04/08/2012: Twenty assailants attacked a Frontier Corps (FC) checkpost in Khapiyanga area, Lower Kurram province, Pakistan. Two soldiers and four assailants were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2012: Two assailants opened fire on a senior intelligence officer in Sainah area, Ta'izz governorate, Yemen. The officer, Colonel Ismail Bawli, was killed in the attack. Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) claimed responsibility for this incident.
04/08/2013: A gunman shot and killed Ghulam Mohammad Lone, a National Conference (NC) village sarpanch, in Kulpora village, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2013: A remote-controlled explosive device in a rickshaw was discovered and defused in Karachi city, Sindh province, Pakistan. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2013: A remote-controlled explosive device targeting security personnel was discovered and defused in Khangabok village, Manipur state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2013: A roadside explosive device detonated near an army vehicle in Shuhadaa neighborhood of Abu Ghraib city, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. Two soldiers were killed and eight other individuals were wounded. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2013: A rocket fired from an unknown location struck a graveyard in Peshawar city, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. The device failed to detonate on impact. This was one of four rockets that struck near the Pakistani Air Force base on this day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2013: A rocket fired from an unknown location struck a residential home in Peshawar city, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. There were no injuries reported in the attack; however, the home was damaged. This was one of four rockets that struck near the Pakistani Air Force base on this day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2013: A rocket fired from an unknown location struck near the home of Umar Gul, a famous cricket player, in Peshawar city, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. There were no injuries or damages reported in the attack. This was one of four rockets that struck near the Pakistani Air Force base on this day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2013: A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle near Sabaa Bahrat Square in which the Syrian Investment Agency, Syrian Finance Ministry, and Syrian Central Bank are situated in Damascus city, Damascus governorate, Syria. Sixteen people, including the assailant, were killed and 53 others were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/08/2013: An explosive device attached to a motorcycle detonated outside of a police station in Chaman area, Balochistan province, Pakistan. One police officer was wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2013: An explosive device attached to the bottom of a police officer's car detonated in Buinaksk town, Republic of Dagestan, Russia. The officer was injured in the explosion. There was no claim of responsibility for this attack
04/08/2013: An explosive device detonated at a boys college in Bandha Daud Shah town, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. Two explosions were heard in the attack, which caused damage to part of the school building. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2013: An explosive device detonated in the car of a prominent Somali cleric, Sheikh Bashir Ahmed Salaad, in Mogadishu city, Banaadir region, Somalia. Salaad was unharmed in the explosion as he was not in the car. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities attributed the attack to Al-Shabaab.
04/08/2013: An explosive device detonated near a police patrol vehicle in Talohta area, Narathiwat province, Thailand. No one was injured in the attack; however, the vehicle sustained slight damage. Although no group claimed responsibility for the incident, sources attributed the attack to separatists.
04/08/2013: An explosive device planted along a road detonated in Salar area, Wardak province, Afghanistan. The explosion struck a passenger bus, killing nine people and injuring another 22 individuals. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, officials attributed the attack to the Taliban.
04/08/2013: An explosive device targeting an armored personnel carrier detonated in Buynaksk district, Dagestan republic, Russia. One police officer was killed and two more were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2013: An explosive device was discovered near a bridge in Masho Khel area, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. The peace militia was the target of the attack. The device was defused before it could detonate. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2013: An explosive device was discovered under a road in Gaya district, Bihar state, India. The device detonated while a team of jawans were defusing it. Four people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2013: Approximately a dozen assailants opened fire on a military convoy in Timika city, Papua province, Indonesia. There were no reported casualties resulting from the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2013: Assailants abducted a doctor and two companions between Lahore and Multan cities in Punjab province, Pakistan. The outcome of the kidnapping is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2013: Assailants attacked a police station with firearms and explosive devices in Ingawa local government area, Katsina state, Nigeria. There were no reported injuries in the attack; however, the police station was damaged after it caught fire when a device detonated on its roof. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2013: Assailants attacked an Amman Lashkar compound in the Wadi-e-Terah area of Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. Two Amman Lashkar members were killed and three of the assailants were wounded in the ensuing firefight. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2013: Assailants attacked an oil pipeline in Serwah city, Marib governorate, Yemen. No injuries were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities attributed the attack to the Hassan Mabkhut Group.
04/08/2013: Assailants attacked police officers and civilians at a market in Damboa town, Borno state, Nigeria. One police officer was killed along with an unknown number of civilians. No group claimed responsibility for the attack; however, sources attributed the incident to Boko Haram.
04/08/2013: Assailants attacked Syrian forces in Qusayr area, Homs governorate, Syria. Two members of Hezbollah, who had been fighting alongside Syrian forces, died in the violence. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2013: Assailants attacked the residence of Nujmudeen Uma, the adviser to the Prime Minister, with grenades in Narathiwat province, Thailand. No injuries were reported; however, there was some property damage. This incident is the first of two attacks in two days on the residence. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2013: Assailants detonated an explosive device on a railroad track in Dalbandin district, Balochistan province, Pakistan. No injuries were reported; however, three feet of railway line were damaged. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2013: Assailants fired a rocket at the Pakistan Air Force's base in Peshawar city, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. No casualties were reported, but the house of a former senator, Nasir Khan, was damaged in the incident. This was one of four rockets that struck near the in the base area on this day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2013: Assailants opened fire on a military outpost in Dalisay village, Davao del Norte province, Philippines. A nearby civilian was killed in the attack; there were no other reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, officials attributed the attack to the New People's Army (NPA).
04/08/2013: Assailants opened fire on relatives of the mayor of Masbate in Cebu city, Cebu province, Philippines. At least one person was killed and another was wounded in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/08/2013: Assailants opened fire on the vehicle of the Deputy Superintendent of Police in Quetta city, Balochistan province, Pakistan. The target, Ameer Muhammad Dashti, and his guard were both killed in the attack. Jaish-e-Islam claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2013: Assailants threw a grenade at the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) office in Kharan district, Balochistan province, Pakistan. Four people were injured. The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2013: Assailants threw incendiary devices at the Dar al-Hukumah compound housing the foreign ministry in Manama city, Capital governorate, Bahrain. Security forces were able to repel the attackers without incurring damages. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2013: Eleven explosive devices were discovered and defused in Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2013: Four assailants attacked a police station in Abidjan city, Lagunes region, Ivory Coast. The building was damaged in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2013: Gunmen attacked an electricity tower in Al Damashqa area, Marib governorate, Yemen. No injuries were reported; however, the attack caused a blackout in the capital, Sanaa. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, officials attributed the attack to the Hassan Mabkhut Group.
04/08/2013: Gunmen attacked students who were protesting in eastern Caracas, Capital, Venezuela. Seven students were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2013: Two explosive devices hidden in a bag were discovered at a passenger shelter located at a college in Muang district, Yala province, Thailand. The devices were scheduled to detonate on April 7, 2013, but had failed to explode. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2014: A grenade was found and recovered near Chula-longkorn Hospital in Bangkok city, Bangkok province, Thailand. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2014: A grenade was thrown near a rally site on Chang Rongsri Bridge area, Bangkok city, Bangkok province, Thailand. Two State Enterprises Workers' Relations Confederation rally security guards were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2014: A remote-controlled explosive device planted in a bathroom on the Jaffar Express train detonated shortly after the train reached Sibi city, Balochistan province, Pakistan. At least 17 people were killed and 35 were wounded in the attack. The United Baloch Army (UBA) claimed responsibility for the incident, stating that it was in retaliation for an earlier military operation that had killed members of the group. The incident was also attributed to the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA).
04/08/2014: A roadside bomb detonated near a civilian vehicle in Gelan district, Ghazni province, Afghanistan. Two people were killed and nine were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, a political spokesperson attributed the attack to the Taliban.
04/08/2014: A roadside bomb detonated near African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) troops and sparked an exchange of gunfire in Ceel Buur area, Galguduud Region, Somalia. There were an unknown number of people killed and wounded as a result of the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources indicated that Al-Shabaab was behind the attack.
04/08/2014: A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle at a police station in Mishada city, Diyala governorate, Iraq. In addition to the bomber, at least four police officers were killed and another seven police officers were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2014: A suicide bomber detonated at an Iraqi Police Service (IPS) checkpoint in Tuz Khormato district, Saladin governorate, Iraq. In addition to the bomber, at least one police officer was killed and another 12 officers were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2014: An explosion occurred outside of the Radio Pakistan building in Hyderabad city, Sindh province, Pakistan. There were no reports of casualties in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2014: An explosive device detonated in Gajri area, Andar district, Ghazni province, Afghanistan. A child was killed and three others were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, an Afghan official suspected that the Taliban was behind the attack.
04/08/2014: An explosive device detonated in Guriceel town, Galguduud region, Somalia. The blast hit a civilian vehicle, killing the driver and wounding an unknown number of people. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected Al-Shabaab.
04/08/2014: An explosive device detonated in Kalat area, Balochistan province, Pakistan. There were no reported casualties in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2014: An explosive device detonated on a railroad track in Khursheed Colony area, Kotri town, Sindh province, Pakistan. No one was injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2014: An explosive device detonated on a railroad track in Sehrish Nagar area, Kotri town, Sindh province, Pakistan. No one was injured by the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2014: An explosive device detonated outside a shop in Zamzama neighborhood, Karachi city, Sindh province, Pakistan. The area had just appointed its first female Station House Officer (SHO). There were no reported casualties in the blast. The Sindhu Desh Liberation Army (SDLA) claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/08/2014: An explosive device detonated targeting a funeral procession for the director of the Tikrit police affairs in Albu-Jawari area, Saladin governorate, Iraq. The director had been killed earlier in the day in another attack. At least four people, including a police officer, were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2014: An explosive device detonated targeting a military patrol in Al-Kharar area, Nineveh governorate, Iraq. At least one soldier was killed and a military officer was injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2014: An explosive device detonated targeting a military patrol in Al-Nasr village, Kirkuk, Iraq. A military officer and two soldiers were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2014: An explosive device was discovered and defused near the home of a Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) seller in Jaggaiahpet town, Andhra Pradesh state, India. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2014: Assailants ambushed a Nigerian Army patrol in Borno state, Nigeria. Five soldiers and an unknown number of assailants were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2014: Assailants ambushed an Assam Rifles team in Kamjong area, Ukhrul district, Manipur state, India. One officer was wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2014: Assailants attacked a civilian in Kothi village, Madhya Pradesh state, India. The civilian was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to Maoists, who accused the civilian of being a police informer.
04/08/2014: Assailants attacked a military checkpoint in Burum village, Mukalla district, Hadramawt governorate, Yemen. At least four soldiers and one civilian were killed and two other people were wounded in the attack. Additionally, several soldiers were abducted and their whereabouts were unknown. This was one of two attacks carried out by the same assailants in Mukalla district on April 8, 2014. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities attributed the incident to Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
04/08/2014: Assailants attacked a military checkpoint in Ramadi city, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. At least two soldiers were killed and six soldiers were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2014: Assailants attacked Jibu village, Wukari local government area, Taraba state, Nigeria. Ten people were killed and 15 were injured in the attack. Twenty houses were also set on fire. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2014: Assailants attacked the home of a municipal council candidate in Benghazi city, Benghazi district, Libya. The candidate's wife was stabbed and her hair was shaved in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2014: Assailants attacked the positions of ex-Seleka rebels in Dekoa town, Kemo prefecture, Central African Republic. At least 37 people were killed and 10 injured in the attack, including many civilians. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed it to anti-Balaka assailants.
04/08/2014: Assailants fired mortars at Ceel Buur town, Galguduud region, Somalia. The outcome is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Al-Shabaab.
04/08/2014: Assailants kidnapped civilians in the town of Baraawe, Lower Shebelle Region, Somalia. This was one of two incidents in the town in a 48 hour period that involved the kidnapping of local civilians. Approximately 25 people were kidnapped across the two attacks. The whereabouts of the victims are unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the abductions to al-Shabaab and noted that the victims were rounded-up by the group for being "government spies."
04/08/2014: Assailants opened fire on a military patrol in Fnaidek village, North governorate, Lebanon. Two soldiers were killed and another was wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, one of the assailants was named as Ali Hussein Taleb.
04/08/2014: Assailants opened fire on a mining site in Misisi area, South Kivu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. They then moved on to attack three Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) positions in the area. Four assailants and four soldiers were killed and six soldiers wounded in the attack. The Mayi Mayi claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2014: Assailants opened fire on Colonel Zuhayd Mohammed in Al-Mazra'a village, Baiji district, Saladin governorate, Iraq. Mohammed, the director of the Tikrit police affairs, his brother, and his guard were killed in the attack. Assailants would also later detonate an explosive device targeting his funeral. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2014: Assailants opened fire on Hazrat Wali in Chaparhar district, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan. Wali, a Rural Affairs Department official, was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; an Afghan official attributed the attack to the Taliban.
04/08/2014: Assailants opened fire on the house of a Special Public Prosecutor in Akhtar Colony neighborhood, Jamshed Town, Karachi city, Sindh province, Pakistan. The target, Abdul Maroof Advocate, who was prosecuting a case in which a journalist had been murdered, was unharmed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2014: Assailants set up a roadblock and attacked a police vehicle between Cartagena del Chaira and El Paujil municipalities, Caqueta department, Colombia. At least two police officers and a prisoner were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, media sources attributed the incident to The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)'s Front 15 group.
04/08/2014: Assailants shot and killed a prominent peace builder in Beled Hawo village, Gedo region, Somalia. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2014: Assailants stormed a police station in Mukalla city, Mukalla district, Hadramawt governorate, Yemen. There were no reported casualties; however, the assailants seized a number of weapons. This was one of two attacks carried out by the same assailants in Mukalla district on April 8, 2014. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
04/08/2014: Assailants threw a cracker bomb at a law enforcement housing complex in Hyderabad city, Sindh province, Pakistan. No other information is available.
04/08/2014: Assailants threw a grenade at a car in a busy marketplace in Gulistan-e-Jauhar area, Karachi city, Sindh province, Pakistan. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2014: Assailants threw a hand grenade at a police mobile van near Indus Plaza in Sohrab Goth area, Karachi city, Sindh province, Pakistan. There were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2014: Assailants threw an explosive device into the Bufferzone market in Karachi city, Sindh province, Pakistan. The blast injured two people. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/08/2014: Assailants threw explosive devices at a Biju Janata Dal (BJD) campaign vehicle in Ambasaramunda village, Odisha state, India. Five party members were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2014: Authorities arrested someone planting an explosive device in Shahr-e-Safa district, Zabul province, Afghanistan. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2014: Gunmen opened fire on a vehicle carrying Ismail al-Wazir in Sanaa city, Amanat Al Asimah governorate, Yemen. At least two of Al-Wazir's bodyguards were killed and al-Wazir, the leader of the Shura council of the al-Haq party and a law professor at Sana'a University, was wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2014: Gunmen opened fire on Shire Dhalabow in Mandera city, Mandera county, Kenya. Dhalabow, a popular elder in the area, was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources suspected Al-Shabaab.
04/08/2014: Security forces found and defused 12 explosive devices at Ain Shams University in Nasr City neighborhood, Cairo city, Cairo governorate, Egypt. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2014: Security forces found and defused two explosive devices near a police station in Aurangabad district, Bihar state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2014: Security forces found and neutralized an explosive device in Dema village, Palamau district, Jharkhand state, India. It is believed that the device was intended to target security personnel. This was one of two devices found in Dema village on this date. Maoists claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2014: Security forces found and safely detonated an explosive device along a road in Signu town, Thoubal district, Manipur state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2014: Three assailants opened fire on villagers during a traditional dance event in Shadna village, Bosso district, Niger state, Nigeria. Two people were killed and three others were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2014: Three explosive devices detonated simultaneously near a police patrol along a highway in Cauca department, Colombia. Assailants then opened fire after the blast, but no one was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed it to the 8th Jose Gonzalo Franco Front of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
04/08/2014: Two assailants on a motorcycle opened fire on the vehicle of Doctor Qasim Abbas, a homeopathic physician and Shia Muslim, in Federal B Area, Gulberg Town, Karachi city, Sindh province, Pakistan. Abbas was killed and his driver was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources noted that it was sectarian in nature.
04/08/2014: Two assailants on a motorcycle threw a grenade at the residence of Umar Zaib, a leader of the Awami National Party (ANP), in Mehran Town, Karachi city, Sindh province, Pakistan. There were no reported casualties from the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2014: Two assailants opened fire on Shabir Ahmad, a police constable, in Lal Chowk area, Anantnag town, Anantnag district, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. Ahmad was critically injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, officials suspect that Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) was behind the attack.
04/08/2015: An assailant identified as an Afghan soldier opened fire on North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) soldiers from the United States at the compound of the provincial governor in Jalalabad city, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan. At least two people, one soldier from the United States and the assailant, were killed and eight others were injured in the ensuing clash. Hizb-I-Islami claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/08/2015: An assailant was shot and killed after stabbing and injuring two Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers in Qalqilya, West Bank. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to Palestinian extremists.
04/08/2015: An explosive device detonated at the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) office compound in Villarica village, North Cotabato province, Philippines. There were no reported casualties in the blast. Authorities also discovered and defused a second device at the scene following the initial explosion. This was one of two related attacks in Villarica on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/08/2015: An explosive device detonated near an Egyptian National Police (ENP) vehicle in Al-Masaeed neighborhood, Arish city, North Sinai governorate, Egypt. At least two officers were killed and three others were wounded in the blast. The Sinai Province of the Islamic State claimed responsibility and stated that the attack was carried out in retaliation for the military's indiscriminate targeting of innocent Muslims.
04/08/2015: An explosive device detonated near Huthis members in Az Zahir, Al Bayda governorate, Yemen. At least 15 Huthis were killed and an unknown number of others were injured in the incident. Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/08/2015: An explosive device detonated near Pakistan Armed Forces soldiers in Narai Baba, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. At least two soldiers were killed and a few others were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/08/2015: An explosive device detonated near the vehicle of Abdol Habib Sayedkhel in Surobi, Kabul city, Kabul province, Afghanistan. Sayedkhel, the Afghan Police chief of Kunar province, was not harmed; however, at least three guards were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/08/2015: An explosive device was discovered and defused in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/08/2015: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated near a Syrian Armed Forces (SAF) checkpoint outside of Nahr al-Bared village, Hamah governorate, Syria. At least ten people were killed and many others were injured in the blast. Ahrar al-Sham claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/08/2015: Assailants attacked Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) soldiers in Busesa, North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. At least two people, one soldier and one assailant, were killed and three soldiers were injured in the ensuing clash. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR).
04/08/2015: Assailants fired a projectile that detonated near a civilian residence in Sheikh Zuweid, North Sinai governorate, Egypt. At least nine people were killed in the attack. This was one of two projectile attacks on houses in Sheikh Zuweid on the same day. Additionally, at least six people were injured across the two incidents. The Sinai Province of the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attacks.
04/08/2015: Assailants fired a projectile that detonated near a civilian residence in Sheikh Zuweid, North Sinai governorate, Egypt. At least two people were killed in the attack. This was one of two projectile attacks on houses in Sheikh Zuweid on the same day. Additionally, at least six people were injured across the two incidents. The Sinai Province of the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attacks.
04/08/2015: Assailants fired explosive devices at a Military Forces of Colombia base in Hacari district, Norte de Santander department, Colombia. One device missed the base and instead landed on a civilian residence. At least eight civilians were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to the National Liberation Army of Colombia (ELN).
04/08/2015: Assailants fired projectiles that detonated near a marketplace in Fallujah city, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. At least six people were killed and 10 others were injured in the attack. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/08/2015: Assailants fired projectiles that detonated near civilian residences in Crater neighborhood, Aden city, Adan governorate, Yemen. This was one of two neighborhoods of Aden targeted with projectiles on the same day. At least 22 civilians were killed and over 70 others were wounded across both attacks. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attacks to Huthis.
04/08/2015: Assailants fired projectiles that detonated near civilian residences in Mualla neighborhood, Aden city, Adan governorate, Yemen. This was one of two neighborhoods of Aden targeted with projectiles on the same day. At least 22 civilians were killed and over 70 others were wounded across both attacks. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attacks to Huthis.
04/08/2015: Assailants kidnapped two people, Alhaji Salihu Barade and Alhaji Ango Garba, from a farm in an unknown location of Nigeria. Garba, the former Education Secretary in Sokoto state, was released some time between April 8, and April 10, 2015, while Barade, the brother of the governor of Sokoto, was released on April 10, 2015. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to Fulani militants.
04/08/2015: Assailants opened fire on a Huthis convoy in Lawdar, Abyan governorate, Yemen. At least eight Huthis were killed in the incident. Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) claimed responsibility for the attack. Sources also attributed the incident to supporters of Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.
04/08/2015: Assailants opened fire on a Saudi Arabia Police Force patrol in Riyadh province, Saudi Arabia. At least two police officers were killed in the assault. No group claimed responsibility; however, an assailant was arrested and claimed affiliation with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/08/2015: Assailants opened fire on Lolo Joe Alhassan in Emi Dojo village, Kogi state, Nigeria. Alhassan, the Kogi State Investment and Properties Limited general manager, and her companion were killed in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/08/2015: Assailants opened fire on residents in Eku village, Delta state, Nigeria. At least two people were killed and a National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member was abducted in the assault. The whereabouts of the hostage are unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/08/2015: Assailants opened fire on the vehicle of Shamroz Abbasi in North Nazimabad neighborhood, Karachi, Sindh province, Pakistan. Abbasi, a Pakistani Police sub-inspector, was killed and at least one other person was injured in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/08/2015: Assailants shot and killed a former Philippine Marine Corps (PMC) soldier in Villarica village, North Cotabato province, Philippines. This was one of two related attacks in Villarica on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/08/2015: Assailants threw a grenade at a compressed natural gas (CNG) station in Charsadda district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. There were no reported casualties in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/08/2015: Assailants threw a grenades at the private residence of Dr. Younas in Charsadda district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. Dr. Younas, a psychiatrist, was not harmed as there were no reported casualties in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/08/2015: Assailants threw incendiary devices at a private residence in Larne, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2015: At least three explosive devices were discovered and defused near Talli Mat, Balochistan province, Pakistan. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/08/2016: A roadside explosive device targeting an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) bulldozer detonated near the southern border with Gaza Strip, Israel. There were no reported casualties in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the explosion.
04/08/2016: An explosive device attached to a vehicle detonated in Nafaq al-Shurtah, Baghdad, Iraq. The owner of the vehicle, a Trade Ministry employee, was killed and one of his relatives was injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2016: An explosive device detonated at an electric company headquarters in Afgooye, Lower Shebelle, Somalia. No further information is available.
04/08/2016: An explosive device detonated in Abu Disheer, Baghdad, Iraq. At least at least one person was killed and five people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2016: An explosive device detonated in Bayya, Baghdad, Iraq. At least two people were killed and seven people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2016: An explosive device detonated in Ramadi, Al Anbar, Iraq. At least three civilians were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2016: An explosive device detonated in Tarmiyah, Saladin, Iraq. At least one person was killed and seven people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2016: An explosive device detonated near a mosque in Wajihiyah, Diyala, Iraq. Shaykh Farhan al-Dulaymi, the imam and preacher, and his son were killed and an unknown number of people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2016: An explosive device was discovered and defused at a mosque in Ghondi, Nangarhar, Afghanistan. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2016: Assailant attacked an African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) convoy in Ceel Buur, Galguduud, Somalia. At least six assailants were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Al-Shabaab.
04/08/2016: Assailants abducted 17 people from Rubat Pai, Herat, Afghanistan. The civilians were rescued shortly after the kidnapping. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the abduction to the Taliban.
04/08/2016: Assailants abducted a United Nations (UN) employee in Donetsk, Ukraine. The whereabouts of the hostage are unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2016: Assailants armed with grenade launchers and pistols attacked a military base in Bannang Sata, Yala, Thailand. A military captain was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2016: Assailants attacked a police checkpoint in Rabata area, near Abyak, Samangan, Afghanistan. Four people, including an assailant and three police officers, were killed and six others, including four assailants and two police officers, were injured in the ensuing clash. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2016: Assailants attacked an unknown number of police checkpoints in Farah Rud, Farah, Afghanistan. An assailant was killed and seven others, including a police officer and six assailants, were injured in the ensuing clash. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Taliban.
04/08/2016: Assailants attacked Joydeb Jana in Dubrajpur, West Bengal, India. Jana, a Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader, was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/08/2016: Assailants attacked the vehicle of Sultan Fahad Salic, a mayor and United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) gubernatorial candidate, in Cagayan de Oro, Misamis Oriental, Philippines. Salic and his driver were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2016: Assailants detonated an explosive device in Nar Haideran village, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2016: Assailants opened fire on police personnel in Hasna, North Sinai, Egypt. Four police officers and an assailant were killed in the attack. The Sinai Province of the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2016: Assailants opened fire on security officials guarding a helipad in Pamed, Chhattisgarh, India. One police officer was killed and another was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
04/08/2016: Assailants opened fire on Shia Muslims in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. Three Shia civilians were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Lashkar-e-Jhangvi.
04/08/2016: Assailants threw a grenade at a military convoy in Bijbehara, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Two civilians were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2016: Assailants threw Molotov cocktails at the office of a judge hearing a case of two Russian soldiers in Kiev, Ukraine. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2016: Security forces found and safely defused explosive devices in Kottilpadu, Tamil Nadu, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2016: Security forces identified and opened fire on a number of suicide bombers causing them to detonate prematurely in Madiyari, Maiduguri, Borno, Nigeria. This was one of two coordinated attacks targeting the area on the same day. At least five assailants were killed and three soldiers were injured across both assaults. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents; however, sources attributed the attacks to Boko Haram.
04/08/2016: Security forces identified and opened fire on a suicide bomber causing her to detonate prematurely in Jimini-Bolori, Maiduguri, Borno, Nigeria. This was one of two coordinated attacks targeting the area on the same day. At least five assailants were killed and three soldiers were injured across both assaults. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents; however, sources attributed the attacks to Boko Haram.
04/08/2017: A landmine detonated targeting a police patrol in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Two police officers were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2017: A suicide bomber detonated among a crowd of civilians in Blama Golime neighborhood, Kolofata, Extreme-North, Cameroon. In addition to the assailant, at least four people were killed and 23 other people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to Boko Haram.
