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2018 As-Suwayda attacks: Islamic state militants carried out suicide bombings and gun attacks in the city of As-Suwayda and a number of villages in the southern Syrian governorate of As-Suwayda, killing 255 people, including 142 civilians, and injuring 180 others. At least 63 terrorists were also killed, including the suicide bombers.
The most common type of weapon used are explosives (43.9%). The main target of these attacks is the military (31.7%), followed by civilians (25.0%) and police forces (18.3%). Afghanistan was the country most affected by Islamist terrorism, followed by Iraq and Somalia.
The following is a list of terrorist incidents that were not carried out by a state or its forces (see state terrorism and state-sponsored terrorism).Assassinations are presented in List of assassinations and unsuccessful attempts at List of people who survived assassination attempts and List of heads of state and government who survived assassination attempts.
A wave of hate-related terrorist attacks occurred in Florida. African-Americans were dragged and beaten to death, with 11 race-related bombings, the dynamiting of synagogues, and a Jewish School in Miami and explosives found outside of Catholic Churches in Miami. [21] [22] 48 March 1, 1954 Shooting 0 5 Washington, D.C.
The shooter and two other terrorists involved in the attack were killed. [23] [24] Mohammad Manasrah Spillover of the Israel-Hamas war: 7 March Kidnapping 0 1 Kuriga, Kaduna State, Nigeria: Kuriga kidnapping: More than 287 children and a teacher were kidnapped from their school in Kuriga by terrorists with guns on motorcycles. [25] Unknown ...
A federal jury has convicted an operative of a Somalian terrorist organization of conspiring to kill Americans in an attack modeled after the Sept. 11 hijackings.. Cholo Abdi Abdullah, 34, was ...
San Diego, who was described by the feds as having ties to animal rights extremist groups, was put on the FBI’s most wanted terrorist list in 2009. At one point, they were offering a $250,000 ...
On 25 January 1993, Pakistani national Mir Aimal Kansi shot CIA employees in their cars as they were waiting at a stoplight, killing two and injuring three others.He reportedly got angry watching news reports of attacks on Muslims and stated his motive was that he was "angry with the policy of the U.S. government in the Middle East, particularly toward the Palestinian people".