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The bombings occurred at around 7:20 pm on August 14, 2007, when four co-ordinated suicide bomb attacks detonated in the Yazidi towns of Qahtaniyah and Jazeera (Siba Sheikh Khidir), near Mosul, Nineveh Governorate, northern Iraq. They targeted the Yazidis, a religious minority in Iraq, [13] [14] using a fuel tanker and three cars.
The attack involved a series of coordinated bombings of churches in Jakarta, Pekanbaru, Medan, Bandung, Batam Island, Mojokerto, Mataram, and Sukabumi. The bombings killed 18 people and injured many others. 12 October 2002: 2002 Bali bombings – Coordinated bomb attacks occurred on in the tourist district of Kuta, Bali.
The Qahtaniyah bombings kills nearly 800; this was the Iraq War's most deadly car bomb attack during the period of major American combat operations. It was also the third deadliest act of terrorism in history, only being surpassed by the September 11 attacks in the United States and the Camp Speicher massacre in Iraq .
Til Ezer (Kurdish: تل ئهزهر, romanized: Tel Ezêr, [2] [3] Arabic: القحطانية, also known in Arabic as al-Qaḥṭānīya or Qahtaniyah, also spelled Giruzer, Kar Izir, Kahtaniya) is a village located in the Sinjar District of the Ninawa Governorate in Iraq.
A car bomb exploded in the basement of the Jakarta Stock Exchange, triggering a chain of explosions in which a number of cars caught fire. Most of the dead were drivers waiting by their employer's cars. Christmas Eve 2000 Indonesia bombings: 24 December 2000 Medan, Bandung, Batam, Ciamis, Mataram, Mojokerto, and Pekanbaru: 18
A suicide bomber detonated a car bomb outside the lobby of the JW Marriott Hotel, killing twelve people and injuring 150. The hotel located in Mega Kuningan, South Jakarta, Indonesia. All those killed were Indonesian with the exception of one Dutch businessman, one Danish, and two Chinese tourists. [77
Suspected group members hail from not just Indonesia, but neighboring countries such as Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, and Thailand. [11] JI was the group responsible behind the 2002 Bali bombings which resulted in 202 casualties. [12] In October 2002, JI was designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the US Department of State. [13]
Suicide car and truck bombings in Indonesia (1 C, 3 P) Pages in category "Suicide bombings in Indonesia" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.