04/08/2017: A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle targeting At Tanf Garrison near Rukban Refugee Camp in Palmyra district, Homs, Syria. Following the blast, additional assailants then attacked the garrison. At least nine people, including seven assailants, were killed and an unknown number of other people were injured in the incident. This was one of two coordinated attacks in Tanf on the same day. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/08/2017: A suicide bomber detonated near an Osoud al Sharqiya convoy responding to an earlier incident in Palmyra district, Homs, Syria. In addition to the assailant, at least two members were killed and an unknown number of other members were injured in the blast. This was one of two coordinated attacks in Tanf on the same day. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/08/2017: An explosive device detonated in Taji, Saladin, Iraq. At least one person was killed and four other people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/08/2017: An explosive device detonated near National Army of Colombia soldiers between Calamar and San Jose de Guaviare in El Retorno district, Guaviare, Colombia. At least one soldier was killed and three other soldiers were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) dissidents.
04/08/2017: An explosive device detonated near Philippine Army (PA) soldiers in Magong-ong neighborhood, San Rafael, Davao Oriental, Philippines. There were no reported casualties in the blast. No group claimed responsibility; however, three people were arrested in connection with the attack.
04/08/2017: An explosive device detonated targeting Henrique Capriles at the Justice First Party headquarters in Caracas, Venezuela. Capriles, a Justice First Party leader, was not harmed as there were no reported casualties in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/08/2017: An explosive device detonated targeting North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and Afghan military personnel in Shadal Bazaar, Nangarhar, Afghanistan. A US soldier, identified as Staff Sergeant Mark R. De Alencar, was killed in the blast. The Khorasan Chapter of the Islamic State and the Taliban each claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/08/2017: An explosive device detonated targeting police officers in Chimtal, Balkh, Afghanistan. Nine police officers were killed and four officers were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Taliban.
04/08/2017: An explosive device was discovered and defused along Imphal-Ukhrul Road near Ukhrul, Manipur, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/08/2017: An explosive device was discovered and defused near a metro station in Gronland neighborhood, Oslo, Norway. No group claimed responsibility; however, authorities arrested a 17-year old Russian asylum-seeker, identified as a jihadi-Inspired extremist, in connection with the incident.
04/08/2017: An explosive device was discovered and defused near an Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand (EGAT) power pole in Kayomati subdistrict, Narathiwat, Thailand. This was one of two bombs discovered near power poles in Kayomati on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/08/2017: An explosives-laden vehicle was discovered and defused in Chaman, Balochistan, Pakistan. The device was constructed in Kandahar city, Afghanistan, and was planned to be used in a suicide attack in Quetta. No group claimed responsibility; however, at least two assailants were arrested and confessed to preparing the vehicle with explosives.
04/08/2017: Assailants abducted Gertrude Tumusiime Uwitware in Kira Town neighborhood, Kampala, Uganda. Uwitware, an NTV journalist, was released later the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/08/2017: Assailants attacked a Congress for Justice in the Azawad (CJA) camp in Gargando, Timbuktu, Mali. At least five people, including four CJA fighters and a village chief, were killed and 10 CJA fighters were injured in the incident. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM).
04/08/2017: Assailants attacked a liquor manufacturing facility and set fire to equipment in Raghubari, Odisha, India. At least four employees were assaulted and injured in the incident. Maoists claimed responsibility for the attack and demanded the closure of liquor stores.
04/08/2017: Assailants attacked a police checkpost in Alqani, Darzab, Jawzjan, Afghanistan. This was one of four related attacks on security checkposts in Darzab on this day. At least two police officers and four assailants were killed and two assailants were injured across the attacks. Additionally, four police officers were abducted across the attacks; their whereabouts are unknown. Both the Taliban and the Khorasan Chapter of the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2017: Assailants attacked a security checkpost in Darzab, Jawzjan, Afghanistan. This was one of four related attacks on security checkposts in Darzab on this day. At least two police officers and four assailants were killed and two assailants were injured across the attacks. Additionally, four police officers were abducted across the attacks; their whereabouts are unknown. Both the Taliban and the Khorasan Chapter of the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2017: Assailants attacked a security checkpost in Sar Darrah, Darzab, Jawzjan, Afghanistan. This was one of four related attacks on security checkposts in Darzab on this day. At least two police officers and four assailants were killed and two assailants were injured across the attacks. Additionally, four police officers were abducted across the attacks; their whereabouts are unknown. Both the Taliban and the Khorasan Chapter of the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2017: Assailants attacked an Afghan Local Police (ALP) checkpost in Moghol, Darzab, Jawzjan, Afghanistan. This was one of four related attacks on security checkposts in Darzab on this day. At least two police officers and four assailants were killed and two assailants were injured across the attacks. Additionally, four police officers were abducted across the attacks; their whereabouts are unknown. Both the Taliban and the Khorasan Chapter of the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2017: Assailants executed fleeing civilians in Mashahidah neighborhood, Mosul, Iraq. This was one of two similar attacks in different Mosul neighborhoods on the same day. More than 50 people were killed across both incidents. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attacks to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/08/2017: Assailants executed fleeing civilians in Ras al-Jaddah neighborhood, Mosul, Iraq. This was one of two similar attacks in different Mosul neighborhoods on the same day. More than 50 people were killed across both incidents. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attacks to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/08/2017: Assailants opened fire on a Russian Police patrol along Promyshlennaya Street in Malgobek, Ingushetia, Russia. At least two officers were killed in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/08/2017: Assailants opened fire on a Somali National Army (SNA) base in Kuday, Lower Juba, Somalia. At least two assailants were killed and several other assailants were injured when African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) soldiers intervened. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to Al-Shabaab.
04/08/2017: Assailants opened fire on an Indian Police Service (IPS) patrol near Magray Mohalla in Achabal, Jammu and Kashmir, India. There were no reported casualties in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/08/2017: Assailants opened fire on an Iraqi Volunteer Forces checkpoint in Sharwain, Diyala, Iraq. There were no reported casualties in the attack. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2017: Assailants opened fire on Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) officers near a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) political rally in Achabal, Jammu and Kashmir, India. There were no reported casualties in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/08/2017: Assailants opened fire on Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) officers escorting Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) members in Lahore, Pakistan. At least 10 assailants were killed in the ensuing clash. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to the Jamaat-ul-Ahrar faction of the TTP.
04/08/2017: Assailants opened fire on motorists near Kayamla, Borno, Nigeria. At least eight people were killed and an unknown number of other people were injured in the assault. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to Boko Haram.
04/08/2017: Assailants opened fire on residents in Rogoli, South Darfur, Sudan. At least three people were injured in the assault. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to the Janjaweed.
04/08/2017: Assailants opened fire on the son of a sarpanch in Kholvad, Gujarat, India. The victim was not injured as there were no reported casualties in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/08/2017: Assailants opened fire on Traffic Police officers in Tuban district, East Java, Indonesia. At least six assailants were killed in the ensuing clash. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to Jamaah Ansharut Daulah.
04/08/2017: Assailants threw two incendiary devices at the Bien Hoa City Police Department warehouse in Bien Hoa, Dong Nai, Vietnam. There were no reported casualties but the warehouse was set on fire in the attack. The Provisional National Government of Vietnam claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2017: Security forces intercepted and killed a suicide bomber targeting a military checkpoint in Tawahi neighborhood, Aden, Adan, Yemen. The assailant was the only reported casualty. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/08/2017: Two suicide bombers were identified and killed before they could detonate in Maqali, Baghdad, Iraq. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/08/2017: Two young female suicide bombers were intercepted causing one of them to detonate as they attempted to enter a mosque in Juddumuri neighborhood, Maiduguri, Borno, Nigeria. Both assailants were killed and five other people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/09/1998:  Wine was sent in a basket to Roman Catholic Church officials in Bogota, Colombia.
04/09/1998:  Wine was sent in a basket to Roman Catholic Church officials in Curamel, Colombia.
04/09/1998:  Wine was sent in a basket to Roman Catholic Church officials in San Martin, Colombia.
04/09/1998:  Wine was sent in a basket to Roman Catholic Church officials in Soacha, Colombia.
04/09/1998:  Wine was sent in a basket to Roman Catholic Church officials in Villavicencio, Colombia.
04/09/1998: In one of two linked incidents, suspected members of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) attacked Kicwanga village, Uganda, killing 6 people, wounding 5, and kidnapping 15. The fate of the kidnapped was unknown.
04/09/1998: In one of two linked incidents, suspected members of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) attacked Kyabarungira village, Uganda killing 7 people, wounding 4, and kidnapping 15 people. The fate of the kidnapped was unknown.
04/09/1999: Four bombs partially destroyed the central offices and three branches of Confiar Financial Cooperative in Medellin, Colombia. The perpetrators of this incident were unknown.
04/09/1999: In the Yenimahalle District of Turkey, unknown persons fired shots at the minibus of Democratic Left Party s (DSP) candidate for mayor, Leman Canbol. Three people were slightly injured by broken glass.
04/09/1999: President Ibrahim Bare Mainassara of Niger was assassinated at the Niamey Military Airport, while he was headed toward his helicopter. Mainassara was possibly killed because he was refusing demands for his resignation. The perpetrators of this incident were unknown.
04/09/1999: The Orange Volunteers (OV) claimed responsibility for an attack on the Barley Corn Bar in Nutts Corner, Northern Ireland. One person was injured and minor damage was caused to the building, which was targeted with an explosive device.
04/09/1999: Two Swiss, one Israeli and one British citizen were kidnapped in the Cauca Department of Colombia by National Liberation Army (NLA) rebels. The British hostage escaped on 05/08/1999 and the other hostages were released on 05/15/1999.
04/09/2000: A passenger bus was ambushed on a road about 8km from Tungawan, Philippines. One person was killed and seven wounded in the attack by armed gunmen as the bus passed by. Members of the Moro National Liberation Front (MILF) were suspected.
04/09/2000: Four people were wounded by a bomb at a movie theater in Ipil, Philippines. The device was thrown by unidentified suspects who sat in the back of the theater. The device was described by police as a homemade bomb. It was suspected as a retaliation by the Moro National Liberation Front (MILF) for the killing of an alleged member, but nothing was confirmed.
04/09/2001: Authorities defused a pipe bomb found under the stairs of the humanitarian Red Crescent Organization Directorate General's office in Ankara, Turkey.  No one was injured and no damage was done.  No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2001: Chechen militants attacked a Russian convoy at a forest belt, near the settlement of Zakan-Yurt, in the Urus-Martanovskiy District. According to the Chechens, the attack claimed the lives of at least 14 Russian soldiers.
04/09/2001: National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) militants ambushed Angolan troops in Samba Caju, Angola, killing 120 soldiers and seizing military armor and equipment.
04/09/2003: A bomb attack on a school left at least 20 Palestinian teenagers injured in the West Bank village of Jaba’a, Israel. The Jewish militant group, Avengers of the Infants, claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2003: An Indian Home Guard member, Mohammad Afzal Bhat, was kidnapped by suspected unknown militants from his home in the middle of the night and then killed. The next day, the body of Bhat was found with his throat slit near a mosque in Kanthpora Sogam, Kupwara district, India.
04/09/2003: Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels attacked an army detachment and burned 21 homes in Inog-og village, Philippines. Four militants were killed in the fight, but there were no government or civilian casualties.
04/09/2003: Suspected Liberians United for the Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD) rebels attacked the Jartondo and ‘Water in the Desert’ camp in Brewerville, Liberia. Several people (unspecified) were reported as killed in the attack.
04/09/2004: In the first of two related incidents, a time-bomb, which had been planted in a trash bin across from the house of Col. Sunthorn Chalermkiart, exploded. No one was hurt during the explosion and no group claimed responsibility for the attack. The blast did cause property damage to surrounding buildings.
04/09/2004: In the second of two related incidents, a grenade, which had been tied to the gate of a housing complex in Takbai District, Thailand, exploded. This complex was the residence of about 100 police officers and their families. No one was hurt during the explosion and no group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/09/2004: On a highway west of Baghdad, Iraq, a convoy on U.S. contractors was ambushed by Mujahidin Group members, who fired on the trucks with automatic weapons and grenade launchers. Seven people were killed while Thomas Hamill and Spc. Keith M. Maupin, were taken hostage. The insurgents demanded that the US remove their soldiers from the area or they would mutilate and behead the hostages. Hamill was in captivity for about three weeks when he managed to escape on May 2, 2004. Maupin was shot in the back of the head by his masked captors on Arabic television on June 29, 2004. In 2009 an unnamed al Qaida leader reportedly confessed to killing Maupin.
04/09/2004: Three Japanese citizens, who were traveling from Baghdad to Amman by taxi, were stopped by members of the Mujahedeen Brigades in the town of Sadalbur, Iraq, just north of Fallujah. The perpetrators detained the Japanese individuals for an hour, then made them get into a van and took them hostage. The kidnappers videotaped the three hostages and threatened them with knives and guns along, threatening to burn them alive unless the Japanese government removed their troops from Iraq. The hostages were released unharmed a week later on April 16, 2004, after the Committee of Muslim Scholars finalized the negotiations.
04/09/2005: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated near a vehicle in Mosul, Iraq. It was suspected that the blast was aimed at a nearby Iraqi police patrol; however, at least two civilians were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/09/2005: An unknown perpetrator has wounded a woman in an armed attack on a bus traveling from Sunauli to Butwal, Nepal; the incident occurred when the bus came under gunfire by insurgents. No other injuries or casualties have been reported.
04/09/2005: Hamas has claimed responsibility for attacks against Israel along the Gaza Strip; in this attack, at least twenty-three mortars were fired at Jewish settlements, taking place in the Qatif bloc. These attacks were in retaliation for IDF troops (Israeli Defense Forces) killing three Palestinian teenagers in Rafah, Gaza. No casualties or injuries resulted from the attack, yet it caused damage to three houses in the settlements.
04/09/2005: Maoist rebels have injured two Russian tourists in a bombing attack. The tourists were with an Asian Trekking Organization and were driving towards Mount Everest base camp in the Sindhupalchok district of Nepal, which is 80km east of Kathmandu. The driver of the car was injured as well. The Communist Party of Nepal-Maoists has been implicated, since they have called for a nationwide transportation blockade, which started on April 2nd, in an attempt to disrupt the economy.
04/09/2005: One person was killed and 10 others injured in a suicide car bomb attack that targeted an Iraqi police patrol in Mosul, Iraq. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/09/2005: Sheik Fadil al-Shawki, an assistant to Moqtada Al-Sadr, was killed in Karbala, Iraq. Two of al-Shawki's companions were injured in the attack as well. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/09/2005: Suspected insurgents shot and killed police sergeant, Suwit Khangpran, during a shooting attack on the Muang district police station in Yala province. The sergeant was shot in the neck as insurgents ambushed the station; no other injuries or casualties have been reported.
04/09/2005: The Omar bin Khattab group claimed responsibility for the armed kidnapping of the deputy charge d’affaires at the Pakistani embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, Malik Mohammed Javed. Javed was kidnapped after leaving his Baghdad residence for evening prayers. The previously unknown group released a video which featured Javed pleading the Pakistani government for aid of his release. There is uncertainty concerning a ransom, yet the deputy was released on April 24, 2005.
04/09/2005: Three people were killed and several others injured when a mine exploded under their bus in Gaur, Nepal. It was not certain who was responsible for the attack, though authorities suspected Maoist insurgents had planted the device.
04/09/2005: Unidentified perpetrators attacked a truck carrying Iraqi National Guard soldiers in Al-Latifiya, Iraq killing 15 of them. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/09/2005: Unknown assailants shot and killed the chairman of the Birendranagar municipality committee of Surkhet, Nepal in an armed attack.
04/09/2005: Unknown gunmen ambushed a fourteen-truck ministry convoy as they drove from Kut, 170km south of the capital, to Baghdad, Iraq; four drivers were killed and four others were wounded. This particular route has become a popular target for insurgents.
04/09/2005: Unknown perpetrators placed a bomb near a temple in Latikoili, Surket, Nepal; as a result a ten-year old boy died when the bomb exploded. No other casualties or injuries occurred.
04/09/2006: A barber was kidnapped in Basra, Iraq, and his body was found four days later. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/09/2006: A bomb exploded inside a minibus near the Mustansiriyah University in Baghdad, Iraq, killing three civilians and wounding seven others. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/09/2006: A group of anti-government guerrillas shot dead three activists of Democratic Liberation Front of Terai, a political party. Five others were injured in the process. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/09/2006: A Qassam rocket landed in an Israeli community in the Negev's Eshkol region. No one was hurt and no damage was caused.  No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/09/2006: About 20-25 cadres of the Communist Party of India (CPI-Maoist) forces blew up a railway station and portions of a railway track on the Gaya-Dhanbad section of Mughalsarai division in the Gaya (District) of Bihar, India, at 2:15 a.m. by storming the Bansi Nala halt station and detonating dynamites to raze the room structure down, and then kidnapped four railway staff members.
04/09/2006: About 40 Taliban militants, some wearing Afghan army uniforms, attacked a government building in Waygal (District) in the remote eastern province of Nuristan, Afghanistan, late in the evening, and three of the group's fighters were wounded while the others escaped, and no Afghan forces were hurt.
04/09/2006: An Islamic cemetery under construction in West Vienna, Austria was hit by arson when unidentified perpetrators scrawled "will be blown up" on the wall of a prayer room. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/09/2006: Eleaza Tabalan, one of the coordinators of the not-yet-established leftwing Encuentro Por Guatemala party, was shot dead by a professional assassin in Guatemala. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/09/2006: Four men sneaked into a wedding celebration in a garden of a home in Azamiyah in north Baghdad, Iraq, and opened fire, killing one of the Shi'a guests. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/09/2006: Rockets fired from an unknown location fell on areas in Basra, Iraq, killing or wounding a number of citizens. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/09/2006: The village leader of Al-Qurna, Iraq, 43 miles north of Basra, and his wife were shot dead when they were in their car waiting at a gas station. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/09/2006: Unidentified assailants attacked a government health clinic in Badghis, Afghanistan, shooting and killing four doctors of an NGO and one driver, and then set the building on fire. The Taliban later claimed responsibility for the attack in a phone call.
04/09/2006: Unknown people attacked the convoy of an aid organization in Arghandab (District) of Kandahar (Province) Province, Afghanistan, wounding one of the workers.  No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/09/2007: A barber shop in Darra Adam Khel, Pakistan, was damaged by a bomb placed by suspected Taliban militants.  The owner of the shop had been warned not to shave men’s beards because it was “un-Islamic.”  The Taliban did not claim responsibility for the attack.
04/09/2007: A bomb exploded in a telephone booth outside a shopping center in Bangkok, Thailand just before New Year’s celebrations.  The blast caused no casualties, but it damaged phone booths. No one claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/09/2007: Four security personnel were killed and two others were injured by a remote-controlled bomb blas in the Marri tribal area of Pakistan’s Baluchistan Province.  The Baluchistan Liberation Army (BLA) claimed responsibility for the attack and said that it was in retaliation for the killing of innocent people by the security forces.
04/09/2007: In Tame, Colombia, 13 farmers were killed by armed assailants wielding unspecified firearms.  No group claimed responsibility but the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) is believed to be responsible.
04/09/2007: One person was killed and 34 were hurt when a bomb exploded in front of police headquarters in Cali, a city in Colombia’s Valle de Cauca Department.  No one claimed responsibility for the attack, but police believed the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) may have been responsible.
04/09/2007: Suspected Taliban militants attacked a police checkpoint in the Lab-e Khorma area of Afghanistan’s Kandahar Province, but Afghan police sustained no casualties in the clash.  The Taliban did not immediately claim responsibility for the attack.
04/09/2007: The central office of the political Afghan Liberal Party was set on fire by unknown perpetrators in Kabul, Afghanistan.  There were no casualties, and there were no reports regarding the extent of damage caused by the fire.  No one claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/09/2007: Three Muslim students were killed and seven more were injured when gunmen opened fire on their vehicle in Thailand’s Yala Province.  No one claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/09/2007: Twenty people were killed and 18 were injured when a car blew up in Senthur village in India’s Tamil Nadu State.  Approximately 40 homes were also damaged by the blast.  Authorities did not immediately confirm that the explosion was a car bomb, but they did believe the car contained an explosive substance.  No one claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2008: On Wednesday afternoon, at about 1500, at Nahal 'Oz Crossing, near Nahal 'Oz, Southern District, Israel, three to five armed assailants fired upon a group of civilian workers, killing two civilians and wounding two others.  Simultaneously, several mortars were fired at the area, damaging several buildings and cars, but causing no injuries.  No group claimed responsibility, but it was believed that Al-Quds Brigades, Al-Nasser Salah al-Din Brigades, and Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade were jointly responsible.
04/09/2008: On Wednesday evening, between Amian and Ismawa, in eastern Ninawa, Iraq,  armed assailants kidnapped a Patriotic Union of Kurdistan member.  On 04/10/2008, the assailants fired upon and killed the hostage and causing no reported damage. There was no motive reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/09/2008: On Wednesday morning, in Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, a missile was fired at the area and landed on a number of houses in section 26, killing five people and wounding 22 others. The attack damaged several houses and properties, but no motive was reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/09/2008: On Wednesday night, a Bahranian police patrol was attacked with stones and Molotov cocktails by unknown attackers in the village of Karzakan south of Manama, Al Manamah. The attack resulted in the death of one police officer and the injury of two more. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
04/09/2008: On Wednesday, a coordinated suicide VBIED bombing attack was carried out near a police check point in Mosul, Nineveh province, Iraq, which detonated as bystanders came to the aid of injured police officers who were targeted in a suicide VBIED bombing attack that detonated just prior to the second attack. The second attack killed one civilian and wounded 25 others. A police truck has been destroyed and two nearby buildings caught fire as a result of the bombing attack. No  claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
04/09/2008: On Wednesday, around 2130, in Tuz Khurmato, Salah ad Din, Iraq, armed assailants fired upon the vehicle of the Interior Ministry's representative in the Directorate of Police, killing the police official and a relative traveling with him and damaging his vehicle. There was no motive reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/09/2008: On Wednesday, in Block-18, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, five unidentified armed men broke into a flat C-423, and beat the four students who lived there. They then proceeded to steal cell phones and cash from the students and set their pillows and beds on fire. No group claimed responsibility.
04/09/2008: On Wednesday, in Tuz, Salah ad Din, Iraq, an improvised explosive device detonated near a high school, causing no casualties or no reported damage. There was no motive reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/09/2008: On Wednesday, the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants shot and killed Raba Subba, a village head at Peta village near a forest in Malkangiri district, Orissa province, India. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
04/09/2008: On Wednesday, two mortar shells apparently fired by suspected Shiite extremists against U.S. security forces fell short and instead struck a funeral tent full of mourners and a house, killing seven people including three children, and wounding 27 in Baghdad's Sadr City, Baghdad province, Iraq. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
04/09/2009: On Thursday afternoon around 1700, assailants ambushed a joint patrol of Congolese national police and United Nations Mission in the Congo peacekeepers in the village of Buniangula near Kiwanja, Nord-Kivu, Congo (Kinshasa), causing no casualties.  No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda were responsible.
04/09/2009: On Thursday afternoon at approximately 1500, in Piraeus, Attiki, Greece, an incendiary device exploded outside the Aghia Triada church, causing minor damage to the church but no casualties. The Athens Metropolitan Cathedral was also targeted by an identical bomb. Nihilist Faction claimed responsibility.
04/09/2009: On Thursday afternoon in Imaghninene, Boumerdes, Algeria, assailants detonated an improvised explosive device at a voting center, wounding one police officer. No group claimed responsibility, although it was believed al-Qaida Organization in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) was responsible.
04/09/2009: On Thursday evening at approximately 2130in the Brookfield Place area of Ardoyne, Northern Ireland, assailants fired upon civilians who were sitting in a parked vehicle, wounding two civilians.No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed republican dissidents were responsible.
04/09/2009: On Thursday in Naceria, Boumerdes, Algeria, two police officers who were watching over a poll station were injured in a bomb blast. The poll was for the presidential election. No group claimed responsibility.
04/09/2009: On Thursday morning at approximately 0920, in the Al Amin district of northern Ba'qubah, Diyala, Iraq, assailants detonated a magnetic improvised explosive device attached to a civilian car, killing one civilian, wounding three others, and damaging the car.  No group claimed responsibility.
04/09/2009: On Thursday morning at approximately 1100, in the Rashid district of Baghdad, Iraq, assailants detonated a magnetic improvised explosive device attached to a civilian vehicle in the southwestern Saidiya neighborhood, wounding eight civilians and damaging the vehicle.  No group claimed responsibility.
04/09/2009: On Thursday night, in Bishrampur, Palamu, Jharkhand, India, about twelve armed assailants detonated explosives in Belhra High School, damaging the school but causing no casualties. The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) claimed responsibility.
04/09/2009: On Thursday night,in Hub, Balochistan, Pakistan, in Sherat Chowk, assailants detonated an improvised explosive device near a mosque, Jamay Masjid, located on Seerat Chowk, injuring eight civilians, and causing damage to several nearby residences and shops. No group claimed responsibility.
04/09/2009: On Thursday, a suicide bomber targeted a police drug eradication unit convoy and detonated his vest in Kart-i-Lagan, Lashkar Gah, Helmand, Afghanistan, killing six police officers, four civilians, injuring 10 others, seven police officers, and damaging at least four vehicles and several nearby shops. The Taliban was responsible.
04/09/2009: On Thursday, in Majholi village, Palamau, India, one civilian and four Security Force (SF) Personnel were injured when a bomb exploded as it was being defused. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/09/2009: On Thursday, in the Apurimac-Ene River Valley in Ayacucho Department, Peru, assailants attacked carried out two separate attacks on military patrols with dynamite and grenades, killing thirteen soldiers, the first attack killed one and wounded three soldiers. Shining Path Rebels were responsible for the attack.
04/09/2009: On Thursday, in the Apurimac-Ene River Valley in Ayacucho Department, Peru, assailants attacked carried out two separate attacks on military patrols with dynamite and grenades, killing thirteen soldiers, wounding two and leaving one soldier missing. Shining Path Rebels were responsible for the attack.
04/09/2009: On Thursday, suspected Taliban militants opened fire on the convoy of the Kurram Agency political agent (PA) in the Tull area of Hangu, North West Frontier, Pakistan. The PA and six security guards were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility.
04/09/2010: On Friday afternoon at 1400, in the Fizi territory of South Kivu, Congo (Kinshasa), Mai-Mai militia abducted eight Red Cross workers, seven Congolese and one Swiss national; no casualties were reported. The Mai-Mai Yakutumba militia claimed responsibility for the attack. A militia leader said they were abducted because they were thought to be transporting enemy forces. The hostages were released on 04/16/2010.
