The following is an incomplete list of Islamist terrorist attacks.
1980s Location Date Description Deaths Injuries France December 1985 – September 1986 1985–86 Paris attacks, a series of over a dozen bombings in Paris by the Iranian-sponsored Committee for Solidarity With Arab and Middle Eastern Political Prisoners. 13 225 Israel July 7, 1989 Tel Aviv–Jerusalem bus 405 suicide attack in Kiryat Ye'arim, Jerusalem District, by a Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant. 16 27
1990s Location Date Description Deaths Injuries United States February 26, 1993 World Trade Center bombing in New York City. 6 1,042 Tanzania August 7, 1998 1998 United States embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam and Nairobi. 224 4,000+ Kenya
2001–2010 2001 Location Date Description Deaths Injuries United States September 11 A series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by al-Qaeda involving the hijacking and crashing of passenger jet airliners. 2,977 25,000+
2002 Location Date Description Deaths Injuries Indonesia October 12 2002 Bali bombings in the tourist district of Kuta on the island of Bali. 202 240
2003 Location Date Description Deaths InjuriesSaudi ArabiaMay 12Riyadh compound bombings – Al-Qaeda attackers drove three car bombs into residential compounds housing Westerners and others. Nine bombers and another 3 insurgents also died. 27 160
2004 Location Date Description Deaths InjuriesSpain March 11 Madrid train bombings. 193 2,050
2005 Location Date Description Deaths Injuries United Kingdom July 7 7 July 2005 London bombings – Four suicide bombers attacked London Underground trains and a double decker bus during the morning rush hour. 52 ~784 Egypt July 23 2005 Sharm El Sheikh bombings – Bombing attacks through shopping and hotel areas in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh. 88 ~150 Indonesia October 29 2005 Tentena market bombings. Three attacks in crowded markets and a bus.Delhi blasts toll is 59, 200 injured – rediff.com (October 30, 2005) 60 180+ Jordan November 9 2005 Amman bombings. A series of coordinated suicide attacks on hotels in Amman.Deadly Bombings Hit Jordan – TheStreet.com (November 9, 2005)Jordan bombings kill 57, wound 300 – Al Jazeera, November 9, 2005 Four attackers including a husband and wife team were involved.Bomber's wife arrested in Jordan – BBC, November 13, 2005 60 115+
2006 Location Date Description Deaths InjuriesEgyptApril 242006 Dahab bombings – Bomb attacks on the resort city of Dahab.23~ 80IndiaJuly 11 2006 Mumbai train bombings: Seven bomb blasts over a period of 11 minutes on the Suburban Railway in Mumbai. 209 700+
2008 Location Date Description Deaths InjuriesIndiaMay 13Nine synchronized blasts in Jaipur, claimed by the Indian Mujahideen, suspected to be carried out by the Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami.80216July 262008 Ahmedabad bombings56200+November 26 A series of coordinated attacks on Mumbai. The Indian government blamed Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba and stated that the attackers were citizens of Pakistan, which the Pakistani government first rejected but then accepted when given proof. One of the attackers, Ajmal Kasab, was caught alive.166+300+
2009 LocationDateDescriptionDeathsInjuriesPakistanMarch 3A bus carrying Sri Lankan cricketers was fired upon by 12 gunmen, believed to be members of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, near Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore. Six members of the Sri Lanka national cricket team were wounded and six Pakistani policemen and two civilians were killed.89
2010 Location Date Description Deaths InjuriesRussiaMarch 29Moscow Metro bombings. Caucasus Emirate claimed responsibility40102PakistanMay 282010 Ahmadiyya mosques massacre Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed attacks on two mosques belonging to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community8645+ July 1 July 2010 Lahore bombings, anti-Sufi attack. 42+ 175+
2011–2020 2012 Location Date Description Deaths InjuriesFrance March 11 – 22 Toulouse and Montauban shootings – Mohammed Merah, a French citizen of Algerian extraction, attacked French soldiers and later children and a teacher from a Jewish school in Montauban and Toulouse. 7 5Russia May 3 Makhachkala attack carried out by the Caucasus Emirate. 14 130
2013 Location Date Description Deaths InjuriesUnited StatesApril 15Boston Marathon bombing – Two brothers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, planted two bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon in Massachusetts.3183United Kingdom May 22 Murder of Lee Rigby in Woolwich, London 1 0Kenya September 21 Westgate shopping mall attack in Nairobi 67 175
2014 Location Date Description Deaths InjuriesNigeria February 14 Borno Massacre 200+ Iraq June 10 Badush prison massacre. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) killed at least 670 Shia prisoners in an attack on the Badush prison. ISIL first separated the Sunni inmates before executing the remaining prisoners. 670 August Genocide of Yazidis by the Islamic State. An estimated 7,000 women and girls were also forced into sex slavery, according to the United Nations. 5,000 4,200–10,800Russia October 5 2014 Grozny bombing 6 12Canada October 22 2014 shootings at Parliament Hill, Ottawa. Lone attacker shot a soldier at a war memorial and attacked Parliament. 1 3United States October 232014 Queens hatchet attack. Zale H. Thomson, also known as Zaim Farouq Abdul-Malik, attacked four New York City policemen in the subway with a hatchet, severely injuring one in the back of the head and injuring another in the arm before being shot to death by the remaining officers. A civilian bystander was also shot. 0 5Nigeria November 28 Kano bombing 120 260Russia December 4 2014 Grozny clashesАтака на Грозный , Radio Liberty, December 6, 2014 26Australia December 15–16 Lindt Cafe siege. A lone gunman, Man Haron Monis, held hostage 18 customers and employees of a Lindt Café in Martin Place, Sydney, Australia for 16-hours. A police Tactical Operations Unit stormed the café when a hostage was killed by Monis, who was shot dead by the police. Another hostage was killed by a ricochet from a police firearm. 3 4Pakistan December 16 2014 Peshawar school massacre 140Yemen 2014 Radda bombings. Two suicide car bombers rammed their vehicles into a Shiite rebel checkpoint. 26Nigeria December 18 2014 Gumsuri kidnappings. Boko Haram insurgents also kidnapped at least 185 women and children. 32France December 20 2014 Tours police station stabbing. A man yelling Allahu Akbar attacked a police office with a knife. He was killed and three police officers were injured."The man, shouting "Allahu Akbar" ("God is great" in Arabic), attacked the police station in Joue-les-Tours" , Retrieved May 9, 2015. 1 3
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