Timeline of Terrorist Attacks

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  • Saint-Michel subway station in Paris

  • World Trade Center

    World Trade Center
  • Madrid

    Madrid
    citizen A series of bomb blasts tears through four Spanish commuter trains in Madrid, killing more than 190 people, in the deadliest terror attack in Europe since Pan Am Flight 103 blew up over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988. An Islamist group said to have been inspired by al Qaeda is blamed for the attack.' >YouTube</a>A series of bomb blasts tears through four Spanish commuter trains in Madrid, killing more than 190 people, in the deadliest terror attack in Europe since Pan Am Flight 103 blew up over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988. An Islamist group said to have been inspired by al Qaeda is blamed for the attack.
  • Tavistock Square

    Tavistock Square
    WikipediaWSJFour coordinated attacks by suicide bombers rip through London subway trains and a bus, killing 52 rush-hour commuters. The killers are later identified as British al Qaeda sympathizers Shehzad Tanweer, Hasib Hussain, Mohammed Sidique Khan and Jermaine Lindsay.
  • Mumbai

    Mumbai
    post jagranPakistani national Ajmal Kasab and nine others launched the four-day terror siege of Mumbai on November 26, 2008.
  • Boston Marathon

    Boston Marathon
  • Westgate mall

    Westgate mall
    unidentified gunmen attacked the upmarket Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya. The attack resulted in at least 67 deaths, and more than 175 people were reportedly wounded in the mass shooting. The extremist Islamic group al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the incident, which it characterised as retribution for the Kenyan military's deployment in the group's home country of Somalia. Many media outlets also suspected the insurgent group's involvement in the attack based on earlier repris
  • Nigeria

    NCTCMore than 250 schoolgirls kidnapped in Boko Haram attack in Chibok; group’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, claims responsibility
  • Shrine Bombing Thailand

    Shrine Bombing Thailand
  • Paris

    Paris
    CBC Gunmen armed with explosives and machine-guns unleashed a night of terror in the Paris area on Friday Map
  • Bamako, Mali

    Map A group of gunmen, who were believed to be Islamic, took several hostages at the Radisson Hotel in Bamako, Mali - among them are 140 visitors and 30 employees. Al-Mourabitoun and Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb claimed responsibility for the attack
  • Fotokol, Cameroon

    A suicide bomber detonated himself in a suburb of the Cameroonian town of Fotokol near the border with Nigeria, killing four people. Several minutes after another three suicide bombers detonate themselves but did not kill anyone. Around ten people were injured. Boko Haram is suspected
  • Tunis, Tunisia

    WikipediaA bomb exploded on a bus packed with Tunisian presidential guards in the capital Tunis on Tuesday, killing at least 12 people in an attack one source said was probably the work of a suicide bomber.
  • Tripoli, Libya

    A car-bomb kills five guards at a checkpoint east of the Libyan capital, Tripoli.
  • al-Arish, Egypt

    A day after the second round of parliamentary elections closes, militants attack a hotel housing election judges in the provincial capital of al-Arish in Egypt's North Sinai. At least seven people are killed and 12 others injured, including two judges. The Islamic State's Wilayat Sinai branch claims responsibility.