04/09/2010: On Friday afternoon, at Rasua village in West Midnapore District, West Bengal, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI - Maoist) cadres kidnapped two supporters of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxists. The victims were identified as Kaushik Dutta (35) and Paban Mahato (38), members of the Trinamool Congress. Dutta, an employee of the Manikpara Electric Office, and Mahato went missing when they went to distribute electric bills to households in Rasua village. On 04/10/2010, the bodies of Dutta and Mahato were discovered in the Bandhghora area of Jhargram sub-division in the District bearing stab wounds and bullet injuries. The Maoists fired 11 rounds at them from close range before cutting of the victims’ fingers and limbs. Police have recovered Maoist posters from the spot, which claimed Dutta and Mahato were police informers. The CPI (Maoist) claimed responsibility.
04/09/2010: On Friday evening at 1930, in the Miranda district of Cauca, Colombia, three suspected armed assailant fired upon Arnulfo Mostacilla Carabali, an ex-mayor of Miranda, in the district's central park. Mostacilla Carbali sustained wounds on his left arm, back, and chest. No group has claimed responsibility, however, authorities attribute the attack to the members of the Sixth Front of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)
04/09/2010: On Friday morning at 0630, in Imphal East District, Manipur, India, an 18 year old girl, Thangkhoi Haokip, was injured when unidentified militants hurled one hand grenade inside the residential complex of former Deputy Speaker of Manipur Legislative Assembly, T.T. Haokip. Thangkhoi Haokip is the daughter of T.T. Haokip. No damages were reported and no group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/09/2010: On Friday night at 0117, in Makhachkala, Dagestan, Russia, unidentified militants detonated an improvised explosive device next to an electrical transmission tower by house No. 84 on Batyrmurzayeva Street. A civilian was wounded and a nearby residence was also damaged in the attack. No group claimed responsibility.
04/09/2010: On Friday, in Kirkuk, At Ta'mim, Iraq, assailants injured one civilian in a rocket attack. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/09/2010: On Friday, in Mosul, Ninawa, Iraq, assailants fired upon and killed two off-duty policemen with unknown firearms. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/09/2010: On Friday, in Nazran, Ingushetia, Russia, a female suicide bomber attempted to shoot the Nazran police chief, but missed and wounded another police officer who later died in the hospital. Police officers returned fire and hit her, she then fell to the ground and her suicide belt detonated. It is unknown if the attack caused any property damage. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/09/2010: On Friday, near Port Harcourt, Rivers, Nigeria, unknown assailants dressed in military attire with unknown firearms kidnapped four oil workers, three Syrian nationals and one Lebanese national. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack. The status of the hostages is unknown.
04/09/2011: On Saturday evening at 1910, in Matibay village in Lamitan, Basilan, Philippines, unidentified assailants detonated a bomb made from ammonium nitrate, at a lodging house. The small wood and concrete building was destroyed, but there were no casualties inflicted. Two men checked in then left before the blast at the lodging house carrying a green plastic bad containing an unknown object. One of the two suspects was described to be between 18 to 21 years old, and the men could be members of the Yakan tribe as they had a Yakan accent. The owner had allegedly resisted an extortion attempt by an armed group before the attack. No group claimed responsibility, but Abu Sayyaf militants are suspected.
04/09/2011: On Saturday morning around 1150, in the neighborhood of Unguwar Doki in Maiduguri, Borno, Nigeria, three people were killed, including one policewoman, and nine people were injured when unidentified militants detonated an improvised explosive device at a voting station. This attack was one of three linked attacks in Maiduguri. No material damage was reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/09/2011: On Saturday morning, in the Ngarnam ward of Jere, Borno, Nigeria, unidentified armed militants fired upon and killed the All Nigeria Peoples Party chairman of the Jere local government of Borno State, Alhaji Fannami Ngarnam, and his son at Mr. Ngarnam's residence. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/09/2011: On Saturday night around 0050, in Kizlyarsky District, Dagestan, Russia, Imam Magomed Saipulayev was killed by unidentified gunmen with submachine guns while inside his home; the Imam was known for speaking out against violence and killing of innocent people, a trait that had led to death threats from militants. At the scene of the attack, police found 20 empty ammunition casings and six bullets outside where the militants fired through the windows. It is unknown if the attack caused any property damage. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/09/2011: On Saturday night, in Creuse, Limousin, France, two suspected Basque Fatherland and Liberty (ETA) members sped through a French checkpoint. Upon passing the checkpoint, the two individuals inside the car began to fire at police just before abandoning their car and fleeing. One officer was shot and injured during the incident. Police eventually caught up with and captured the individuals early on 04/10/2011. Police identified the two individuals as Oier Gomez Mielgo and Itziar Moreno. No group claimed responsibility, although ETA is suspected of being responsible for the attack.
04/09/2011: On Saturday night, in Isabela, Basilan, Philippines, Filipino troops found a bomb packed with nails near a hotel. There were no damages or casualties, as the bomb was safely defused by the troops. No group claimed responsibility, but Abu Sayyaf militants are suspected.
04/09/2011: On Saturday, at Krishnapur in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, unidentified militants attacked a Trinamool Congress (TC) procession with bombs and sharp objects. Three TC activists were injured and twelve persons were arrested in connection with the attack. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
04/09/2011: On Saturday, at Nadal village in Burdwan, West Bengal, India, unidentified militants beat up two Trinamool Congress (TC) activists identified as Nikhil Ghosh and Haripad Ghosh, while they were campaigning for local TC candidates. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
04/09/2011: On Saturday, in Chaundadi, Bhojpur, Kosi, Nepal, unidentified militants attacked and injured a local government official, identified as Sitaram Koirala. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Kirat Workers’ Party (KWP) militants were responsible.
04/09/2011: On Saturday, in Eshkolot, Southern District, Israel, unknown assailants fired multiple rockets into the Eshkolot area that landed in several areas. One rocket landed in a community and caused damage to multiple homes. The other rockets landed in unknown areas but did not cause and casualties or damages. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/09/2011: On Saturday, in Mosul, Ninawa, Iraq, unknown gunmen shot and killed an off duty policeman near his house. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/09/2011: On Saturday, in Pangacha village in Bhojpur, Kosi, Nepal, unknown militants set fire to a local government building, injuring four municipal employees and causing an unknown amount of property damage. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Kirat Workers’ Party (KWP) militants were responsible. According to witnesses, one of the militants fired twice before escaping into the Sunkoshi River and two others also fled, while a fourth, Hansaraj Rai, was captured and turned into the authority. Reportedly, the militants accused the victims, Man Bahadur Bista, Balaram Rai, Rajendra Katuwal and Ram Bahadur Katuwal, of trading timber from the district without procuring their permission. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Kirat Workers’ Party (KWP) militants were responsible.
04/09/2011: On Saturday, in the al-Muthanna neighborhood of Mosul, Ninawa, Iraq, unknown gunmen shot and killed the assistant dean of Mosul University's College of Fine Arts, Yasser Ahmed Sheet, in front of his home. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/09/2011: On Saturday, in the al-Shurta neighborhood of Fallujah, Al Anbar, Iraq, unknown assailants detonated an improvised explosive device attached to a teacher's car. The blast killed the teacher, wounded two policemen that were also inside the car and damaged the car. No group claimed responsibility.
04/09/2011: On Saturday, in the Isale-Agbara area of Ife, Osun, Nigeria, unidentified armed militants fired upon and killed one security guard while stray bullets killed four others who were in a church during an attack on the home of Rotimi Makinde, an Action Congress of Nigeria candidate for the Nigerian parliament. Rotimi Makinde was not injured in the attack. No damage was reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/09/2011: On Saturday, in the neighborhood of Abba Ganaram in Maiduguri, Borno, Nigeria, at least one person was killed and five were injured when unidentified militants detonated an improvised explosive device at a voting station. This attack was one of three linked attacks in Maiduguri. No material damage was reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/09/2011: On Saturday, in the Yarmouk sub-district of Baghdad, Iraq, unknown assailants detonated an improvised explosive device attached to a civilian car, wounding one civilian. The attack caused an unknown amount of damage and no group claimed responsibility.
04/09/2012: A suicide bomber in an explosives-laden car detonated near civilians in Mansour district, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. One civilian was killed and four others injured. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2012: An explosive attached to a motorcycle detonated near National Directorate of Security (NDS) personnel in Nahrin district, Baghlan province, Afghanistan. Five people, including three intelligence officers, were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2012: An explosive device detonated at the Kurdish National Party headquarters in Hilla city, Babil governorate, Iraq. There were no reported casualties, but the building was damaged in the explosion. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2012: An explosive device detonated near a military van in Amasya province, Turkey. One soldier was killed and six others injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2012: An explosive device detonated near a police checkpoint in Eker village, Central governorate, Bahrain. Seven police officers were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2012: An explosive device detonated near Ethiopian and Somali troops at a market in Baidoa city, Bay region, Somalia. Twelve people were killed and 35 others injured in the explosion. Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/09/2012: An explosive device detonated outside Banco del Estado in Santiago city, Santiago Metropolitan region, Chile. There were no reported casualties, but the building was damaged in the blast. Anarchists claimed responsibility for the attack in notes left at the scene.
04/09/2012: An explosive device detonated outside the Administrative Reform Ministry building in Athens city, Attica region, Greece. There were no casualties, but the building was damaged in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2012: An explosive device was discovered and defused at the residence of Ram Prasad Chaudhary in Kalaiya town, Bara district, Nepal. Chaudhary, the district secretary of the Nepali Congress (NC), was unharmed. Samyukta Jatiya Mukti Morcha (SJMM) claimed responsibility for the attempted attack.
04/09/2012: An explosives-laden car was discovered and safely defused near a military checkpost on Zaria road in Kano city, Kano state, Nigeria. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected Boko Haram.
04/09/2012: Assailants attacked a bank in Dikwa town, Borno state, Nigeria. This was one of three coordinated attacks in this town, across which six people, including three assailants, were killed. No group claimed responsibility for these incidents; however, authorities attributed them to Boko Haram.
04/09/2012: Assailants attacked a church in Dikwa town, Borno state, Nigeria. This was one of three coordinated attacks in this town, across which six people, including three assailants, were killed. No group claimed responsibility for these incidents; however, authorities attributed them to Boko Haram.
04/09/2012: Assailants attacked a military camp in Jebel Yasuf area, Abyan governorate Yemen. In the ensuing firefight, 57 people, including 32 assailants, were killed, and an unknown number of soldiers and assailants were wounded. No group claimed responsibility for this attack; however, authorities attributed it to Ansar al-Sharia.
04/09/2012: Assailants attacked a police station and abducted a police chief in Tigbao municipality, Zamboanga del Sur province, Philippines. The assailants looted the police station; there were no reported casualties. The outcome of the kidnapping is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for this attack; however, sources attributed it to the New People's Army (NPA).
04/09/2012: Assailants attacked a police station in Dikwa town, Borno state, Nigeria. This was one of three coordinated attacks in this town, across which six people, including three assailants, were killed. No group claimed responsibility for these incidents; however, authorities attributed them to Boko Haram.
04/09/2012: Assailants detonated an unknown number of explosive devices at an oil pipeline near El Arish city, North Sinai governorate, Egypt. The explosion caused minor damage, but no casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2012: Assailants opened fire on an Awakening Council leader in Tuz Khurmato town, Saladin governorate, Iraq. The leader, Hussein Awad al-Hamadani, and his bodyguard were both killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2012: Assailants threw a grenade at the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) headquarters in Diwaniya city, Al Qadisiyah governorate, Iraq. There were no reported casualties, but the building was damaged. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2012: Four assailants opened fire on Shia Muslims at a shoe store in Quetta city, Balochistan province, Pakistan. Six civilians were killed and three others injured in the attack. Lashkar-e-Jhangvi claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/09/2012: Three assailants attempted to plant a mine in Towrgondi area, Herat province, Afghanistan. Afghan Border Police arrested the assailants. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2012: Two assailants opened fire on a police patrol in Al-Mansoura district, Aden governorate, Yemen. One police officer was killed and three others injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed it to secessionists.
04/09/2012: Two explosive devices detonated near Atshana village, Kirkuk, Iraq. One civilian was killed in the blasts. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2013: A explosive device detonated near a civilian vehicle in Shorshorak area, Marja district, Helmand province, Afghanistan. At least three people were killed in the explosion and another three individuals were injured. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, local officials attributed the attack to the Taliban.
04/09/2013: A mortar shell fired from a nearby tribal area struck street 17 in Hayatabad area, Peshawar city, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. This was one of six mortar attacks in this area on this day. At least 12 people were wounded across the attacks and a number of vehicles and homes were damaged. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2013: A mortar shell fired from a nearby tribal area struck street 4 in Hayatabad area, Peshawar city, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. This was one of six mortar attacks in this area on this day. At least 12 people were wounded across the attacks and a number of vehicles and homes were damaged. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2013: A mortar shell fired from a nearby tribal area struck street 5 in Hayatabad area, Peshawar city, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. This was one of six mortar attacks in this area on this day. At least 12 people were wounded across the attacks and a number of vehicles and homes were damaged. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2013: A mortar shell fired from a nearby tribal area struck street 6 in Hayatabad area, Peshawar city, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. This was one of six mortar attacks in this area on this day. At least 12 people were wounded across the attacks and a number of vehicles and homes were damaged. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2013: A mortar shell fired from a nearby tribal area struck street 7 in Hayatabad area, Peshawar city, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. This was one of six mortar attacks in this area on this day. At least 12 people were wounded across the attacks and a number of vehicles and homes were damaged. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2013: A mortar shell fired from a nearby tribal area struck street F6 in Hayatabad area, Peshawar city, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. This was one of six mortar attacks in this area on this day. At least 12 people were wounded across the attacks and a number of vehicles and homes were damaged. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2013: A toy explosive device detonated in Bara tehsil, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. A child was seriously injured after the device exploded while he was playing with it. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2013: An assailant attacked three soldiers on motorcycles in Tipo-Tipo area, Basilan province, Philippines. One soldier was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, the assailant was identified as Amin Baco, also known as Abu Jihad, a Malaysian national and member of the group Jemaah Islamiya (JI).
04/09/2013: An explosive device contained in a letter was sent to La Stampa news agency in Turin city, Piedmont region, Italy. Due to a malfunction, the device did not detonate and was safely removed. The Informal Anarchist Federation and the International Revolutionary Front jointly claimed responsibility for the incident in a letter to the press, stating that La Stampa was "one of the many newspapers of the regime".
04/09/2013: An explosive device detonated near a police vehicle in Char Borjak district, Nimroz province, Afghanistan. Four police officers were killed in the explosion and another two people, including the district police chief, were injured. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2013: An explosive device detonated outside of a compact disc (CD) shop in Lalarukh Colony area, Peshawar city, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. No casualties were reported, but the entrance to the shop was damaged in the explosion. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/09/2013: An explosive device detonated outside of a compact disc (CD) shop in Mian Iqbal Chowk area of Peshawar city, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. No casualties were reported, but the CD shop and two nearby shops were damaged in the explosion. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/09/2013: An explosive device was discovered and defused in Khallat Al-Fawar area, South governorate, Lebanon. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2013: An explosive device was found in the Hay al-Sellom neighborhood of Beirut city, Beirut governorate, Lebanon. The device was targeting Hezbollah as it contained anti-Hezbollah and anti-Syria slogans. Hezbollah members defused the bomb without incident. Al-Nusrah Front claimed responsibility for the device.
04/09/2013: An explosive device was found outside of a compact disc (CD) shop in Peshawar city, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. Police defused the device after receiving a tip about its location. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2013: Approximately 200 assailants ambushed a United Nations (UN) peacekeeping convoy in Gumuruk village, Jonglei state, South Sudan. Five Indian peacekeepers and seven UN civilian workers were killed in the attack. Nine other people were wounded. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, government officials attributed the attack to the David Yau Yau militia.
04/09/2013: Assailants ambushed Hezbollah members fighting alongside the Syrian army near Damascus city, Damascus governorate, Syria. Twelve Hezbollah fighters died and 21 others sustained injuries in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2013: Assailants attacked and kidnapped several Indian Reserve Battalion (IRB) troops on the Maklang river in Manipur state, India. Two people were killed and seven other soldiers were abducted. No information is available with regards to an outcome for the kidnapping. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2013: Assailants attacked and killed a senior Puntland security official in Galkayo, Mudug, Somalia. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Al-Shabaab.
04/09/2013: Assailants kidnapped an Italian journalist and a Belgian teacher from Qusair city, Homs governorate, Syria. Both men were released on September 8, 2013. No group claimed responsibility for this incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Abu Ammar Brigade of the Free Syrian Army.
04/09/2013: Assailants shot and killed police stationhouse officer Agha Asadullah in Saddar neighborhood, Karachi city, Sindh province, Pakistan. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2013: Assailants threw a grenade at the house of Nujmudeen Uma, an adviser to the Prime Minister in Narathiwat province, Thailand. One person was injured in the attack. This was the second attack on the residence in two days. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2013: Gunmen fired their weapons at a Liberal Party political rally in Antipas town, North Cotabato province, Philippines. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected that the New People's Army (NPA) had been involved in the attack.
04/09/2013: Gunmen shot down a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) helicopter in Gera Khel area, Pechigram district, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan. Two United States soldiers, Chief Warrant Officer Mathew P. Ruffner and Chief Warrant Officer Jarrett M. Yoder, were killed in the attack. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2013: Two explosive devices were discovered near the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) office in Naya Paltan area of Dhaka city, Dhaka division, Bangladesh. The police carried out a controlled detonation of the devices. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2014: A remote-controlled explosive device detonated in a vegetable market in Islamabad city, Islamabad Capital Territory, Pakistan. At least 21 people were killed and 46 were wounded in the attack. The United Baloch Army (UBA) claimed responsibility for the incident; however, the government dismissed this as untrue.
04/09/2014: A remote-controlled explosive device detonated in Litan area, Ukhrul district, Manipur state, India. The blast targeted the car of Deputy Speaker M.K. Preshow Shimray. No one was injured by the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected the involvement of the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM).
04/09/2014: A roadside bomb detonated targeting a convoy of Burundian African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) soldiers outside a military base in Via Afmadow district, Kismayo city, Lower Juba region, Somalia. The targeted soldiers then opened indiscriminate fire following the explosion. At least one person was killed and four others were injured when the soldiers opened fire.No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, Somali officials suspected that Al-Shabaab carried out the attack.
04/09/2014: An explosive device attached to a telephone pole detonated in Biland Manzal area, Khost city, Khost province, Afghanistan. At least four civilians were wounded in the attack. This was one of two related explosions in the area on this date. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2014: An explosive device attached to the car of Abdel-Hamid al-Fetori detonated in Benghazi city, Benghazi district, Libya. Al-Fetori, an air force engineer, was killed in the attack, and his wife and child were wounded. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2014: An explosive device attached to the car of Mohamud Mohamud Abu Hajji detonated in Wadajir district, Mogadishu city, Banaadir region, Somalia. Abu Hajji, a district official, was killed and an unknown number of bodyguards were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources suspected Al-Shabaab.
04/09/2014: An explosive device detonated along train tracks soon after a train passed by in Nawabshah city, Sindh province, Pakistan. There were no reports of casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2014: An explosive device detonated at the Al-Hankah water resource project in Al-Shirqat district, Saladin governorate, Iraq. There were no reported casualties; however, the blast resulted in damages to the project. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2014: An explosive device detonated near an anti-narcotics police unit in Biland Manzal area, Khost city, Khost province, Afghanistan. At least one police officer was killed and four were wounded in the blast. This was one of two related explosions in the area on this date. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2014: An explosive device detonated near Somali National Army (SNA) forces guarding Daryel Courthouse in Huriwa neighborhood, Mogadishu city, Banaadir region, Somalia. The outcome of the attack is unkown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected that Al-Shabaab was involved.
04/09/2014: An explosive device detonated outside the home owned by Adnan Sarwar in Peshawar city, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. Sarwar, the International Relations department chair for University of Peshawar, was uninjured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2014: An explosive device detonated targeting a police patrol in Hawi al-Kanisah area, west of Mosul city, Nineveh governorate, Iraq. At least one police officer was killed and three police officers were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2014: An explosive device in a bag was discovered and defused near a mosque in a residential area of Karachi city, Sindh province, Pakistan. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2014: An explosive device was discovered and safely defused near the residence of Thokchom Meinya, a member of parliament (MP), in Khumbong Joypur Khul area, Imphal West district, Manipur state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2014: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated in a market in Karam al-Luz district, Homs city, Homs governorate, Syria. This was one of two coordinated attacks in Karam al-Luz on this date. At least 25 people were killed and 107 wounded across both attacks. The Al-Nusrah Front claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/09/2014: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated in a marketplace in Shaab East area, Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. At least one person was killed and another 10 people were injured in the blast. This was one of 10 coordinated car bombings in the city on the same day and one of 14 across Baghdad and Wasit governorates. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/09/2014: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated in a park in Nidhal Street area, Baghdad city, Baghdad goverorate, Iraq. At least three people were killed and another six people were injured in the blast. This was one of 10 coordinated car bombings in the city on the same day and one of 14 across Baghdad and Wasit governorates. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/09/2014: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated in Al-Numaniyah district, Wasit governorate, Iraq. This was one of two coordinated attacks at the same location within a short period of time and one of 14 across Baghdad and Wasit governorates on this day. At least two people was killed and 20 people were injured across the two blasts timed minutes apart. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents; however, sources suspected the attack was carried out by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/09/2014: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated in Al-Numaniyah district, Wasit governorate, Iraq. This was one of two coordinated attacks at the same location within a short period of time and one of 14 across Baghdad and Wasit governorates on this day. At least two person was killed and 20 people were injured across the two blasts timed minutes apart. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected the involvement of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/09/2014: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated in Aziziyah district, Wasit governorate, Iraq. At least 14 people were injured in the blast. This was one of 14 coordinated car bombings across Baghdad and Wasit governorates on this day. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents; however, sources suspected the involvement of the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL).
04/09/2014: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated in Hafriyah district, Wasit governorate, Iraq. At least four people were killed and eight people were injured in the blast. This was one of 14 coordinated car bombings across Baghdad and Wasit governorates on this day. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents; however, sources suspected the involvement of the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL).
04/09/2014: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated in Jadeeda neighborhood, New Baghdad area, Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. At least two people were killed and 25 people were injured in the blast. This was one of 10 coordinated car bombings in the city on the same day and one of 14 across Baghdad and Wasit governorates. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/09/2014: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated in Jadriyah district, southern Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. At least one person was killed and three people were injured in the blast. This was one of 10 coordinated car bombings in the city on the same day and one of 14 across Baghdad and Wasit governorates. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/09/2014: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated in Kadimiya 1 area, Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. At least three people were killed and another eight people were injured in the blast. This was one of 10 coordinated car bombings in the city on the same day and one of 14 across Baghdad and Wasit governorates. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/09/2014: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated in Karam al-Luz district, Homs city, Homs governorate, Syria. This was one of two coordinated attacks in Karam al-Luz on this date. At least 25 people were killed and 107 wounded across both attacks. The Al-Nusrah Front claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/09/2014: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated in Obaydi area, Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. At least two people were killed and another 11 people were injured in the blast. This was one of 10 coordinated car bombings in the city on the same day and one of 14 across Baghdad and Wasit governorates. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/09/2014: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated in Thawra area, Sadr City neighborhood, Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. At least one person was killed and six people were injured in the blast. This was one of 10 coordinated car bombings in the city on the same day and one of 14 across Baghdad and Wasit governorates. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/09/2014: Assailants abducted five National Solidarity Programme (NSP) workers from Molayat area, Takhta Pul district, Kandahar province, Afghanistan. Three of the hostages were released on April 14, 2014; the remaining two hostages had been shot and killed on April 13, 2014. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the abduction to the Taliban.
04/09/2014: Assailants attacked a polling station in Jodamba area, Malkangiri District, Odisha state, India. No one was injured; however, the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) of three booths were damaged in the attack. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to Maoists.
04/09/2014: Assailants attacked a polling station in Koraput District, Odisha state, India. No one was injured; however, the assailants took away two Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2014: Assailants attacked a security checkpoint in Amran city, Amran governorate, Yemen. At least three soldiers and two assailants were killed in the attack, and nine soldiers were abducted. The soldiers were released on April 11, 2014. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Huthis.
04/09/2014: Assailants attacked Captain Mohamed Khallaf and Sergeant Ahmed al-Saghir in Qena governorate, Egypt. There were no reported casualties in the incident. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/09/2014: Assailants attacked Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel returning from escorting poll workers near Chintagupha village, Sukma district, Chhattisgarh state, India. Three CRPF personnel were killed and three others were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to Maoists.
04/09/2014: Assailants attacked the Polsari polling booth in Malkangiri district, Odisha state, India. No one was injured; however, the assailants took away an Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2014: Assailants fired rockets into Qaysar district, Faryab province, Afghanistan. Five civilians were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility; however, a source attributed the attack to the Taliban.
04/09/2014: Assailants hijacked a car and kidnapped 11 people in Mukhaysah town, Diyala governorate, Iraq. The whereabouts of the victims are unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2014: Assailants kidnapped Yumsum Matey in Tirap district, Arunachal Pradesh state, India. Matey, a congress candidate, was released later the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2014: Assailants on motorcycles opened fire on religious seminary students at a restaurant in Gulistan-e-Jauhar area, Karachi city, Sindh province, Pakistan. Three students were killed and at least two others were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2014: Assailants opened fire from Yemen onto a border patrol in Asir region, Saudi Arabia. Two Saudi border guards were killed. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2014: Assailants opened fire in a tire shop in Bonastan area, Panjgur district, Balochistan province, Pakistan. The shop owner and a bystander were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2014: Assailants opened fire on a group of shepherds in the lower Ruzizi plains, Muangaza area, South Kivu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Mayi-Mayi rebels.
