Terrorist attacks

Year

In Russia

Abroad

2006

• At least a dozen Chechen rebel fighters and several members of Russian security forces killed in gun battle in village Tukuy-Mekteb in Stavropol region.

2005

• A large group of Chechen rebels launched coordinated attacks on Russian federal buildings, local police stations, and the airport in Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkaria. At least 137 people, including 92 rebels, were killed.
• The Bomb under the train Moscow-Grozny.

• Suicide bombers hit 3 American hotels, Radisson, Grand Hyatt and Days Inn, in Amman Jordan, killing 57. Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility.
• Sharm el-Sheikh bombings - Car bombs explode at tourist sites in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, killing at least 88 and wounding more than 100.
• 21 July 2005 London bombings - Small explosions in three London Underground stations and one double-decker bus. This was pronounced as a "major incident" rather than an attack, and only minor injuries were reported.
• 7 July 2005 London bombings - Bombs explode on one double-decker bus and three London Underground trains, killing 56 people and injuring over 700, occurring on the first day of the 31st G8 Conference.
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2004

• The capture of hostages in Beslan.
• Explosion in Moscow near Rigskaya underground station in Moscow.
• Two passenger aircraft crash within minutes of each other after take-off from Moscow.
• The attack by insurgents in Ingushetia.
• Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov killed in a bomb blast in Grozny.
• Explosion rips through a subway car in the Moscow metro.

• Attack of Istanbul restaurant in Turkey
• Bombing of a security building in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia kills five.
• Three car bombs explode in the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, killing at least 34 and wounding 171, many of them Israeli and other foreign tourists.
• Coordinated bombing of commuter trains in Madrid, Spain, kills 191 people and injures more than 1,500.

2003

• Female suicide bomber blows herself up outside Moscow's National Hotel.
• Two women suicide bombers kill 15 other people when they blow themselves apart at an open-air rock festival at Moscow's Tushino airfield.
• A suicide bomber kills at least 50 people at a military hospital in the town of Mozdok in North Ossetia.

• Two truck bombs explode outside the British HSBC Bank and the British Consulate General in Istanbul, Turkey killing 27 and wounding more than 450.
• In two separate attacks a gunmen kills a Spanish military attache in Baghdad, while a car bomb explodes outside an Iraqi police station killing 8 and wounding 40.
• A truck loaded with Iraqi ordinance is exploded outside the UN Headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq killing 23 and wounding more than a hundred.
• A car bomb explodes outside the Jordanian Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq killing 19 and wounding 65.
• A car bomb explodes outside the Marriot Hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia killing 10 and wounding 150.
• 12 suicide bombers attack 5 targets in Casablanca, Morocco killing 43 and wounding more than a hundred.
• Suicide bombers killed 34, including 8 Americans, at housing compounds for Westerners in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

2002

• Capture more than 700 hostages on show "Nord-Ost" in Moscow and the subsequent storm.
• Chechen suicide bombers ram vehicles into the local government headquarters in Grozny.
• A remote-controlled bomb is detonated at a May Day parade in Kaspiisk, Dagestan killing 42 and wounding 150.

• A car bomb explodes outside a discotheque in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia killing 202 and wounding 300.
• Three suicide bombers in a car attack the Paradise Hotel in Mombasa, Kenya killing 15 and wounding 40. On the same day and in the same city, two shoulder fired missiles are shot at a commercial airliner as it takes off. Both missiles miss.
• A suicide bomber detonates a truck bomb outside a synagogue in Djerba, Tunisia. 16 are dead and 26 are injured, mostly German tourists.
• A car bomb explodes near the U.S. Embassy in Lima, Peru killing 9 and wounding 32.

2001

• A Russian airliner is hijacked by three Chechens during a flight from Istanbul to Moscow. The plane is forced to land in Medina, Saudi Arabia where it remains for 22 hours. Saudi security personnel storm the plane, killing a hijacker, a passenger and a flight attendant.

• Sept. 11, New York City, Arlington, Va., and Shanksville, Pa.: hijackers crashed 2 commercial jets into twin towers of World Trade Center; 2 more hijacked jets were crashed into the Pentagon and a field in rural Pa. Total dead and missing numbered 2,9921: 2,749 in New York City, 184 at the Pentagon, 40 in Pa., and 19 hijackers.

2000

• A bomb in a busy Moscow underpass Pushkinskaya kills eight people.

• The USS Cole was docked in Aden Yemen for refueling. A small craft pulled alongside the ship and two terrorists set off the bomb. The two terrorists were killed and so were 17 U.S. Navy seamen when the explosion blew a 20 by 40 foot hole in the side of the ship.

1999

• Bombs destroy apartment blocks in Moscow, Buynaksk and Volgodonsk, killing 200.
• A bomb explodes in an underground shopping center near the Kremlin, injuring 20 people.

1998

• Aug. 7, Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: truck bombs exploded almost simultaneously near 2 U.S. embassies, killing 224 (213 in Kenya and 11 in Tanzania) and injuring about 4,500.

1997

1996

• The hostage crisis in Kizlyar and Pervomaisk.

• A bomb aboard a fuel truck explodes outside a U.S. air force installation in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. 19 U.S. military personnel are killed in the Khubar Towers housing facility, and 515 are wounded, including 240 Americans.

1995

• The hostage crisis in Budyonnovsk.

• A car-bomb in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia kills seven people, five of them American military and civilian advisers for National Guard training. The "Tigers of the Gulf," "Islamist Movement for Change," and "Fighting Advocates of God" claim responsibility.

1994

1993

• А bomb in a van explodes in the underground parking garage in New York's World Trade Center, killing six people and wounding 1,042

1992