This is a list of terrorist incidents in 2024, including attacks by Violent non-state actors for political motives. Note that terrorism related to drug wars and cartel violence is not included. Ongoing military conflicts are listed separately.
Total incidents: 19
Date | Type | Dead | Injured | Location | Article | Details | Perpetrator | Part of |
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2 January | Stabbing | 0 | 1 | Gadeokdo, South Korea | Attempted assassination of Lee Jae-myung | Democratic Party of Korea leader Lee Jae-myung was stabbed in the neck while visiting the construction site of an airport. The suspect was arrested on the scene. [1] [2] | Kim Jin-sung | 2024 South Korean legislative election |
3 January | Suicide bombings | 103 (+2) | 284 | Kerman, Iran | Kerman bombings | A double suicide bombing occurred on the fourth anniversary of Qasem Soleimani's assassination during a commemorative ceremony. [3] [4] | Islamic State – Khorasan Province [5] [6] | Assassination and terrorism in Iran |
15 January | Vehicular attack, stabbing | 1 | 17 | Ra'anana, Israel | 2024 Ra'anana attack | Two Palestinians rammed a car into pedestrians in the city of Ra'anana, after they exited the car they also stabbed one person. [7] [8] | Hamas | Terrorism in Israel |
28 January | Shooting | 1 | 1 | Istanbul, Turkey | 2024 Istanbul church shooting | Two men started shooting in the Church of Santa Maria during Sunday Mass. The Islamic State claimed responsibility. [9] [10] | Islamic State | Turkey–Islamic State conflict |
6 February | Bombings | 10 | 20+ | Mogadishu, Somalia | 2024 Mogadishu market bombing | Four blasts went off in different areas of the crowded Bakaara Market. [11] [12] | Al-Shabaab (suspected) | Somali Civil War |
Shooting | 1 (+2) | 6 | Istanbul, Turkey | 2024 Istanbul Palace of Justice shooting | Two suspects attacked a security checkpoint near the Istanbul Justice Palace before being killed in a shootout with police. [13] | Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front | DHKP/C insurgency in Turkey | |
7 February | Bombings | 28–30+ | 40+ | Pishin District and Qilla Saifullah District, Pakistan | 2024 Balochistan bombings | Two bombings occurred at separate political offices in Balochistan province a day before the 2024 Pakistani general election. [14] | Islamic State – Khorasan Province [15] | Insurgency in Balochistan |
9 February | Shooting | 25 | Unknown | Mucojo, Mozambique | 2024 Mucojo attack | Militants stormed a military position of the Mozambique Defence Armed Forces. [16] | Islamic State – Mozambique Province | Insurgency in Cabo Delgado |
16 February | Shooting | 2 (+1) | 4 | Kiryat Malakhi, Israel | 2024 Re'em Junction shooting | A Palestinian man shot at people waiting at a bus stop. The attacker was killed by a bystander. [17] [18] | Fadi Jamjoun | Israeli–Palestinian conflict |
29 February | Shooting | 2 (+3) | 0 | Eli, West Bank | 2024 Eli shooting | A Palestinian police officer shot at Israeli civilians at a gas station. The shooter and two other terrorists involved in the attack were killed. [19] [20] | Mohammad Manasrah | Israeli–Palestinian conflict |
14 March | Suicide car bombing, siege | 8 (+6) | 27 | Mogadishu, Somalia | 2024 Mogadishu SYL Hotel attack and siege | An al-Shabaab suicide bomber drove a car loaded with explosives to the front of the SYL Hotel. After the explosion militants sieged the hotel. After more than 13 hours, the siege was ended by security forces. [21] [22] [23] | Al-Shabaab | Somali Civil War |
21 March | Suicide Bombing | 21 (+1) | 50 | Kandahar, Afghanistan | 2024 Kandahar New Kabul Bank bombing | An Islamic State suicide bomber, identified by IS as Mu’awiyah al-Panjshiri, blew himself up at a New Kabul Bank in the PD-1 area of the city of Kandahar, Southern Afghanistan, as Taliban members were withdrawing their salaries, killing 21 people and wounding 50 others. [24] | Islamic State – Khorasan Province [25] | Islamic State–Taliban conflict |
Ambush | 23 (+30) | 17 | Tillabéri Region, Niger | 2024 Tillabéri attack | Over 100 Islamic State militants ambushed a convoy of Nigerien soldiers between Teguey and Bankilare. [26] [27] [28] | Islamic State – Sahil Province | Jihadist insurgency in Niger | |
22 March | Shooting, bombing, arson | 145 | 551 | Krasnogorsk, Russia | Crocus City Hall attack | A mass shooting and multiple explosions occurred at the Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast. A fire broke out during the attack. [29] [30] The Islamic State has claimed responsibility. | Islamic State – Khorasan Province [31] | Terrorism in Russia |