04/09/2014: Assailants opened fire on a security patrol vehicle in Goth Nasir Khan area, Nasirabad district, Balochistan province, Pakistan. One assailant was killed and one was wounded in return fire. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2014: Assailants opened fire on travelers in Kabulo village, Katanga province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Three assailants were killed when Congolese military forces arrived at the scene. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR)
04/09/2014: Assailants set fire to a mobile phone tower in Gannavaram city, Andhra Pradesh state, India. There were no reported casualties but the tower was damged in the attack. The Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2014: Assailants shot and killed a member of the Supreme Security Committees (SSC), a police force, in Sirte city, Sirte district, Libya. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2014: Assailants shot Sheikh Arsan Suleiman in Ain El-Hilweh refugee camp, Sidon city, South governorate, Lebanon. Suleiman, head of the Charity and Islamic Projects Foundation, died of his injuries one week later on April 15, 2014. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2014: Assailants threw a grenade at French peacekeeping soldiers in Bangui city, Bangui prefecture, Central African Republic. Two soldiers were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2014: At least one explosive device detonated near Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel in Bijapur district, Chhattisgarh state, India. At least two CRPF personnel were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to Maoists.
04/09/2014: Gunmen in a vehicle opened fire on a group of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) members in a restaurant in Kot Khattak village, Tank district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. At least five people, including two civilians, were killed and two others were injured in the shooting. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities suspected the shooting was carried by rival members of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
04/09/2014: Gunmen opened fire on a seminary teacher in Wardhigley district, Mogadishu city, Banaadir region, Somalia. The teacher was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources suspected Al-Shabaab.
04/09/2014: Gunmen opened fire on civilians watching a soccer match at a viewing center in Potiskum town, Yobe state, Nigeria. Two people were killed and five wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected Boko Haram.
04/09/2014: Gunmen opened fire on Hassan Dahir in Howlwadag district, Mogadishu city, Banaadir region, Somalia. Dahir, a Somali National Security Agency (SNSA) officer, and his wife were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources suspected Al-Shabaab.
04/09/2014: Police found two explosive devices planted on a railway track in Sadiqabad town, Punjab province, Pakistan. The devices were defused. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2014: Security forces discovered and defused an explosives-laden vehicle in Shaab East area, Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. This was one of 10 coordinated car bombings in the city on the same day and one of 14 across Baghdad and Wasit governorates. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/09/2014: Security forces discovered and defused two explosives-laden vehicles in Park Sadoon area, Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. This was one of 10 coordinated car bombings in the city on the same day and one of 14 across Baghdad and Wasit governorates. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/09/2014: Security forces found and defused an explosive device inside of a polling booth in Barachatti area, Gaya district, Bihar state, India. This was one of six related incidents in Bihar state on this day. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
04/09/2014: Security forces found five explosive devices in two voting booths in Jamui district, Bihar state, India. The devices were removed from the area. This was one of six related incidents in Bihar state on this day. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
04/09/2014: Security forces found four explosive devices in Aurangabad district, Bihar state, India. The devices were removed from the area. These were four of six total devices recovered in Aurangabad on this date and one of six related incidents in Bihar state on this day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed it to Maoists.
04/09/2014: Security forces found four explosive devices in Gaya district, Bihar state, India. The devices were removed from the area. These were four of five total devices found in Gaya on this date and one of six related incidents in Bihar state on this day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed it to Maoists.
04/09/2014: Security forces found two explosive devices in a polling booth in Kutumba area, Aurangabad district, Bihar state, India. The devices were removed from the area. These were two of six devices recovered from Aurangabad on this date and one of six related incidents in Bihar state on this day. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to Maoists.
04/09/2014: Three assailants on a motorcycle opened fire on the vehicle of Doctor Haider Raza, a surgeon, near Darul Sehat hospital in Gulistan-e-Jauhar neighborhood, Karachi city, Sindh province, Pakistan. Raza was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2014: Two assailants on a motorcycle opened fire on Syed Iqbal Shah, a local businessman and a Shia Muslim, in the Khajoor Bazaar in Kharadar neighborhood, Karachi city, Sindh province, Pakistan. Shah was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident. Police noted that the attack appeared to be sectarian in nature.
04/09/2014: Two explosives-laden vehicles detonated near a restaurant in Karadah area, Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. At least seven people were injured in the blasts. This was one of 10 coordinated car bombings in the city on the same day and one of 14 across Baghdad and Wasit governorates. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/09/2014: Two rockets struck Sab' al-Bur area, Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. At least one civilian was killed and seven other civilians were injured in the attack. The Military Council of the Tribal Revolutionaries (MCTR) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2015: An explosive device detonated near a police vehicle in Zardegay, Uruzgan province, Afghanistan. At least four Afghan Local Police (ALP) officers were killed and two Afghan National Police (ANP) officers were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/09/2015: An explosive device planted on a bicycle detonated in front of Wakil Medical Store in Khost city, Khost province, Afghanistan. At least ten people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/09/2015: An explosive device planted on a Yellow Bus Line passenger bus was discovered and defused along Tacurong-Isulan Highway in Tuacurong city, Sultan Kudarat province, Philippines. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Movement (BIFM).
04/09/2015: An explosive device planted under a bridge detonated as a Levies Forces vehicle was driving along Wana-Tank Road in South Waziristan district, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. At least four officers were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/09/2015: Assailants abducted 20 Islamic Reform Group (Islah) members in Yarim, Ibb governorate, Yemen. The whereabouts of the hostages are unknown. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to Huthis.
04/09/2015: Assailants attacked a Syrian Armed Forces (SAF) checkpoint in Hannurah, Homs governorate, Syria. This was one of two incidents targeting checkpoints on the same day. At least 17 soldiers were beheaded across both attacks. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incidents to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/09/2015: Assailants attacked a Syrian Armed Forces (SAF) checkpoint in Umm Tababir, Homs governorate, Syria. This was one of two incidents targeting checkpoints on the same day. At least 17 soldiers were beheaded across both attacks. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incidents to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/09/2015: Assailants attacked and injured a guard at the United States Department of State Embassy in Al-Luqta neighborhood, Doha city, Doha province, Qatar. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/09/2015: Assailants entered a religious school and abducted 16 people, the director of the school and 15 students, in Yarim, Ibb governorate, Yemen. The whereabouts of the hostages are unknown. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to Huthis.
04/09/2015: Assailants executed 300 tribal civilians in Qaim, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/09/2015: Assailants opened fire on a vehicle transporting Oghene Egoh in Amuwo Odofin town, Lagos state, Nigeria. Egoh, a member-elect of the House of Representatives, was not harmed as there were no reported casualties in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/09/2015: Assailants opened fire on Fulani civilians in Buruku village, Kaduna state, Nigeria. At least two people were killed and another was injured in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/09/2015: Assailants opened fire on residents in Buratai village, Borno state, Nigeria. At least two people were killed and three others were injured in the assault. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to Boko Haram.
04/09/2015: Assailants opened fire on the vehicle of Silkandar Hameed in Malir neighborhood, Karachi, Sindh province, Pakistan. Hameed, a Pakistani Ministry of Law, Justice, and Human Rights judge, was unharmed; however, at least one assailant was injured in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/09/2015: Assailants set fire to 13 houses in Shirin Tagab district, Faryab province, Afghanistan. There were no reported casualties in the attack. This was one of two incidents carried out by the same group of assailants in Shirin Tagab on this date. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attacks to the Taliban.
04/09/2015: Assailants set fire to a mosque in Shirin Tagab district, Faryab province, Afghanistan. There were no reported casualties in the attack. This was one of two incidents carried out by the same group of assailants in Shirin Tagab on this date. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attacks to the Taliban.
04/09/2015: Assailants set fire to six supply vehicles in Sheikh Zuweid, North Sinai, Egypt. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Sinai Province of the Islamic State.
04/09/2015: Four assailants armed with suicide vests, projectiles, and firearms attacked the Afghan Ministry of Justice Office of the Attorney General in Mazari Sharif, Balkh province, Afghanistan. At least 14 people, including five Afghan Police officers and all four assailants, were killed and 60 others were injured in the assault. Over a dozen people were also held hostage in the building and it is unknown whether they were among the casualties. The Taliban claimed responsibility and stated that the attack was in retaliation for the alleged ill treatment of detainees.
04/09/2015: Two explosive devices detonated near a Indian Police Service (IPS) vehicle near Birnawan village, Gaya district, Bihar state, India. There were no reported casualties in the blasts. No group claimed responsibility; however, authorities attributed the attack to Maoists.
04/09/2016: A percussion bomb detonated on an overpass near a bus station in Mecidiyekoy, Istanbul, Turkey. Three people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/09/2016: A roadside bomb targeting a power post detonated along Hat Yai Road in Tuyong, Pattani, Thailand. No casualties were reported in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2016: A roadside bomb targeting police officers on patrol detonated in Bo Thong, Pattani, Thailand. At least two police officers were wounded as a result of the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2016: A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle targeting a security convoy in Nahri Saraj, Helmand, Afghanistan. In addition to the bomber, two police officers were killed and two others were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2016: A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle targeting military forces in Albu Bali area, Al Anbar, Iraq. In addition to the assailant, at least four soldiers were killed and 10 soldiers were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/09/2016: An assailant set fire to Al Salamah, a Muslim school, in Malmo, Skane, Sweden. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2016: An explosive device attached to a vehicle detonated in Banuk, Baghdad, Iraq. The owner of the vehicle, a Justice Ministry employee, was killed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2016: An explosive device detonated along the road between on the road between Zab and Makhmur, Arbil, Iraq. At least 10 people were killed in the blast. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2016: An explosive device detonated in Baqubah, Diyala, Iraq. At least one person was killed and three people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2016: An explosive device detonated in Iskan, Baghdad, Iraq. At least two people were killed and five people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2016: An explosive device detonated in Jisr Diyala, Baghdad, Iraq. At least two people were killed and five people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2016: An explosive device detonated in Lukhi, Nangarhar, Afghanistan. One person was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2016: An explosive device detonated in Saba al-Bor, Saladin, Iraq. At least two people were killed and eight people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2016: An explosive device detonated in Suwaib, Baghdad, Iraq. At least one person was killed and eight people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2016: An explosive device detonated near a customs and shipping office in Al-Jazair, Basra city, Iraq. There were no reported casualties resulting from the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2016: An explosive device detonated near a soccer field in Al-Wardiyah, Diyala, Iraq. At least two people were killed and nine people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2016: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated outside a restaurant in Mogadishu, Banaadir, Somalia. Three people were killed and five others were injured in the blast. Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2016: Assailants abducted a council chief deputy chairperson and attacked the residence of King Amalate Turner in Opume, Bayelsa, Nigeria. The chairperson was injured but later released after the raid. No other casualties were reported in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2016: Assailants ambushed a military convoy and abducted soldiers in Ahwar, Abyan, Yemen. At least 19 of the soldiers were killed and 17 were injured and released later the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), which the group denied.
04/09/2016: Assailants attacked a military ship on the Apurimac River in Junin, Peru. Two soldiers were wounded in the attack. This is one of two attacks in Junin on this date. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents; however, sources attributed the attacks to the Shining Path (SL).
04/09/2016: Assailants attacked a Peruvian military patrol transporting election material in Jatun Asha, Junin, Peru. At least 10 people were killed and five individuals were wounded in the attack. This is one of two attacks in Junin on this date. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents; however, sources attributed the attacks to the Shining Path (SL).
04/09/2016: Assailants attacked joint forces in Al-Fathah, Kirkuk, Iraq. At least one volunteer fighter and six assailants were killed in the ensuing clash. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2016: Assailants attacked Kawaz Hajji Jamil, Kirkuk, Iraq. Security forces repelled the assault, killing six assailants. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/09/2016: Assailants attacked soldiers in Banguindan, Basilan, Philippines. At least 21 people, including 18 soldiers and three assailants, were killed and 51 people were wounded in the attack. Jundul Khilafah (Philippines) and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the incident and sources attributed the attack to the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG); however, the government denied the involvement of the Islamic State or Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/09/2016: Assailants fired a rocket at Peshmerga forces in Maktab Khalid, Kirkuk, Iraq. At least one civilian was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/09/2016: Assailants fired mortars at a military facility in Abu Ghraib, Al Anbar, Iraq. At least one soldier was killed and 13 soldiers were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2016: Assailants fired two rockets into the diplomatic area of Kabul city, Afghanistan. One of the rockets struck Aisha-e-Durani High School. There were no reported casualties. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that their intended target was the U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, who had recently visited the area.
04/09/2016: Assailants opened fire and detonated an explosives-laden vehicle at a police building in Derik, Mardin, Turkey. One police officer and one civilian were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
04/09/2016: Assailants opened fire on a group of civilians departing from a mosque in Nawabad, Herat, Afghanistan. Three civilians were killed while four others were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/09/2016: Assailants opened fire on a police station in Charbagh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Two police officers were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2016: Assailants opened fire on a vehicle transporting Jose Mauel, a National Defense and Security Council (CNDS) member, in Beira, Sofala, Mozambique. At least three people, including Manuel, were killed in the assault. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources suspected that the attack was carried out by the Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO).
04/09/2016: Assailants opened fire on Manoel Messias Pereira in Grajau, Maranhao, Brazil. Pereira, a sediverte.com blogger, was killed in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/09/2016: Assailants opened fire on soldiers in Los Anayes, El Tambo, Cauca, Colombia. At least two soldiers were killed in the assault. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to the National Liberation Army of Colombia (ELN).
04/09/2016: Assailants set fire to a building intended to house refugees in Harnosand, Vasternorrland, Sweden. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2016: Assailants set fire to the Cape Town train station in Foreshore, Cape Town, South Africa. No casualties were reported in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2016: Assailants shot and killed a police officer in Sariab, Balochistan province, Pakistan. Jaish al-Umar (JaU) claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that the victim was responsible for the arrest of a member of JaU.
04/09/2016: Assailants stormed a village and forced at least 23 civilians from their residences in Padeli, Chhattisgarh state, India. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
04/09/2016: Security forces discovered and defused an unknown number of explosive devices along fence lines in Buluan city, Poblacion barangay, Maguindanao province, Philippines. There were no reported casualties in this incident. No group claimed responsibility for this incident.
04/09/2016: Security forces discovered and defused two explosives-laden vehicles and an unknown number of explosive devices in Karma, Al Anbar, Iraq. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2016: Security forces discovered and destroyed two explosives-laden vehicles in Al-Hajj, Nineveh, Iraq. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2016: Security forces identified and killed a suicide bomber driving an explosives-laden vehicle in Saladin, Iraq. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2016: Security forces identified and killed two suicide bombers driving explosives-laden vehicles in Kharbardan, Arbil, Iraq. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/09/2017: A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle near the convoy of General Mohamed Ahmed Jimale in Mogadishu, Somalia. In addition to the assailant, at least 15 people were killed and five other people were injured in the blast; the victims included soldiers and civilians. Jimale, the recently appointed Somali National Army (SNA) chief, was not harmed in the attack. Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2017: A suicide bomber detonated at Mar Girgis Church in Tanta, Gharbia, Egypt. In addition to the assailant, at least 30 people were killed and 89 other people were injured in the blast. This was one of two suicide bombings targeting churches in Egypt on the same day. The Revolution's Brigade and the Islamic State in Egypt separately claimed responsibility for the incident. Sources also suspected that the attack was carried out by the Hasam Movement.
04/09/2017: A suicide bomber detonated at Saint Mark's Church in Alexandria city, Egypt. In addition to the assailant, at least 18 people, including three Egyptian National Police (ENP) officers, were killed and 47 other people were injured in the blast. This was one of two suicide bombings targeting churches in Egypt on the same day. The Islamic State in Egypt claimed responsibility for the incident. Sources also suspected that the attack was carried out by the Revolution's Brigade or the Hasam Movement.
04/09/2017: An explosive device detonated inside a private girls school in Bara subdistrict, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. There were no reported casualties in the blast. Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the attack and accused the targeted school of "spreading immodesty."
04/09/2017: An explosive device detonated near a Pakistan Armed Forces vehicle in Sui, Dera Bugti, Balochistan, Pakistan. There were no reported casualties in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/09/2017: Assailants abducted a suspected informant in Bejur, Maharashtra, India. The hostage was beaten to death with sticks and stones a short time later. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
04/09/2017: Assailants abducted an unknown number of civilians in Ikorodu, Lagos, Nigeria. When security forces responded, the assailants opened fire, killing six people, including one civilian. At least nine hostages were rescued while the fate of the remaining victims is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/09/2017: Assailants abducted four people, including a priest, in Gatumba, Bujumbura Rural, Burundi. The four hostages were released on April 26, 2017. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2017: Assailants ambushed the vehicle of Colonel 'Abd-al-'Alim al-Jalil between Khabr al Maraqishah and Ahwar, Abyan, Yemen. Al-Jalil, a military reconnaissance officer, was not harmed; however, one soldier was injured in the ensuing clash. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
04/09/2017: Assailants armed with projectiles and firearms attacked Gueskerou village in Diffa, Niger. At least 57 assailants were killed and 17 people, including 15 soldiers and two civilians, were injured in the ensuing clash with Niger Armed Forces soldiers. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to Boko Haram.
04/09/2017: Assailants attacked and shut down the National Oil Corporation (NOC) Wafa Oilfield in Nalut district, Libya. There were no reported casualties in the incident. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to the Nalut Group.
04/09/2017: Assailants attacked Halqani village in Darzab, Jawzjan, Afghanistan. This was one of two incidents in Darzab on the same day. At least 13 assailants were killed across the ensuing clashes. The Khorasan Chapter of the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attacks. Sources also attributed the incidents to the Taliban.
04/09/2017: Assailants attacked Mahungcog village in Magpet district, North Cotabato, Philippines. The assailants ordered all male villagers out of their residences and reportedly abducted Michael Lingaro during the incident. Lingaro, the local village chief, was released shortly after the kidnapping. The New People's Army (NPA) claimed responsibility for the attack; however, the group denied abducting Lingaro and the victim denied that he was abducted.
04/09/2017: Assailants attacked Moghul village in Darzab, Jawzjan, Afghanistan. This was one of two incidents in Darzab on the same day. At least 13 assailants were killed across the ensuing clashes. The Khorasan Chapter of the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attacks. Sources also attributed the incidents to the Taliban.
04/09/2017: Assailants attacked Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) soldiers in Wau city, South Sudan. At least five soldiers were killed in the incident. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/09/2017: Assailants detonated an explosive device targeting an oil pipeline in Bajil district, Al Hudaydah, Yemen. At least five people were killed and 35 people were injured in the blast and resulting fire. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2017: Assailants fired four mortars that landed and detonated in Kusaybah, Diyala, Iraq. At least four people were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2017: Assailants opened fire on a military patrol in Ganta, Maguindanao, Philippines. Three assailants and one soldier were injured in the ensuing clash. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Movement (BIFM).
04/09/2017: Assailants opened fire on a police vehicle in Asadabad, Kunar, Afghanistan. At least one police officer was killed and a second officer was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2017: Assailants opened fire on an Indian Police Service (IPS) station in Yaripora, Jammu and Kashmir, India. There were no reported casualties in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/09/2017: Assailants opened fire on civilians in Panhomtor, Eastern Lakes, South Sudan. At least 12 people were killed in the assault. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to the Sudan People's Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO).
04/09/2017: Assailants opened fire on Plus Telecommunication Maintenance engineers in Natiga district, South Darfur, Sudan. At least one engineer was killed and another engineer was injured in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/09/2017: Assailants opened fire on residents in Falluja, South Darfur, Sudan. There were at least three reported casualties in the assault. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to the Janjaweed.
04/09/2017: Assailants opened fire on the convoy of Nofal Hammadi al-Sultan in eastern Mosul, Iraq. Al-Sultan, the governor of Mosul, was not harmed as there were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2017: Assailants raided a Gas India Limited (GAIL) construction site near Gurua, Bihar, India. There were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected that the Tritiya Prastuti Committee (TPC) carried out the attack.
04/09/2017: Assailants set fire to a polling booth at Government High School Arihal in Pulwama, Jammu and Kashmir, India. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2017: Assailants set fire to Davao Agricultural Ventures Corporation pineapple harvesting equipment in Gumalang, Davao del Sur, Philippines. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to the New People's Army (NPA).
04/09/2017: Assailants shot and killed a Somali Armed Forces (SAF) solider at Bakara market in Mogadishu, Somalia. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/09/2017: Assailants shot and killed Conrado Huellas, a former village chief, in Bani, Pangasinan, Philippines. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2017: Assailants threw incendiary devices at a polling station in Hardodalwan, Budgam district, Jammu and Kashmir, India. An unknown number of civilians were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2017: Assailants, including suicide bombers in two explosives-laden vehicles, attacked the joint Iraqi Army and Desert Hawks Brigade border crossing in Waleed, Al Anbar, Iraq. At least 23 people, including three soldiers and 20 assailants, were killed in the ensuing clash. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/09/2017: Security forces discovered and defused five landmines in Chimtal, Balkh, Afghanistan. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2017: Security forces discovered and defused two explosive devices at the Sidi Abdel Rahim Mosque in Tanta, Gharbia, Egypt. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/09/2017: Three assailants were identified and arrested as they were planting an explosive device in Northern Bypass neighborhood, Peshawar, Pakistan. The device was later defused at the scene. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/1998: In Turkey, two members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) threw a bomb into a park in Istanbul's tourist district, Sultanahment, while on a motorcycle. The explosion injured two Indian tourists, one New Zealander, four Turkish civilians, and two Turkish soldiers. Authorities arrested the two PKK perpetrators on April 12, 1998.
04/10/1999: In one of two possibly related incidents, an explosive device injured four at a taxi park in Kampala, Uganda. The perpetrators of this attack were unknown.
04/10/1999: Iranian Deputy Chief of the Joint Staff Command of the Armed Forces, Brigadier General Ali Sayyad Shirazi was assassinated in Tehran by a man disguised as a street cleaner. Mujahidin-e-Khalq claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/1999: The Basque Nationalist Party social center in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain, was attacked by unknown perpetrators with Molotov cocktails. There were no casualties and only  slight damage to the façade of the building was suffered.
04/10/1999: The tax office at Migliacciaro, Prunelli di Fiumorbo District, in the Haute-Corse department of France, was attacked with an explosive device that caused extensive damage to the building, but did not cause any casualties. The Corsican National Liberation Front - Historic Wing claimed credit for the attack.
04/10/2001: A bomb planted under the Mercedes of Mladen Ivankovic, a minister for the Bosnian government, detonated, destroying the car and the first floor of the minister's home.  The minister, along with his brother who was a deputy in the Bosnian Parliament, were home at the time, though no one was injured.  The brothers blamed the Croat Democratic Union, a separatist party, for the incident as the brothers had recently spoken out publicly against the Union.  The Union denied the allegations of their responsibility in the incident.
04/10/2001: At least six Maoist militants assassinated the treasurer of the Nepali Congress Tanahu District committee, Bishnu Prasad Jamarkattel, in the Tanahu District of Nepal.
04/10/2001: At least two armed gunmen shot and killed Witayudh Saengsopit, a radio show host as well as the local cooperative's chairman, as he got out of his Mercedes outside the Home Media Company's offices in Surat Thani, Muang district, Thailand around 4am.  Although no group claimed responsibility for the shooting, two men were arrested as suspects after two 9mm pistols were found in their homes and one was spotted in the vicinity of the shooting.
04/10/2001: Authorities defused a homemade explosive device left on an employee's scooter near the Ministry of Finance's second gate in New Delhi, India around 8:45pm.  No one was injured and no damage was done, as the batteries on the explosive had run down before the bomb could detonate.  No group claimed responsibility for the incident, although authorities suggested that the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) could be behind planting the bomb.
04/10/2001: Revolutionary Proletarian Initiative Nuclei (NIPR) members detonated a bomb at the Italy-United States Council at Via Brunetti in Rome, Italy. No casualties were reported in the attacks.
04/10/2003: An unknown arsonist set fire to the doors of the offices of Forza Italia, the political party of Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, in Lastra a Signa, Italy. Only minor damage to the door was reported, but a sign was discovered stating “Striking the servants of the various terrorists.” There were no leads in the attack.
04/10/2003: Four policemen were killed by suspected communist rebels in Lucena City, Philippines. The policemen were shot dead when ten militants open fired on them from their vehicle.
04/10/2003: Palestinian militants attacked an Israeli Defense Force (IDF) military base, which was used for Golani Brigade training, in the Jordan Valley near Bekaot, in the northern West Bank of Israel. The attackers fired bursts from AK-47 rifles at the soldiers, most of them sleeping in tents, killing two Israelis and injuring nine others IDF members. The two militants were also killed in the attack. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PLFP) reported that two of its members carried out the attack together with members a second Palestine group (reported as Fatah Tanzim or the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade).
04/10/2004: Afghanistan intelligence chief Haji Ahmadullah and his two bodyguards were kidnapped by suspected Taliban members near the town of Chenartu. Negotiations were not successful between the Taliban captors and the Afghanistan government and the hostages were killed around April 13, 2004, according to a Taliban soldier who called a government official. The Taliban then contacted officials to exchange the bodies of the hostages for bodies of other dead Taliban members that the government was holding. On April 16, 2004, the bodies of the hostages were found in Trinkot.
04/10/2004: At approximately 10:30pm local time, a car exploded near the Carlton Hotel on Zulfiqar Street in Karachi, Pakistan, near an area cordoned off in preparation for a musical concert by Indian singer Sonu Nigam at the Gold Club. The vehicle was driven by an unidentified man who jumped out of the car and disappeared before the detonation. It was speculated that the man was attempting to drive to a concert venue, but blew up the car near a security checkpoint instead. One person was killed, at least six others were seriously injured, and at least 4 other cars were seriously damaged in the explosion.
04/10/2004: Four Italian security guards were kidnapped by unidentified Islamic militants as they traveled from Baghdad, Iraq, to the Jordanian border, en route to Italy. In a video aired on an Arabic language television channel, the militants demanded that the Italian government remove their 2,700 troops from Iraq. When this demand was not met, Italian security guard Fabrizio Quattrocchi was shot dead on camera on April 12, 2004. The other three hostages were kept for almost two months before being rescued by Polish troops, who came across the safehouse, on June 10, 2004. Several of the kidnappers were arrested during the rescue, but further information on their identities was not reported.
04/10/2004: In Poso, Indonesia, two masked perpetrators broke in the Tabernacle Churh and opened fire on a crowd of people worshipping for Easter services. The two men rode up on a motorcycle and started to shoot at the congregation with automatic weapons. Seven people were injured, but no one was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2004: Nick Berg, an American civilian was taken hostage on or around April 9, 2004. He was found beheaded in Baghdad, Iraq on May 8, 2004. Tawhid and Jihad released a video of the group beheading Berg on May 11, 2004.
