The following is a of acts and failed attempts that can be considered Terrorism . Massacres more generally are listed chronologically at List Of Massacres ; assassinations are listed by location at List Of Assassinated People . Incidents of alleged State Terrorism have not been included below.
''Note: there is no single accepted definition of terrorism in common use. Incidents listed here are commonly called terrorism, or meet some of the commonly used criteria.''
- and Cromwell Varley Kidnapped and ransomed by Bandit Mulai Ahmed Er Raisuli in Morocco .
- newspaper building in Los Angeles , California , United States , killed 21 workers.
- of Franz Ferdinand, Archduke Of Austria and his Wife , precipitating World War I .
- , allegedly caused by German saboteurs, causes heavy damage to Jersey City, New Jersey and Ellis Island and kills as many as seven people.
- kills 40 people and wounds 300 others.
- kills 150 people, mostly high-ranked individuals, and wounds 500 in the Bulgaria n capital Sofia
- and French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou in Marseille by Ustasha s and IMRO
- , the British Military HQ in Jerusalem , by the Zionist group Irgun .
- , a UVF bomb in Belfast 's North Queen Street kills 15 people.
- bomb the Fraunces Tavern , killing four and injuring more than 50
- Police officer Stephen Tibble , 22, is shot dead as he chases an PIRA gunman escaping from a Bomb factory.
- PLO gunmen from Lebanon take dozens of hostages at the Tel Aviv Savoy Hotel eventually killing eight hostages and three IDF soldiers, and wounding 11 hostages.
- gun attack.
- December 1975: Carlos The Jackal and his rebels attack OPEC headquarters in Vienna, Austria and take over 60 hostages - mostly they were OPEC countries' leaders. On December 22 the hostages and rebels are transported in a DC-9 to Algiers where 30 hostages were freed; the plane was then flown to Tripoli, Libya where more hostages were freed before flying back to Algiers where the remaining hostages were freed and the rebels were granted asylym.
- 's LaGuardia Airport , killing 11 and injuring 75.
- is shot in the chest during the incident and after a standoff all hostages are released from the District building, B’nai Brith , and the Islamic Center.
- and his driver were shot by two Red Army Faction members.
- , RMS activists kept 105 children and 5 teachers hostage in a school in Smilde .
- , near Groningen , a passenger Train was hijacked by members of the RMS , 55 passengers were kept hostage. In an army attack six hijackers and two passengers were killed.
- , then head of the Dresdner Bank , was shot and killed by the Red Army Faction in a failed kidnapping.
- was kidnapped by the Red Army Faction . He was executed by the Red Army Faction on October 19 , 1977 .
- flight LH 181 was kidnapped by a group of four Arabs around the leader "Captain Martyr Mahmud".
- 1978–1995: The Unabomber kills three and injures 29 in a string of anti-technology bombings.
- meeting in Sydney , Australia , killing 2 people. 3 Ananda Marga members are later arrested and jailed for the attack, but later released due to lack of proof.
- kill 12 people in the La Mon Restaurant Bombing .
- March: In the Netherlands members of the RMS movement occupy a provincial office in Assen . 67 persons were held hostage, one official was killed on the spot, another died of injuries a month later.
- gunmen killed several tourists and hijack a bus near Haifa ; 37 Israeli s on the bus are killed.
- kidnap Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro and assassinate him 55 days later.
- members bomb two railway stations in Madrid, killing 7.
- and three others are killed by IRA bomb on board his boat off Mullaghmore. The same day two IRA bombs kill 18 British Soldiers near Warrenpoint. After the explosions a heavy gun battle ensued between the Soldiers and the Bombers firing from their position inside the border with the Republic of Ireland. One civilian was caught in the crossfire and killed.
- take diplomats hostage at the Dominican embassy in Bogotá , Colombia . After 61 days, all are released on April 27 .
- assassinated by Death Squad s in El Salvador .
