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or its forces (see
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and
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). Assassinations are listed at
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vary, so incidents listed here are restricted to those that are
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and described as "terrorism" by a consensus of reliable sources.


Pre-1800

Scholars dispute what might be called terrorism in earlier periods. The modern sense of terrorism emerged in the mid-19th century.


1800–1899


1900–1929


1930–1949

* 1936–1939: 1936–1939 Arab revolt, Palestine Arab "gang and terrorist activities" against British colonial rule, and Jewish immigrants. * 1937–1948: The
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are responsible for numerous attacks in British-mandated Palestine. * 1940, 3 March: Politically motivated
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targeted at the communist newspaper '' Norrskensflamman'' (''Northern Flame'') by various perpetrators. 5 persons were killed, 2 of which were children, along with 5 others injured. * 1940–1956: George Metesky, the "Mad Bomber", places over 30 bombs in
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in public places such as
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and The Paramount Theater, injuring ten during this period, in protest against the local electric utility. He also sends many threatening letters. * 1940, 4 July: Time bomb is recovered from the
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at the
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, two policemen were killed. * 1946, 22 July: The
King David Hotel bombing The British administrative headquarters for Mandatory Palestine, housed in the southern wing of the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, were bombed in a terrorist attack on 22 July 1946 by the militant right-wing Zionist underground organization th ...
by
Zionist Zionism ( he, צִיּוֹנוּת ''Tsiyyonut'' after '' Zion'') is a nationalist movement that espouses the establishment of, and support for a homeland for the Jewish people centered in the area roughly corresponding to what is known in Je ...
paramilitary group
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kills 91 and injures 46 non-fatally. * 1947, 25 July: Three Romanian terrorists kill an aircrew member aboard a Romanian airliner. This is regarded as the first aircraft hijack resulting in a fatality. * 1948, 22 February,
Ben Yehuda Street bombings A series of attacks were perpetrated or ordered by Palestinian Arabs, some of them acting as suicide bombers, on Jewish targets in Jerusalem's Ben Yehuda Street from February 1948 onwards. The attacks took place before the declaration of the S ...
: three
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trucks led by an armoured car driven by Arab irregulars and British deserters exploded on Ben Yehuda Street killing 58 Jewish civilians and injuring 140. * 1949, 7 May: thirteen people are killed as a Philippine airliner explodes in flight travelling from Daet to
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. A time bomb detonates 30 minutes after departure near
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. * 1949, 5 August: 12 killed and dozens injured in the
Menarsha synagogue attack The Menarsha synagogue attack took place on 5 August 1949 in the Jewish quarter of Damascus, Syria.Cyrus Adler, Henrietta SzoldAmerican Jewish year book, Volume 52 American Jewish Committee, 1951. The grenade attack claimed 12 lives. Background Th ...
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.