04/10/2004. A bus carrying 12 policeman and about 50 civilians was attacked in a forest in Guntur, India. Maoist rebels attempted to blow up the bus by planting a land mine in its path; however, when the bomb did not explode, the rebels began shooting and throwing bombs at the bus. During the 30-minute firefight the land mine eventually went off, killing two policemen. One civilian on the bus was also hurt during the crossfire.
04/10/2005: Al-Qaeda In Iraq claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of Brigadier General Basin al-Jaza’iri, chief of Najaf Police department in Iraq. The group later executed the chief; their statement was posted on the Internet.
04/10/2005: An armed wing of the Popular Resistance Committee, The Salah el Dein Brigades, claimed responsibility for firing two homemade Nasser3 rockets, as well as mortar rounds, at the southern Israeli settlement of Sderot. The group said the attacks were in response to Israel crimes, and these attacks may be related to attacks carried out the previous day by Hamas, in retaliation for the IDF killing three Palestinian teens. The rockets and mortars caused severe damages to some Israel buildings within the settlement; yet no casualties or injuries have been reported.
04/10/2005: Hamas assailants were implicated in attacks against the Qatif Bloc settlement of Netzer Hazani, Israel. In these attacks, four mortar shells were fired, one which directly struck and damaged a house; however, no injuries were reported. These attacks have been related to two previous attacks in which Palestinians are retaliating against the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) troops for the killing of three Palestinian teens.
04/10/2005: Unidentified gunmen opened machine gun fire on Police Major Khalaf Mekhlif and Cpl. Bahaa Ahmad in al-Haditha, Iraq. The group of gunmen attacked the men after they had stopped their vehicle; the attackers killed Mekhlif and abducted Ahmad; no further information was given regarding the kidnapping.
04/10/2005: Unknown assailants planted a roadside bomb which wounded sixteen civilians upon explosion in a Musayib, Iraq marketplace; some of which were children on their way to school; no casualties or property damage were reported. No one claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2005: Unknown gunmen assassinated the imam and preacher of the Al-Taysir mosque, Shaykh Mujahid Muhammad Taha al-Samarra’i, in the Al-Mahmudiyah City, which is just south of Baghdad, Iraq. The imam was shot to death as he was leaving his residence. No one claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2005: Unknown gunmen killed Sayed Fadel al-Shoq, a member of the Shiite political party, the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) in a drive-by shooting which took place in the southern Baghdad district of Dura. The passenger in the car, who was also a party member, was wounded; the two SCIRI officials worked for Sadr, a radical anti-American Shiite cleric. No one claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2005: Villagers shot and killed, Javed Ali, a Lashkar-e Taiba commander in Rajauri, India.
04/10/2006: A bag left by two individuals exploded in the third car on a Vladivostok-Ussurilsk commuter train in the Primorye territory at the Sovkhoznaya railroad station near the city of Artyom, Russia, at 6:49 p.m. The bomb was weak and the explosion injured none of the fifteen people. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2006: A bomb exploded at the intersection directly in front of the municipal building in the Muslim Slav-dominated town of Novi Pazar, Serbia, causing no injuries and minor damage to windows and cars nearby.
04/10/2006: A grenade exploded near the newly opened office of a breakaway faction of the Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka, just hours after the group which had formed a political wing had opened the office. Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam were suspected in the attack.
04/10/2006: A paramilitary trooper CRPF head constable Muskanda was abducted from near a polling station by suspected tribal militants under Bokoliahat outpost in eastern Karbi Anglong, India, and was freed by his abductors on April 13 at an unspecified place. There was no claim of responsibility for the attack but the Karbi Longri Northcachar Liberation Front (KLNLF) was strongly suspected.
04/10/2006: A police official said a teacher of Jainar High School in Singbargaon was shot dead in western Assam's Kokrajhar (District), India.  No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2006: A timebomb exploded in a vacant lot in Gwadar, Pakistan, damaging window-panes of houses on the Hospital Road. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2006: An explosive device connected to a mobile phone was found under the seat next to the middle doors of a bus which transports judges and prosecutors in the Beyoglu neighborhood of Istanbul, Turkey, after the bus carrying 37 judges and prosecutors to their courts in Beyoglu, Eyup and Gaziosmanpasa was emptied and police could defuse the bomb when the mobile phone battery died. The Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK) claimed responsibility for the attack, calling judges and prosecutors "puppets" for the Turkish government.
04/10/2006: An unknown number of Chadian rebels entered a refugee camp in Goz Amer, Chad during a food distribution exercise. The rebels stole equipment from aid workers and forced 118 of them to spend the night at the camp before allowing them to leave the next morning. There were no casualties.
04/10/2006: An unknown number of suspected United Front for Change (FUC) members raided a refugee camp in Goz Beida, Chad. The rebels took nine staff hostage but later released them. There were no casualties.
04/10/2006: Armed men with automatic weapons believed to be local bandits attacked a vehicle provided by the UNICEF to the Ministry of Health in Gbawi, Central African republic. A vehicle of the Mulitinational Force in the Central African Republic (CAR) arrived at the scene and an exchange of fire erupted, in which two soldiers were injured. The driver was seriously wounded in the legs and admitted to hospital. The bodies of the doctors, Eric Kassa Kelembo of the Pasteur Institute of Bangui, and Kaba Mebri, with the global fund for the fight against AIDS, both CAR citizens, were brought to the capital.  No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2006: At least two people died and nine, including a Somali parliamentarian, were wounded when a United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) convoy of 72 food aid trucks carrying 2,500 tons of food was ambushed near the central Somali town of Baidoa shortly after midnight. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2006: Basra, Iraq, police located five 122 mm Katyusha rockets pointed at and ready to be fired at Basra Oil refinery after police acted on information gained in the confession of five men arrested with five more rockets in their possession. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2006: Gunmen blew up the pipes of a drinking water treatment plant running to the U.S. Ayn al-Asad base. Clashes raged between the gunmen and members of the plant's security, and were followed by explosions that led to the destruction of the plant's water pumps and power generators. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2006: Gunmen burst into the house of Ghulam Mohammed in Kashmir, India, shooting him and his wife dead before gunning down Mohammed's brother, Assad Ullah. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2006: Gunmen in Fallujah, Iraq, attacked a civilian truck convoy that was guarded by police commandos, and security forces killed three insurgents in the ensuing gunbattle. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2006: Gunmen stormed a Shi'a home near a Shi'a mosque in the Al-Dura neighborhood in Baghdad, Iraq, and killed three members of the same family. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2006: Insurgents blew up rail tracks near Nushki on the Quetta-Zahidan sector of Pakistan, causing rail traffic to be suspended after a two-foot section of the track was blown up, according to railway officials. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2006: Muhammad Shafiq, a Pakistani driver working in Iraq with a company known as Mabrad which supplies U.S. forces, was kidnapped by gunmen near Fallujah, Iraq. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2006: Palestinian militants fired at least four rockets on Israel, and authorities suspect that three of them were launched from the Beit Lahia area. No damage or injuries were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2006: Police recovered a body of a police registered informer, identified as Muzaffar Ahmad Bania alias Chotto, from Kangan area in Srinagar (District) of India. He had reportedly been abducted by unidentified terrorists on the night of April 10 and later strangled to death. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2006: Rebels from the United Front for Change (FUC) claimed responsibility for seizing the village of Koukou, Togo. There were no casualties.
04/10/2006: Rockets were fired on the Pir Koh gas field in the Dera Bugti district, India, damaging a gas well. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2006: Suspected cadres of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) triggered a claymore land mine explosion at 2:55 p.m. that killed five soldiers riding in an army cab, and also struck a vehicle carrying a group of non-governmental organization local workers of Human Development Center (HUDEC) traveling in the opposite direction, which killed two civilian aid workers, in the Mirusuvil area of Jaffna (District). The Sri Lanka Air Force sent a helicopter to the area to evacuate the casualties.
04/10/2006: Suspected Karbi militants hurled a grenade and wounded at least two BSF jawans who were on poll duty in the area near Hawraghat, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2006: Suspected terrorists shot dead a water tanker driver and his assistant in Dherdoni who supplied water to security forces near the Afghan border in North Waziristan, Pakistan. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but the Taliban was blamed.
04/10/2006: The Karuna faction attacked an LTTE camp with small arms and RPG's at 8:30 a.m. in Kataparichan, Sampur, the LTTE-controlled area in Muttur, Sri Lanka.
04/10/2006: Thirty armed men attacked soldiers supervising free medical treatment for residents of the hillside village of Wenbi, India. Wielding rifles, axes, and bows and arrows, the unidentified perpetrators killed two Indonesian soldiers. A Indian soldier and a student were also wounded. Two of the attackers were also killed. Students training in the Keerom (District) were evacuated to Padangbulan medical school in Apebupura, Jayapura.
04/10/2006: Tribesmen opened fire on a passenger van on its way to Dera Bugti, India from Sui in the Pesh Bogi area. A young girl was injured in the attack. The assailants disappeared after FC personnel reached the place and returned fire. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2006: Two persons, identified as Ahmed Yar and Muhammad Nawaz, were killed and at least 20 others sustained injuries when a bomb in plastic bag exploded at 10 a.m. in a barber shop at the two-storey commercial building of Kohlu Bazaar in Quetta, Pakistan. The blast also destroyed four shops, including a salon and a bakery, in the town’s main bazaar, and three suspects were later detained in connection with the incident. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2007: A female suicide bomber wearing an Islamic gown blew herself up in a crowd of men waiting outside a police recruiting station in Muqdadiyah, Iraq.  Seventeen people were killed and another 33 were injured by the blast.  No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2007: A Kenyan pastor was killed and a relative of a member of parliament (MP) was critically wounded when gunmen wielding AK-47 rifles opened fire on them in Kenya’s Mount Elgon district.  No one claimed responsibility for the attack, but authorities believed the Sabaot Land Defense Force (SLDF) militia was to blame.
04/10/2007: A man claiming to possess a bomb hijacked a Turkish jetliner, but the plane landed safely in Ankara, Turkey.  The man had no explosives on him, and everyone exited the plane without incident.  There was no clear information regarding any affiliations the man may have had that could have motivated the hijacking.
04/10/2007: An Israeli man was shot and wounded in a drive-by shooting near the West Bank, Palestine, settlement of Karnei Shomron.  No one claimed responsibility for the shooting.
04/10/2007: An unknown number of suicide bombers detonated their explosives while engaging in a firefight with an unknown number of Casablanca police.  No group claimed responsibility.
04/10/2007: At least six people were killed and 11 were wounded when a car bomb blew up at a checkpoint near Baghdad University in Iraq.  No one claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2007: Four homemade projectiles were fired at the southern Israeli city of Sderot by the Martyr Yasser Arafat Brigades, an affiliate of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade.  The group claimed responsibility for the attack, but there were no reports of casualties or damage.
04/10/2007: Militants set fire to and destroyed a Catholic church in Baku, Azerbaijan, but there were no reports of casualties.  No one claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2007: One Afghan policeman was killed when suspected Taliban militants attacked a police convoy in the Loya Wala area of Afghanistan’s Kandahar Province.  A clash then erupted between the two sides, resulting in the death of one militant fighter.  The Taliban did not immediately claim responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2007: One African peacekeeper was killed and two others were wounded by gunmen in Sudan’s Darfur region.  No one claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2007: One man was killed and three others were wounded when suspected members of the Sunni Tehreek (ST) group tried to overtake the Jamia Masjid Ahle Hadith mosque in Karachi, Pakistan.  A police vehicle was also damaged in the incident.  No one made an official claim of responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2008: On Thursday evening at 1830, in Paquibato, Philippines, assailants attempted to burn down a mobile telephone tower but were thwarted by soldiers who engaged the assailants in a firefight, causing no injuries or damage.  No group claimed responsibility, although an Armed Forces of the Philippines senior officer said the New People's Army/Communist Party of the Philippines (NPA-CPP) was responsible.
04/10/2008: On Thursday in Athens, Greece, explosions damaged 35 cars, mostly Fiat and Alfa Romeo cars. No group claimed responsibility.
04/10/2008: On Thursday morning, in Parsa Patauli VDC 1, Mahottari district, Nepal, unknown assailants fired upon a polling booth, killing one person and wounding two others. There was  no motive or damage reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/10/2008: On Thursday, a suicide car bomber detonated in Kandahar, Kandahar province, Afghanistan, killing nine civilians and wounding 22 civilians, two Afghan National Policemen and three Coalition soldiers. The explosion occurred as a NATO-led military convoy passed through the area. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
04/10/2008: On Thursday, at 1645t, in Gadhiya, Sarlahi, Nepal, assailants shot and killed Shambhu Prasad Singh, an independent candidate for the Constituent Assembly election. There was no motive or damage reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/10/2008: On Thursday, in Galkot, Nepal, former communist Maoist rebels set a polling station on fire, causing no reported casualties or damage. There was no motive reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/10/2008: On Thursday, in Yathrib, Salah ad Din, Iraq, the mayor of the district, Shawkat Abdel Rahman, escaped an assassination attempt by an improvised explosive device that targeted him while he was returning to his house, causing no casualties. There was no damage or motive reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/10/2008: On Thursday, suspected Karbi Longri North Cachar Liberation Front (KLNLF) militants detonated a bicycle bomb that injured 35 people at a busy weekly market on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Road in Howraghat in the Indian district of Karbi Anglong, Assam province, India. No damage was reported and no claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
04/10/2008: On Thursday, the chief of Al Dour local council was the target of an assassination attempt through the use of a roadside bomb. The explosion occurred as his car passed through the town center in the Sala al Din province, Iraq. The attack left the official wounded, however no other casualties or property damage were reported. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
04/10/2008: On Thursday, the Communist Party of India- Maoist shot and killed six activists of the Sashastra People's Morcha (SPM) in the Rohtas District of Bihar, Jharkhand, India. The victims were from the Barachatti and Mohanpur areas of Gaya district, close to the Jharkhand border. The encounter took place in the Tardih jungle, some 160 km south-west of the state capital Patna. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2008: On Thursday, unknown assailants attacked an Israeli motorist using petrol bombs in Azzun, West Bank, West Bank and Gaza Strip, causing no casualties.  No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2009: On Friday evening at 1800, in Bhulabheda, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, assailants fired upon and killed a branch committee member of the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M).  No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
04/10/2009: On Friday morning at 0500, a strong blast rocked Kalamansig town in the vicinity of Poblacion Kalamansig in Sultan Kudarat province, Philippines. The improved explosive device was believed to have been fashioned from a 60-milimeter mortar. A mobile phone was used to trigger the explosion. The IED was planted in front of the Azen General Merchandise owned by Chenda Chua. No casualties were reported, but damage occurred to the front of Azen General Merchandise's building as well as to establishments nearby. No groups have claimed responsibility, though police believe that Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) joined together for this attack.
04/10/2009: On Friday morning at 0620, in Karabudakhkentsky, Dagestan, Russia, during an inspection by the Federal Security Service Department for Dagestan, a black cellophane bag with a homemade explosive device was discovered at the 590th kilometer of the Mazdok-Kazimagomed gas pipeline. Later, at 0815, while a member of the special purpose police detachment (OMON) of the Russian Interior Ministry was trying to defuse the explosive device, it exploded, killing one OMON officer and injuring another. Specialists will have to replace nearly 10 meters of damaged pipes. This incident was part of a series of linked attacks that targeted the Mazdok-Kazimagomed gas pipeline. No group claimed responsibility.
04/10/2009: On Friday morning at 0930, in Bhaderwah, Doda, Jammu and Kashmir, India, unidentified militants detonated an explosive device targeting a civilian residence, killing a woman and damaging her residence. No group claimed responsibility.
04/10/2009: On Friday morning, in the Karabudakhkent District of Dagestan, Russia, an explosive device was discovered at the 591st kilometer of the Mazdok-Kazimagomed gas pipeline. At 1130 the improvised explosive device was defused safely. According to bomb disposal experts, the power of the bomb was equivalent to about 7 kilograms of Trinitrotoluene. Gas supplies to Makhachkala and Kaspiysk were suspended for 24 hours. This incident was part of a series of linked attacks that targeted the Mazdok-Kazimagomed gas pipeline. No group claimed responsibility.
04/10/2009: On Friday morning, Taliban militants opened fire on the chief of Maqar District as he was on his way to his office in Maqar, Ghazni, Afghanistan, wounding the chief.  The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2009: On Friday, a bomb exploded during a jirga, elders' meeting, injuring two people in Bannu, North West Frontier, Pakistan. No group has claimed responsibility.
04/10/2009: On Friday, a cycle bomb detonated near a wedding party in the Al Askari, 30 km east of Ba'quba, Iraq, wounding ten civilians. No claim of responsibility has been reported.
04/10/2009: On Friday, a Katyusha missile hit a house in the Taji district of Baghdad wounding two civilians and causing extensive material damage to the house. No group claimed responsibility.
04/10/2009: On Friday, a roadside bomb targeted a civilian vehicle on the main route from the village of Mansouriyat Al Jabal to Muqdadiyah, Diyala, Iraq. Two civilians were killed and three children were wounded in the attack. No claim of responsibility has been reported.
04/10/2009: On Friday, a roadside bomb targeted civilians in the city of Yousifiyah, 25 km to the south of Baghdad. Two civilians were killed and four others were wounded in the attack. No claim of responsibility has been reported.
04/10/2009: On Friday, a woman was killed and her daughter wounded when an improvised explosive device went off on a main street in the Al Zahraa neighborhood in eastern Mosul, Ninawa province, Iraq. No claim of responsibility has been reported.
04/10/2009: On Friday, between Haflong and Maibong, near Wadrengdisha, in North Cachar Hills, Assam, India, assailants fired upon the Badarpur-Lumding Barak Valley Express passenger train, killing one paramilitary member, wounding 14 civilians, and damaging the train.  No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the Dima Halim Daogah-Jewel Garlossa (DHD-J) was responsible.
04/10/2009: On Friday, in Furrow, Garhwa, Jharkhand, India, Communist Part of India- Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants attacked a police camp. No casualties or damages were reported.
04/10/2009: On Friday, in the Chintagufa area of Dantewadad, Chhattisgarh, India, Communist Party of India- Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants ambushed a security forces patrol, killing nine Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel, a police officer, and wounding eight others. No damages were reported in the attack.
04/10/2009: On Friday, unidentified militants beheaded a Pakistani man and shot dead another, both suspected of spying for US forces in North Waziristan, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. No group has claimed responsibility.
04/10/2009: On Friday, unidentified militants shot and killed an Afghan suspected of spying for US forces in North Waziristan, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. No group has claimed responsibility.
04/10/2009: On Friday, unknown gunmen killed a member of the Political Council for National Powers in front of his house in the Al Zohour neighborhood of northeastern Mosul. No claim of responsibility has been reported.
04/10/2010: On Saturday evening at about 1900, in Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkaria, Russia, unidentified assailants detonated an improvised explosive device (IED) that was attached to the Volga car of Police Colonel Zuber Shukayev, chief of the Interior Ministry's criminal investigation directorate for Kabarda-Balkaria. Shukayev was accompanied by his nephew in the car but he was unhurt. Shukayev died from his injuries while in the hospital. The IED was equivalent to 200 grams of TNT and damaged the car. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2010: On Saturday morning, in Fallujah, Al Anbar, Iraq, assailants detonated two improvised explosive devices near the house of a former police lieutenant colonel, Tariq Fawaz, killing one woman and injuring four others. The deceased was identified as his wife and Fawaz was injured along with two of his children. A third bomb hidden outside the same house detonated after Iraqi security forces and neighbors arrived at the scene, wounding two more people. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2010: On Saturday night at 0200, in the Domanda district of Khost province, Afghanistan, suspected Taliban militants launched a pre-dawn attack on an Indian road construction camp, burning vehicles and equipment and sending the crew fleeing. No casualties were reported in the attack and no group claimed responsibility.
04/10/2010: On Saturday night at 0400, in Chatuchak, Bangkok, Thailand, assailants fired a grenade from an M-79 launcher into a parking lot within the Crime Suppression Division police compound, damaging a policeman's Honda Civic and a power pole. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/10/2010: On Saturday night, in Sarodag village, in the Kaimur district of Bihar, India, in one of four linked attacks, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) cadres blew up a middle school with dynamite, but no casualties were reported. A community hall and two health centers were also blown up in the related attacks. On 04/11/2010, villagers found three Maoist leaflets urging the police to stop Operation Green Hunt. They also warned that Ranchi SSP Praveen Kumar Singh and Ranchi SP (rural) Michael Raj S. will be punished in a 'jan adalat'. The ultras claimed that these officers had killed two of their members, Ashok and Suman, in a fake encounter. Finally, the leaflets also claimed that the school was targeted because the police used schools as their camps during anti-Maoist operations. The CPI (Maoist) claimed responsibility.
04/10/2010: On Saturday night, in Sarodag village, in the Kaimur district of Bihar, India, in one of four linked attacks, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) cadres blew up a second health center with dynamite, but no casualties were reported. A community hall, another health center and a school were also blown up in the related attacks. On 04/11/2010, villagers found three Maoist leaflets urging the police to stop Operation Green Hunt. They also warned that Ranchi SSP Praveen Kumar Singh and Ranchi SP (rural) Michael Raj S. will be punished in a 'jan adalat'. The ultras claimed that these officers had killed two of their members, Ashok and Suman, in a fake encounter. Finally, the leaflets also claimed that the school was targeted because the police used schools as their camps during anti-Maoist operations. The CPI (Maoist) claimed responsibility.
04/10/2010: On Saturday night, in Sarodag village, Kaimur, Bihar, India, in one of four linked attacks, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) cadres blew up a community hall, damaging the building but causing no casualties. A school and two health centers were also blown up in the related attacks. On 04/11/2010, villagers found three Maoist leaflets urging the police to stop Operation Green Hunt. They also warned that Ranchi SSP Praveen Kumar Singh and Ranchi SP (rural) Michael Raj S. will be punished in a 'jan adalat'. The ultras claimed that these officers had killed two of their members, Ashok and Suman, in a fake encounter. Finally, the leaflets also claimed that the school was targeted because the police used schools as their camps during anti-Maoist operations. The CPI (Maoist) claimed responsibility.
04/10/2010: On Saturday night, in Sarodag village, Kaimur, Bihar, India, in one of four linked attacks, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) cadres blew up a health center with dynamite, damaging the building but causing no casualties. A second health center, a community hall and a school were also blown up in the related attacks. On 04/11/2010, villagers found three Maoist leaflets urging the police to stop Operation Green Hunt. They also warned that Ranchi SSP Praveen Kumar Singh and Ranchi SP (rural) Michael Raj S. will be punished in a 'jan adalat'. The ultras claimed that these officers had killed two of their members, Ashok and Suman, in a fake encounter. Finally, the leaflets also claimed that the school was targeted because the police used schools as their camps during anti-Maoist operations. The CPI (Maoist) claimed responsibility.
04/10/2010: On Saturday, in Bang Pa-in, Ayuthaya, Ayutthaya, Thailand, unknown militants bombed three high voltage electricity pylons, aimed at causing a blackout. The blast destroyed part of the concrete base of the pylons, but the structures was left standing. Seven bombs were used in the attack, four bombs exploded and the other three malfunctioned. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2010: On Saturday, in Karamna, Khyber, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan, Lashkar-e-Islam (LI) commander, Ghazi Afridi, was killed when a confrontation erupted between a group of kidnappers and himself. Afridi had gone to negotiate the safe release of EPI technician Khitab Gul, and was accompanied by three of Gul's relatives. During negotiations a scuffle broke out and the kidnappers opened fire, which resulted in the instant death of the LI commander. The kidnappers abducted the three relatives along with Zameen Khan, an official of the Khasadar Force. The status of the hostages is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2010: On Saturday, in the Charagali area of Upper Dir District of North West Frontier Province, Pakistan, unidentified militants blew up a boys’ primary school with explosives, razing the school to the ground. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2010: On Saturday, in the Koraput district of Orissa, India, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI - Maoist) militants blew up a culvert on the crucial Narayanpatna-Laxmipur road using a landmine and put up posters opposing ‘Operation Green Hunt'. They also put up posters near the Roxy area of the K.Balanga block of Sundergarh District. No casualties were reported in the attack.
04/10/2010: On Saturday, in the Wardoj district of Badakhshan, Afghanistan, Taliban militants ambushed a convoy carrying provinicial police officials, injuring a district police chief and killing one of his body guards. The Taliban claimed responsibility.
04/10/2010: On Saturday, unidentified militants blew up a gas pipeline in Mastung District, Balochistan, Pakistan, 40 kilometers from Quetta. The militant planted an explosive device under the 3-inch diameter gas pipeline. No casualties were reported in the attack. The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) claimed responsibility for the blast.
04/10/2011: On Sunday afternoon around 1500, in the sub-Kamaz district of Nazran, Ingushetia, Russia, a bomb planted by unidentified militants under the Mercedes car of the former Deputy Minister of Construction, Sultan-Girey Khashagulgov, detonated. The device detonated after Khashagulgov arrived home and exited his car to approach the gate in front of his home. Khashagulgov was injured in the blast but not killed. An unknown amount of monetary damage occurred from the blast. No other casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the bombing.
04/10/2011: On Sunday afternoon at 1745, at electricity tower 195 in the rural area of Malabrigo near the village of El Morrón in Guadalupe, Antioquia, Colombia, militants from the 36th Front of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) remotely detonated an improvised explosive landmine device. One technician of the Interconexión Eléctrica S.A. E.S.P (ISA) was injured while three others sustained minor injuries. The blast resulted in an unknown amount of property damage to the electricity tower and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2011: On Sunday evening around 2030, in the Imam Jafar area on the Sheberghan-Sar-e-pol main road about 30 kilometers from the capital of Sar-e pol, Afghanistan, suspected Taliban militants opened fired near a security checkpoint, killing the commander of the post, Mohamad Rasul, while he was riding a bike. No group has claimed responsibility, but the Taliban are suspected for the attack.
04/10/2011: On Sunday morning, in Ashkelon, Southern District, Israel, unknown militants in the Gaza Strip fired a Grad rocket into Israel. The rocket was successfully intercepted by the Iron Dome System. No damages or casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/10/2011: On Sunday morning, in the village of Sissikebe near Birao, Vakaga, Central African Republic (CAR), 22 CAR soldiers were killed and an unknown number wounded when unidentified militants targeted and attacked CAR soldiers and Union of Democratic Forces for Unity (UFDR) paramilitary fighters with unknown firearms. Five militants were killed and 15 were wounded in the attack. It is unknown if the attack caused any property damage. The militant group Convention of Patriots for Justice and Peace (CPJP) claimed responsibility for the attack in talks with the media.
