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Iran Hostage Crisis
After President Carter agreed to admit the Shah of Iran into the US, Iranian radicals seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and took 66 American diplomats hostage. Thirteen hostages were soon released, but the remaining 53 were held until their release on January 20, 1981. 1 Iranian civilian & 8 American servicemen were killed during an attempt to rescue the hostages. -
Air India bombing
A bomb destroyed an Air India Boeing 747 over the Atlantic, killing all 329 people aboard. Both Sikh and Kashmiri terrorists were blamed for the attack. Two cargo handlers were killed at Tokyo airport, Japan, when another Sikh bomb exploded in an Air Canada aircraft en route to India. -
Israeli Embassy bombing
The Israeli Embassy in Argentina's capital of Buenos Aires was the site of a car bomb. The attack killed 29 people and injured more than 250 others. Among the victims were Israeli diplomats, children, clergy from a church located across the street, and other passersby. For over two years, however, the investigation languished and virtually no action was taken, despite the fact that Islamic Jihad had claimed responsibility for the explosion. -
US Embassy bombings
In 1998, the U. S. Embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania were bombed. Truck bombs, carrying up to 17 tons of high explosives, were detonated within minutes of each other at the site of each embassy. 303 people were killed and 4,594 were injured. The attack was linked to an extremist group called The Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ). -
USS Cole bombing
On October 12, 2000, suicide bombers attacked the American warship, USS Cole. A small motorboat, laden with explosives, sped up to the anchored ship and exploded on the port side. The small boat contained 400-700 pounds of explosives that caused a 40×40-foot rupture in the Cole’s hull. The explosion occurred near the galley of the ship, where sailors were gathering to eat. 17 people were killed and 39 injured in the attack. AL Qaida claimed responsibility. -
Kenyan Mall Massacre
On September 21, 2013, unidentified gunmen attacked the upmarket Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya. The attack, which lasted until September 24, resulted in at least 67 deaths, including four attackers. More than 175 people were reportedly wounded in the mass shooting, with all of the gunmen reported killed. The Islamist group al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the incident, which it characterised as retribution for the Kenyan military's deployment in the group's home country of Somali -
Sydney hostage crisis
On 15 December 2014, a self-proclaimed Muslim sheikh, Man Haron Monis, took 17 people hostage inside a chocolate café in Sydney, Australia. He forced hostages to hold up a jihadist black flag against a window of the café. On the early hours of 16 December, police breached the café and fatally shot Monis following the escape of several hostages. Two hostages also died, while another four people, including a police officer, were injured in the incident. -
Charlie Hebdo shooting (Je suis Charlie)
On the morning of 7 January 2015 at about 11:30 local time, two brothers, Saïd and Chérif Kouachi, forced their way into the offices of the French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris. Armed with assault rifles and other weapons, they killed 11 people and injured 11 others in the building. After leaving, they killed a French National Police officer outside the building. The gunmen identified themselves as belonging to the Islamist terrorist group Al-Qaeda's branch in Yemen, who took
