The following is a timeline of acts and failed attempts that can be
considered non-state
| Date |
Dead |
Injured |
Location and description |
| January 1 |
6 |
67 |
Guwahati ,
India. A serial blast
kills 5 civilians and injures 67 in the city of Guwahati.
Police believe the United Liberation Front of
Asom are responsible for the attacks. |
| January 1 |
4 |
16 |
Bajaur Agency , Pakistan .
Militants fired rockets at a civil colony in the Bajaur Agency town
of Khar killing four people and injuring 16 others. The attackers
were able to get away before police and army officials caught
them. |
| January 2 |
23 |
72 |
Baghdad , Iraq . A
relative of a Sunni tribal shiek blew himself up at a Sunni
gathering south of Baghdad killing 23 people and wounding 72
others, including many of his relatives. |
| January 2 |
4 |
37 |
Colombo , Sri Lanka . Hours after the capture of the Tamil Tigers
capital in northern Sri Lanka, a suicide bomber in Colombo struck
killing three security officers and himself and wounding an
additional 37 others. |
| January 3 |
0 |
3 |
Colombo, Sri
Lanka. A bomb blast outside a mosque in Colombo injured
three people. |
| January 4 |
35 |
79 |
Baghdad,
Iraq. A suicide bomb blast at a Shite religious shrine in
Baghdad killed at least 35 people and injured 79. |
| January 4 |
7 |
28 |
Dera Ismail Khan , Pakistan. Police officers investigating
"explosives" in the North-West town of Dera Ismail Khan were
attacked by a teenage suicide bomber resulting in the deaths of 7
people and the injuring of another 28. Five policemen are among the
dead. |
| January 8 |
1 |
2 |
Balochistan , Pakistan. One person was killed and two
others injured in an bomb incident. The bomb had been placed on a
sitting motorcycle and there is no information on who committed the
act. |
| January 9 |
12 |
20 |
Nimroz, Afghanistan . A car bomb in a market place killed 10
civilians and two Afghan police officers and injured at least 20
others. |
| January 11 |
3 |
0 |
Southern
Thailand, Thailand . Suspected Islamic insurgents in Thailand
southern provinces shot and killed two Buddhist men and a Muslim
woman as they headed to work at a rubber plantation. |
| January 12 |
9 |
18 |
Baghdad,
Iraq. Three explosions in a market, at a checkpoint and a
military patrol resulted in the deaths of at least 9 Iraqis and the
injuring of 18 others. |
| January 14 |
1 |
15 |
Sui , Pakistan. A remote control triggered
explosive detonated in Sui province killing one man and injuring 15
others including ten Pakistani soldiers. |
| January 15 |
6 |
2 |
Bardhere
Town , Somalia. A remote controlled landmine
detonated killing 3 militiamen. 2 civilians were killed along with
2 wounded in an attack blamed on Islamist rebels. while injuring
two more civilians in an attack by Al-shabab militants. |
| January 17 |
0 |
0 |
Hernani , Spain. A blast went off at a television
station in Hernani causing damage but no injuries. ETA is blamed for the attack. |
| January 17 |
6 |
19 |
Kabul ,
Afghanistan. A suicide car bomber killed one US soldier,
four civilians and wounded nineteen others. |
| January 18 |
5 |
20 |
Qaiyara, Iraq. A Sunni political leader
was killed along with four other people and at least 20 other
people were wounded in a suicide bombing in the northern community
of Qaiyara. |
| January 18 |
0 |
4 |
Herat ,
Afghanistan. A bridge was blown up by Taliban insurgents wounding four Afghan civilians as
foreign troops were apparently going over the bridge. No foreign
fatalities or injuries reported. |
| January 20 |
2 |
2 |
Kabul,
Afghanistan. A bicycle bomb exploded killing two Afghan
police officers and wounding two. |
| January 21 |
4 |
10 |
Baghdad,
Iraq. Ziyad al-Ain, a dean of Baghdad's Islamic University
and the Iraqi Under-secretary for the Education Ministry, Ammar
Aziz Mohammed Ali, survived a car bomb but four others including a
woman and a child were killed and ten others injured. |
| January 24 |
14 |
30 |
Mogadishu , Somalia. A car bomb exploded in Mogadishu
killing 15 civilians and 1 Somali policemen. The bomb was meant for
AU peacekeepers but policemen noticed the suspicious vehicle and
fired several shots at the driver resulting in the vehicle crashing
short of its target and exploding. At least 30 others were
wounded. |
| January 24 |
6 |
13 |
Jarma, Iraq. A suicide bomber drove a car
loaded with explosives into a checkpoint killing 5 police officers
and injuring 13. |
| January 24 |
0 |
0 |
Kidapawan City , Philippines . Two men tossed a grenade into a church
grounds causing damage from the explosion. No injuries or deaths
were reported. |
| January 26 |
2 |
6 |
Katahariya
village, Nepal . A
bomb hanging from a tree at the Katahariya village local market
exploded killing one person and injuring two other people
seriously. The Tarai Army has claimed
responsibility for the blast. |
| January 27 |
1 |
3 |
Kissufim , Israel Militants
detonate a bomb at the Kissufim crossing, killing one Israeli
soldier and wounding three. |
| January 28 |
2 |
4 |
Bogota , Colombia . An explosion in a two-story building in
Bogota has killed 2 people and injured at least four others. |
| January 30 |
0 |
10 |
Davao
City , Philippines. Communist rebels set off a
landmine by a military convoy in Davao City and then attacked a
police station with gunfire, injuring 10 people. |
|
| Date |
Dead |
Injured |
Location and description |
| February 1 |
3 |
40 |
Zhumadian, Henan Province , China. An explosive device detonated
outside a hospital in Zhumdian in Henan Province killing 3 people
and injuring 40 others according to the Hong Kong Centre and police
report four dead and two injured. It is believed someone unhappy
with the hospital might be behind the explosion. |