04/10/2011: On Sunday morning, in the Zaafaraniya neighborhood, Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq, unknown assailants detonated a sticky improvised explosive device attached to a Water Resources Ministry vehicle. One government employee was killed in the blast and caused an unknown amount of property damage to the vehicle. No group claimed responsibility.
04/10/2011: On Sunday night at 2200, at Lilong bazaar in Imphal West District, Manipur, India, unidentified militants detonated a hand grenade at the residence of a primary school teacher, Muhammad Nashir, who works at Tamenglong. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage, but resulted in no casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2011: On Sunday night, Dojangi area of Mohmand, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, in one of two linked attacks, unidentified militants detonated explosives near a 66 kilovolt grid station, suspending electricity to nearby areas. No casualties were no group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2011: On Sunday night, Miani Khel area of Mohmand, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, in one of two linked attacks, unidentified militants detonated explosives near a 66 kilovolt grid station, suspending electricity to nearby areas. No casualties were no group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2011: On Sunday, in Baresand village in Latehar, Jharkhand, India, unidentified militants kidnapped two villagers, Harbar Singh and Chetu Singh. On 04/12/2011 a Kangaroo Court was convened in the forest in which the villagers were shot and killed. The bodies also bore cuts by unknown sharp weapons. The Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) claimed responsibility for the killing through a note left near the bodies. They accused the duo of being brokers and indulging in theft.
04/10/2011: On Sunday, in Eshkolot, Southern District, Israel, unknown militants fired three mortar shells from Gaza into an open area. No casualties were reported, and an unknown amount of property damage was caused. No group claimed responsibility.
04/10/2011: On Sunday, in Fallujah, Al Anbar, Iraq, unknown assailants detonated an improvised explosive device attached to a civilian vehicle near the al-Hadra al-Muhammadiya Mosque. One civilian was killed, and two other civilians were wounded in the blast. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage to the vehicle and no group claimed responsibility.
04/10/2011: On Sunday, in Lamitan, Basilan, Philippines, unknown militants left a bomb in front of a school compound in a biscuit can. The bomb was believed to be made from ammonium nitrate and attached to two cellular phones. There were no damages or casualties reported, as the bomb was found and safely defused by a patrolling army ordinance team. No group claimed responsibility, but Abu Sayyaf is suspected.
04/10/2011: On Sunday, in Machipora village in Handwara area of Kupwara district, Jammu and Kashmir, India, unidentified militants set ablaze a Panchayat (village level local self government institution) building. The multi-phased Panchayat elections will be held in State over the next six weeks after a gap of 10 years. No casualties were reported, but the building was badly damaged. No group claimed responsibility for this incident.
04/10/2011: On Sunday, in the al-Amel neighborhood, Mosul, Ninawa, Iraq, unknown gunmen shot and killed an off duty policeman working for the National Investigations Office near his house. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/10/2011: On Sunday, in the Alawi neighborhood, Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq, unknown assailants detonated a roadside improvised explosive device near the International Railway Station, causing an unknown amount of property damage. Three civilians and one policeman were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility.
04/10/2011: On Sunday, in the Ghazaliya neighborhood, Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq, unknown gunmen shot and killed a former Iraqi Army general under Saddam Hussein outside of his house. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/10/2011: On Sunday, in the Hurriya neighborhood, Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq, unknown assailants detonated an improvised explosive device attached to the car of an Iraqi parliament employee, Raghad Farouq, killing him. The blast caused an unknown amount of property damage and no group claimed responsibility.
04/10/2011: On Sunday, in the Loti area of Dera Bugti, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, unknown militants detonated an improvised explosive device alongside a pipeline connecting two gas wells to the main plant, destroying a large portion of the pipeline and suspending gas supply to the purification plant. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/10/2011: On Sunday, in the Zaiyouna neighborhood, Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq, unknown gunmen with silenced weapons, shot and killed Police Captain Mohammed Muhssan, working for the Interior Ministry, outside his home. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/10/2012: A suicide bomber riding a motorcycle detonated near Afghan Local Police (ALP) officers in Musa Qala district, Helmand province, Afghanistan. The officers had been responding to a previous suicide attack. Three police officers were killed and six others injured in the blast. This was one of two coordinated attacks in Musa Qala and one of three attacks against police targets in Afghanistan on this date. The Taliban claimed responsbility for the incidents.
04/10/2012: An explosive detonated as two assailants attempted to plant it at a market in Sangin district, Helmand province, Afghanistan. Both assailants were killed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2012: An explosive detonated near a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) vehicle in Wakil Wazir Square, Marjah district, Helmand province, Afghanistan. One NATO soldier was injured in the explosion. The Taliban claimed responsibility for this incident.
04/10/2012: An explosive device detonated near a military convoy in Thala Mimoun area, Tizi Ouzou province, Algeria. One soldier was killed and two others injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2012: An explosive device detonated outside the home of a guard for the AsiaCell company in Mosul city, Nineveh governorate, Iraq. The guard's son was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for this incident.
04/10/2012: Assailants attacked a cattle market in Banki town, Borno state, Nigeria. This was one of five coordinated attacks in Banki on this day. Ten people, including five assailants, were killed across the five incidents. No group claimed responsibility for these attacks; however, sources suspected Boko Haram.
04/10/2012: Assailants attacked an Afghan police patrol in Nahri Karez area, Kandahar province, Afghanistan. Afghan National Army (ANA) troops provided support to the police officers. Two assailants were killed and two wounded in this attack. No group claimed responsibility for this incident; however, authorities attributed it to the Taliban.
04/10/2012: Assailants attacked the divisional police headquarters in Banki town, Borno state, Nigeria. This was one of five coordinated attacks in Banki on this day. Ten people, including five assailants, were killed across the five incidents. No group claimed responsibility for these attacks; however, sources suspected Boko Haram.
04/10/2012: Assailants attacked the office of Nigerian Customs Services in Banki town, Borno state, Nigeria. This was one of five coordinated attacks in Banki on this day. Ten people, including five assailants, were killed across the five incidents. No group claimed responsibility for these attacks; however, sources suspected Boko Haram.
04/10/2012: Assailants attacked the office of Nigerian Immigration Services in Banki town, Borno state, Nigeria. This was one of five coordinated attacks in Banki on this day. Ten people, including five assailants, were killed across the five incidents. No group claimed responsibility for these attacks; however, sources suspected Boko Haram.
04/10/2012: Assailants fired rocket-propelled grenades at an oil pipeline in Mafrak al-Saeed district, Shabwah governorate, Yemen. There were no casualties reported, but the pipeline was damaged. No group claimed responsibility for this attack; however, sources suspected Al-Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
04/10/2012: Assailants opened fire and threw grenades at a military checkpost in Shabkar area, Ma'rib governorate, Yemen. Eight soldiers were killed and four others injured in the attack. Ansar al-Sharia claimed responsibility for this incident.
04/10/2012: Assailants opened fire on worshippers leaving a church in Banki town, Borno state, Nigeria. At least 10 people were killed in the attack. This was one of five coordinated attacks in Banki on this day. No group claimed responsibility for these attacks; however, sources suspected Boko Haram.
04/10/2012: Assailants threw a grenade at the convoy of the head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) in Benghazi city, Benghazi district, Libya. The grenade missed the convoy, and the target, Ian Martin, was not injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2012: Suicide bombers in an explosives-laden car detonated outside a government facility in Gurzara district, Herat province, Afghanistan. Ten people, including three police officers, were killed and 30 others injured in the blast. This was one of three attacks against police targets in Afghanistan on this date. The Taliban claimed responsbility for the incidents.
04/10/2012: Three suicide bombers attacked the police headquarters in Musa Qala district, Helmand province, Afghanistan. Two bombers detonated inside the compound, while the third was shot by police. Eight police officers were killed and an unknown number of people injured in the attack. This was one of two coordinated attacks in Musa Qala and one of three attacks against police targets in Afghanistan on this date. The Taliban claimed responsbility for the incidents.
04/10/2013: A roadside explosive device detonated in Panare district, Pattani province, Thailand. The explosion targeted military reinforcements who were responding to an earlier attack. Two soldiers were killed and seven others were wounded. This was the second of two attacks; the first of which was a shooting at a military outpost. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2013: An explosive device detonated along a road near a police officer in Muqdadiya city, Diyala governorate, Iraq. One police officer was killed in the explosion. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2013: An explosive device detonated near a group of soldiers in Arauquita town, Arauca department, Colombia. Two soldiers were killed and two others were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities attributed the attack to the 10th "Guadalupe Salcedo" Front of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
04/10/2013: An explosive device detonated near soldiers in Kupwara town, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. Two troopers were injured in the explosion. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2013: An explosive device hidden in a letter was sent to a Europol Investigazioni office in Brescia city, Lombardy region, Italy. The device did not detonate. The Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI) claimed responsibility for the incident, stating that it targeted the agency because the office supported the police in spying on members of FAI and in gathering evidence to be used against them.
04/10/2013: An explosive device placed on a road detonated near a police vehicle in Khogyani district, Uruzgan province, Afghanistan. Three Afghan Local Police (ALP) officers, including the district chief, were killed. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2013: An explosive device was thrown at a house in Istok town, Pec district, Kosovo. The explosion was targeting a Serbian family who lived in the house. No casualties were reported, but the explosion did damage the front door, walls, and roof. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2013: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated near an army checkpoint between Failoun and Bakfalloun cities, Idlib governorate, Syria. An unknown number of casualties occurred in the explosion. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2013: Assailants attacked a police patrol in Sayyad district, Sar-e Pol province, Afghanistan. One police officer and three assailants were killed in the ensuing firefight. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2013: Assailants attacked a security checkpost in Kago Kamar area, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. Nine of the assailants were killed and three others were injured in the ensuing firefight. Additionally, two soldiers were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities suspected that the attack was carried out by Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
04/10/2013: Assailants attacked an army checkpoint in Hermat area, Nineveh governorate, Iraq. One officer and two soldiers were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2013: Assailants attacked defense volunteers in tambon Karubi, Kapo district, Pattani province, Thailand. No injuries were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2013: Assailants committed 27 acts of arson on this day across several districts in Pattani province, Thailand. No injuries were reported as a result of these acts. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2013: Assailants detonated an explosive device near a fishing trawler, Pornsawan 22, docked at Pornsawan Pier, tambon Arnohru, Muang district, Pattani province, Thailand. No injuries were reported; however, the trawler sank. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2013: Assailants detonated an explosive device near a fishing trawler, the Chok Surask Montri, at Pornsawan Pier in Thamuang area, Pattani province, Thailand. No injuries were reported; however, the vessel was destroyed. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2013: Assailants detonated an explosive device on a boat in tambon Taluban, Sai Buri district, Pattani province, Thailand. No injuries were reported; however, the boat was damaged. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2013: Assailants detonated explosive devices near a gas pipeline in Malgazar area, Balochistan province, Pakistan. The pipeline was damaged, interrupting gas supplies to the nearby power station. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2013: Assailants detonated explosive devices near two telephone booths in Panare district, Pattani province, Thailand. No injuries were reported in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2013: Assailants fired rockets at security posts in Gayan district, Paktika province, Afghanistan. The rockets missed their targets and struck civilian homes, killing two children and injuring two others. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2013: Assailants fired two grenades at the home of Mayor Lourdes Escalante in Punta Mesa village, Negros Occidental province, Philippines. No one was injured, but property was damaged in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2013: Assailants opened fire on a paramilitary Rangers post in Sai Buri district, Pattani province, Thailand. No additional information is available.
04/10/2013: Assailants opened fire on police officers accompanying the Somaliland Minister for Livestock in Burco, Togdheer, Somalia. Two people were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2013: Assailants opened fire on the mayor of KwaZulu-Natal, Phindile Strydom, in her car in Estcourt town, KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa. The mayor was unharmed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2013: Assailants set a defense volunteer booth on fire in Kolor Kalee area, Kapo district, Pattani province, Thailand. No injuries were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2013: Assailants set a defense volunteer booth on fire in Kolor Kapa area, Kapo district, Pattani province, Thailand. No injuries were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2013: Assailants set a telephone pole on fire in Ban Lua area, Khok Pho district, Pattani province, Thailand. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2013: Assailants set a telephone pole on fire in Bang Klong area, Khok Pho district, Pattani province, Thailand. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident
04/10/2013: Assailants set fire to a mobile phone pole in Ban Cho Batu area, Sai Buri district, Pattani province, Thailand. No injuries were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2013: Assailants set fire to a mobile phone pole in Ban Kayo area, Sai Buri district, Pattani province, Thailand. No injuries were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2013: Assailants set fire to a mobile phone pole in Mor Saeng area, Kapo district, Pattani province, Thailand. No injuries were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2013: Assailants set fire to an agricultural office building in Plug Taen area, Mai Kaen district, Pattani province, Thailand. No injuries were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2013: Assailants set fire to telephone pole in Ban Pa Mai area, Mai Kaen district, Pattani province, Thailand. No injuries were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2013: Assailants set two power generation vehicles on fire in Mayo district, Pattani province, Thailand. No injuries were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2013: Assailants shot and killed a Philippine Army (PA) intelligence operative in Kurellem village, Basilan province, Philippines. No group claimed responsibility; however, authorities attributed the attack to the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG).
04/10/2013: Assailants torched a vocational training center in Sai Buri district, Pattani province, Thailand. No injuries were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2013: Gunmen attacked a group of politicians from the United Nationalist Alliance party in Kabuntalan Mother town, Maguindanao province, Philippines. The politicians were campaigning in the district when the gunmen approached and told them to leave, striking one campaigner with a pistol when the victim protested. No group claimed responsibility for this attack.
04/10/2013: Gunmen attacked a military outpost with automatic weapons in Panare district, Pattani province, Thailand. No injuries were reported during the violence. This was the first of two related events; the second coordinated event was the detonation of an explosive device as military rangers were responding to the scene of this shooting. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2013: Gunmen attacked an Ecuadorian journalist, Fausto Valdiviezo, in Guayaquil city, Guayas province, Ecuador. Valdiviezo escaped without injury. However, Valdiviezo was killed in another attack on April 11, 2013. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2013: Gunmen opened fire on a group of police officers protecting polio vaccinators in Mardan district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. One officer was killed and one other person was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2014: A Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) jeep hit a landmine in Munger district, Bihar state, India. Two officers were killed and at least two were wounded by the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed it to Maoists.
04/10/2014: A gunman opened fire on the motorcycle driven by Edwin Inocencio in barangay Longos, Malolos city, Bulacan province, Philippines. Inocencio, a government employee and potential future Congressional candidate, was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2014: A land mine detonated among civilians in Nowabad village, Zabul province, Afghanistan. One civilian was killed and one other was wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2014: A roadside bomb detonated in al-Salam market in Rasad Yafi district, Lahij governorate, Yemen. Six people were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2014: A roadside bomb detonated near a police patrol in Lakari area, Spin Boldak district, Kandahar province, Afghanistan. One police officer was killed and three others were wounded in the blast. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2014: A roadside bomb detonated near Baqubah city, Diyala governorate, Iraq. One civilian was killed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2014: A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) convoy in Spin Boldak district, Kandahar province, Afghanistan. The assailant was killed in the attack; however, there were no other reports of casualties. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2014: An assailant threw a grenade inside the People's Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC) protest camp in Chaeng Wattana area, Bangkok city, Bangkok province, Thailand. One security guard was injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2014: An assailant threw an explosive device under the vehicle of a police captain at El-Houssari Square in Sixth of October City, Giza governorate, Egypt. The police captain was injured in the blast. This was one of two related incidents that occurred in El-Houssari Square on the same day. Ajnad Misr claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/10/2014: An explosive device attached to the underside of a car was discovered and safely detonated at Talbot Park in Londonderry city, Londonderry district, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2014: An explosive device detonated at 3:00 am in Lat village, Latehar district, Jharkhand state, India. The explosion was followed by gunfire. The blasts and gunfire targeted a school being used as a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp, but no one was injured. This was one of four separate attacks on this camp on this date. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
04/10/2014: An explosive device detonated at 5:00 am in Lat village, Latehar district, Jharkhand state, India. The explosion was followed by gunfire. The blasts and gunfire targeted a school being used as a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp, but no one was injured. This was one of four separate attacks on this camp on this date. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
04/10/2014: An explosive device detonated at 6:30 am in Lat village, Latehar district, Jharkhand state, India. The explosion was followed by gunfire. The blasts and gunfire targeted a school being used as a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp, but no one was injured. This was one of four separate attacks on this camp on this date. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
04/10/2014: An explosive device detonated at a police camp in an unknown district in Bihar state, India. No one was injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2014: An explosive device detonated at El-Houssari Square in Sixth of October City, Giza governorate, Egypt. There were no reported casualties. This was one of two related incidents that occurred in El-Houssari square on the same day. Ajnad Misr claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/10/2014: An explosive device detonated in Baizai tehsil, Mohmand Agency, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. A woman and her child were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2014: An explosive device detonated near farmers in Yathrib area, Saladin governorate, Iraq. One civilian was killed and at least three children were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2014: An explosive device detonated near the residence of Saeed Gul in Dir Colony area, Peshawar district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. Gul, a Jama'at-e-Islami (JeI) Member of Provincial Assembly (MPA) was unharmed; however, two children were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2014: An explosive device detonated targeting a military patrol in Abu Ghraib city, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. At least one soldier was killed and three more soldiers were injured in the blast. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2014: An explosive device planted in a waste container detonated along a road in Qambarani road, Quetta city, Balochistan province, Pakistan. No one was injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2014: An explosive device planted inside a stolen vehicle detonated outside of the Bank of Greece in Athens city, Attica region, Greece. Although there were no reported casualties, several nearby buildings and shops were damaged in the blast. The Revolutionary Struggle claimed responsibility for the incident, stating that the attack was in retribution for the "predatory pro-memoranda policies" affecting the Greek people; however, Greek officials also attributed the attack to the November 17 Revolutionary Organization (N17RO).
04/10/2014: An explosive device was discovered and defused outside of the Mostafa Mahmoud Mosque in Mohandiseen neighborhood, Giza governorate, Egypt. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2014: An explosive device was discovered behind a tea garden in Deogoria village, Lakhipur municipality, Assam state, India. The device was safely detonated by security forces in a controlled explosion. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2014: An explosives-laden motorbike detonated in Spin Thall area, Hangu district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. The motorcycle driver was killed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2014: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated in Sadr City area, Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. At least five people were killed and 16 people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2014: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated near a gas station in Amin area of Habibiya neighborhood, Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. At least seven people were killed and 35 people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2014: Assailants attacked a teacher training college in Dikwa town, Borno state, Nigeria. Six teachers and two security guards were killed in the attack, and nine family members of the teachers were abducted. The whereabouts of the victims are unknown. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to Boko Haram.
04/10/2014: Assailants attacked a truck transporting electronic voting machines in Mathili block, Malkangiri district, Odisha state, India. No one was injured in the attack, but the truck and four voting machines were damaged. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, police alternately suspected Maoists and local criminals.
04/10/2014: Assailants attacked an Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) supply convoy in Ceel Buur town, Galguduud region, Somalia. Eleven people, including six assailants and a combination of five soldiers and civilians, were killed in the ensuing clash. Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2014: Assailants attacked an Indian military patrol in Handwara town, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. One soldier was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2014: Assailants attacked an unknown number of polling stations in Nawada district, Bihar state, India. There were no reports of casualties in the attack, but an electronic voting machine was damaged. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2014: Assailants attacked Apex Mining Company in Maco municipality, Compostela Valley province, Philippines. There were no reported casualties or injuries; however, the assailants torched at least 21 pieces of mining equipment and a number of vehicles. The New People's Army (NPA) claimed responsibly for the incident and stated that the attack was carried out in retaliation to the company's destructive policies.
04/10/2014: Assailants attacked Kala Balge town, Borno state, Nigeria. At least 60 people were killed and an unknown number wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Boko Haram.
04/10/2014: Assailants attacked residents in Budajah village, Al-Abarah area, Diyala governorate, Iraq. At least eight people were killed and one person was injured in the attack, and a mosque was set on fire. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected the assailants may have been Shia militia members.
04/10/2014: Assailants fired a mortar shell at a construction site located at the Turkish Embassy in Hodan neighborhood, Mogadishu city, Banaadir region, Somalia. At least two embassy staff members were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources suspected that Al-Shabaab carried out the attack.
04/10/2014: Assailants fired four rockets at the port in Xamar Jajab area, Mogadishu city, Banaadir region, Somalia. The rockets fell short of the port, landing in the water. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2014: Assailants fired mortars at Israeli soldiers in Kissufim village, Southern district, Israel. No one was injured in the incident. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2014: Assailants opened fire on a man, identified as Aqeel, in Lyari Town neighborhood, Karachi city, Sindh province, Pakistan. The victim was wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources noted they were members of a banned group.
04/10/2014: Assailants opened fire on a police checkpoint in Al-Siniyah area, in the Biji District, Saladin governorate, Iraq. At least one police officers were killed and three more officers were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2014: Assailants opened fire on a polling station in Balika Siksha Kendra area, Lat village, Jharkhand state, India. There were no reports of casualties in the attack. This was one of 16 related attacks on polling stations in Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand states on this day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed it to Maoists.
04/10/2014: Assailants opened fire on a polling station in Bastar district, Chhattisgarh state, India. There were no reported casualties in the blast. This was one of 16 related attacks on polling stations in Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand states on this day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed it to Maoists.
04/10/2014: Assailants opened fire on a polling station in Bayanar area, Chhattisgarh state, India. No one was injured in the attack. This was one of 16 related attacks on polling stations in Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand states on this day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed it to Maoists.
04/10/2014: Assailants opened fire on a polling station in Gadiras area, Chhattisgarh state, India. No one was injured in the attack. This was one of 16 related attacks on polling stations in Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand states on this day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed it to Maoists.
04/10/2014: Assailants opened fire on a polling station in Gadiras area, Dantewada district, Chhattisgarh state, India. No one was injured in the attack. This was one of 16 related attacks on polling stations in Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand states on this day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed it to Maoists.
04/10/2014: Assailants opened fire on a polling station in Kirandul area, Chhattisgarh state, India. No one was injured in the attack. This was one of 16 related attacks on polling stations in Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand states on this day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed it to Maoists.
04/10/2014: Assailants opened fire on a polling station in Mardapal area, Chhattisgarh state, India. No one was injured in the attack. This was one of 16 related attacks on polling stations in Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand states on this day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed it to Maoists.
04/10/2014: Assailants opened fire on a polling station in Narayanpur district, Chhattisgarh state, India. No one was injured in the attack. This was one of 16 related attacks on polling stations in Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand states on this day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed it to Maoists.
04/10/2014: Assailants opened fire on a polling station in Tongpal area, Sukma district, Chhattisgarh state, India. No one was injured in the attack. This was one of 16 related attacks on polling stations in Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand states on this day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed it to Maoists.
04/10/2014: Assailants opened fire on an Indonesian National Army border post in Gunung Pawa area along the Indonesia-Papua New Guinea border in Papua province, Indonesia. No one was injured in the attack. After the attack, assailants raised their own flag at the post. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected the Free Papua Movement (OPM-Organisasi Papua Merdeka).
04/10/2014: Assailants opened fire on Ghulam Hussain Baqar, a local shopkeeper and a Shia Muslim, at his shop near the Hyderi Imambargah in SITE Town, Karachi city, Sindh province, Pakistan. Baqar was killed and another individual, identified as Ali Hussain, was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident, which was described as sectarian in nature.
04/10/2014: Assailants opened fire on jail personnel in Lianga town, Surigao del Sur province, Philippines. A jail warden was killed and an officer was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2014: Assailants opened fire on seven North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) oil tankers in Jamrud tehsil, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. A driver was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected the involvement of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
04/10/2014: Assailants raided the house of a police colonel in Al-Dawr area, Saladin governorate, Iraq. The colonel was beheaded and killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2014: Assailants set fire to a mobile phone tower in Bhadrachalam town, Andhra Pradesh state, India. There were no reports of casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources suspected Maoists of the attack because a pro-Maoist poster was left at the scene.
04/10/2014: Assailants shot and killed a member of the police intelligence service in Dora area, south of Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2014: Assailants shot and killed a military captain in Baqubah city, Diyala governorate, Iraq. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2014: Assailants threw a grenade at a police post in Tumaco city, Narino department, Colombia. Twelve people were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the incident to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
04/10/2014: Four assailants on motorcycles opened fire on the vehicle of Syed Waqar Shah, the vice president of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz's (PML-N) lawyers' forum and a Shia Muslim, on Rashid Minhas Road in Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. Shah was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Lashkar-e-Jhangvi.
04/10/2014: Gunmen opened fire on civilians in Karm al-Zeitun area, Homs city, Homs governorate, Syria. Fourteen people were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2014: Gunmen opened fire on Magomed Zakaryayev in Nechayevka village, Kizilyurt district, Dagestan republic, Russia. Zakaryayev, an Imam and madrassa teacher, was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2014: Police found and removed explosives from underneath a bridge in Chirola Choria village, near Lanji city, Madhya Pradesh state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed it to Maoists.
04/10/2014: Security forces arrested a suicide bomber and seized an explosives-laden vehicle in Herat province, Afghanistan. The bomber had planned to attack the United States consulate in the province. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2014: Security forces found 15 explosive devices near a polling station in Nelnar area, Chhattisgarh state, India. The devices were removed from the area. This was one of 16 related attacks on polling stations in Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand states on this day. No group claimed responsibility; however, the incident was attributed to Maoists.
04/10/2014: Security forces found and defused an explosive device planted at a polling station in Chatra district, Jharkhand state, India. This was one of 16 related attacks on polling stations in Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand states on this day. No group claimed responsibility for the attempted attack; however, sources attributed it to Maoists.
04/10/2014: Security forces found and defused four explosive devices planted at a polling station in Chatra district, Jharkhand state, India. This was one of 16 related attacks on polling stations in Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand states on this day. No group claimed responsibility for the attempted attack; however, sources attributed it to Maoists.
