A report of the world situation over the past 15 years

11th September 2001, U.S.A.

11 september

The September 11th attacks killed nearly 3,000 people. Terrorists crashed passenger jets into the “Twin Towers” of the “World Trade Center” in Manhattan and the “Pentagon” in Virginia, and a fourth airplane crashes in a western Pennsylvania field.

12th October 2002, Indonesia

12 October

Indonesian officials blamed alQaeda for a car bomb that killed nearly 190 people on the Indonesian holiday island of Bali.

23rd October 2002, Russia

23 October

Forty Chechen fighters seized Moscow’s “Dubrovka Theater” and hold nearly 1,000 people hostage, killing two. Russian special forces stormed the building after pumping a chemical agent into the ventilation system, killing all 40 terrorists and some 130 hostages because of an adverse reaction to the gas.

11th March 2004, Spain

11 march

Coordinated bomb attacks hit four Spanish commuter trains in Madrid, killing 191 people. Spanish investigators blamed an alQaeda-linked terror cell.

1st September 2004, North Ossetia (Russia)

1 September

A massacre left more than 330 dead, around half of them children, after Islamist terrorists took 1,200 people hostage in a school in Beslan, North Ossetia, an autonomous Russian republic. The siege lasted for three days.

7th July 2005, England

7 July

Four coordinated attacks by suicide bombers rip through London subway trains and a bus, killing 52 rush-hour commuters. The killers were later identified as British alQaeda sympathizers: Shehzad Tanweer, Hasib Hussain, Mohammed Sidique Khan and Jermaine Lindsay (typical British native names).

26th November 2008, India

26 November

A 60-hour siege by 10 militants from Pakistan on India’s biggest city and financial capital killed 166 people. India claimed the terrorists who perpetrated the attacks on luxury hotels, a Jewish center and other sites were operatives of the Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba.

24th May 2014, Brussels

24 May

A gunman murdered four people at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels. Mehdi Nemmouche, a French national (typical French native name) with ties to Islamic State, was arrested and charged for the killings.

16th December 2014, Pakistan

16 December

Taliban gunmen stormed a military-run school in northwestern Pakistan city of Peshawar and killed at least 148 people, methodically shooting schoolchildren in the head and setting fire to some victims in a horrifying nine-hour rampage.

7th January 2015, France

7 January

Islamist extremists killed a total of 17 people at Paris-based satirical magazine “Charlie Hebdo” and a kosher grocery in the city.

18th March 2015, Tunisia

18 March

Several men carried out a shooting attack at the “Bardo National Museum” in Tunisia’s capital, killing 21. Islamic State claimed responsibility.

2nd April 2015, Kenya

2 April

Heavily armed gunmen stormed a university campus in Kenya, setting off a rampage that left about 150 dead in an attack associated with Somalia-based Islamist group al-Shabaab.

26th June 2015, Tunisia, France

26 June

A lone gunman stormed a beach resort in Tunisia, killing 37 people. Islamic State claimed responsibility. On the same day, a man decapitated his boss at a U.S.-owned industrial gas plant in southeastern France.

20th July 2015, Turkey

20 July

Turkey’s government blamed Islamic State for a suicide bombing in a Kurdish border town that killed at least 31 people, one of the worst cases of spillover violence from the 4 1/2-year conflict in neighboring Syria.

10th October 2015, Turkey

10 October

Twin suicide bombings killed about 95 people in the Turkish capital of Ankara. The Turkish government first attributed the attacks to Islamic State, but later says an inquiry points to the Kurdish Workers’ Party, or PKK.

31st October 2015, Egypt / Russia

31 October

A Russian-operated jet crashed in Egypt, killing all 224 people on board, in what appeared to be a terrorist act. Islamic State claimed responsibility.

12th November 2015, Lebanon

12 November

A double suicide bombing in a Beirut suburb killed around 43 people, in an attack that bore the hallmarks of Sunni militants linked to alQaeda and other extremist groups.

13th November 2015, France

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In a series of related attacks across Paris, terrorists killed at least 129 people in an assault the French government blamed to Islamic State.

 

Source article: Timeline: Terror Attacks Linked to Islamists Since 9/11