| February 1 |
1 |
3 |
Kabul,
Afghanistan. Insurgents attacked a NATO convoy in Kabul with
a suicide bomber resulting in the injuring of two Afghan civilians
and a French soldier and the death of the insurgent attacker. |
| February 2 |
22 |
8 |
Tirin
Kot, Uruzgan province ,
Afghanistan. A suicide bomber in a police uniform in the
Southern Afghan province detonated an explosive belt killing
himself and 21 other Afghan police recruits and injured 8
others. |
| February 3 |
4 |
24 |
Colombo, Sri
Lanka. Rebels detonated a bomb on a bus carrying Sri Lankan
soldiers in the capital of Colombo killing four people and injuring
twenty-four others as the military continues it's offensive in
northern Sri Lanka against Tamil rebels. |
| February 4 |
1 |
4 |
Baghdad, Iraq. A bombing occurred in western Baghdad killing
the son of a Iraqi Sunni Awakening Council member and injuring four
other people. |
| February 4 |
0 |
1 |
West Memphis, Arkansas , United States. Trent P. Pierce Chairman of
the Arkansas State Medical Board was critically injured in a car
bombing that occurred in his drive way. There are reports that he
received serious injuries to his abdomen and face, but no internal
trauma was reported. No one else was wounded in the blast. |
| February 5 |
15 |
15 |
Khaniqin,
Diyala Province , Iraq. A bombing occurred in a restaurant
killing fifteen people and injuring fifteen others in Diyala
province bordering the Kurdish Autonomous Zone. |
| February 8 |
2 |
11 |
Baghdad, Iraq. A roadside bomb exploded targeting Shiite
pilgrims in northern Baghdad killing two and injuring at least
eleven others. |
| February 8 |
1 |
14 |
Baghdad, Iraq. An IED exploded in eastern Baghdad
after the bombing targeting Shiite pilgrims
killing one civilian and injuring fourteen others. |
| February 9 |
30 |
90 |
Vishvamadu, Sri Lanka. A female
suicide bomber from the LTTE Black Tigers detonated her explosives
in a crowd of soldiers and fleeing refugees in northern Sri Lanka
as an attempt to cow people into not leaving rebel-held areas of
Sri Lanka. Twenty-eight people including eight civilians were
reportedly killed and at least ninety others wounded. |
| February 9 |
0 |
0 |
Madrid ,
Spain. A van carried with 100kgs of explosive
exploded near the offices of construction company Ferrovial and the blast is being blamed on ETA rebels in the Basque Country after two political parties connected to
ETA were banned from upcoming regional elections. No one was
hurt or killed in the blast. |
| February 9 |
6 |
3 |
Mosul ,
Iraq. A suicide attacker detonated his explosives by a
police check-point killing four American soldiers, their Iraqi translator and injuring two
police officers and one civilian. |
| February 11 |
16 |
43 |
Baghdad, Iraq. Two suicide car bombers detonated explosives in
SW Baghdad in car lots killing at least 16 people and injuring 43
others. |
| February 11 |
28 |
57 |
Kabul,
Afghanistan. Twenty people were killed along with eight
Taliban attackers in Kabul as the insurgents targeted a prison and
the nearby Interior ministry. Afghan forces and plain-clothed CIA
operatives were able to get control of the situation. |
| February 12 |
4 |
3 |
Mosul,
Iraq. A car bomb killed four people and injured three in
Mosul, Northern Iraq. |
| February 12 |
3 |
1 |
Pattani Province , Thailand. A roadside bomb exploded in the Pattani
province targeting a police car after it had just completed
escorting educators to a school in the insurgent-hit south. Three
policemen died and a fourth was critically injured. |
| February 13 |
7 |
1 |
Foum
Al-Metleg, Algeria . A bomb targeting a civilian mini-van
detonated killing all four occupants including a child and a second
blast detonated when rescue workers arrived killing two police
officers and one firefighter. One other police officer was
seriously wounded. |
| February 13 |
35 |
65 |
Karbala , Iraq. A female suicide bomber attacked a
procession of Shia pilgrims — many of them women and children —
south of Baghdad on Friday, killing 35 people and injuring 65
others, officials said. It was the third straight day of deadly
bombings against Shia pilgrims. |
| February 13 |
0 |
3 |
Baghdad, Iraq. An insurgent in eastern Baghdad tossed a
grenade at Iraqi forces injuring three
police officers in the blast. |
| February 14 |
0 |
5 |
Kandahar , Afghanistan. An improvised explosive device
(IED) hit a Canadian military convoy in Afghanistan in Kandahar
City leaving four Canadian soldiers and one Afghan interpreter
injured. Canadian forces exchanged gunfire with insurgents after
the explosion. |
| February 14 |
1 |
13 |
Puliyankulam , Sri Lanka. LTTE rebels tossed a hand grenade into a
bus packed with refugees in Northern Sri Lanka killing one civilian and injuring 13 other
people. |
| February 15 |
0 |
5 |
Maitum ,
Philippines. An improvised explosive device detonated in
front of a government building housing a gymnasium injuring five people. |
| February 18 |
0 |
0 |
Athens ,
Greece. Two gunmen fired 13 shots into a private T.V
studio's compound and tossed in an explosive device before fleeing
on two sport motorcycles. No one was hurt or killed in the incident
and the bomb failed to explode. |
| February 18 |
0 |
0 |
Zahedan , Iran . One
male attempted to detonated an explosive device inside a mosque in
the central city of Zahedan. However he was refused entrance and he
headed to a nearby kitchen and placed the explosives down where it
detonated. Minor damage was reported but no casualties. |
| February 19 |
4 |
2 |
Balad
Ruz , Iraq. Four Iraqi soldiers were killed and
two were injured when a roadside bomb exploded in the restive
province of Diyala on Thursday, a senior police officer told AFP.