04/10/2014: Three explosive devices detonated in quick succession in Lat village, Latehar district, Jharkhand state, India. The blasts targeted a school being used as a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp, but no one was injured. This was one of four separate attacks on this camp on this date. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
04/10/2014: Three pressure bombs were discovered and defused in Dantewada district, Chhattisgarh state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2014: Twenty-eight explosive devices that had been planted the previous day detonated in a school in Narotampur village, Lakhisarai district, Bihar state, India. The bombs were meant to target police officers assigned to guard polling stations who had been staying in the school. There were no reports of casualties in the blast. Security forces responding to the attack found three additional explosive devices at the scene, which were later defused. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist).
04/10/2015: A grenade attached to a motorcycle was discovered and defused near the Jaro Metropolitan Cathedral in Democrocia neighborhood, Iloilo City, Iloilo province, Philippines. The motorcycle belonged to Sotronio Salazar, a local village councilor. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2015: A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle near a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) convoy in Kabul city, Kabul province, Afghanistan. Aside from the death of the bomber, at least one civilian was injured in the blast. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2015: A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle near a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) convoy of United States soldiers in Jalalabad city, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan. In addition to the bomber, at least four civilians were killed and 12 others were injured in the blast. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2015: A suicide bomber detonated inside a restaurant in Mushahidah, Saladin governorate, Iraq. In addition to the bomber, at least two people were killed and 13 others were injured in the blast; the victims included Iraqi Volunteer Forces members and civilians. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2015: An explosive device detonated in Dariyah village, Diyala governorate, Iraq. At least one person was killed and seven others were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2015: An explosive device detonated in Yusufiyah, Babil governorate, Iraq. At least two civilians were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2015: An explosive device detonated near a civilian vehicle outside of Almoustarat, Gao region, Mali. At least two people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2015: An explosive device detonated near a minivan transporting civilians to a wedding in Qurabagh district, Ghazni province, Afghanistan. At least 12 people were killed in the blast. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2015: An explosive device planted along railway tracks detonated near Olenivka, Donetsk oblast, Ukraine. There were no reported casualties in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2015: An explosive device was discovered and defused in Chargo, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2015: An explosive device was discovered and defused in eastern Arish, North Sinai, Egypt. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2015: An explosive device was discovered and defused near a videoke bar in Busbus village, Sulu province, Philippines. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG).
04/10/2015: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated near the Babil Hotel in Karada neighborhood, Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. At least two people were killed and six others were injured in the blast. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2015: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated near the Central Festival Mall underground parking garage in Bo Put, Surat Thani province, Thailand. At least seven people, including one Italian child, were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN).
04/10/2015: Assailants abducted two traders in Nagapunjee, Assam state, India. The whereabouts of the hostages are unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2015: Assailants attacked Al Qadisiyah neighborhood, Tikrit, Saladin governorate, Iraq. This was one of two coordinated incidents in Tikrit on the same day. At least four assailants were killed and one police officer was injured across both attacks. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incidents to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/10/2015: Assailants attacked Huthis members in an unknown area in Taizz governorate, Yemen. This was one of two similar incidents carried out by the same group on this date. At least 18 Huthis were killed and an unknown number of others were injured across both attacks. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incidents to the Popular Resistance Committees (Yemen).
04/10/2015: Assailants attacked Shuhadah neighborhood, Tikrit, Saladin governorate, Iraq. This was one of two coordinated incidents in Tikrit on the same day. At least four assailants were killed and one police officer was injured across both attacks. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incidents to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/10/2015: Assailants attacked the private residence of an Afghan Local Police (ALP) officer in Mohammad Aga district, Logar province, Afghanistan. The wife of the officer was killed and at least three children were wounded in the assault. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to the Taliban.
04/10/2015: Assailants attacked the Syrian Armed Forces (SAF) Khalkhalah Airbase in Khalkhalah, As Suwayda governorate, Syria. At least 35 people, including 8 soldiers, 12 Palestinian Liberation Army (PLA) members, and 15 assailants, were killed and an unknown number of others were injured in the incident. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/10/2015: Assailants detonated an explosives-laden vehicle on the Albu Faraj Bridge in Al Faraj, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. There were no reported casualties, although the bridge was destroyed in the blast. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2015: Assailants executed 15 people and set fire to an unknown number of houses in Albu Faraj, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2015: Assailants fired projectiles that detonated in Ibb governorate, Yemen. At least six people were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to Huthis.
04/10/2015: Assailants fired projectiles that detonated near Armed Forces of Ukraine soldiers outside of Berezove, Donetsk oblast, Ukraine. There were no reported casualties in the assault. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to the Donetsk People's Republic.
04/10/2015: Assailants opened fire on a vehicle transporting Matiur Rehman Mengal and Samiur Rehman Mengal in Defense neighborhood, Karachi, Sindh province, Pakistan. Matiur and Samiur, the grandson and nephew of the former chief minister of Balochistan, were injured in the assault. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources suspected that the attack was carried out by Baloch nationalists.
04/10/2015: Assailants opened fire on Afghan National Army (ANA) outposts in Dara-e Khistak village, Badakhshan province, Afghanistan. At least 38 people, including 18 soldiers and 20 assailants, were killed and 25 others, including 10 soldiers and 15 assailants were wounded in the ensuing clash. Additionally, at least seven soldiers were abducted in the assault. Four of the hostages were beheaded a short time later, while the remaining three victims were released on April 14, 2015. Both the Taliban and the Khorasan Chapter of the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2015: Assailants opened fire on an Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) patrol in Mehrestan, Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran. At least two soldiers were killed in the assault. Jaish al-Adl claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2015: Assailants opened fire on Armed Forces of Ukraine soldiers near Opytne, Donetsk oblast, Ukraine. There were no reported casualties in the assault. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to the Donetsk People's Republic.
04/10/2015: Assailants opened fire on Armed Forces of Ukraine soldiers with guns and projectiles in Krymske, Luhansk oblast, Ukraine. There were no reported casualties in the assault. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to the Luhansk People's Republic.
04/10/2015: Assailants opened fire on Armed Forces of Ukraine soldiers with guns and projectiles near Hranitne, Donetsk oblast, Ukraine. There were no reported casualties in the assault. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to the Donetsk People's Republic.
04/10/2015: Assailants opened fire on Armed Forces of Ukraine soldiers with guns and projectiles near Maiorska, Donetsk oblast, Ukraine. There were no reported casualties in the assault. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to the Donetsk People's Republic.
04/10/2015: Assailants opened fire on Armed Forces of Ukraine soldiers with guns and projectiles near Pisky, Donetsk oblast, Ukraine. There were no reported casualties in the assault. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to the Donetsk People's Republic.
04/10/2015: Assailants opened fire on Armed Forces of Ukraine soldiers with guns and projectiles near Shyrokyne, Donetsk oblast, Ukraine. There were no reported casualties in the assault. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to the Donetsk People's Republic.
04/10/2015: Assailants opened fire on Farhan Saleban Dahir in Hodan neighborhood, Mogadishu, Banaadir region, Somalia. Dahir, a photojournalist for Radio Mogadishu and Somali National Television (SNTV), was injured in the assault. No group claimed responsibility; however, a source attributed the attack to Al-Shabaab.
04/10/2015: Assailants opened fire on residents and set fire to buildings in Dile village, Borno state, Nigeria. At least 20 people were killed and an unknown number of others were injured in the assault. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to Boko Haram.
04/10/2015: Assailants set fire to an under-construction Indian Police Service (IPS) station in Medha village, Chhattisgarh state, India. A guard was injured in the attack. Maoists claimed responsibility and stated that the incident was carried out in protest of government policies.
04/10/2015: Assailants threw grenades that detonated near a government building in Skopje, Skopje region, Macedonia. There were no reported casualties in the blasts. The Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2015: Multiple suicide bombers and other assailants attacked Ramadi city, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. At least 10 Iraqi Armed Forces soldiers and an unknown number of assailants were killed in the ensuing clash. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2015: Security forces discovered and defused an explosive device, intended to target a military convoy, on Karm Al Qawadis road in Sheikh Zuweid, North Sinai, Egypt. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attempted attack to the Sinai Province of the Islamic State.
04/10/2016: A suicide bomber detonated targeting families fleeing the area in Hit, Al Anbar, Iraq. In addition to the assailant, at least six people were killed and 12 people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/10/2016: A suicide bomber detonated targeting volunteer fighters in Albu Mufarrij, Kirkuk, Iraq. In addition to the bomber, a volunteer forces commander was killed in the blast. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2016: An assailant opened fire on Mohammed Zaher al-Shurqat in Gaziantep, Turkey. Al-Shurqat, a Syrian journalist, was killed in the attack. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2016: An explosive device attached to a vehicle detonated in Mashtal, Baghdad, Iraq. At least one person was killed and five people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2016: An explosive device detonated in Dand-i-Ragha village, Nangarhar, Afghanistan. Two people were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2016: An explosive device detonated in in Lukhi, Nangarhar, Afghanistan. Four civilians were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2016: An explosive device detonated in Shuala, Baghdad, Iraq. At least one person was killed and six people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2016: An explosive device detonated near shops in Shaab, Baghdad, Iraq. At least one person was killed and five people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2016: An explosive device detonated targeting a police patrol in Yusufiyah, Babil, Iraq. At least one police officer was killed and four officers were injured in the blast. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2016: An explosive device detonated targeting a volunteer fighter patrol in Tarmiyah, Saladin, Iraq. At least two volunteers were killed and four were injured in the blast. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2016: An explosive device detonated targeting security personnel in Than To, Yala, Thailand. Six police officers were injured in the blast; additionally, a second explosive was discovered and defused at the site the following day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2016: An explosive device detonated targeting the house of the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) Medical Superintendent in Imphal, Manipur, India. There were no reported casualties in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2016: Assailants abducted a civilian from his residence in Koraput, Odisha, India. The civilian was killed shortly after his abduction. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist)
04/10/2016: Assailants attacked a police checkpoint in Tahiri, Takhar, Afghanistan. At least four people, including three assailants and one officer, were killed and three officers were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Taliban.
04/10/2016: Assailants attacked and set fire to a mining site in Charhi, Jharkhand, India. One guard was wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Jharkhand Prastuti Committee (JPC).
04/10/2016: Assailants attacked government forces in Nhampassa, Manica, Mozambique. At least one soldier and 15 assailants were killed and three soldiers were injured in the ensuing clash. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Mozambique National Resistance Movement (MNR).
04/10/2016: Assailants attacked Nasr, Nineveh, Iraq. Security forces repelled the assault, killing 10 assailants. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2016: Assailants attacked Qays al-Najm, a journalist and activist, in northern Baghdad, Iraq. No further information is available.
04/10/2016: Assailants attacked security forces in Sirwah, Marib, Yemen. This was one of four attacks in Sirwah on this date. Four soldiers were killed and four were injured across the four events. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents; however, sources attributed the attacks to Huthi extremists.
04/10/2016: Assailants attacked security forces near Kawfil camp, Sirwah, Marib, Yemen. This was one of four attacks in Sirwah on this date. Four soldiers were killed and four were injured across the four events. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents; however, sources attributed the attacks to Huthi extremists.
04/10/2016: Assailants attempted to abduct a National Directorate of Security (NDS) employee in Khanabad, Kunduz, Afghanistan. There were no reported casualties in the attack and the abduction was unsuccessful. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2016: Assailants detonated explosive devices targeting families fleeing the area along the roads surrounding Hit district, Al Anbar, Iraq. The outcome of the blasts is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/10/2016: Assailants opened fire on a police station in Dif, Wajir, Kenya. At least three officers were injured in the assault. Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2016: Assailants opened fire on a police vehicle in Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan. Three assailants were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2016: Assailants opened fire on Ahmad al-Haydari in Shaykh Uthman, Adan, Yemen. Al-Haydari, a district councilor, and his son were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2016: Assailants opened fire on an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) patrol on the border with Israel near Jabaliya, Gaza Strip. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Hamas (Islamic Resistance Movement).
04/10/2016: Assailants opened fire on Jamshed Ali Khan near Manglawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Khan, an Awami National Party (ANP) leader, was killed in the attack. The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2016: Assailants opened fire on Renato Oril in Pangaoan, Pangasinan, Philippines. Oril, a village secretary and former village chairperson, was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2016: Assailants shelled Birarah, Taizz city, Yemen. This was one of two attacks in Taizz on this date. At least one person was killed across both attacks. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Huthi extremists.
04/10/2016: Assailants shelled Usaifirah, Taizz city, Yemen. This was one of two attacks in Taizz on this date. At least one person was killed across both attacks. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Huthi extremists.
04/10/2016: Assailants threw an explosive device at a secondary school in Ipekyolu, Van, Turkey. The school was damaged in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
04/10/2016: Assailants threw an incendiary device at a primary school in Edremit, Van, Turkey. The school was damaged in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
04/10/2016: Eight explosive devices detonated targeting a military convoy in Hit, Al Anbar, Iraq. At least six soldiers were killed and 13 soldiers were injured in the blasts. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2016: Security forces discovered and destroyed an explosives-laden vehicle in Bashir, Kirkuk, Iraq. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2017: A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle targeting a counter-narcotics team in Marko Bazaar, Nangarhar, Afghanistan. The assailant was the only reported casualty. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2017: A suicide bomber detonated at a Somali National Army (SNA) base in Wadajir neighborhood, Mogadishu, Somalia. In addition to the assailant, at least 13 soldiers were killed and 12 other soldiers were injured in the blast. Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2017: An explosive device detonated near stores in Taji, Saladin, Iraq. At least one person was killed and four other people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2017: An explosive device planted in the vehicle of a Somali Ministry of Education employee detonated in Xamar Weyne neighborhood, Mogadishu, Somalia. The employee was killed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack; however, sources attributed the attack to Al-Shabaab.
04/10/2017: An explosive device was discovered and defused in Lakhti Banda, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2017: Assailants armed with firearms and sticks entered the residence of a political worker in Kadipora neighborhood, Anantnag, Jammu and Kashmir, India. The worker was not present and the assailants left after warning his family. An unknown group claimed responsibility for the attack and issued a warning to the targeted political worker's family.
04/10/2017: Assailants attacked Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC) soldiers in Kamonia, Kasai, Democratic Republic of the Congo. At least 10 assailants were killed in the ensuing clash. The Kamwina Nsapu Militia claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2017: Assailants attacked police personnel in Shar-e-Safa, Zabul, Afghanistan. Two police officers were killed, another was injured, and two officers were reported as missing as a result of the attack. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2017: Assailants attacked security forces in Qush Tepa, Jawzjan, Afghanistan. At least one assailant was killed in the attack. The Khorasan Chapter of the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2017: Assailants attempted to abduct Siddiq Al-Kabir from his residence in Nufileen neighborhood, Tripoli, Libya. The kidnapping attempt failed as Al-Kabir, the Central Bank of Libya Governor, was not home at the time of the attack. There were no reported casualties in the incident. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2017: Assailants fired a rocket that struck a greenhouse in Yevul, Southern district, Israel. There were no reported casualties in the blast. The Sinai Province of the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2017: Assailants fired three chemical-laced rockets that landed and detonated in Hadbaa neighborhood, Mosul, Iraq. At least four people were killed and six other people were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/10/2017: Assailants opened fire on an Egyptian Armed Forces checkpoint south of Arish, North Sinai, Egypt. At least seven assailants were killed and 12 other assailants were injured in the ensuing clash. The Sinai Province of the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2017: Assailants opened fire on police conscripts at a checkpoint on Ring Road, south of Arish, North Sinai, Egypt. At least two conscripts were injured in the assault. The Sinai Province of the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2017: Assailants opened fire on Rasel Kabir in Satkhira, Khulna, Bangladesh. Kabir, a Bangladesh Awami Jubo League organizing secretary, was killed in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/10/2017: Assailants shot and killed an officer for the Directorate for the protection of VIPs in Zanbaq square, Kabul, Afghanistan. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2017: Assailants shot and killed two Anti-Corruption Criminal Justice Center (ACJC) employees in Qambar square, Kabul, Afghanistan. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2017: Assailants threw grenades at an Iraqi Communist Party headquarters in Diwaniyah, Al Qadisiyah, Iraq. There were no reported casualties in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/10/2017: Two female suicide bombers were identified by security forces at the University of Maiduguri fence in Maiduguri, Borno, Nigeria. One of the assailants detonated, killing both but causing no additional casualties. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources suspected that the attack was carried out by Boko Haram.
04/11/1978: The United States Coast Guard Club in San Juan, Puerto Rico is bombed by Puerto Rican nationalist group, People's Revolutionary Command.  It is unknown whether any casualties or damage occurred from the explosion.
04/11/1999:  A bus scheduled to travel to Polonnaruwa exploded at the bus depot in Kandy, Sri Lanka.  At least two people were killed and at least another 15 were injured in the explosion.  A girl boarded the bus, engaged the driver, then departed.  It is believed that she planted the bomb.  Eight people have been held for questioning.  The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) are believed responsible for the incident.
04/11/1999: In one of two possibly related incidents, an explosive device killed two and injured thirteen at a Kampala taxi park in Uganda.
04/11/1999: Three soldiers and a civilian were killed when a bomb exploded near the town of Osmaniye, Turkey. Authorities believed that this incident was the work of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
04/11/1999: Unknown perpetrators damaged the Judaic Religious Association of Belarus and a synagogue in Minsk when they set fire to the front door and spray-painted anti-Jewish messages on the walls.
04/11/2000: A bomb detonated in the parking lot of the Municipal Station in Cali, Colombia, injuring one. The National Liberation Army (NLA) was blamed for the attack.
04/11/2000: A bomb was found and deactivated at an aqueduct in Cali, Colombia. The National Liberation Army (NLA) was blamed for the bombing attempt.
04/11/2000: A Mormon temple was bombed in Cali, Colombia. The National Liberation Army (NLA) was blamed for this attack. Only material damage was done to the temple. This was one of three temples that was attacked.
04/11/2000: The National Liberation Army (NLA) destroyed a bridge and burned three vehicles between Anori and Amalfi, Antioquia Department, Colombia. Two buses belonged to Medellin Private Enterprises. No one was injured in the attack.
04/11/2001: Albanian militants killed a Russian soldier with the KFOR peacekeeping force while on patrol in northeastern Kosovo, close to the internal border with Serbia proper. A Kosovo Forces (KFOR) representative reported that soldier was shot dead as he stepped out of his armored vehicle which had stopped near the town of Zuja.
04/11/2001: Three armed gunmen ambushed the Deputy Interior Minister's car with AK-47s as it traveled down a suburban street in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, around 8am.  The Deputy Minister was killed, as were two bodyguards and the driver.  Although no group claimed responsibility, sources conflicted as to whether this was a terrorist or criminal incident.  Four people were later arrested due to their possible group affiliation and suspected connections to the assassination of the Minister.
04/11/2001: Unknown militants bombed a "peace rally", organized by the Bangladesh Sramik League, labor front of the Awami League at Motijheel Shapla Square in Dhaka, Bangladesh, injured at least 40 people.
04/11/2001: Unknown militants exploded a bomb at a power transmission pylon in Yala. No casualties were reported in the attacks.
04/11/2001: Unknown militants seeking to kill Jihan Chehayeb with a parcel bomb wounded Chehayeb and two women in Aley, Lebanon.
04/11/2002: A group of rebel Maoists attacked the Nepal Armed Police Force outpost near Sadbariya in the Dang District. 84 police officers, four civilians, and approximately 62 rebels were killed in the attack. The exact motive is unknown.
04/11/2002: At 9:35 a.m., Nizar Naouar, a Tunisian man, rammed an old Iveco tanker truck filled with 5,000 liters of liquid gas into the Ghriba synagogue on the Tunisian vacation island of Djerba. The resulting explosion killed twenty-one people, including 14 Germans, two French tourists and five Tunisians. In addition to the attacks’ casualties, the suicide bomber was also killed. Al-Qaida claimed responsibility for the attack in two televised interviews to arab language media.
04/11/2002: Mohammed Daragmah detonated a suicide bomb on a bus leaving the northern Israeli city of Haifa. Daragmah and nine civilians were killed.
04/11/2003: Mayi Mayi fighters and Interahamwe militants attacked the village of Ruzizi in Sud-Kivu Province, Congo. Many residents fled the scene and seven people were killed in the attack.
04/11/2003: Thirty people were killed by Kenyan Pokot raiders in Suam, Kapchorwa district, Uganda. Reportedly, 300 heavily armed Pokot raiders attacked a village in the Suam sub-county, killing people, burning as many as 200 houses and steeling at least 300 head of cattle.
04/11/2004: French reporter Alexandre Jordanov and his cameraman were filming a documentary when they witnessed a clash between U.S. forces and Iraqi fighters. During the fighting, the two men were separated and cameraman Ivan Cerieix was abducted by an unknown group; he was released the next day. Jordanov was abducted by unknown militants and held for four days.
04/11/2004: In Baghdad, Iraq, three Czech journalists were kidnapped by unidentified men, covering their faces with keffieh headscarves and carrying Kalashnikov rifles, who stopped their taxi, forced theminto a car and brought them to an unnamed village. There the hostages were interrogated about their nationality and whether they were with a Coalition. After the 90-minute questioning the hostages were brought to a shack in the middle of the desert and were kept there unharmed for five days, without any ransom demanded. The victims were released on April 16, 2004, with help from the Czech government and Sunni Muslim clerics.
04/11/2005: A 10kg bomb hidden inside a plastic box was found outside an ice shop in Thesaban, Thailand. Authorities believe that the homemade bomb was a dud. Although no group claimed responsibility for the attack, authorities blamed the attempted bombing on BRN Coordinate.
04/11/2005: A bomb, planted by unknown assailants, exploded near the truck of a Turkish driver working with US Forces in northern Iraq.  Cevat Bahtiya, identified as the driver, was killed during the explosion and his truck was destroyed as well. No one claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/11/2005: A man was killed in Ban Deeyae, Thailand, in an attack authorities blamed on BRN Coordinate members. The victim’s niece was also injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2005: A suspected LTTE pistol group on a motorbike gunned down Vijayadas Wijendran, alias Kunjan and a member of the EPDP, in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka around 10:20am after he left a pooja at the Koneswaran kovil.
04/11/2005: Nashtuman Azad Ali, an Iraqi engineer who was working with US forces, was kidnapped by unknown armed gunmen who raided his house in Balad, Iraq; no other information is available.
04/11/2005: The Communist Party of Nepal-Maoists (CPN-M) have been implicated in the planting of a roadside bomb in Pokhara, Nepal, that detonated and killed one civilian, injured eight civilians, and five other security officers. Related to an incident two days ago, the CPN-M have been implicated because of their declaration of a transportation blockade which imitated on April 2nd, in an attempt to disrupt the economy of Nepal.
04/11/2005: Three Iraqis, and one American soldier were killed in a car bomb attack against a U.S. military checkpoint in Samarra, Iraq. 27 Iraqis were also injured in the attack.
04/11/2005: Two suspected Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) gunmen on a motorcycle shot and killed Wijedasan Wijendran, political activist and member of the Eelam People's Democratic Party (EPDP), around 10:15am as he returned home on his bicycle from the Koneshwaran Hindu temple with two friends in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka.  The Sri Lankan navy issued an alert and tightened security in the area after the attack.
04/11/2005: Two unidentified men riding on a motorcycle shot a man in Thailand's Rangae (District). Although no group claimed responsibility for the shooting, police suspected that BRN Coordinate was responsible for the attack.
04/11/2005: Unknown insurgents shot and killed Sin Teeprakphan, an excise official in Sai Buri district, which is located in the Pattani Province of Thailand. After killing him, the assailants doused him with gasoline and set fire to his body. No one claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/11/2006: A bomb exploded on a bus in Sadr City in Baghdad, killing three people and wounding nine others. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/11/2006: A car bomb exploded near the Palestinian Restaurant in northern Baghdad, Iraq, that is frequented by police, killing five people, including three police officers, and wounding 12 people. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/11/2006: A militant leader, Thong Teron, of the United People's Democratic Solidarity (UPDS) accosted Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council executive member Sing Teron at Satgaon Bazaar and threatened to shoot him with his pistol around 1:30 a.m. "The executive member's PSO (personal security officer) retaliated with his stengun and Thong Teron died on the spot
04/11/2006: A mine planted by Tamil Tiger rebels intended for a bus carrying Sri Lankan sailors on its way to Colombo also damaged a tourist bus on its way to Trincomalee and wounded eleven people, including two British tourists, and left another Briton in critical condition. The navy bus swerved after the blast and hit the tourist bus, killing twelve sailors and injuring eight more.
04/11/2006: A suicide bomber climbed onto the stage at a religious ceremony organized by Sunni Jamaat-e-Ahle Sunnat commemorating the anniversary of the Prophet Muhammad's birth in the Nishtar Park area of Karachi, Pakistan and detonated, killing 57 people and injured up to 125 others. Authorities later indentified the head of the suicide bomber at the scene. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/11/2006: An arson attack took place at the home of charcoal producer Thongdaeng Konglor in the Muang (District), Thailand, in what police believed was the work of insurgents. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/11/2006: An explosive device detonated at the Yemeni Socialist Party in Al-Mukalla, Yemen. The bomb was placed in a barrel on the roof of the building, but caused no damage or injuries. The attack is believed by authorities to be intended to disturb the peace before citizens voted in local and national elections. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/11/2006: An explosive device planted by an unknown number of unknown perpetrators detonated as a car drove over it injuring five civilians in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/11/2006: An unknown number of unknown gunmen temporarily captured the town of Mongo, Chad in an attempt to destabilize the country before the presidential election. There were no casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/11/2006: Dr Abd-al-Karim Husayn Nasir, a university professor was shot dead in Basra, Iraq. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/11/2006: FARC guerrillas are being blamed for abducting the top Telecom official in Arauca Department, Edgar Ignacio Torres, as he was travelling to Arauca City, Colombia, after having attended a meeting in Saravena, Colombia when the vehicle in which he was riding was stopped along the highway. The abductors took Torres and a local businessman that was travelling with him.
04/11/2006: Gunmen attacked a convoy of oil tankers near Tuz Khormato, Iraq, at about 11:00 p.m. A police force escorting the convoy clashed with the attackers, during which a police officer and a policeman were killed and four other policemen wounded. The attackers failed to hit the tankers and fled.
04/11/2006: Six civilians were wounded when they stepped on a landmine while walking near their homes on the outskirts of Sirnak city, Turkey, one in serious condition. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but the Kurdistan Worker's Party was blamed.
