Friday’s attacks in Paris are the latest violence
claimed by radical Islamist groups since the
destruction of the twin towers in New York in
2001.
Here is a chronology of major attacks:
– November 13, 2015: FRANCE – An
unprecedented string of attacks leaves at least
120 dead and more than 350 injured. The
assailants struck six different sites on Friday
evening, including the Stade de France football
stadium and eateries in the trendy east of the
city. The Bataclan concert venue in Paris, where
82 people were killed, was the hardest hit target.
On November 14, the jihadist Islamic State group
claims responsibility.
– November 12, 2015: LEBANON – An attack
claimed by IS on a stronghold of Lebanon’s
Shiite movement Hezbollah in southern Beirut,
leaves 44 dead. It is the largest IS-claimed
attack ever in Lebanon, and among the deadliest
bombings to hit the country since the end of its
1975-1990 civil war.
– October 31, 2015: EGYPT – A Russian jet
leaving Egypt crashes in the Sinai peninsula,
leaving all 224 people on board dead in Russia’s
worst air disaster. An IS-linked group claims
responsibility, and Washington and London say
they believe the crash was caused by a bomb on
board.
– October 10, 2015: TURKEY – 102 people are
killed and more than 500 injured in a suicide
attack in front of Ankara’s train station, where
activists were gathered for a peace
demonstration. Ankara’s public prosecutor says
the attack, the worst in Turkish history, was
ordered by IS in Syria.
– June 26, 2015: TUNISIA – 38 tourists,
including 30 Britons, are killed when a Tunisian
student armed with a Kalashnikov rifle opens fire
in a beach resort. The attack is claimed by IS.
The violence stokes memories of a March 18
attack claimed by the IS on the Bardo Museum
in Tunis that left 22 dead.
– April 2, 2015: KENYA – A day-long siege of the
eastern Garissa University kills 148, including 142
students. Claimed by Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-linked
Shebab, the attack is Kenya’s deadliest attack
since 1998 US embassy bombings.
– January 7-9, 2015: FRANCE – Two men armed
with Kalashnikov rifles storm the Paris offices of
satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo killing 12 people
including eight cartoonists. A policewoman is
killed just outside Paris the following day, while a
gunman takes hostages at a Jewish supermarket,
four of whom are killed.
– September 21-24, 2013: KENYA – An armed
commando storms the Westgate shopping centre
in Nairobi, a favourite of Kenyan and expatriate
shoppers. The attack, claimed by Al-Shebab,
leaves 67 dead.
– November 26-29, 2008: INDIA – 166 people
are killed when Islamist gunmen storm luxury
hotels, the main railway station, a Jewish centre
and other sites in the booming metropolis of
Mumbai. On July 11, 2006, 189 people had been
killed and more than 800 injured in attacks on
trains and railway stations in Mumbai’s suburbs.
– July 7, 2005: BRITAIN – Four coordinated
suicide attacks during the peak travel period on
three underground trains and a London bus kill 56
and injure 700. They are claimed by a group
linked to Al-Qaeda.
– March 11, 2004: SPAIN – A dozen bombs
explode in Madrid and in its suburbs on four
trains, leaving 191 dead and nearly 2,000
missing. The attack is claimed by Al-Qaeda.
– October 12, 2002: INDONESIA – Attacks on a
bar-restaurant and a discotheque on the island
of Bali leaves 202 dead, mainly tourists. The
attack is carried out by a Jemaah Islamiyah
commando linked to Al-Qaeda.
– September 11, 2001: UNITED STATES – Four
passenger aircraft are diverted and three
deliberately slammed into the twin towers of the
World Trade Center in New York and the
Pentagon in Washington DC. The fourth plane
crashes in Pennsylvania. The attacks, claimed by
Al-Qaeda, and which leave around 3,000 dead,
are the deadliest in history.
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