The attack took place in Balad Ruz, a town 70 kilometers (44 miles)
northeast of Baghdad, said the officer, who asked not to be
named. |
| February 20 |
27 |
65 |
Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan. A bombing occurred at a Shiite
funeral possession that killed 27 people and injured at least 65
other people. |
| February 20 |
3 |
2 |
Baghdad, Iraq. A woman and two children were killed in one
explosion and two police officers were wounded in a secondary
explosion targeting emergency services. |
| February 20 |
4 |
50+ |
Colombo, Sri
Lanka. Two Tamil
Tigers aircraft packed with C4 explosives en-route to the
national airforce headquarters were shot down by the Sri Lankan military before reaching
their target. 4 people including the two pilots were killed while
over 50 were injured. |
| February 22 |
0 |
0 |
Barakaldo , Spain. A bomb detonated in Basque Country.
No injuries were reported. |
| February 22 |
1 |
22 |
Khan el-Khalili , Egypt .
A bomb
detonated in an area of coffee shops near Al Hussein Mosque , killing a French tourists. 17 French
nationals, 3 Saudis, and 3 Egyptians were wounded. |
| February 22 |
13 |
15 |
Mogadishu, Somalia. Two Al Shabeeb militants in a
car
detonated a bomb in an AU base, killing eleven peacekeepers
from Burundi and injuring fifteen others. |
| February 23 |
0 |
0 |
Lazkao ,
Spain. A rucksack packed with around
10 kg worth of explosives explodes outside the
Basque Socialist Party headquarters in the town after a warning
call from ETA. The blast took place at 3:00 am,
causing major damage to the local but no injuries were
reported. |
| February 24 |
0 |
0 |
Vitoria, Spain. A bomb explodes in front
of a PNV headquarters in Vitoria causing minimal damage and no
injuries. |
| February 25 |
2 |
8 |
Kandahar, Afghanistan. A motorcycle bomb exploded
killing two civilians and injuring eight other people including
five ANA soldiers. |
| February 27 |
0 |
0 |
Thoubal district, India.
Unknown militants threw bombs into a congressional office resulting
in one bomb exploding resulting in significant damage but no
injuries or deaths. |
| February 28 |
4 |
6 |
Baghdad, Iraq. A bomb in Sunni western Baghdad left four people
including a police officer dead and another six wounded. |
| Date |
Dead |
Injured |
Location and description |
| March 1 |
1 |
6 |
Jalalabad , Afghanistan. A suicide car bomber detonated
his explosives near a passing U.S convoy in eastern Afghanistan. No
damage occurred to the U.S convoy but the bomber was killed and six
civilians, including two children were injured in the blast.
Taliban militants are suspected for the blast. |
| March 2 |
4 |
5 |
Balochistan, Pakistan. A suicide bomber detonanted his
explosives at an Islamic Seminary killing four people and injuring
at least five others. |
| March 3 |
7 |
9 |
Lahore ,
Pakistan. The Sri Lankan cricket team was attacked by armed gunmen in the streets of Lahore as they headed to a match
with the Pakistani national team. Six policemen and the
driver were killed and seven players, an umpire and an official
were wounded in the ambush. Pakistan interior ministry has stated
they are in a "total war" with insurgents but some believe the
Tamil Tigers are responsible. |
| March 3 |
1 |
9 |
Diyala Province , Iraq. Two bombs exploded in Diyala province
targeting police patrols. One police officer was killed in the
first explosion and his partner was wounded and a second blast
injured four more police officers and four civilians. |
| March 4 |
0 |
2 |
Cotabato , Philippines. An improvised explosive device
exploded at a hostel popular with foreign tourists damaging four
rooms and injuring two people. Muslim rebels are suspected in the
blast. |
| March 4 |
3 |
2 |
Kandahar Province,
Afghanistan. A roadside bomb detonated in Kandahar province as a
Canadian military patrol went by killing three Canadian soldiers
and injuring two others. |
| March 4 |
4 |
22 |
Baghdad,
Iraq. A blast at a restaurant killed four people and injured
at least 22 others in Baghdad. |
| March 5 |
12 |
56 |
Hilla, Iraq. In a crowded cattle market
sixty miles south of Baghdad in the town of Hilla a massive
explosive detonated killing 12 people and injuring 56 others. All
dead and injured are reported to be civilians. |
| March 5 |
2 |
7 |
Mosul,
Iraq. A suicide car bomber detonated his explosives in
northern Mosul killing one Iraqi soldier and injuring seven other
people. |
| March 5 |
1 |
2 |
Jerusalem A Palestinian
bulldozer driver rammed into a police car, pushing it down Menachem
Begin Expressway and then hit a bus before he was shot. Two
officers were wounded. Senior Hamas official
Mushir al-Masr said "The operation in Jerusalem was a natural
response to aggression against our people." |
| March 7 |
2 |
4 |
Antrim town , Northern
Ireland . Two unarmed soldiers of the 38 Engineer Regiment
were shot dead outside Massereene Barracks. Two other
soldiers and two civilian delivery men were also shot and wounded
during the attack. An Irish
republican paramilitary group, the Real IRA, issued a statement
claiming responsibility. |
| March 7 |
7 |
15 |
Peshawar , Pakistan. A blast targeting police in
Peshawar killed seven people, including five police and injured at
least 15 others. |
| March 7 |
5 |
5 |
Tirah, Pakistan. A suicide car bomber
detonated explosives in front of a mosque run by a militant group
that is at odd with the Pakistani militant group that completed the
Mumbai attacks killing five people in all and injuring five
others. |
| March 7 |
0 |
9 |
Trabzon Province , Turkey. Bomb exploded in an alcohol shop in
the northern province leaving nine people injured. Islamic
militants are being blamed for the bombing. |
| March 7 |
2 |
6 |
Nanyang, Henan , China. A bomb exploded in an apartment
complex killing two people and injuring six others including five
kindergarten-aged children and an instructor. |
| March 8 |
28 |
57 |
Baghdad,
Iraq. A suicide bomber detonated explosives at a police
academy killing 28 people and injuring 57
others. |
| March 9 |
1 |
0 |
Craigavon , Northern
Ireland. PSNI officer Stephen Paul
Carroll was shot
dead by a sniper in Craigavon, County Armagh.