1950–1969

* 1954, 17 March: an Israeli civilian passenger bus is attacked by unknown assailants at the Scorpions Pass in the
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, resulting in the deaths of eleven passengers. * Cyprus 1956, 16 June: The
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vice consul is killed and six other consulate staff are injured when a terrorist throws 2 bombs in a restaurant in
Nicosia Nicosia ( ; el, Λευκωσία, Lefkosía ; tr, Lefkoşa ; hy, Նիկոսիա, romanized: ''Nikosia''; Cypriot Arabic: Nikusiya) is the largest city, capital, and seat of government of Cyprus. It is located near the centre of the Mesaori ...
. * 1957, 30 November: 10 killed and 48 injured in a grenade attack on President
Sukarno Sukarno). (; born Koesno Sosrodihardjo, ; 6 June 1901 – 21 June 1970) was an Indonesian statesman, orator, revolutionary, and nationalist who was the first president of Indonesia, serving from 1945 to 1967. Sukarno was the leader of ...
. * 1958, 15 August: Three people are killed in a bomb blast in
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. The bombing also injures ten more at a grocery store near the
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. * 1960, 24 June: Attempted assassination of President Rómulo Betancourt. * 1962, 22 November: Members of the
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' military wing,
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targeted the town of
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in the
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, when a crowd of over 200 people armed with axes, pangas and other home-made weapons marched from the Mbekweni township into Paarl and attacked the police station, homes and shops. Two white residents and 5 attackers were killed. Poqo directed its activities at the white population in general. It was also Poqo's avowed policy to attack and kill Black people who were some way or another linked to the
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state. * 1963–1970:
Front de libération du Québec The (FLQ) was a Marxist–Leninist and Quebec separatist guerrilla group. Founded in the early 1960s with the aim of establishing an independent and socialist Quebec through violent means, the FLQ was considered a terrorist group by the Cana ...
(FLQ) committed frequent bombings targeting
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businesses and banks, as well as
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. The whole bombing campaign resulted in 8 known deaths and numerous injuries. * 1963, 29 August: The Tacuara Nationalist Movement robbed a bank, stealing almost 100,000
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s. 2 people died and 3 were injured. * 1963, 15 September, 16th Street Baptist Church bombing – Four members of the
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planted at least 15 sticks of
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attached to a timing device beneath the front steps of the church. The explosion killed 4 girls and wounded 22. * 1965, 26 June: Two simultaneous explosions took place near a restaurant in the 1965 Saigon bombing during the
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. The attack killed 42 people and 80 were wounded. * 1966: The
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was a series of massacres committed against Igbos and other people of southern Nigerian origin living in northern Nigeria starting in May 1966 and reaching a peak after 29 September 1966. Between 8,000 and 30,000 Igbos and easterners have been estimated to have been killed. A further 1 million Igbos fled the Northern Region into the East. These events led to the secession of the eastern Nigerian region and the declaration of the Republic of Biafra, which ultimately led to the Nigeria-Biafra war. * Greece 1967, 12 November: A bomb explodes on board
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near
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killing all 66 people on the aircraft. * / 1966, 28–29 September: a group of militant Argentine nationalists hijacked a civilian Aerolineas Argentinas aircraft while flying over
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and forced the captain at gunpoint to land in the
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, where they took several civilians hostage. The crisis was resolved 36 hours later when the hijackers agreed to release their hostages and return to Argentina for trial. * 1968, 4 September: Three bombs are detonated in
Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the G ...
, killing one person and injuring 51 people. * 1969, 21–25 February: Three separate bombings in
Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, Երուսաղեմ, Erusałēm. i ...
, one in the British Consulate and two in a supermarket. In one of the bombings at the supermarket two Israelis were killed and in all attacks 20 were injured. One of the terrorist involved was
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. *
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1969, 5 August: A bomb was detonated in
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at the main studio of the state broadcaster,
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. The Protestant extremist group the UVF were responsible. No one was injured. *
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1969 A UPV suicide bomber attacked a power station in
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,
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. There were no casualties other than the attacker. The UVF issued a statement saying the attempted attack was a protest against the
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units "still massed on the border in Co Donegal". The statement added: "so long as the threats from Éire continue, so long will the volunteers of Ulster's people's army strike at targets in Southern Ireland". *
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1969, 31 October: The UVF bombed a monument in
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,
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, dedicated to the
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hero
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. There were no injuries. * 1969, 12 December: Piazza Fontana bombing in
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kills at least thirteen people and injures at least 85. Three additional blasts occur in
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, injuring 16 people. *
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1969, 26 December: The UVF bombed the
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monument in
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. There were no injuries but buildings were damaged in a half mile radius. *
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1969, 28 December: The UVF detonate a bomb outside the Garda central detective bureau in
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. The nearby telephone exchange headquarters is suspected to have been the target.


1970–present

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List of terrorist incidents in 1974 This is a timeline of incidents in 1974 that have been labelled as " terrorism" and are not believed to have been carried out by a government or its forces (see state terrorism and state-sponsored terrorism). Guidelines *To be included, entri ...
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List of terrorist incidents in 1978 This is a timeline of incidents in 1978 that have been labelled as " terrorism" and are not believed to have been carried out by a government or its forces (see state terrorism and state-sponsored terrorism). Guidelines *To be included, entri ...
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List of terrorist incidents in 1980 This is a timeline of incidents in 1980 that have been labelled as "terrorism" and are not believed to have been carried out by a government or its forces (see state terrorism and state-sponsored terrorism). Guidelines * To be included, entri ...
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List of terrorist incidents in 1986 This is a timeline of incidents in 1986 that have been labelled as "terrorism" and are not believed to have been carried out by a government A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a ...
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List of terrorist incidents in 1987 This is a timeline of incidents in 1987 that have been labelled as " terrorism" and are not believed to have been carried out by a government or its forces (see state terrorism and state-sponsored terrorism). Guidelines * To be included, entri ...
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List of terrorist incidents in 1988 This is a timeline of incidents in 1988 that have been labelled as " terrorism" and are not believed to have been carried out by a government or its forces (see state terrorism and state-sponsored terrorism). Guidelines * To be included, entr ...
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List of terrorist incidents in 1989 This is a timeline of incidents in 1989 that have been labelled as " terrorism" and are not believed to have been carried out by a government or its forces (see state terrorism and state-sponsored terrorism). Guidelines * To be included, ent ...
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List of terrorist incidents in 1993 This is a timeline of incidents in 1993 that have been labelled as " terrorism" and are not believed to have been carried out by a government or its forces (see state terrorism and state-sponsored terrorism). Guidelines * To be included, entr ...
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List of terrorist incidents in 1994 This is a timeline of incidents in 1994 that have been labelled as " terrorism" and are not believed to have been carried out by a government or its forces (see state terrorism and state-sponsored terrorism). Guidelines * To be included, entri ...
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By country

