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Islamic State (Brussels cell) On 22 March 2016, two coordinated terrorist attacks in and close to Brussels, Belgium, were carried out by the Islamic State (IS). Two suicide bombers detonated bombs at Brussels Airport in Zaventem just outside Brussels, and one detonated a bomb on a train leaving Maelbeek/Maalbeek metro station in the city's ...
Jan 22. Suicide bombing, mass shooting. 20 (+4) 17. Mogadishu, Somalia. January 2016 Mogadishu attack. Al-Shabaab militants struck with a suicide car bomb at the gate of a seafood restaurant overlooking Lido Beach. Another blast struck about an hour later as government soldiers laid siege to the restaurant.
13 March 2016: Attack type. Mass murder, mass ... [20] Mali 1 [21] ... Global Affairs Canada stated that "Canada condemns the terrorist attack at Grand-Bassam beach ...
2015 Bamako hotel attack. On 20 November 2015, Islamist militants took 170 hostages and killed 20 of them in a mass shooting at the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako, the capital city of Mali. [5][6][7] The siege was ended when Malian special forces, backed by U.S. and French personnel, launched an assault on the hotel to recover the surviving ...
79. Garissa, Kenya. Six to ten gunmen associated with the Islamic terrorist group Al-Shabaab opened fire at the Garissa University in Kenya. Christians were their main target of the attack, with the Islamic extremists separating the Muslims from Christians before executing them. Up to three hundred students are unaccounted for.
t. e. The Atatürk Airport attack, consisting of shootings and suicide bombings, occurred on 28 June 2016 at Atatürk Airport in Istanbul, Turkey. Gunmen armed with automatic weapons and explosive belts staged a simultaneous attack at the international terminal of Terminal 2. Three attackers and forty-five other people were killed, [3] with ...
January 7, 2016 Shooting 0 1 (+1) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: A man shot at a police officer in his cruiser multiple times, injuring him in the process. The officer returned fire injuring the assailant. The assailant later pledged allegiance to ISIL, citing it as his reason for the attack. [142] Edward Archer 187 February 11, 2016 Melee attack ...
Vehicle collides with 11 pedestrians (One killed, 10 injured). One pedestrian falls off the bridge into River Thames. On 22 March 2017, a terrorist attack took place outside the Palace of Westminster in London, seat of the British Parliament. Khalid Masood, a 52-year-old Briton, drove a car into pedestrians on the pavement along the south side ...