- , gaining hostages. After a number of days, one hostage was killed by the Iraqis, and the Special Air Service assaulted the building to rescue the remaining hostages. One hostage died during the assault.
- 27 July : Members of the Abu Nidal Organization carried out a grenade attack on an Antwerp synagogue killing a child and wounding twenty others.
- at the Railway Station in Bologna , Italy kills 85 people and wounds more than 200.
- , France . Responsibility was claimed by the National European Fascists (FNE), but the police investigation concluded that Palestinian terrorists were involved.
- in Beirut , Lebanon kills 63.
- bombed a Turkish airline counter in the Orly Airport , killing eight people and wounding over 50.
- is bombed, killing all 117 people on board.
- by North Korean s targets South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan , killing 21 persons and injuring 48.
- in Beirut kills 241 U.S. Marines . 58 French troops from the multinational force are also killed in a separate attack.
- bomb by the IRA . Six are killed (including three police officers) and 90 wounded during Christmas shopping at the West London Department Store .
- 7 persons are killed and 70 wounded by bombs on the Marseille to Paris TGV and at the St-Charles station in Marseille . The attack is attributed to Carlos on behalf of the O.L.A.
- Cabinet .
- assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards. The killing was in retaliation for the Indian army's entry into the Golden Temple at Amritsar to flush out Sikh extremists who were using the temple as a base for their operations.
- February 23 : Paris Marks & Spencer shop, 1 bomb, 1 dead, 18 wounded, attributed to pro-Iranian Lebanese Hizbollah
- February 28 : IRA mortar attack kills nine Police officers in Newry.
- , killing 80, injuring 175.
- March 9 : Paris, Cinema Rivoli, 18 injured, pro-Iranian Lebanese Hizbollah
- hijacking.
- is blown up by a bomb put onboard the flight from Canada by Sikh nationalists. All 329 people on board are killed. At the time, the most deadly terrorist attack ever. A second Air India flight from Canada was targeted on the same day, but the bomb exploded at the Tokyo airport, in the luggage outside the aircraft, killing two baggage handlers, bringing the total death toll of the act to 331.
- '' cruise ship hijacking by Palestinian Liberation Front , during which passenger Leon Klinghoffer is shot dead.
- is killed when a bomb explodes in his Santa Ana, California office.
- , Colombia . The next day, an operation to free the hostages leaves some 100 people dead.
- hijacked by Abu Nidal group, flown to Malta , where Egyptian commandos storm plane; 60 are killed by gunfire and explosions.
- December 7 : Paris, Galeries Lafayette and Printemps shops, two bombs, 51 injured, attributed to pro-Iranian Lebanese Hizbollah
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- Investigators associated with the WHO reported that U.S.-funded Contras repeatedly destroyed health-care facilities and murdered health-care workers in Nicaraqua.
- , pro-Iranian (Fouad Ali Saleh group)
- February 4 : Paris, Gibert book shop, 7 injured, Fouad Ali Saleh
- February 5 : Paris, FNAC-sports, 15 injured
- Paris, 9 injured
- March 20 : Paris, Galerie Point-Show bombed, 2 dead, 21 injured
- bombed on approach to Athens airport; four passengers (all of them American), including an infant, are killed.
- in Berlin , a known hangout for U.S. soldiers, was bombed, killing three and injuring 230 people, for which Libya is held responsible. In retaliation, the US bombs Libya in Operation El Dorado Canyon and tries to kill Colonel Muammar Al-Qaddafi .
- n airliner in Colombo , Sri Lanka , killing 21 and injuring 40
- bombs Why Not Restaurant and Magoo's Bar in Durban , South Africa , 3 people killed, 73 wounded.
- Basque militant group bombs a Guardia Civil police truck, kills 12.
- , an American civilian airliner, is hijacked; 22 people die when plane is stormed in Karachi , Pakistan .