* List of terrorist incidents in Australia * List of terrorist incidents in Denmark *
List of terrorist incidents in France This is a list of terrorist attacks in France from 1800 to the present. Several 19th-century French rulers were targeted in unsuccessful assassination attempts which killed innocent bystanders. Since December 1973, terrorist attacks have been ta ...
* List of terrorist incidents in Great Britain * List of terrorist incidents in India *
List of terrorist incidents in Indonesia This is a list of incidents in Indonesia that have been labelled as "terrorism". 1960s * 14 May 1962: Assassination attempt on President Sukarno—a bomb attack in Perguruan Cikini, Central Jakarta, Java. 1970s * 11 November 1976: Bomb attac ...
* List of terrorist incidents in Iraq *
List of terrorist incidents in the Netherlands This article covers terrorist attacks and activity in the Netherlands. Terrorist attacks * On 11 October 1971, during the controversial state visit of Japanese emperor Hirohito, the Red Youth group placed a bomb at his hotel in Amsterdam which fa ...
* List of terrorist incidents in North Macedonia * List of terrorist incidents in Pakistan * List of terrorist incidents in the Philippines * List of terrorist incidents in Saudi Arabia * List of non-state terrorist incidents in Sri Lanka * List of terrorist incidents in Syria * List of terrorist incidents in Tunisia *
Terrorism in Argentina Terrorism in Argentina has occurred since at least the 1970s, especially during the Argentinian Dirty War, where a number of terror acts occurred, with support of both the democratic government of Juan Perón, Isabel Perón and the following de ...
* Terrorism in Australia * Terrorism in Azerbaijan *
Terrorism in Brazil Terrorism in Brazil has occurred since at least the 1940s. Terror organizations Shindo Renmei The Shindo Renmei were a Japanese-Brazilian terror organization whose attacks were focused on resistance to the Japanese surrender at the end of World ...
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Terrorist activity in Belgium This article covers attacks and activity of terrorism in Belgium. Islamic terrorism In the 1990s Belgium was a transit country for Islamist terrorist groups like the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria (GIA) and the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group ...
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Terrorism in Bangladesh Bangladesh has experienced terrorism in the past conducted by a number of different organizations. In the past, both Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, ISIL and other terrorist organizations had claimed to be active in the country however, th ...
* Terrorism in Burkina Faso *
Terrorism in Colombia Terrorism in Colombia has occurred repeatedly during the last several decades, largely due to the ongoing armed conflict the country has been involved in since 1964. Perpetrators of terrorist acts in the country range from leftist guerilla force ...
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Terrorism in Canada Terrorism and mass attacks in Canada includes acts of terrorism, as well as mass shootings, vehicle-ramming attacks, mass stabbings, and other such acts committed in Canada that people may associate with terroristic tactics but have not been cla ...
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Terrorism in China Terrorism in China refers to the use or threatened use of violence to effect political or ideological change in the People's Republic of China. The definition of terrorism differs among scholars, between international and national bodies and ac ...
* Terrorism in Chile * Terrorism in Denmark * Terrorism in Egypt *
Terrorism in Ecuador Terrorism in Ecuador is a rare occurrence as the country, despite recurrent periods of economic and political instability, has been traditionally known as a peaceful state in Latin America, unlike its neighbor states; Peru and Colombia, which have ...
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Terrorism in France Terrorism in France refers to the terrorist attacks that have targeted the country and its population during the 20th and 21st centuries. Terrorism, in this case is much related to the country's history, international affairs and political appr ...
* Terrorism in Germany *
Terrorism in Greece Multiple terrorist attacks have occurred in Greece. Banned terrorist organizations Nihilist Faction The Nihilist Faction ( el, Φράξια Μηδενιστών, translit=Fraxia Midheniston) was a nihilist anarchist organization in Greece, whic ...
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Terrorism in India Terrorism in India, according to the Home Ministry, poses a significant threat to the people of India. Compared to other countries, India faces a wide range of terror groups. Terrorism found in India includes Islamic terrorism, separatist ...
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Terrorism in Indonesia Terrorism in Indonesia refer to acts of terrorism that take place within Indonesia or attacks on Indonesian people or interests abroad. These acts of terrorism often target the government of Indonesia or foreigners in Indonesia, most notably We ...