This was the first killing of a police officer in Northern Ireland
since 1998. The Continuity IRA claimed
responsibility for the shooting. |
| March 10 |
14 |
41 |
Southern Sri Lanka , Sri Lanka. A suicide bomber occurred at a
mosque in a southern town in Sri Lanka killing 14 people and
injuring 41 others including a minister. |
| March 10 |
4 |
6 |
Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
Taliban militants planted a roadside bomb in Helmand province that
detonated when a passing van went by resulting in four people being
killed and six others injured. All casualties in this incident were
civilians. |
| March 10 |
33 |
46 |
Baghdad,
Iraq. A bomb exploded near Abu Gharib prison killing two
journalists, civilians and soldiers. In total 33 people were killed
and 46 others injured. |
| March 15 |
4 |
0 |
Nangarhar, Afghanistan. A roadside
bomb killed 4 US soldiers.
The Taliban has claimed responsibility. |
| March 15 |
2 |
14 |
Kabul,
Afghanistan. A suicide bomber targeting a NATO patrol killed
2 Afghan civilians and wounded 14 other civilians. |
| March 15 |
2 |
0 |
Nablus Two
Israeli traffic policeman were killed near the town of Nablus by
the Imad Mughniyeh Group, an organization named after the
assassination of Hezbollah leader Imad Mughniyah. Israeli police
spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said "nationalistic motive" appeared to
have been behind the attack. |
| March 15 |
5 |
4 |
Shibam , Yemen .
A suicide
bomber detonated his suicide
vest near Korean tourists posing for pictures in southern Yemen
at Shibam, a UNESCO World Heritage site referred to as the
"Manhattan of the Desert". Four South Koreans and a Yemeni
tour guide were killed and four other foreigners and an
"unspecified number of Yemenis" were wounded. |
| March 15 |
2 |
0 |
Helmand, Afghanistan. Two British
soldiers are killed by a roadside bomb while traveling in an
off-road armored vehicle. |
| March 16 |
11 |
29 |
Lashkar Gah , Afghanistan. A Taliban militant in police
uniform detonates explosives inside a police headquarters, killing
11 people and wounding 29. |
| March 16 |
8 |
17 |
Rawalpindi , Pakistan. A suicide bomber strikes a bus
depot, killing 8 and wounding 17. |
| March 18 |
1 |
0 |
Sana'a ,
Yemen. A suicide bomber explodes near a convoy
carrying South Korean investigators and relatives of the victims of
the Shibam
attack. No injuries are reported aside from the suicide
bomber himself. |
| March 18 |
1 |
12 |
New Jalpaiguri , India. An explosive detonates, killing 1
person and injuring at least 12 others. The provincial
administration believes the blast is not related to upcoming
district elections, but by unidentified terrorists. |
| March 18 |
0 |
0 |
Athens,
Greece. A homemade bomb
exploded at the government office of the ruling party in Greece,
causing damage but no injuries according to the police. Deputy
Kyriakos Mitsotakis was not at
the office during the attack. |
| March 19 |
4 |
0 |
Kabul,
Afghanistan. A roadside bomb planted by Taliban militants
killed legislator Dad Mohammad
Khan and his 3 body guards. |
| March 19 |
4 |
0 |
Pattani , Thailand. A roadside bomb placed by "muslim
separatists" killed 4 paramilitary soldiers during a patrol in
"insurgent-infested" province of Pattani, |
| March 20 |
10 |
40 |
Landi Kotel, Taliban militants in
North-western Pakistan fired several rockets at a military camp in
Landi Kotal. One of the missiles hit the commercial area resulting
in most of the casualties. Ten people in all were killed and at
least 40 were wounded.
|
| March 20 |
4 |
8 |
Kandahar, Afghanistan. 2 roadside bombs killed 4 and
wounded 8 Canadian soldiers, and an Afghan interpreter in the
hostile Shah Wali Kot district. |
| March 21 |
6 |
4 |
Kabul,
Afghanistan. A car bombing at a police checkpoint kills 5
civilians and 1 police officer. 4 civilians were wounded in the
attack. |
| March 22 |
0 |
7 |
Kidapawan , Philippines. A bomb exploded on an overpass
over a busy marketplace wounding seven people. The blast blew out
windows of local shops and police officers and soldiers began
stepped up patrols of the area. |
| March 22 |
2 |
8 |
Saadiyah, Iraq. Police conducting a
raid in Saadiyah were the target of a booby-trap bomb as a massive
explosion rocked the city when one of the houses they entered
exploded. Two Iraqi police officers were killed and 8 others
wounded. |
| March 23 |
25 |
45 |
Jalawla, 25 civilians are killed after a
suicide bomber detonated at a Kurdish funeral. "Dozens" are
reported to have been wounded. |
| March 23 |
9 |
22 |
Abu
Gharib , Iraq. Nine people were killed and at least
another 22 were injured after a roadside bomb planted by a garage
where vehicles were getting repaired exploded. The explosion
occurred in the early afternoon at peak business for the
garage. |
| March 25 |
4 |
7 |
Mosul,
Iraq. A bomb exploded in a group of female school girls in
the ethnically charged city of Mosul killing for female students
and injuring another seven children. |
| March 25 |
9 |
7 |
Zazimydan, Afghanistan. A bus from the
town of Zazimydan was hit by an explosive device that killed seven
people, including women and children instantly and caused two more
civilians to pass away on the way to hospital. Seven others were
injured in the blast. |
| March 25 |
0 |
12 |
Tezpur, Assam , India. Militants in insurgent racked Assam
province tossed a grenade into a busy marketplace in Tezpur, Assam
injuring twelve people, two seriously.
|
| March 26 |
16 |
40 |
Baghdad,
Iraq. At a shopping mall in northern Baghdad a car bomb
exploded killing sixteen people and injuring at least forty others.
