Modern Terror Timeline

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  • World Trade Center bombing

    World Trade Center bombing
    A truck bomb was detonated below the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York, NY.The attack was planned by a group of Muslim terrorists including Ramzi Yousef, Mahmud Abouhalima, Mohammad Salameh, Nidal A. Ayyad, Abdul Rahman Yasin and Ahmad Ajaj.
  • United States Embassy Bombings

    United States Embassy Bombings
    Hundreds of people were killed in simultaneous truck bomb explosions at the United States embassies in the East African capitals of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya.
  • Omagh Bombing

    Omagh Bombing
    Car bomb attack carried out by the Real Irish Republican Army (RIRA), a splinter group of former Provisional Irish Republican Army members opposed to the Good Friday Agreement, on Saturday 15 August 1998, in Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.
  • 9/11

    9/11
    Terrorist attacked the United States in NewYork City and Washington D.C metropolitan v area on Tuesday, September 11, 2001.Four passenger airliners were hijacked by 19 al-Qaeda terrorists so they could be flown into buildings in suicide attacks.
  • Bali Bombings

    Bali Bombings
    The tourist district of Kuta on the Indonesian island of Bali.The attack killed 202 people (including 88 Australians, 38 Indonesians, 27 Britons, 7 Americans and 6 Swedish citizens).
  • Madid Train Bomings

    Madid Train Bomings
    Coordinated bombings against the Cercanías commuter train system of Madrid, Two and a half years after 911 attacks.
  • London 7/7 Bombings

    London 7/7 Bombings
    Suicide attacks in London. Targeted civilians using the public transport system during the morning rush hour.
  • The 2011 Kashgar attacks

    The 2011 Kashgar attacks
    Knife and bomb attacks in Kashgar, Xinjiang, China on July 30 and 31, 2011. On July 30, two Uyghur men hijacked a truck, killed its driver, and drove into a crowd of pedestrians.