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17 January – Dunmurry train bombing: An IRA bomb prematurely detonated on a passenger train near Belfast, killing three civilians and injuring five others. 7 March – an INLA active service unit planted two 10 lb. bombs at Netheravon British Army camp in the Salisbury Plain Training Area. Only one bomb detonated and caused damage, started a ...
Several national governments and two international organizations have created lists of organizations that they designate as terrorist. [1] The following list of designated terrorist groups lists groups designated as terrorist by current and former national governments, and inter-governmental organizations.
The New IRA claimed responsibility and said it also planted an "anti-personnel device" nearby, targeting members of the security forces. [222] 18 June: The New IRA was blamed for planting a booby-trap bomb under the car of a married couple, both of whom are PSNI officers, in Eglinton. It was found and defused by the security forces. [224]
In 1972 alone, the IRA killed 100 British soldiers and wounded 500 more. In the same year, they carried out 1,300 bomb attacks and 90 IRA members were killed. [25] Up to 1972, the IRA controlled large urban areas in Belfast and Derry, but these were eventually re-taken by a major British operation known as Operation Motorman. Thereafter ...
The Provisional Irish Republican Army (Provisional IRA), officially known as the Irish Republican Army (IRA; Irish: Óglaigh na hÉireann) and informally known as the Provos, was an Irish republican paramilitary force that sought to end British rule in Northern Ireland, facilitate Irish reunification and bring about an independent republic encompassing all of Ireland.
16 May 1990: 1990 Wembley bombing: The IRA planted a bomb underneath a minibus at the Army Recruiting Centre in Wembley, which detonated killing Sgt Charles Chapman and injuring four others. [ 56 ] 23 May 1990: A car was involved in a high-speed chase in Lordship Lane, Tottenham , north London and contained two loaded Kalashnikov semi-automatic ...
Luigi Mangione, who authorities accuse of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, allegedly wrote in a notebook that he considered bombing Manhattan to carry out the killing but did not ...
8 March - 1973 Old Bailey bombing - The Provisional IRA conducted their first operations in England exploding two car bombs in the center of London. One bomb exploded outside the Old Bailey Courthouse, injuring 180 people and one man later died from a heart attack, the bomb exploded near Whitehall injuring about 30 other people, bringing the total injured for the day to over 200.