The attack in a mostly Shite area was possibly an attempt to
reignite tensions between the Shite majority and Sunni
minority. |
| March 26 |
10 |
25 |
Peshawar, Pakistan. A suicide bomber detonated
explosives at an inn where people meet for tea and meals. Ten
people were killed in the attack and another twenty-five were
injured. |
| March 26 |
0 |
0 |
Amorebieta , a bomb explodes in a businessman chalet suspected
to be the work of ETA. No one was killed
or injured. |
| March 27 |
48 |
80 |
Jamrud ,
Pakistan. A suicide bomb attack on a mosque in Pakistan
where 250 people had gathered for prayers near the Afghanistan
border killed 48 people and injured at least 80 people. The death
toll will likely rise as more people believed trapped in the rubble
or will die from their injuries. |
| March 27 |
0 |
6 |
Yala Province , Thailand. Six Thai soldiers were injured in
an explosion in the southern Thailand province of Yala. Militants
opened fire on the patrol after the explosion but no casualties
occurred in the firefight. |
| March 30 |
9 |
8 |
Dand District, Afghanistan. A
suicide bomber detonated an explosive device at a local government
office resulting in the death of nine people and the injuring of
eight people. |
| March 30 |
12 |
90 |
Lahore,
Pakistan. Militants believed to be trained by the same
organization that committed the Mumbai attacks in November 2008 and
the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore on March 3,
2009 attacked a police academy with bombs and gunfire. In total
seven attackers, heavily armed attacked the police academy
resulting in a massive eight hour gun battle that left 12 dead and
at least 90 injured. Four of the dead were attackers and three were
captured. |
| March 31 |
8 |
21 |
Mosul,
Iraq. A suicide bomber detonated explosives at a police
station in the ethnically volatile city of Mosul where Al Qaeda
strikes regularly, and tensions are simmering between Arab and
Kurdish factions. In the blast eight people were killed, including
the bomber and four police officers and seventeen others were
wounded. |
|
| Date |
Dead |
Injured |
Location and description |
| April 2 |
1 |
1 |
Bat
Ayin A 13 year old Israeli was killed by a local
Palestinian in the Jewish settlement of Bat Ayin. A 7 year old was also injured and is being
treated for serious wounds. Islamic Jihad and
Imad Mughniyeh have claimed
responsibility. |
| April 5 |
22 |
50 |
Chakwal A suicide bomber detonates explosives at a
mosque during prayer, killing 22 civilians and injuring more than
50. The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the
attack. |
| April 5 |
1 |
0 |
Toronto An explosion in a Tim
Horton's restaurant kills one man. |
| April 6 |
7 |
60 |
Assam Two bomb
blasts kill 7 and injure 60 a day before Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was expected to visit.
Police accuse United Liberation
Front of coordinating the attacks. |
| April 6 |
36 |
110 |
Baghdad 6 bomb attacks kill 36 people and injure 110 in
Shiite neighborhoods. US forces
believe Al Qaeda was responsible, stating
"the nature of the targets was consistent with past attacks." |
| April 6 |
1 |
7 |
Dalouyia 7 Iraqi soldiers were wounded
after a suicide bomber detonated his explosives. |
| April 7 |
8 |
14 |
Baghdad A car bomb detonated in Baghdad near a Shite
religious shrine killing eight people and injuring at least
fourteen people. This attacks comes one day after six car
bombs in Baghdad that attempted to reignite Shite-Sunni communal
tensions. |
| April 9 |
5 |
7 |
Lashkar Gah Two police cars were seriously damaged after a
bomb exploded near the two vehicles in Lashkar Gah, Helmand
Province in Afghanistan. Four police officers and a child
were killed and two police officers were wounded. |
| April 10 |
7 |
18 |
Mosul A suicide
truck bomb kills 5 US soldiers and two Iraqi policemen. 1 US
soldier and 17 Iraqi's were injured in the blast. This is the
largest loss of life in a single day for American forces in Iraq
for 2009. |
| April 10 |
1 |
3 |
Chalerm Black clothed militants opened
fire on a train as it was stopped at a local train station. One
train attendant was shot and killed and three others were injured
in the attack before the engineer was able to pull away from the
station ensuring the attackers couldn't kill or injure anyone
else. |
| April 11 |
12 |
32 |
Baghdad A suicide bomber exploded after getting into the
middle of a crowd of Sunni militamen allied with the U.S military
in Iraq. Nine people were killed and another thirty-one were
injured in the explosion. |
| April 14 |
1 |
4 |
Shah Wali Kot A female Canadian
soldier was killed and four other Canadians wounded when a roadside
bomb hit their troop carrier in Shah Wali Kot district north of
Kandahar. |
| April 15 |
11 |
23 |
Kirkuk A suicide car bomber detonated his explosives
near a Iraqi police unit that had been assigned to protect an oil
installation. Eleven people were killed in the explosion and
twenty-three others wounded. |
| April 16 |
16 |
50 |
Baghdad A suicide bomber in an army uniform detonated his
explosives in the middle of a military parade in Anbar province
killing sixteen soldiers and injuring at least fifty
people. |
| April 18 |
27 |
65 |
Hangu Taliban militants are being blamed
for a suicide explosion targeting a military checkpoint that killed
25 Pakistani soldiers and 2 civilians and injured at least
sixty-five people, including sixty-two soldiers. The explosion
occurred in north-western Pakistan near the town of Hangu. |
| April 20 |
4 |
20 |
Baquba A suicide bomber detonated his explosives at a
joint U.S-Iraqi meeting in Baquba resulting in four Iraqis being
killed, two police officers, and twenty people being wounded in the
attack including eight U.S soldiers. |
| April 23 |
48 |
68 |
Muqdadiya A suicide bomber targeted
Shite pilgrims from Iran killing forty people, all but two Iranian,
and injuring at least sixty-eight people. Al Qaeda in Iraq is being
blamed for this blast and the blast in Central Baghdad. |
| April 23 |
28 |
57 |
Baghdad A suicide bomber exploded in a Shiite area of
Baghdad where Iraqi government officials were handing out relief
supplies to refugees who had left their neighborhoods after the
fall of Saddam Hussein because of sectarian violence.