- September 8 : Paris town hall's post office bombed, 1 dead, 16 injured
- , Casino Supermarket's restaurant bombed, 43 injured
- September 14 : Paris, pub Renault bombed, 2 dead, 1 injured
- September 15 : Paris, police headquarters bombed, 1 dead, 45 injured
- , Rue De Rennes a bomb explodes in the street, 7 dead, 54 injured.
- is hijacked.
- in San Juan, Puerto Rico , claimed 97 lives, mainly in the casino area. Fire set by 3 hotel workers, trying to make tourists stay away from Puerto Rico as a protest to their working wages.
- , Sri Lanka kills 110
- team on Loughgall RUC base is stopped by SAS commandoes, who kill eight attackers. See Loughgall Ambush .
- Basque militant group bomb in Hipercor Mall's parking in Barcelona, kills 21, 45 injured.
- parade in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh by the IRA . 11 are killed and 63 injured.
- bombed by North Korea .
- Basque militant group bomb a Guardia Civil police bedrooms in Zaragoza, kills 11, 40 injured.
- bombing over Lockerbie . At the time, it was the worst act of terrorism perpetrated against the United States, and among the worst acts of terrorism in European history.
- , killing one pilgrim and wounding 16 others.
- bandsmen are killed and 22 injured when base in Deal, Kent , is bombed by the IRA .
- en route to Paris, killing all 171 passengers and crew. Lybian intelligence involved.
- bombed over Colombia .
- , Colombia ; blast is blamed on Drug Lord Pablo Escobar .
- ings directed by the IRA in Northern Ireland leave 7 people dead and 37 wounded.
- assassinated in a bomb blast believed to be the work of Sri Lankan Tamil terrorists belonging to the LTTE .
- ETA group bombs the Guardia Civil police barracks in Vic ( Barcelona ), killing 10.
- , a Pakistan i, fires an AK-47 assault Rifle into cars waiting at a stoplight in front of the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters. Two died.
- kills 6 and injures over 1000 people.
- in India leave 257 dead with 1,400 others injured
- bomb in Warrington kills two children ( Warrington Bomb Attacks )
- detonate a huge truck bomb in the City Of London at Bishopsgate , killing two and causing approximately £350m of damage.
- June: Failed New York City Landmark Bomb Plot .
- Basque terrorist group bombs a military truck in Madrid, kills 7, 36 injured.
- detonate a 1500lb car bomb (the largest used in Northern Ireland) in the centre of Newtownards in Northern Ireland , no one is killed but massive property damage is caused to the town centre.
- at a Fish And Chip shop on the Protestant Shankill Road, Belfast kills 10 people, including two children.
- , when Loyalist UFF gunmen attack a bar in Greysteel, Co Derry.
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- is discovered on a laptop computer in a Manila, Philippines apartment by authorities after an apartment fire occurred in the apartment.
- by AUM Shinrikyo Cult ists kills 12 and injures 6000.
- Basque militant group tries to kill José María Aznar (then leader of the Popular Party, later a Spanish Prime Minister) bombing his car, kills a woman.
- kills 168 people, 19 of them children; the most deadly act of domestic act of terrorism the United States to date.
- July—October: Bombings In France by a GIA unit led by Khaled Kelkal kill eight and injure more than 100.
- , Sri Lanka kills 24, injures 40.
- Sunset Limited train is Derailed by anti-government Saboteur s near Palo Verde , Arizona .
- , Sri Lanka kills 15.
- , Saudi Arabia kills 7
- November 19 : Bombing of Egyptian Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan kills 19.
- Basque militant group bombs a military truck in Madrid, killing 6 civilian public
- January: In Kizlyar , 350 Chechen militants took 3,000 hostages in a hospital. The attempt to free them kills 65 civilians and soldiers.
- January: Provisional Irish Republican Army plants a bomb that police defuse at the Canary Wharf towers in London .
- in Sri Lanka kills 90 and wounds 1,400.
- , killing two people.
- s in Israel leave 60 dead and 284 wounded within 10 days.
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- -- In all, 19 U.S. servicemen and one Saudi were killed and 372 wounded.
- in Sri Lanka kills 57.
