Timeline of Islamist militancy
defensive and offensive wars, terrorist attacks, assassinations
- 1920 1920 Palestine riots incited by Haj Amin Al-Husseini, grand mufti of Jerusalem.
- 1929 The ancient Jewish community of Hebron is destroyed in the 1929 Palestine riots.
- 1970 Avivim school bus massacre by Palestinian PLO terrorists, killing nine children, three adults and crippling 19
- 1974 April 11 Ma'alot massacre at an apartment building in Kiryat Shmona by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorists, killing 18 people, 9 were children
- 1974 Maalot massacre at the Maalot High School in Northern Israel by Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorists
- 1974 TWA Flight 841
- 1975 Tel Aviv Savoy Hotel guest attacked by Palestinian PLO terrorists
- 1977 October 13 Lufthansa flight LH 181 was kidnapped by a group of four Arabs around the leader "Captain Martyr Mahmud".
- 1978 - 1992 Afghan Jihad - USSR invades and then retreats from Afghanistan.
- 1978 Palestinian Fatah terrorists on the Tel Aviv - Haifa highway kill 34 Israelis.
- 1981 October 6 Assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat by Islamic Jihad
- 1985 TWA Flight 847 hijacking
- 1985 October 7 - October 10 Achille Lauro cruise ship hijacking by Palestinian Liberation Front, a passenger in a wheelchair is puposely killed
- 1985 EgyptAir Flight 648 hijacked by Abu Nidal group, flown to Malta, where Egyptian commandos storm plane; 60 are killed by gunfire and explosions.
- 1986 TWA Flight 840 bombed on approach to Athens airport; 4 Americans, including an infant, are killed.
- 1986 Pan Am Flight 73, an American civilian airliner, is hijacked; 22 people die when plane is stormed in Karachi, Pakistan.
- 1989 Two bombs explode in Mecca, killing one pilgrim and wounding 16 others.
- 1992 Israeli Embassy bombing in Buenos Aires, Argentina; 29 die.
- 1993 February 26 World Trade Center bombing kills 6 and injures over 1000 people
- 1993 Failed New York City landmark bomb plot
- 1994–1996 First Chechen War
- 1994 Bombing of Jewish Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina kills 86 and wounds 300. Eight days later the Israeli Embassy in London and a Jewish charity are car-bombed. 20 are wounded. All three incidents are blamed on Hezbollah.
- 1994 July 19 Alas Chiricanas bombing kills 21 people
- 1994 Air France Flight 8969 is hijacked by GIA members who planned to crash the plane on Paris but didn't succeed.
- 1994 A small bomb explodes on board Philippine Airlines flight 434, killing a Japanese businessman. Authorities found out that Ramzi Yousef planted the bomb to test it for his planned terrorist attack.
- 1995 Islamist terror bombings in France by a GIA unit (Khaled Kelkal being one of the operational leaders)
- 1995 Bombing of military compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- 1996 A series of four suicide bombings in Israel leave 60 dead and 284 wounded within 10 days.
- 1996 Khobar Towers bombing
- 1997 Islamic terrorists attack tourists in Luxor, Egypt, killing 71 people, most of them European and Japanese vacationers.
- 1997 A terrorist opened fire on tourists at an observation deck atop the Empire State Building in New York City, killing a Danish national and wounding visitors from the United States, Argentina, Switzerland and France before turning the gun on himself. A handwritten note carried by the gunman claimed this was a punishment attack against the "enemies of Palestine".
- 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya, killing 225 people and injuring more than 4,000.
- 1999 Gunmen opened fire on Shi'a Muslims worshipping in an Islamabad mosque killing 16 people injuring 25.
- 1999 Jordanian authorities foil a plot to bomb US and Israeli tourists in Jordan and pick up 28 suspects as part of the 2000 millennium attack plots
- 1999 Indian Airlines Flight 814, which just took off from Kathmandu, Nepal for Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi, India is hijacked, one passenger is killed and some hostages are released. After negotiations between the Taliban and the Indian government, the last of the remaining hostages on board Flight 814 are released
- 1999 August 31 - September 22 Russian Apartment Bombings kills about 300 people, leading Russia into Second Chechen War.
- 2000 The last of the 2000 millennium attack plots fails, as the boat meant to bomb USS The Sullivans sinks
- 2000 Intensification of the campaign of terror attacks on civilians in Israel begun after the signing of the Oslo Accords - see Terrorism against Israel in 2000
- 2000 German police foil Strasbourg cathedral bombing plot
- 2000 USS Cole bombing kills 17 US sailors
- 2001 September 11, 2001 attacks kill thousands in New York City, New York, and hundreds in Arlington, Virginia and Pennsylvania
- 2001 Paris embassy terrorist attack plot foiled
- 2001 Richard Reid, attempting to destroy American Airlines Flight 63, is subdued by passengers and flight attendants before he could detonate his shoe bomb
- 2002 Singapore embassies terrorist attack plot foiled
- 2002 March 24 Twenty people die and 93 are injured in three bomb attacks on Russian towns near the border of Chechnya
- 2002 Ghriba Synagogue Attack in Tunisia
- 2002 May 8 Bus Attack in Karachi
- 2002 May 9 A bomb explosion in Kaspiisk in Dagestan kills at least 42 people and injures 130 or more during Victory Day festivities.
