List of major terrorist incidents

+ This is a list of major terrorist incidents conducted by violent non-state actors, i.e. excluding state terrorism.

Attacks before 1950 IncidentDateLocationDeathsInjuriesPerpetratorNotesWall Street Bombing16 September 1920Manhattan, New York City, U.S.38143+GalleanistiSt. Nedelya Church bombing16 April 1925Sofia, Bulgaria213500+Bulgarian Communist PartyKing David Hotel bombing22 July 1946Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine9146Irgun

Attacks 1950 to 1989 IncidentDateLocationDeathsInjuriesPerpetratorNotes MV Dara8 April 1961Southwest Asia, Persian Gulf238 Unknown; possibly Omani separatistsMcGurk's Bar bombing4 December 1971Belfast, Northern Ireland1517Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF)Lod Airport massacre30 May 1972Tel Aviv, Israel2680Japanese Red ArmyMunich massacre5 September 1972Munich, West Germany17Black September OrganizationDublin and Monaghan bombings17 May 1974Dublin and Monaghan, Ireland34300Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF)Birmingham pub bombings21 November 1974Birmingham, England21182Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA)Cubana de Aviación Flight 455 bombing6 October 1976Over the Caribbean Sea730Anti-CommunistsDeclassified FBI report on bombing of Cubana Flight 455, dated 5 November 1976 (Archive)Coastal road massacre11 March 1978Highway 2, Israel3571Palestinian National Liberation Movement, (Fatah)Cinema Rex fire19 August 1978Abadan, Iran377 to 470200+4 men (unknown affiliation)The theatre was doused in airplane fuel, locked and started on fire as 700 people were trapped insideBologna massacre2 August 1980Bologna Centrale railway station, Italy85200+Nuclei Armati Rivoluzionari 1983 Beirut barracks bombing 23 October 1983 Beirut, Lebanon 307 (2p) 150 Islamic Jihad Organization (claimed responsibility), Iranian Ministry of Intelligence (court finding)Brighton hotel bombing12 October 1984Grand Brighton Hotel, England534Provisional Irish Republican ArmyAttempted assassination of the prime minister, Margaret Thatcher.Air India Flight 182 bombing23 June 1985Over the Atlantic Ocean (en route from Montreal to London)3290Babbar KhalsaRome and Vienna Airport attacks27 December 1985Leonardo da Vinci Airport and Vienna International Airport19138Abu Nidal OrganizationHipercor bombing19 June 1987Barcelona, Spain2145ETA (separatist group)The deadliest attack in ETA's history. Massacre of Trujillo 28 October 1988 - 5 May 1991 Trujillo, Valle del Cauca, Colombia 200 to 400 Paramilitary groups and Cali Cartel members (prominently Juan Carlos Ortiz Escobar and Henry Loaiza-Ceballos)Pan Am Flight 10321 December 1988Lockerbie, Scotland2700LibyaAll 259 people on the plane were killed, as well as eleven others on-ground.UTA Flight 77219 September 1989Near Termit Massif, Niger1700LibyaA suitcase bomb was planted on the plane, before detonating mid-flight, causing the plane to break up.Avianca Flight 20327 November 1989Bogata/Soacha, Colombia1100Pablo Escobar, Medellin CartelPlastic explosive bomb intended for Cesar Gaviria was placed over fuel tank on the plane. All 107 passengers and 3 on the ground were killed.

1990s IncidentDateLocationDeathsInjuriesPerpetratorNotes1990 massacre of Sri Lankan Police officers11 June 1990Eastern Province, Sri Lanka600 to 740Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam1992 attack on Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires17 March 1992Buenos Aires, Argentina29242Islamic Jihad Organization, Imad Mughniyeh1993 World Trade Center bombing26 February 1993North Tower, World Trade Center, Lower Manhattan, New York City, United States61,042Ramzi Yousef, Eyad IsmoilWaco Siege28 February - April 19 1993Mount Caramel Centre, McLennan County, Texas8627Branch Davidians1993 Bombay bombings12 March 1993Bombay Stock Exchange, Mumbai, India2571,400D-CompanyGreysteel massacre30 October 1993Greysteel, Northern Ireland819Ulster Defence Association (UDA)Loughinisland Massacre18 June 1994Loughinisland, Northern Ireland65Ulster Defence Association (UDA)AMIA bombing18 July 1994Buenos Aires, Argentina86 (1p)300+Suspected Hezbollah and Iranian involvementAlas Chiricanas Flight 00901 bombing19 July 1994near Enrique Adolfo Jiménez Airport, Colón, Panama210Ali Hawa Jamal (unknown affiliation)Tokyo subway sarin attack20 March 1995Tokyo, Japan141,000Aum Shinrikyo (Ikuo Hayashi, Kenichi Hirose Toru Toyoda, Masato Yakayama and Yasuo Hayashi)Oklahoma City bombing19 April 1995Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States169684Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols1995 Paris RER bombing25 July 1995Paris, France8117Armed Islamic Group of AlgeriaKizlyar-Pervomayskoye hostage crisis9 to 18 January 1996Kizlyar, Pervomayskoye, and Sovetskoye200+95Chechen Republic of Ichkeria Rais massacre 28 August 1997 village of Rais, near Sidi Moussa and south of Algiers, Algeria 98 to 800 120 Armed Islamic Group of Algeria Bentalha massacre 22 September 1997 village of Bentalha about 15 km south of Algiers, Algeria 200 to 400 Armed Islamic Group of AlgeriaUS Embassy Bombings7 August 1998Kenya, Tanzania2244,000+Al-QaedaOmagh bombing15 August 1998Omagh, Northern Ireland29300+Real Irish Republican Army (RIRA)Russian apartment bombings4 to 16 September 1999Buynaksk, Moscow and Volgodonsk, Russia3071,700+Ibn Al-Khattab, Achemez Gochiyayev and accomplices, or Federal Security Service and GRU