Twenty-two people were killed and another thirty-five injured. |
| April 24 |
60 |
125 |
Baghdad Two suicide bombers blew themselves up at the
entrance to the Moussa al-Kadhim shrine in the Kadhimiya
neighborhood. Many of the casualties were Iranian
pilgrims. |
| April 25 |
11 |
6 |
Lower Dir District Eleven
children were killed and six wounded when a bomb designed to look
like a toy exploded near a girls school. Two men, possible Taliban
militants are suspected of giving the children the bomb to play
with. |
| April 26 |
1 |
3 |
Sultan Kudarat A bomb exploded at a popular beach resort in
Southern Philippines. One person was killed and three others
injured. |
| April 28 |
0 |
0 |
Istanbul Turkey military sources reported that a small
bomb, similar to a pipe bomb exploded in Istanbul in the parking
lot of a military academy. No one was killed or injured in
the blast. |
|
| Date |
Dead |
Injured |
Location and description |
| May 2 |
2 |
7 |
Herat Province A roadside bomb
exploded in Herat province killing two Afghan police officers,
including a Chief of Police and injured seven other police
officers. |
| May 3 |
4 |
7 |
Helmand Province Militants
planted an explosive device to a motorcycle in Helmand province
which exploded early on May 3. Four civilians were killed in the
explosion and seven civilians injured. |
| May 5 |
4 |
8 |
Peshawar A suicide car bomber struck a paramilitary
checkpoint on the outskirts of Peshawar killing four soldiers and
injuring eight soldiers. |
| May 6 |
10 |
30 |
Baghdad At a vegetable market in southern Baghdad a bomb
exploded killing ten civilians and wounding at least thirty
people. |
| May 6 |
0 |
0 |
Castro Urdiales Two bombs exploded at two cellphone towers in
the Basque region of northern Spain resulting in damage to both
towers but no injuries or deaths. |
| May 7 |
12 |
34 |
Helmand Province A suicide
bomber detonated his explosives at a Bazaar in Helmand province as
a British-NATO patrol was passing through the Bazaaar. Twelve
civilians were killed along with thrity-two other Afghan civilians,
and two NATO soldiers. The Taliban is being blamed for the
blast. |
| May 10 |
8 |
0 |
Nangarhar Province
Construction workers were targeted by a roadside bomb resulting in
the convoy being destroyed by the bomb. Eight civilians were killed
in the blast and no one was injured in the explosion. |
| May 10 |
0 |
1 |
Baghdad General Jaafar Taama al-Khafaji an Interior
Ministry official was wounded when a car bomb exploded near his
passing military convoy. |
| May 11 |
10 |
7 |
Darra Adam Khel A suicide car
bomber detonated his explosives at a checkpoint killing two
Frontier militiamen and nine civilians. Seven people were wounded
in the suicide car bombing. |
| May 12 |
0 |
0 |
Athens In southern Athens at a Eurobank a bomb exploded
early in the morning causing damage to the building but no injuries
or deaths. It is believed the be the fourth attack by
far-left militants on government targets since the beginning of the
year. |
| May 12 |
5 |
10 |
Kirkuk A suicide car bomber detonated his bomb when an
Iraqi police patrol passed by his vehicle. The bomber and
five Iraqi police officers were killed and ten police officers were
wounded in the attack. |
| May 12 |
6 |
13 |
Khost Twenty
Taliban suicide bombers and one VBIED(Vehicle Born Improvised
Explosive Device) attacked a provincial government building in
Khost before detonating their explosive belts. Six people,
two soldiers and four civilians, were killed in the attack and
thirteen wounded. |
| May 12 |
0 |
6 |
Khanaqin district Six Iraqi
soldiers on a foot patrol were injured in an roadside bomb
explosion in northern Iraq. |
| May 15 |
3 |
5 |
Grozny, Chechnya Two police
officers and a civilian were killed when a suicide bomber detonated
his explosives in front of the Interior Ministry in the Chechen
capital of Grozny. Three police officers and two civilians were
wounded. |
| May 15 |
0 |
8 |
Orissa A bomb placed for Indian security forces
exploded when day laborers working a field disturbed the explosive
device resulting in the explosion. Eight civilians were
injured. |
| May 16 |
10 |
20 |
Peshawar School children in a school bus were targeted
by a Taliban suicide car bomber as he detonated his car bomb at the
front of a conference centre in Peshawar as the school children in
the bus were passing by. Ten people, mostly children were
killed and twenty others injured in the suicide car bombing. |
| May 16 |
0 |
30 |
Hong Kong Acid was tossed into a popular market filled with
shoppers on a busy Hong Kong street injuring thrity people
including an infant. Most people suffered burns to their faces,
arms and legs and it is suspected that the acid was corrosive but
had been sent to a lab for analyst. |
| May 17 |
0 |
60 |
Janakpur The only train system in Nepal was targeted by
a cylinder bomb as a train passed resulting in sixty people being
injured in the blast. |
| May 17 |
4 |
4 |
Mosul A bomb went
off targeting Iraqi police in Mosul killing three civilians and one
Iraqi police officer. Four people were hurt in the
blast. |
| May 18 |
8 |
2 |
Zabul province A roadside bomb
detonated as a police van passed destroying the police van killing
all five police officers. Afghani soldiers came to the scene and a
second bomb detonated killing three soldiers and injuring two other
Afghan soldiers. |
| May 20 |
0 |
1 |
Stockholm A female television journalist for Sweden's TV4
channel was seriously injured after a bomb exploded when she went
to open the front door to her apartment. Stockholm police
believe the attack was a deliberate terrorist act against the
journalism community in Sweden. |
| May 20 |
2 |
8 |
Kandahar Province Two Afghan
police officers were killed and eight police officers wounded after
