April 30, 2014 - Two assailantsattacked passengers and detonatedexplosivesat the Ürümqi railway station, 1 dead, 79 wounded.*.May 22, 2014 - Two SUVs which carried 5 assailants weredriven intoa street market in Ürümqi and up to a dozen explosives were thrown at shoppersthrough the windows of the SUVs. The cars then crashed into shoppers and collided intoeach other and exploded, 39 dead, 90+ wounded.*.August, 2014. -IslamicStatefighters massacred some 700 people, mostly men, of theShuaytat tribeinDeir ez-Zor Governorate.[41]*.September 23, 2014. –2014 Endeavour Hills stabbings. Numan Haider, anAfghan Australianstabbed twocounter terrorismofficers in Melbourne, Australia. He was then shot dead.[42]*.February 14, 2014. -Borno Massacreat least 200 killed byBoko Haram[43]*.May 20, 2014. -Jos bombingsat least 118 killed and over 56 injured[44]*.May 24, 2014. -JewishMuseum of Belgium shooting. Gunman openedfire at the Jewish Museum in Brussels killing 4 people.*.October 5, 2014 -2014Grozny bombing. 5 officers and the suicide bomber, were killed, while 12 others were wounded.[45]*.October 22, 2014 –2014 shootings at Parliament Hill, Ottawa. Lone attacker shot a soldier at a war memorial and attacked Parliament.[46]*.October 23, 2014. – Zale H. Thomson, also known as Zaim Farouq Abdul-Malik, attacked four New York policemen in thesubway with a hatchet, severely injuring one in theback of the head and injuring another policemanin the arm before being shot to death by the remaining officers, who also shot a bystander.[47]*.November 28, 2014. -Kano bombing. Around 120 people were killed andanother 260 injured.[48][49][50][51]*.December 4, 2014. -2014 Grozny clashes. 26 total dead, including 14 policemen, 11JihadistfromCaucasus Emirate, 1 civilian[52]*.December 15, 2014. –2014 Sydney hostage crisis.[disputed]2 dead, 4injured.[53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60]*.December 16, 2014. –2014 Peshawar school attack. Over 140 people dead, including at least 132 children.[61]*.December 16, 2014. - Two suicide car bombers rammed their vehicles intoa Shiite rebels checkpoint killing 26, including 16 students.[62]*.December 18, 2014. -2014 Gumsuri kidnappings.Boko Haraminsurgents killed 32 people and kidnapped at least 185 women and children.[63]*.December 18, 2014. - Mass grave of 230 Tribesmen killed byIslamic Statefound in Eastern Syria.[64]*.December 22, 2014. – Boko Haram insurgents bombed a bus station in the city ofGombe, killing at least twenty people.[65]*.December, 2014. -Islamic Statemilitants execute 150 women Iraqi province ofAl-Anbar, some of whom were pregnant at the time, who refuse to marry their fighters.[66]*.December 24, 2014. - A suicide bomber killed 33 people and wounded 55 others in Madaen, about 25 km (15 miles) south of Baghdad.[67]*.December 25, 2014. -Al-Shabaab (militant group)attack in Mogadishu leaves 9 dead.[68]*.December 28, 2014. -Boko Haramattacks village in Cameroon leaving 30 dead.[69]*.January 7, 2015. - At least 12 killed inshooting at office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, Paris[
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