- 2002 June 14 attack outside U.S. Consulate in Karachi
- 2002 Limburg tanker bombing in Yemen
- 2002 Kidnapping and murder of journalist Daniel Pearl
- 2002 October 12 Bali car bombing of holidaymakers kills 202
- 2002 Zamboanga bombings in the Philippines
- 2002 October 19 A car bomb explodes outside a McDonald's Corp. restaurant in Moscow, killing one person and wounding five.
- 2002 October 23 Moscow theater hostage crisis begins; 120 hostages and 40 terrorists killed in rescue 3 days later.
- 2002 Most deadly year of Palestinian terror campaign against Israel, including the Passover Massacre in which 30 people are killed - see Terrorism against Israel in 2002
- 2002 Kenyan hotel bombing
- 2003 Palestinian terror attacks against Israel continue, including the Maxim restaurant massacre. See Terrorism against Israel in 2003
- 2003 Chechen militants carry out several deadly suicide bombings across Russia and nearby provinces, killing more than 250 people
- 2003 Riyadh Compound Bombings - bombings of United States expat housing compounds in Saudi Arabia kill 26 and injure 160. Al-Qaeda blamed
- 2003 Casablanca Attacks in Casablanca, Morocco leaves 41 dead. The attack involved 12 bombers and 5 targets. The targets were "Western and Jewish". Attack attributed to a Moroccan al-Qaeda-linked group
- 2003 Canal Hotel Bombing in Baghdad, Iraq kills 22 people including the top UN representative, Sergio Vieira de Mello
- 2003-2004 In response to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the Iraqi insurgency in that country stage dozens of suicide bombings, kidnappings and several beheadings targeting Iraqi, Coalition and humanitarian targets. Attacks on some coalition forces may not be terrorist attacks under Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions which gives lawful combatant status to non-uniformed guerrillas resisting foreign occupation if they display arms openly. As neither the U.S. or Iraq have signed this protocol it is not applicable to attacks on US forces.
- 2003 Istanbul Bombings: Within five days, truck bombs go off at two synagogues, the British Consulate, and the HSBC Bank in Istanbul, Turkey
- 2003 May 12 A truck bomb attack on a government building in the Chechen town of Znamenskoye kills 59
- 2003 May 14 As many as 16 die in a suicide bombing at a religious festival in southeastern Chechnya
- 2003 July 5 15 people die and 40 are injured in bomb attacks at a rock festival in Moscow
- 2003 August 1 An explosion at the Russian hospital in Mozdok in North Ossetia kills at least 50 people and injures 76
- 2003 September 3 A bomb blast on a passenger train near Kislovodsk in southern Russia kills seven people and injures 90
- 2003 October 15 - A bomb is detonated by Palestinians against a US diplomatic convoy in the Gaza Strip killing three Americans
- 2003 December 5 Suicide bombers kill at least 46 people in an attack on a train in southern Russia
- 2003 December 9 A blast in the center of Moscow kills six people and wounds at least 11
- 2004 Violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 2004
- 2004 109 Kurds are killed in 2 suicide bombings in Arbil, Iraq
- 2004 February 6 Bomb on Moscow subway kills 41
- 2004 February 27 Superferry 14 is bombed in the Philippines by Abu Sayyaf, killing 116.
- 2004 Suicide bombings at Shia holy sites in Iraq kill 181 and wound more than 500
- 2004 Attack on procession of Shia Muslims in Pakistan kills 43 and wounds 160
- 2004 March 9 Attack of Istanbul restaurant in Turkey
- 2004 March 11 bombing of commuter trains in Madrid, Spain kills 191 people and injures more than 1,400
- 2004 April 21 Basra bombs in Iraq
- 2004 April 21 Bombing of a security building in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia kills 5
- 2004 May 29 Al-Khobar massacres--Islamic terrorists kill 22 people at an oil compound in Saudi Arabia.
- 2004 August 31 A blast near a subway station entrance in northern Moscow, caused by a suicide bomber, kills 10 people and injures 33
- 2004 September 1 - 3 Beslan school hostage crisis in North Ossetia, Russia results in over 330 dead
- 2004 September 9 Jakarta embassy bombing - the Australian embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia was bombed, killing seven people
- 2004 October 7 Three car bombs explode in the Sinai Peninsula, killing at least 32 and wounding 114, most of them Israeli tourists.
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