they were attacked by a suicide bomber in Kandahar province. |
| May 20 |
34 |
70 |
Baghdad A massive car bombing in northern Baghdad by
several restaurants killed thirty-four people and injured
seventy. |
| May 21 |
12 |
25 |
Baghdad A suicide bomber detonated his explosives at a
market in southern Baghdad killing twelve and injuring
twenty-five. |
| May 21 |
8 |
7 |
Kirkuk Anti-Al Qaeda forces were targeted by a suicide
bomber dressed in an Iraqi army uniform at a Kirkuk military
base. Eight Anti-Al Qaeda militia were killed and seven were
wounded in the bombing. |
| May 23 |
2 |
15 |
Katmandu An explosion rocked a Christian church in
Katmandu, Nepal during Saturday morning mass in this mostly
Buddhist and Hindu nation. An Indian national and a Nepalese
civilian were killed in the blast and fifteen were hurt. Communal
and religious violence in this mountainous nation is extremely rare
and police state an underground Hindu organization made a claim of
responsibility for the blast. |
| May 24 |
7 |
10 |
Mogadishu A insurgent detonated his suicide car bomb at the
entrance of a pro-government military camp killing six police
officers and one civilian and injuring at least ten
people. |
| May 24 |
1 |
38 |
Mosul A suicide
car bomber detonated his explosives in the northern city of Mosul
killing one person and injuring thirty-eight people. |
| May 25 |
0 |
0 |
New York City A small explosive device exploded out front of a
Starbucks in New York City destroying a bench it had been placed
on. No injuries or deaths were reported in the blast that brings
fears of terrorism. |
| May 26 |
3 |
2 |
Fallujah One U.S soldier and two U.S civilians working
for the Department of Defense and the State Department respectively
were killed when a roadside bomb detonated when their convoy passed
by in Fallujah. Two civilians for the Department of Defense
were wounded. |
| May 27 |
30 |
250 |
Lahore About 30 people were killed and 250 injured after
four gunmen opened fire and detonated a car bomb
|
| May 28 |
8 |
100 |
Peshawar Two bicycle bombs exploded at a busy market in
Peshawar, Pakistan killing eight people and wounding one hundred
others. This is the second straight bombing in a Pakistani
city in twenty-four hours by Taliban militants to protest a
Pakistani military offensive in the Swat Valley. |
| May 28 |
19 |
80 |
Zahedan An explosion at a prominent Shi'ite Muslim mosque
in the southeast Iranian city of Zahedan on Thursday killed 19
people and wounded 80, the semi-official news agency ILNA
reported. |
| May 30 |
0 |
0 |
Quito A
right-wing television station with fifty employees onsite, and the
Ministry of Education building in a northern Quito, Ecuador suburb
were targeted by two letter bombs that exploded early on Saturday
morning. The two blasts caused moderate damage to both the
T.V station and the Education Ministry building but no deaths or
injuries were reported. Anti-government letters were found near
both locations. |
|
| Date |
Dead |
Injured |
Location and description |
| June 1 |
1 |
1 |
Little Rock, Arkansas Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, an American
Muslim opened fire on a U.S. military
recruiting office. Private William Long was killed and
Private Quinton Ezeagwula was wounded. |
| June 3 |
2 |
4 |
Cotabato An unarmed Filipino soldier and a civilian was
killed in an explosion outside Cotabato and four unarmed soldiers
were injured. |
| June 4 |
0 |
5 |
Yala Province Muslim separatists detonated an explosive
device near a police patrol in Yala province injuring five,
including three police officers. |
| June 5 |
0 |
0 |
Spain A homemade bomb went off outside a policeman's home near
Bilbao causing material damage but no injuries. |
| June 5 |
38 |
50 |
Upper Dir A suicide bomb ripped
through a mosque packed with worshippers in northwest Pakistan
Friday, killing 38 people and wounding dozens more in the deadliest
such attack in more than two months. |
| June 7 |
0 |
0 |
Olivenza On the day of the 2009 European
polls voting in Spain, a bomb explodes in a local office of the
conservative party Partido
Popular. |
| June 8 |
9 |
24 |
Baghdad A bomb attached to a minibus exploded at the
entrance of a bus station in Baghdad, killing 9 people and wounding
another 24. |
| June 8 |
11 |
12 |
Narathiwat At least eleven were killed and twelve wounded
when gunmen opened fire on worshippers at a mosque in Thailand's
Muslim-majority south. The attack comes amid a sudden spike
in a five-year insurgency that has left 3,700 people dead. |
| June 9 |
18 |
52 |
Peshawar A suicide bomb attack on a luxury hotel in the
north-west Pakistani city of Peshawar, has killed 18 people and
injured at least 52. |
| June 10 |
1 |
1 |
Washington, D.C. An 88-year-old white supremacist and
Holocaust denier fires shots in
the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, fatally wounding a
security guard. |
| June 10 |
28 |
40 |
Bathaa Car bomb explodes in a crowded
market. |
| June 11 |
2 |
13 |
Peshawar Two people were killed and 13 others including
police were injured Thursday in a grenade and suicide bomb attack
targeting security forces in Peshawar, police said. |
| June 15 |
0 |
0 |
Ponferrada A homemade bomb explodes in front of an
UGT office in the city of Ponferrada, causing
extensive damage to the local. No injuries were reported in
the attack against the trade union. |
| June 16 |
4 |
0 |
Karni crossing 10 gunman belonging to an al-Qaida-cell launched an attack at the Karni
crossing using horses "laden" with explosives. 4 terrorists
and the horses were killed in the ensuring firefight with the
Israeli Defense Force. No
soldiers were wounded. |
| June 17 |
0 |
0 |
Vigo A bomb
explodes in a bank in the northern city of Vigo, in Spain.