26 March | Suicide bombing | 6 (+1) | 0 | Shangla District, Pakistan | 2024 Shangla bombing | A suicide bombing occurred when an explosive laden vehicle rammed itself into a bus carrying Chinese nationals who were being taken to the Dasu Dam. All 6 people in the bus and the attacker were killed. [32] [33] | Unknown | Terrorism in Pakistan |
30 March | Car bombing | 8+ | 23+ | Azaz, Syria | 2024 Azaz bombing | A car bomb exploded at a crowded market. No group has claimed responsibility, but a militant from Ahrar al-Sham was arrested. [34] [35] [36] [37] [38] | Ahrar al-Sham (suspected) | Syrian civil war |
4 April | Suicide bombing | 2 (+1) | 8 | Sarmada, Idlib Governorate, Syria | High-ranking HTS official Abu Maria al-Qahtani was killed alongside another HTS member, and 8 others were wounded, after a suspected Islamic State suicide bomber blew himself up in a house, where Qathani and the other HTS members were breaking their fast after Iftar, in the town of Sarmada. [39] | Islamic State (suspected) [40] | Syrian civil war | |
12 April | Kidnapping, Execution | 9 | 0 | Shangla District, Pakistan | Nushki incident | Armed attackers intercepted a bus from Quetta to Taftan and abducted nine passengers, which were later found shot dead. [41] | Balochistan Liberation Army [42] | Insurgency in Balochistan |
19 April | Suicide attack | 1 (+2) | 3 | Karachi, Pakistan | A suicide bombing near Murtaza Chowrangi in Landhi targeted a van transporting five Japanese nationals, who survived the attack. Although, one security guard succumbed to his injuries, the suicide bomber responsible for the attack was killed, and his accomplice was shot dead. [43] | Baloch Republican Army [44] | Insurgency in Balochistan |
The Hargeisa–Bosaso bombings occurred on October 29, 2008, when six suicide bombers attacked in coordinated car bombings targets in Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland, and the Puntland port of Bosaso in northeastern Somalia. The bombings killed at least 30 people.
The 2011 Mogadishu bombing occurred on 4 October 2011, when a suicide bomber drove a truck into the gate of the Transitional Federal Government's ministerial complex in Mogadishu, Somalia. The resulting explosion killed 100 people and injured over 110 others. Al-Shabaab, an Islamist group, claimed responsibility for the attack. The attack is reported to be the largest since Al-Shabaab launched an insurgency in Somalia in early 2007. It also follows the withdrawal of Al-Shabaab's forces from the area in August after an AMISOM intervention to bring aid to the country during a season of drought.
On 12 November 2015, two suicide bombers detonated explosives in Bourj el-Barajneh, a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, that is inhabited mostly by Shia Muslims. Reports of the number of fatalities concluded that 43 people died directly from the detonation. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the attacks.
Operation Radd-ul-Fasaad is a codename of a combined military operation by the Pakistani military in support of local law enforcement agencies to disarm and eliminate the terrorist sleeper cells across all states of Pakistan, started on 22 February 2017. The operation is aimed to eliminate the threat of terrorism, and consolidating the gains of Operation Zarb-e-Azb which was launched in 2014 as a joint military offensive. It is further aimed at ensuring the security of Pakistan's borders. The operation is ongoing active participation from Pakistan Army, Pakistan Air Force, Pakistan Navy, Pakistan Police and other Warfare and Civil Armed Forces managed under the Government of Pakistan. More than 375,000 operations have been carried out against terrorists so far. This operation has been mostly acknowledged after Operation Zarb e Azb.
This is a 2016 timeline of events in the Somali Civil War (2009–present).
On 18 January 2020, a suicide car bombing killed four and injured at least 20 others in Afgooye, approximately 30 kilometres (19 mi) from the Somali capital, Mogadishu. Most of the casualties were police officers protecting Turkish contractors building a road. The al-Qaeda-linked extremist group al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack.
On 29 October 2022, 121 people were killed and over 300 were injured by a double car bombing in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu. President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud accused Sunni jihadist group al-Shabaab of carrying out the attacks, which they admitted. The bombing marks the deadliest attack in Somalia since the 14 October 2017 Mogadishu bombings at the same junction.
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