2000s IncidentDateLocationDeathsInjuriesPerpetratorNotesWalisongo school massacre28 May 2000Poso, IndonesiaBetween 191 and 200HundredsChristian militant groupsRizal Day bombings30 December 2000Manila, Philippines22 ~100Jemaah Islamiyah and Abu Sayyaf 2001 Angola train attack 10 August 2001 Angola 252 165 UNITASeptember 11 attacks11 September 2001United States2,9966,000 to 25,000al-QaedaAmerican Airlines Flight 11 crashed into One World Trade Center (North Tower) at 8:46 AM EDT. United Airlines Flight 175 crashed into Two World Trade Center (South Tower) at 9:03 AM EDT. American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon. At 9:28 AM EDT, United Airlines Flight 93 crashed in Pennsylvania after a struggle between hijackers and civilians on board. It is the deadliest terrorist attack in world history.2001 Indian Parliament attack13 December 2001India1418Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-MohammedPassover massacre27 March 2002Israel30160HamasAn attack conducted on Passover Seder celebrations which were being held at the Park Hotel in Netanya, Israel.2002 Bali bombings12 October 2002Indonesia204209Jemaah Islamiyah and al-QaedaMoscow theater hostage crisis23 October 2002Russia132700+Special Purpose Islamic RegimentSuperFerry 14 bombing26 February 2004Philippines116300Abu Sayyaf2004 Ashura massacre2 March 2004Kerbala and Baghdad, Iraq80 to 100150 to 200UnknownAnti-Shia sentiment2004 Madrid train bombings11 March 2004Madrid, Spain1932,500Islamic extremistsBeslan school siege1 to 3 September 2004Russia334800+Riyad-us Saliheen Brigade of Martyrs7/7 bombings, London7 July 2005London, England56784al-Qaeda2005 Sharm El Sheikh bombings23 July 2005Sharm El Sheikh, Sinai, Egypt88 ~150al-Qaeda 2006 Mumbai train bombings 11 July 2006 Mumbai, India 209 714 Faisal Sheikh, Asif Khan, Kamal Ansari, Ehtesham Sidduqui and Naveed Khan; Islamic extremism 23 November 2006 Sadr City bombings 23 November 2006 Sadr City, Iraq 215 140 Unknown; Islamic extremism18 April 2007 Baghdad bombings18 April 2007Iraq198251Unknown; Anti-Shi'ismQahtaniyah bombings14 August 2007Iraq7961,5622008 Mumbai attacks26 to 29 November 2008Mumbai, India175300+Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and Lashkar-e-Taiba2008 Christmas massacres24 to 27 December 2008Democratic Republic of the Congo620 to 860Lord's Resistance ArmyCamp Chapman attack30 December 2009Khost Province, Afghanistan106Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, al-Qaeda, Pakistani Taliban

2010s IncidentDateLocationDeathsInjuriesPerpetratorNotes2011 Norway attacks22 July 2011Oslo, Norway & Utøya, Norway77320+Anders Behring BreivikJanuary 2012 Northern Nigeria attacks5 to 20 January 2012Northern Nigeria22257+Boko Haram2013 Boston Marathon bombing15 April 2013Boston, MA, USA3281Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev (brothers)Westgate shopping mall attack21 September 2013Nairobi, Kenya71175Al-Shabaab2014 Gamboru Ngala massacre5 May 2014Nigeria300UnknownBoko HaramCamp Speicher massacre12 June 2014Iraq1,095 to 1,700Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant2014 Peshawar school massacre16 December 2014Pakistan155114Pakistani Taliban

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