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Assassination and terrorism in Iran Numerous civilians, including men, women, children, government officials, activists, secular intellectuals and clerics have been victims of assassination, terrorism, or violence against non-combatants, over the course of modern Iranian history ...
* :Terrorism in Iraq * Terrorism in Italy * Terrorism in Jamaica *
Terrorism in Kenya Many terrorist attacks have occurred in Kenya during the 20th and 21st centuries. In 1980, the Jewish-owned Norfolk hotel was attacked by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). In 1998, the US embassy was bombed in Nairobi, as was the Isr ...
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Terrorism in Kuwait Kuwait has experienced several terror attacks, including those carried out by Al-Qaeda and other acts of Islamic terrorism. Some terror attacks in Kuwait were associated with the Gulf War and the subsequent American military support in Kuwait. ...
* Terrorism and counterterrorism in Kazakhstan *
Terrorism in Kyrgyzstan Terrorism in Kyrgyzstan has increased since the U.S. military invaded Afghanistan and overthrew the Taliban in 2001. The governments of Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan provided airbases for counter-terrorism operations.Terrorism in Malaysia * Terrorism in Morocco * Terrorism in Myanmar * Terrorism in Mexico *
Terrorism in Norway Terrorism in Norway includes a list of major terrorist incidents where organized groups and lone wolves have tried carrying out attacks. In recent years, there has been a rise mostly of Islamic extremism and far-right violence and various groups hav ...
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Terrorism in New Zealand New Zealand has experienced few terrorist incidents in its short history and the threat is generally regarded as very low. However, the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service, Security Intelligence Service (SIS) has warned against complacency ...
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Terrorism in Pakistan Terrorism in Pakistan, according to the Ministry of Interior, poses a significant threat to the people of Pakistan. The current wave of terrorism is believed to have started in 2000 and peaked during 2009. Since then, it has drastically decl ...
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Terrorism in the Philippines Terrorism is a major social issue in the Philippines and it is linked to the Moro conflict and the communist rebellion. The country ranks in 16th place on the Global Terrorism Index's 2022 list of countries most affected by terrorism. Lega ...
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Terrorism in Saudi Arabia Terrorism in Saudi Arabia has mainly been attributed to Islamic extremists. Their targets included foreign civilians—Westerners affiliated with its oil-based economy—as well as Saudi Arabian civilians and security forces. Anti-Western atta ...
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Terrorism in Sweden Until the late 2000s, terrorism in Sweden was not seen as serious threat to the security of the state. However, there has been a rise in far right and Islamist terrorist activity in the 21st century.
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Terrorism in Turkey Terrorism in Turkey is a significant issue for Turkish authorities. Most terrorist attacks in Turkey have occurred in the southeastern and eastern provinces, and major cities like Ankara and Istanbul. The group Dev-Genç was founded in 1969 and inv ...
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Terrorism in Tajikistan Terrorism in Tajikistan stems largely from the forces of the political opposition who opposed the comprehensive peace agreement that ended the civil war in 1997. President Emomali Rahmonov and UTO leader Said Abdullah Nuri signed the agreement on ...
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Terrorism in Uzbekistan Prior to the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) posed the greatest threat to the Karimov administration. In 2002 the IMU was reclassified as terrorist by the United States. Since the invasion, the IMU has been ...
* Crime in Ukraine#Terrorism * Terrorism in Uganda * Terrorism in the United Arab Emirates *
Terrorism in the United Kingdom Terrorism in the United Kingdom, according to the Home Office, poses a significant threat to the state. There have been various causes of terrorism in the UK. Before the 2000s, most attacks were linked to the Northern Ireland conflict (the Tr ...
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Terrorism in the United States In the United States, a common definition of terrorism is the systematic or threatened use of violence in order to create a general climate of fear to intimidate a population or government and thereby effect political, religious, or ideo ...
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State terrorism State terrorism refers to acts of terrorism which a state conducts against another state or against its own citizens.Martin, 2006: p. 111. Definition There is neither an academic nor an international legal consensus regarding the proper def ...
* Domestic terrorism * Communist terrorism * Cyberterrorism * Economic terrorism * Environmental terrorism *