- , killing one and wounding 111.
- begins in Lima , Peru ; it ends April 22 , 1997 with the deaths of 14 rebels, two soldiers and a hostage.
- in New York City , United States , killing a Danish national and wounding visitors from the United States , Argentina , Switzerland and France before turning the gun on himself. A handwritten note carried by the gunman claims this was a punishment attack against the "enemies of Palestine ".
- destroy the No. 2, 10, and 44 buses, killing 9.
- – Islamist gunmen attack tourists in Luxor , Egypt , killing 62 people, most of them European and Japanese vacationers.
- – 46 killed while praying in Acteal , Chiapas , Mexico . A paramilitary group associated with ex-president Salinas is held responsible.
- Luis Posada Carriles organized a string of bombings at luxury hotels in Cuba in 1997 in order to discourage the growth of the tourism industry. One Italian tourist died.
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- Terrorism Against Israel In 2001 .
- injures 15 people.
- , 13 Serbia n civilians are killed by a bomb attack on a bus in Northern Kosovo .
- March 24 : Twenty people die and 93 are injured in three bomb attacks on Russian towns near the border of Chechnya.
- , West London, though there are no injuries.
- in Jerusalem kills seven and wounds 130 in the Sbarro Restaurant Suicide Bombing ; Hamas and Islamic Jihad claim responsibility.
- in New York City , New York , and The Pentagon in Arlington , Virginia . A fourth plane, originally intended to hit The White House , crashes in Somerset County , Pennsylvania .
- Paris Embassy Attack Plot foiled.
- in Srinagar , India killing 35 people and injuring 40 more.
- Anthrax Attacks on the offices the United States Congress and New York State Government offices, and on employees of television networks and tabloid.
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- Jewish Defense League plot to blow up the King Fahd Mosque in Culver City, California , foiled.
- , attempting to destroy American Airlines Flight 63 , is subdued by passengers and flight attendants before he could detonate his shoe bomb.
- Terrorism Against Israel In 2002 .
- Singapore Embassies Attack Plot foiled.
- January: Kidnapping and murder of journalist Daniel Pearl .
- festivities in a hotel in Netanya , Israel in the Netanya Suicide Attack .
- Suicide Bomber kills 15 and injures over 40 in Haifa , Israel , in the Matza Restaurant Massacre .
- truck fitted with explosives is driven into a Synagogue in Tunisia by an Al-Qaeda member, killing 21 and wounding more than 30 in the Ghriba Synagogue Attack .
- kills 11 Frenchmen and two Pakistanis.
- in Dagestan kills at least 42 people and injures 130 or more during Victory Day festivities.
- in India , caused when Islamic extremists cut the rails.
- in Karachi kills 12.
- , killing 2 Israelis before being killed himself.
- kills 130 people in the Rafiganj Rail Disaster . Naxalite terrorism is suspected.
- group raid the Akshardham Temple Complex in Ahmedabad , India killing 30 people and injuring many more.
- October 2002: Beltway Sniper Attacks around the Washington metropolitan area kill 10 people and leave the region paranoid for weeks, caused by domestic terrorists.
- in Yemen .
- of holidaymakers kills 202 people, mostly Western tourists and local Balinese hospitality staff.
- in the Philippines kill six and wounds about 150.
- kills three people and wounds 22.
- Corp. restaurant in Moscow, killing one person and wounding five.
- begins; 120 hostages and 40 terrorists killed in rescue three days later.
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- , Islamic extremists derail a train and kill 20 people in India .
- kills 83 people.
- Violence In The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict 2004 .
- Suicide Attacks In Iraq In 2004 .
- kills 41.
- is bombed in the Philippines by Abu Sayyaf , killing 116.
- holy sites in Iraq kill 181 and wound more than 500 during the Ashura .
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- in Turkey.
- in Madrid , Spain , kills 191 people and injures more than 1,500.
- , Saudi Arabia kills five.
- kills six Westerners and a Saudi in Saudi Arabia.