No injuries were reported. Another explosive device exploded in the
house of a businessman. Another explosive device placed in the car
of a TAV worker exploded in Northern Spain that same day. The two
first attacks were blamed on Galician separatists while the third
to ETA young members. |
| June 18 |
20 |
37 |
Beledweyen 2009 Beledweyne bombing The National
Security Minister Omar Hashi Aden was killed along with nineteen
others after he was targeted by an insurgent suicide car bomber in
a town west of Mogadishu. Dozens of others were injured in the
brazen attack on the transitional government. |
| June 19 |
1 |
0 |
Bilbao A senior police officer is killed in a car bomb
attack in the Spanish city of Bilbao. The bomb, which was
attached to the victim's car, is blamed on Basque separatists
ETA |
| June 20 |
73 |
185 |
Taza June
2009 Taza bombing A truck bomb explodes near a mosque in Taza, a town
10 miles south of Kirkuk, killing 73 people and leaving about 185
others injured. |
| June 20 |
0 |
1 |
Terrassa Catalan
separatists tossed flaming Molotov
cocktails at a crowd watching a football match between Spain
and South Africa. luckily, only a cameraman was injured in the
attack. |
| June 20 |
1 |
2 |
A suicide bomb reportedly explodes at the shrine of former
Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. |
| June 22 |
0 |
0 |
Vigo Another
bomb explodes in the northern city of Vigo causing
great damage but no injuries. |
| June 24 |
72 |
100+ |
Baghdad A bomb exploding at a market in Sadr City leaves 72
people dead and more than 100 injured. |
| Date |
Dead |
Injured |
Location and description |
| November 2 |
35 |
60 |
Two suicide bombers on bicycles detonated their bombs in
front of a bank in the city of Rawalpindi, Pakistan |
| November 8 |
12 |
35 |
A
suicide bomber targets an anti-Taliban mayor on the outskirts of
Peshawar, fatally wounding the mayor and killing
civilians near the scene at a cattle market |
| November 9 |
3 |
5 |
A suicide bomber strikes a police post in Peshawar,
Pakistan |
| November 10 |
24 |
100 |
A
car bomb hits a busy market in the city of Charsadda , Pakistan |
| November 13 |
17 |
56 |
A suicide bombing hits the Inter-Services Intelligence
headquarters building in Peshawar, killing 12 and wounding 40
people. Another suicide bomber detonates his explosives in Baka
Khel in the northwest of Pakistan, killing a further 5 people and
injuring 16 |
| November 14 |
10 |
25+ |
A blast goes off in the Pushta Khara area in Peshawar, Pakistan
when a suicide bomber detonates his explosive laden car at a police
checkpoint |
| November 16 |
4 |
20 |
A suicide car bomber hits a police station in Peshawar |
| November 16 |
10 |
28 |
Taliban launch
rockets which hit a crowded market in the Tagab valley, north of
Kabul, Afghanistan. At least 10 Afghan civilians are killed and
28 are wounded in the incident. |
| November 19 |
19 |
51 |
A suicide bombing occurs outside of a court in Peshawar,
Pakistan |
| November 19 |
10 |
13 |
Uruzgan province, Afghanistan A man detonates his explosive device in a crowded
area, killing Afghan civilians |
| November 20 |
2 |
10 |
A blast goes off near a police station in the embattled city of
Peshawar |
| November 20 |
13 |
36 |
Farah, Afghanistan A suicide bomber on a motorcycle strikes at a
market in the city. |
| November 22 |
7 |
25 |
Assam, India Suspected ULFA militants triggered two blasts close
to a police station in Nalbari, Assam , killing at least seven
persons and injuring 25 others. |
| November 24 |
6 |
3 |
Khost
Province, Afghanistan A bomb is remotely detonated at a water station,
killing 6 Afghan civilians from the same family |
| November 26 |
0 |
3 |
Peshawar, Pakistan Remotely detonated roadside bomb injures two
policemen and a girl |
| November 27 |
39 |
90+ |
Bologoye , Russia A bomb detonated on a track and derailed a train of
the Nevsky Express, travelling from Moscow to St Petersburg,
killing 39 people and injuring up to another 90 more. No
group has claimed responsibility, though Chechen seperatists and
rebels in the North Caucasus are believed to be the most likely
perpetrators for this attack
|
Number of terrorist incidents (January
- June)
, Mindanao
. A bomb exploded outside a Roman Catholic cathedral, killing six and
injuring up to 45.
and
Iligan
, Mindanao
. A powerful bomb damages a recreation center
of the ruling Socialist Party in Northern Basque region of Spain.
No one was injured in the attack, claimed to ETA.
: 9 people are killed following the bombing
of the JW Marriott
Hotel and Ritz-Carlton.
: A car bomb
containing 200 kilogrames of explosives exploded in a 14-story
barracks of the Guardia Civil in the
northern city of Burgos
, Majorca
: A car bomb
exploded outside a Guardia Civil offices in Calvià
, Majorca
, killing 21 and injuring 30.
, Charsadda
.
but let it off at the entrance when he saw guards
pointing their weapons at him. Investigators stressed they
had found nothing so far to connect Game to a plan foiled last year
to bomb the barracks in southwest Milan.
, in the province of Sistan-Baluchistan, and dozens
more injured.
. Hours later, another suicide bomber strikes
the city of Peshawar, wounding 15 people.
Pakistani government official is assassinated in a
suicide bomb attack at his residence
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