Left-wing terrorism Left-wing terrorism or far-left terrorism is terrorism committed with the aim of overthrowing current capitalist systems and replacing them with communist or socialist societies. Left-wing terrorism can also occur within already socialist states ...
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Misogynist terrorism Misogynist terrorism is terrorism motivated by the desire to punish women. It is an extreme form of misogyny, the policing of women's compliance to patriarchal gender expectations. Misogynist terrorism uses mass indiscriminate violence in an a ...
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Nuclear terrorism Nuclear terrorism refers to any person or persons detonating a nuclear weapon as an act of terrorism (i.e., illegal or immoral use of violence for a political or religious cause). Some definitions of nuclear terrorism include the sabotage of a ...
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Right-wing terrorism Right-wing terrorism, hard right terrorism, extreme right terrorism or far-right terrorism is terrorism that is motivated by a variety of different right-wing and far-right ideologies, most prominently, it is motivated by neo-Nazism, anti-com ...
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List of right-wing terrorist attacks This is a list of right-wing terrorist attacks. Right-wing terrorism is terrorism that is motivated by a variety of different right-wing and far-right ideologies, most prominently by neo-Nazism, neo-fascism, ecofascism, white nationalism, w ...
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Terrorism in Europe history of terrorism in Europe. This has often been linked to nationalist and separatist movements (separating countries), while other acts have been related to politics (including anarchism, far-right and far-left extremism), religious extremis ...
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Religious terrorism Religious terrorism is a type of religious violence where terrorism is used as a strategy to achieve certain religious goals or which are influenced by religious beliefs and/or identity. In the modern age, after the decline of ideas such as the ...
** Christian terrorism **
Islamic terrorism Islamic terrorism (also known as Islamist terrorism or radical Islamic terrorism) refers to terrorist acts with religious motivations carried out by fundamentalist militant Islamists and Islamic extremists. Incidents and fatalities ...
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Islamic terrorism in Europe Islamic terrorism in Europe has been carried out by the Islamic State (ISIL) or Al-Qaeda as well as Islamist lone wolves since the late 20th century. Europol, which releases the annual EU Terrorism Situation and Trend report (TE-SAT), used t ...
** Jewish religious terrorism **
Saffron terror Saffron terror is a neologism used to describe acts of violence motivated by Hindutva. Hindu extremism is usually perpetrated by members, or alleged members, of Hindu nationalist organisations like Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) or Abhina ...
* Number of terrorist incidents by country *
List of major terrorist incidents This is a list of terrorist incidents conducted by violent non-state actors, i.e. excluding state terrorism. Attacks 1950 to 1999 1971 McGurk's Bar bombing *Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland *Killed: 15 (17 injured) *Perpetrator: Ulster Vol ...
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List of aircraft hijackings The following is a list of notable aircraft hijackings. List of notable aircraft hijackings 1910s * March–July 1919: Fleeing from the Hungarian Soviet Republic, Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás seized a plane at gunpoint in Budapest to fly to ...
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List of assassinations This is a list of assassinations, sorted by location. For the purposes of this article, an assassination is defined as the deliberate, premeditated murder of a prominent figure, often for religious, political or monetary reasons. Africa The ...
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List of designated terrorist groups A number of national governments and two international organizations have created lists of organizations that they designate as terrorist. The following list of designated terrorist groups lists groups designated as terrorist by current and fo ...
* List of events named massacres *
List of incidents of political violence in Washington, D.C. There have been numerous incidents of political violence in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, as well as in the greater Washington Metropolitan area. 19th century * August 24, 1814: Burning of Washington: The British Army in ...
* List of mass car bombings * Lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents * List of marauding terrorist incidents


References


External links


U.S. National Counterterrorism Center's Worldwide Incidents Tracking SystemFatal Terrorist Attacks in Israel since the Declaration of Principles (September 1993) to September 2000


* * ttp://www.crimsonbird.com/terrorism/timeline.htm History of Terrorism: Timeline of Terrorist Acts – Chronology * Thinkquest
Timeline of Terror
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