- , in which Islamic militants kill 22 people at an oil compound in Saudi Arabia .
- kill 90.
- August 31 : A blast near a subway station entrance in northern Moscow, caused by a suicide bomber, kills 10 people and injures 33.
- September 1 – 3: Beslan School Hostage Crisis in North Ossetia , Russia, results in 344 dead.
- , in which the Australia n embassy in Jakarta , Indonesia was bombed, killing eight people.
- , killing at least 34 and wounding 171, many of them Israeli and other foreign tourists.
- , Saudi Arabia , killing five local employees.
- , Philippines , kills 15.
- Suicide Attacks In Iraq In 2005 .
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- in Tel Aviv kills five Israelis and undermines a weeks-old truce between the two sides.
- attack on theatre in Doha , Qatar , kills one Briton and wounds 12 others.
- – On April 7 a Suicide Bomber blows himself up in Cairo 's Khan Al Khalili market, killing three foreign tourists and wounding 17 others. In two further attacks on April 30 , suspected accomplices detonate a bomb and spray a tourist coach with gunfire.
- 's capital Yangon kill 19 and injures 160.
- , Afghanistan , killing 20 people.
- ian cities of Ahvaz and Tehran , leaving 10 dead and 80 wounded days before the Iranian Presidential Election .
- – Six terrorists belonging to Lashkar-e-Toiba storm the Ayodhya Ram Janmbhomi Complex in India . Before the terrorists could reach the main Disputed Site , they were shot down by Indian Security Forces . One devotee and two Policemen were injured.
- – Bombs explode on one Double-decker Bus and three London Underground trains, killing 56 people and injuring over 700, occurring on the first day of the 31st G8 Conference . The attacks are believed by many to be the first Suicide Bombings in Western Europe.
- takes responsibility for a suicide bombing in Netanya , Israel , which kills five people at a shopping mall.
- - Small explosions in three London Underground stations and one Double-decker Bus . This was pronounced as a "major incident" rather than an attack, and only minor injuries were reported. These 4 bombs were designed to cause as much damage as the 7 July 2005 London Bombings , but the explosives had deteriorated and failed to detonate.
- – Car bombs explode at tourist sites in Sharm El-Sheikh , Egypt , killing at least 88 and wounding more than 100.
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- uniform opens fire on a bus in Shfaram , Israel , killing 4 Israeli Arab s and wounding 5.
- , killing two and wounding 100.
- occurs in resort areas of Jimabaran Beach and Kuta in Bali , Indonesia .
- rebels launched Coordinated Attacks on Russian federal buildings, local police stations, and the airport in Nalchik , Kabardino-Balkaria . At least 137 people, including 92 rebels, were killed.
- , Khuzestan in Iran . Six people died and over 100 were injured.
- in Baghdad , Iraq , killing at least 11. It is thought that the attacks were targeting Journalist s inside the Palestine Hotel and the Sheraton Ishtar . {Link without Title}
- suicide bomber detonates a bomb near a Falafel stand in Hadera , Israel that kills himself and six others. Twenty-six people were also wounded. {Link without Title}
- hit markets in New Delhi , India , leaving at least 61 dead and more than 200 injured.
- at Hotel s in Amman , Jordan , leave at least 60 dead and 120 wounded.
- in north-western Israel .
- , India, killing a retired professor of mathematics and wounding four others.
- Suicide Attacks In Iraq In 2006 .
- ignites sectarian strife in Iraq.
- , Pakistan kills four, including a U.S. diplomat.
- of the University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill drove an SUV onto a crowded part of campus, injuring nine.
- in the Hindu holy city of Varanasi , India , leave at least 15 people dead.
- , Pakistan kills 57 Sunni worshippers.
- , a Palestinian suicide bomber, detonates an explosive device in Tel Aviv , Israel , killing nine people and injuring 70.
- at three locations in Dahab , Egypt killed 20 Egyptians, 3 foreigners, and injured 62 others.
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