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New York
The September 11 attacks. were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda on the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. The attacks killed 2,996 people, injured over 6,000 others, and caused at least $10 billion in infrastructure and property damage -
Indonesia
wo bombs ripped through the Kuta area of the Indonesian tourist island of Bali on 12 October 2002, leaving 202 people dead. Among those killed at Paddy's Irish Bar and the nearby Sari Club were people from 21 countries, including 88 Australians, 38 Indonesians and 28 Britons. BBC News looks at the background to the bombings 10 years on -
Russia
The Beslan school siege started on 1 September 2004, lasted three days, involved the illegal imprisonment of over 1,100 people as hostages and ended with the deaths of at least 334 people. -
London
London bombings, also known as London subway bombings, refer to a series of explosions that hit the British capital's public transport system on the morning of Thursday, July 7, 2005, in full rush hour. In central London, there were four blasts in less than an hour, reaching three subway trains and a double-deck bus from London Buses. -
Iraq
Four suicide bombers detonated truck bombs in two villages near Mosul and the Iraqi border with Syria. -
Iraq
The attacks were almost simultaneous, less than a minute apart, and hit the Ministry of Justice and another government building near the green zone, the heavily protected area in the center of the city -
India
On November 26, 2008, ten synchronized terrorist attacks struck the Indian city of Bombay, known as the financial capital and largest city of the country; some of these attacks were only closed three days later on November 29 after security forces Indians managed to gain control of all the attacked sites. -
Nigerian
Two attacks by the extremist Boko Haram organization killed about 150 people in northeastern Nigeria, military officials and witnesses said on Thursday. Dozens of jihadists stormed three villages in Borno state on Wednesday At least one of the attacks was scheduled to target Muslim believers in local mosques. A military source said the first of the two attacks occurred in a district called Kukawa, located near Lake Chad, and killed at least 97 people. -
Nigeria
An attack allegedly promoted by the Islamist terrorist group Boko Haram left at least 24 dead in Nigeria. A group of young men guarding the Monguno region of Borno was ambushed and 36 others were missing. -
Belgium
A gunman killed two men and a woman at the Jewish Museum in Brussels, capital of Belgium. A fourth person was seriously injured. According to the Belgian press, the man returned to the car and fled at high speed. -
Kenya
Islamic terrorists stormed a university in East Africa's Kenyan capital and killed 147 people after questioning which of the Christians were Christians. -
France
The November 2015 attacks in Paris were a series of terrorist attacks that occurred on the night of November 13, 2015 in Paris and Saint-Denis, France. The attacks would consist of mass shootings, suicide bombings, explosions and use of hostages. Altogether, there were three separate explosions and six mass shootings, including bombings near the Stade de France in the suburb north of Saint-Denis.