04/11/2006: Students at Salar-bagh primary school in eastern Afghanistan were studying outside when two BM-12 type missiles allegedly fired from Pakistan slammed into the school yard, killing seven boys and wounding thirty-three children and one teacher. The attack was carried out by an unknown number of unidentified perpetrators. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/11/2006: The son-in-law of a senior official at the regional police department of Volgograd, Russia, was killed when a homemade bomb hidden in a juice packet exploded at about 3:00 a.m. while he was walking to a tobacco store. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/11/2006: Three rebels, who identified themselves as members of the ELN's [Army of National Liberation] "Jose Manuel Martinez Quiroz" Front, abducted three geologists in Estados Unidos Corregimiento, Becerril Municipality, Perija Mountain Range, Colombia. Initially, the rebels had retained seven hostages but later four of them (drivers) were released.
04/11/2006: United People's Democratic Solidarity (UPDS) members opened fire on a group of Congress supporters in the Satgaon area of India around 7:00 a.m., critically injuring one of them. The injured person was identified as Bikram Sing Timung.
04/11/2006: Weerapong Petchwiroj was shot three times in the back and ribs in a drive-by shooting while on his way to work at a rubber processing plant in the Mayo (District) of Pattani, Thailand. He remained in critical condition at Pattani hospital.
04/11/2007: A bomb blast targeting two tribal elders in Pakistan’s Bajaur Agency partially damaged their vehicle, but the two men survived unhurt.  No one claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/11/2007: A school in Afghanistan’s Khost Province was set ablaze by unknown militants, causing damage to seven rooms of the building.  No one claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2007: A shopkeeper was killed and ten other people were injured by a grenade that exploded in the city of Srinagar in India-administered Kashmir.  No one claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/11/2007: Assailants wielding unspecified firearms attacked a market and seven villages near Shamal, Sudan,, killing 40 civillians and wounding 25 more.  The market sustained damage as did all seven villages.  No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely  believed to be the actions of the Janjaweed Militia.
04/11/2007: Hyder Hussain, a prosecutor who secured murder convictions against Islamist militants in Bangladesh last year, leading to their deaths, was shot dead by militants as he left a mosque in Jhalakati.  The executed men belonged to the Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), and that group was suspected of being responsible for Hussain’s death.
04/11/2007: Members of the New People’s Army (NPA) in the Philippines held approximately 200 villagers hostage in the town of Panabo when Philippine government forces tried to overtake the rebels after they had raided the Casilac and Manay villages.  The hostages were used as human shields in order to slow the military’s advance, but the NPA released the villagers the next day.
04/11/2007: One policeman was killed and 21 other people were wounded when three suspected terrorists blew themselves up after police discovered their place of hiding in Casablanca, Morocco.  There were no reports of the affiliations, if any, of the men who blew up themselves.    No claim of responsibility was reported.
04/11/2007: Suspected insurgents shot a Buddhist woman in Thailand’s Yala Province as she was on her way to work.  After pulling the woman off her motorcycle alive, the insurgents set her body ablaze and killed her.  No one claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/11/2007: The party offices in Yerevan's Zeytun and Avan, Armenia, communities were attacked. Both offices were located on the ground floor in blocks of flats. The blast seriously harmed the building where the party's Avan office is located. Windows were broken and a nearby chemist's shop was damaged. There were no casualties and no one claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/11/2007: Three tribesmen were wounded in the village of Borki in Pakistan’s Kurram Agency when approximately 15 rockets were fired into the area from neighboring Afghanistan.  Homes and trees were also damaged and destroyed by the rocket fire.  No one claimed responsibility for the incident, and while local tribesmen blamed rival factions for the attack, authorities believed the rockets could have been fired by allied forces in Afghanistan who were attempting to intercept militants crossing the border.
04/11/2007: Two suicide blasts in Algeria, one heavily damaging the Prime Minister's Office in the country's capital and the other hitting a suburban police station, killed at least 24 people.  Al-Qaida claimed responsibility for the attack
04/11/2008: On Friday afternoon at 1300, in Al Muradiyah, Diyala, Iraq, a roadside improvised explosive device exploded near a civilian car, killing one civilian, wounding six others, and damaging the vehicle. There was no motive reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/11/2008: On Friday afternoon at about 1420, in northern An Najaf, An Najaf, Iraq, in a drive-by shooting, two assailants fired upon and killed Riyad al-Nuri, a senior Sadrist aide to Moqtada al-Sadr in front of his home as he was returning from afternoon prayers in Al Kufah. There was no motive reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/11/2008: On Friday morning around 1030, in Kaithady-Jaffna in Thenmaraadchi, Sri Lanka, two Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) gunmen on a motorbike shot and killed a Tamil laundry owner, Parananathan. No damage was reported and the store owner had received numerous death threats from LTTE. No group claimed responsibility.
04/11/2008: On Friday, in Baghdad, Iraq, assailants fired a mortar and hit the second floor of the Palestine Hotel, killing three civilians, wounding seven others, and ripping a hole through the second floor. There was no motive reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/11/2008: On Friday, in Bayji, Salah ad Din, Iraq, assailants fired upon an off-duty Iraqi army officer as he was driving through the city, killing the soldier, wounding three of his children, and damaging their vehicle. There was no motive reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/11/2008: On Friday, in Chittagong, Bangladesh, militants set fire to doors and windows of the Hathazari police station. They also destroyed four motorcycles and police barracks and injured 23 people, including three policemen. No group claimed responsibility.
04/11/2008: On Friday, in Nir Oz, Gaza Strip, West Bank and Gaza Strip, Palestinian militants attacked the agricultural community with small arms, lightly damaging a tractor. No casualties, or motive were reported. No group claimed responsibility.
04/11/2008: On Friday, in the Dikiuram area, in Tamenglong, Manipur, India National Socialist Party of Nagaland-Khaplang (NSCN-K) militants gunned down Simreisang Tangkhul, a self-styled sergeant major of the National Socialist Party of Nagaland-Isak-Muivah (NSCN-IM).
04/11/2009: On Saturday night at 0200, in the Kipseli area of Athens, Attiki, Greece, an incendiary device exploded outside an office of the New Democracy Party, causing minor damage to the building but no casualties. No group claimed responsibility.
04/11/2009: On Saturday night at 0415, in the Kallithea area of Athens, Attiki, Greece, an improvised explosive device exploded outside an office building that houses an Alpha Bank branch and the offices of the Cetelem Insurance company, causing minor damage to the building but no casualties.  No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Revolutionary Struggle was responsible.
04/11/2009: On Saturday night at 0415, in the Kallithea District of Athens, Greece, a bomb exploded outside an office building. The blast broke windows and the marble masonry at the building; no casualties were reported. No one has claimed responsibility for the attacks.
04/11/2009: On Saturday, in Jalko, Khunti, Jharkhand, India, Communist Party of India- Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants ambushed a police patrol, killing five police and injuring three others. No group claimed responsibility.
04/11/2009: On Saturday, in the Dijaodra area of North Cachar Hills, Assam, India, assailants fired upon a goods train, killing two Special Police Officers (SPO), wounding one other, and damaging the train. No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the Dima Halim Daogah-Jewel Garlossa (DHD-J) was responsible.
04/11/2009: On Saturday, one civilian was killed and two others were wounded when a roadside bomb went off south of Mandali, Diyala province, Iraq. No claim of responsibility has been reported.
04/11/2009: On Saturday, unknown gunmen shot and wounded an off duty Iraqi police officer Mosul, Ninawa, Iraq. No claim of responsibility has been reported.
04/11/2010: On Sunday in the early morning, in the village of Kura Jenta near Jos, Plateau, Nigeria, assailants attacked and set fire to three houses and six vehicles belonging to former Nigerian government officials, no casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility, but Muslim Fulani tribesmen were though to be responsible for the attack.
04/11/2010: On Sunday morning around 0800, in the Dadin Kowa area of Jos, Plateau, Nigeria, an improvised explosive device detonated when a civilian, Abdulsalami Mohammed, pulled the pin on what appeared to be a fire extinguisher located in his bedroom, injuring three people. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/11/2010: On Sunday night at 2130, at Kurupalli village in Sironcha taluka of Gadchiroli District, Maharashtra, India, a group of about 20 to 25 suspected cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) killed the former Sarpanch (village head), Malliya Gawde, after branding him to a police informer. The Maoists drug Gawde from his house in Kurupalli and attacked him using an axe. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/11/2010: On Sunday night, in the Kathasirisi area of Mayurbhanj, Orissa, India, Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants shot and killed a timber merchant, identified as Goutam Hapoi (50). According to police, around eight Maoists barged into Hapoi’s house and took him away assuring his family members that he will be released in 10 minutes. On 04/12/2010, the body of Hapoi was recovered by local villagers who formed a search party after Hapoi never returned. Police said that before escaping from the spot the Maoists left behind some posters in Bengali and Odia which stated that dalals (middlemen) would be punished in a similar fashion. No damages were reported and the CPI (Maoist) claimed responsibility.
04/11/2010: On Sunday, cadres of the Sanyukta Jatiya Mukti Morcha (SJMM), an underground group struggling for ethnic liberation in Dhading, damaged and set on fire the office of Chhatredeuli VDC of Dhading District, Bagmati Zone, Nepal. All official documents and two to four rooms of the building were completely damaged in the fire. The SJMM had sent letters to various VDCs in the south-western part of the district, asking for Rs. 200, 000 (USD 4278.85) donations. In pamphlets recovered from the site of the incident, the SJMM issued a warning to the government. They also claimed that their attack had the support of the local people.
04/11/2010: On Sunday, in southeastern Kirkuk, At Ta'mim, Iraq, unknown gunmen in a speeding car shot dead a member of the Kurdish security forces. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/11/2010: On Sunday, in the Daman district of Kandahar province, Afghanistan, a minibus carrying a mine clearance team hit an improvised explosive device as they drove on a dirt road, killing four people and injuring 14 others. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/11/2010: On Sunday, in the western Amiriya district of Baghdad, Iraq, a roadside bomb exploded and wounded one man. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/11/2010: On Sunday, near Nyala, Darfur, Sudan, unidentified assailants kidnapped by unknown means, four South African United Nations-African Union Mission for Darfur (UNAMID) peacekeepers. No casualties or damages were reported. The four Sudanese UNAMID peacekeepers where later released on 04/26/2010. No group claimed responsibility although People's Democratic Struggle Movement rebels were suspected.
04/11/2010: On Sunday, near the town of Uthaim, At Ta'mim, Iraq, a roadside improvised explosive device detonated near a car, killing three off-duty Sahwa members of the local government-backed tribal militia and wounding another. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/11/2010: On Sunday, Real Irish Republican Army (RIRA) militants hijacked a taxi from an unknown location in northern Belfast, Northern Ireland. According to reports the driver was held in the vehicle, which was being driven to Hollywood barracks to be used as a vehicle borne improvised explosive device. The victim was able to escape by jumping from the moving taxi before it arrived at the target location. The attack caused no property damage. This was one of two linked attacks that targeted the Hollywood barracks. The RIRA claimed responsibility.
04/11/2011: On Monday afternoon at 1500, 13 people were killed and 161 were wounded when a radio-controlled bomb exploded at a metro station in Minsk, Belarus. The bomb was the equivalent of between five and seven kilograms of TNT and was filled with shrapnel and metal balls that measured about one centimeter in diameter. It was hidden underneath a bench on the platform of the Oktyabrsakaya metro station. The bombing left a crater in the platform with a diameter of 80 centimeters. No group claimed responsibility for the explosion. Viktor Dvorakovskiy, a 23-year-old man on the Russian most wanted terrorist list, is suspected of being involved in the bombing. Interpol announce on 05/13/2011, that the finger prints found at the scene of the 2011 subway bombing match those of the suspect from the 2008 Minsk bombing as well.
04/11/2011: On Monday morning, in Sulaymaniyah, Al Anbar, Iraq, unknown assailants detonated an improvised explosive device attached to a Kurdish journalist's car, Suran Omar, outside his house. The blast caused an unknown amount of property damage to the vehicle, but resulted in no casualties and no group claimed responsibility.
04/11/2011: On Monday night at 2200, at Khuga Khel in Shinwari area of Landi Kotal, Khyber, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan, unknown militants detonated explosive material at the Bacha Khan Education Foundation middle school causing no casualties, but destroying the school and smashing windows panes of nearby houses. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/11/2011: On Monday night, during prayers in a mosque in Nawa, Helmand, Afghanistan, unidentified armed men opened fire upon and killed a tribal elder, Ghulam Dastagir, who was a district council member in Nawa. Police later arrested three suspected men who are connected to the shooting. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but the Taliban is suspected of being responsible.
04/11/2011: On Monday night, in Kashmor, Sindh, Pakistan, unknown militants blew up a supply gas pipeline near Guddu power station, causing no casualties but damaging five feet of the pipeline. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/11/2011: On Monday, at Tariq Road traffic signal in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, four unknown militants on motorcycles opened fire on the vehicles of Mohajir Qaumi Movement-Haqiqi (MQM-H) cadres as they were returning from the Central Jail after visiting Afaq Ahmed, the group’s leader. The Vice-Chairman, Akhtar Hussain, Organizing Committee member, Abdul Kareem, party worker Shoaib, and a civilian woman were all killed and three other members were wounded. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage and no group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/11/2011: On Monday, in Fallujah, Al Anbar, Iraq, unknown assailants detonated two vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices at a marketplace. A car bomb was discovered by police and was being defused when it detonated, killing six people, including an officer from the team of explosives experts, a soldier, and a policeman. According to a police officer, the explosion occurred on the main road near the market. When people gathered to evacuate the casualties, the second car bomb in the market was detonated, killing four more people, all of them civilians. Twenty others were wounded in the blasts, including three policeman, two soldiers, and 15 civilians, and since the injuries were reported cumulatively, it is unclear how many people were injured in each attack. Several cars and buildings were damaged in the blasts and no group claimed responsibility.
04/11/2011: On Monday, in Hawijah, At Ta'mim, Iraq, unknown assailants kidnapped a local Sunni militia leader by unknown means. The body of the Sunni leader was recovered five days later ridden with bullet holes on 4/16/2011. No group claimed responsibility.
04/11/2011: On Monday, in Janae, Narathiwat, Thailand, unknown militants carried out an ambush at a rubber plantation. Two villagers were killed by unknown means, and there were no damages reported. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/11/2011: On Monday, in Kanrakai area of Kurram, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan, three civilians, including a religious cleric, were killed and 13 others were wounded after they ran over an anti-tank explosive while they were on their way to the Parachinar (agency headquarters). The victims were identified as Muhammad Hassan, Noor Wali and Maulana Rahmat Ali, a local cleric, while the thirteen injured included children, a woman and others. The vehicle was destroyed during the blast and no group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/11/2011: On Monday, in Taal village in Palamau, Jharkhand, India, around 25 militants stopped a jeep carrying contractors and workers and asked them to exit the vehicle before using its fuel to set it on fire. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage to the jeep, but resulted in no casualties. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that People’s Liberation Front of India (PLFI) militants were responsible.
04/11/2011: On Monday, in Taji, Salah ad Din, Iraq, unknown assailants detonated an improvised explosive device planted behind the Nasr Institution, close to the Baghdad-Mosul Railway line. The bomb was detonated as a train passed by, wounding three passengers and damaging the train. No group claimed responsibility.
04/11/2011: On Monday, in the Gilo settlement, Jerusalem, Jerusalem District, Israel, unknown assailants threw a petrol improvised explosive device at a civilian car. No casualties were reported, but the blast caused an unknown amount of property damage to the car. No group claimed responsibility.
04/11/2011: On Monday, in the Jisr Diyala neighborhood, Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq, unknown assailants detonated an improvised explosive device that killed three civilians, and wounded 11 others. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage and no group claimed responsibility.
04/11/2011: On Monday, in the Jisr-Diyala area of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq, unknown assailants detonated an improvised explosive device near an industrial compound. Four civilians were wounded, and a civilian vehicle was damaged in the blast. No group claimed responsibility.
04/11/2011: On Monday, near a fuel station in the al-Bonouk neighborhood, Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq, unknown gunmen shot and killed a police lieutenant colonel in his vehicle, and wounded his driver. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/11/2011: On Monday, near a village near Khan Bani Saad, Diyala, Iraq, in one of two related bombings, unknown assailants detonated a roadside improvised explosive device that killed six civilians, all members of the same family. Another civilian was killed in the second blast. The blasts caused an unknown amount of property damage and no group claimed responsibility.
04/11/2012: A grenade was discovered and safely defused outside a home in Walsall town, West Midlands county, England, United Kingdom. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2012: An assailant attacked a communications mast on Dundry Lane in Bristol city, South West region, England, United Kingdom. There were no injuries in the attack; however, television, radio, and mobile services were disrupted for approximately 80,000 residents. Police arrested one individual in connection with the attack. The Informal Anarchist Federation claimed responsibility for the incident in a post online.
04/11/2012: An explosive device detonated by the vehicle of a district executive in Dawlat Shah district, Laghman province, Afghanistan. The executive officer, Abdullah, was killed and a schoolteacher injured in the blast. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/11/2012: An explosive device detonated near North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) troops in Nade-e Ali district, Helmand province, Afghanistan. One soldier was killed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2012: An explosive device detonated on a bridge near Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel in Kanker district, Chhattisgarh state, India. There were no casualties, but the bridge was destroyed in the blast. This was one of two attacks on police targets in Chhattisgarh on this day, both of which sources attributed to Maoists.
04/11/2012: An explosive device detonated on a passenger bus in Carmen municipality, Cotabato province, Philippines. Three people were killed and 16 others injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for this attack.
04/11/2012: Assailants attacked a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) force in Kandahar province, Afghanistan. Philip C. S. Schiller, a soldier from the United States, was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2012: Assailants attacked a police station in Mogadishu city, Banaadir region, Somalia. No police officers were injured, but an unknown number of assailants were killed. No group claimed responsibility for this attack; however, police officials attributed it to Al-Shabaab.
04/11/2012: Assailants attacked a radio station and abducted a reporter in Gao city, Gao region, Mali. The reporter, Malick Maiga, was beaten and threatened before being released. No group claimed responsibility for this attack; however, the victim attributed the attack to the Azawad National Liberation Movement (MNLA). Maiga stated that MNLA members beat him and threatened to kill him if he did not cease negative reporting about the group.
04/11/2012: Assailants beheaded a woman in her home in Rada district, Al Bayda governorate, Yemen. Sources indicated that the assailants accused the victim, Al-Sharifah Amir, of being a sorcerer and hung her head in front of another alleged sorcerer's home. No group claimed responsibility for this attack; however, sources attributed it to Al-Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
04/11/2012: Assailants opened fire on a Frontier Corps (FC) convoy in Dera Bugti district, Balochistan province, Pakistan. The FC troops returned fire, and four assailants were killed. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2012: Assailants opened fire on a Pakistan People's Party (PPP) activist in Karachi city, Sindh province, Pakistan. The activist, Rashid Baig, was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2012: Assailants opened fire on a person in Twinbrook estate in Belfast city, Antrim district, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. The target was injured in the attack. Oglaigh na hEireann claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2012: Assailants opened fire on a police camp in Sukma district, Chhattisgarh state, India. Two civilians were killed in the attack. This was one of two attacks on police targets in Chhattisgarh on this day, both of which sources attributed to Maoists.
04/11/2012: Assailants opened fire on and torched vehicles in Murhu district, Jharkhand state, India. Several vehicles were damaged in the attack, but no casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for this incident; however, sources attributed it to the People's Liberation Front of India.
04/11/2012: Assailants opened fire on worshippers leaving a mosque in Panare district, Pattani province, Thailand. Three people were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2012: Assailants shot and killed an army recruit at his home in Rigyasa area, Kaduna state, Nigeria. No group claimed responsibility for this attack; however, sources suspected Boko Haram.
04/11/2012: Explosive devices detonated at the mayor's residence in Baquba city, Diyala governorate, Iraq. The mayor, along with four members of his family, were killed and one person injured in the blast. This was one of three coordinated bombings targeting Shia houses in Diyala on this day. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/11/2012: Explosives detonated at a Shia home in Diyala governorate, Iraq. At least two people were wounded in the blast. This was one of three coordinated attacks targeting Shia homes in Diyala governorate, for which no group claimed responsibility.
04/11/2013: A suicide attacker was discovered on a bus in Karachi city, Sindh province, Pakistan. Security forces arrested the suspect before an explosive device could be detonated. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2013: An explosive device detonated in a peace militia camp in Moochapora Landi Kallay area, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. Three people were killed and 22 others were injured in the explosion. No group claimed responsibility for this attack.
04/11/2013: An explosive device detonated in Kohat city, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. A civilian was killed when he stepped on the device. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2013: An explosive device detonated outside of the office of Abdul Khaliq Wazir, an independent election candidate for NA-41 constituency, in Angor Ada village, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. There were no reports of injuries in the attack; however, the office suffered damages from the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2013: An explosive device detonated outside of the Shah Jee Motors showroom in Orangi town, Karachi city, Sindh province, Pakistan. One person was wounded in the blast. Additionally, the showroom, which is owned by former Awami National Party (ANP) leader, along with several cars were damaged in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2013: An explosive device in a Pepsi bottle partially detonated near the immunization room in the Mattani Civil Hospital in Mattani village, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/11/2013: An explosive device planted on a motorcycle detonated in Peshawar city, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. The explosion targeted the convoy of Arbab Ayub Jan, an Awami National Party (ANP) leader, injuring one person. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2013: An explosive device targeted a former leader of Hizb-i-Islami, Abdul Ghafoor, in Wama district, Nuristan province, Afghanistan. Ghafoor was killed in the explosion. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2013: An explosive device was planted outside the hujra of Noor Muhammad in Mandew village, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. Authorities defused the device after receiving a tip about its location. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2013: Assailants attacked a police station in Babban Gida village, Yobe state, Nigeria. Four police officers and five insurgents were killed in the exchange of gunfire. The assailants then used incendiary devices to set the police building on fire. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, the attack was attributed to Boko Haram.
04/11/2013: Assailants damaged government buildings with construction vehicles in Jamui district, Bihar state, India. This was the second of two coordinated attacks on two government buildings. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the incident to Maoists.
04/11/2013: Assailants damaged the Panchayat Bhawan government building with construction vehicles in Jamui district, Bihar state, India. This was one of two coordinated attacks on two government buildings. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the incident to Maoists.
04/11/2013: Assailants detonated an explosive device in Bigha area, Bihar state, India. The device targeted a building in the Irrigation department's residential colony in which the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) was to be housed. There were no casualties; however, seven buildings were destroyed. This was one of eight coordinated explosions at the governmental colony on this day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the incident to Maoists.
04/11/2013: Assailants detonated an explosive device in Bigha area, Bihar state, India. The device targeted a building in the Irrigation department's residential colony in which the Commando Battalion for Resolute Action (COBRA) was to be housed. There were no casualties; however, seven buildings were destroyed. This was one of eight coordinated explosions at the governmental colony on this day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the incident to Maoists.
04/11/2013: Assailants planted a bomb near a residential colony for the irrigation department in Bihar state, India. The bomb failed to detonate, but police suspected that it had been placed on the scene to detonate upon the arrival of the authorities. This was one of eight coordinated explosions at the governmental residences on this day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the incident to Maoists.
04/11/2013: Assailants shot and killed a tribal elder, Imam Arban, in Pakhtunkot district, Faryab province, Afghanistan. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the assassination, stating that the victim was a commander of the local pro-government militia.
04/11/2013: Assailants shot and killed S.M. Shiraz, a Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) election candidate, in Karachi city, Sindh province, Pakistan. Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/11/2013: Assailants threw a grenade into the Zahra Garden area of Karachi city, Sindh province, Pakistan. Two people were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2013: Gunmen attacked journalist Fausto Valdiviezo in Guayaquil, Guayas province, Ecuador. Valdiviezo was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, this is the second time Valdiviezo was attacked in two days.
04/11/2013: Gunmen engaged a Kenyan African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) military convoy after an army vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb in Tiixo locality, Lower Jubba Region, Somalia. Several deaths and injuries were reported, however specific numbers were unknown at the time. Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2013: Gunmen shot and killed Fakhr-ul-Islam, a Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) election candidate, in Hyderabad city, Sindh province, Pakistan. The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesperson, Ehsanullah Ehsan, claimed responsibility for the incident, stating that they had targeted MQM as part of their campaign against secular parties.
04/11/2013: Gunmen shot and killed two police officers in Karachi city, Sindh province, Pakistan. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2014: A suicide bomber opened fire on Gul Babri and detonated explosives at a market in Urgun district, Paktika province, Afghanistan. In addition to the suicide bomber, Babri, a tribal elder, was killed and three civilians were wounded in the blast. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2014: An explosive device detonated at the residence of a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) contractor in Wah town, Punjab province, Pakistan. There were no reported casualties; however, the house was damaged in the blast. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources suspected that Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) was involved in the attack.
04/11/2014: An explosive device detonated near a bridge in Abu Ghraib city, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. One civilian was killed and three others were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2014: An explosive device detonated near a civilian vehicle in Datta Khel area, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. Three people were killed and two others were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2014: An explosive device detonated near a civilian vehicle in Halawah village, Nineveh governorate, Iraq. One person was killed and six others were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2014: An explosive device detonated near a joint Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and district police patrol inside Dubaiguda Forest near Awapalli village, Chhattisgarh state, India. At least two security personnel were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
04/11/2014: An explosive device detonated near a police post in Dir town, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. Four people were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2014: An explosive device detonated near a tractor on Chaambi Mountain in Kasserine governorate, Tunisia. One civilian was wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2014: An explosive device detonated outside the Ali Mangal Rest House in Taj Abad area, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. There were no reported casualties in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2014: An explosive device planted in the vehicle of Jumanah Adnan detonated in an unknown location in Iraq. Adnan, an Al-Iraqiyah Satellite TV correspondent, was unharmed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2014: An explosive device was discovered and safely defused on a bridge in Ahwar district, Abyan governorate, Yemen. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2014: An explosive device, targeting police officers, detonated in Daih village, Capital governorate, Bahrain. A police officer was wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected that Muslim fundamentalists carried out the attack.
04/11/2014: Assailants abducted a village leader and two former village council members in Malkangiri district, Odisha state, India. The outcome of the abduction is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist).
04/11/2014: Assailants attacked a civilian in Dabqurun area, near Ceel Buur city, Galguduud region, Somalia. The civilian was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Al-Shabaab.
04/11/2014: Assailants attacked a convoy of International Support Mission in the Central African Republic (MISCA) peacekeepers escorting Muslim civilians out of the country near Bossangoa town in Ouham-Pende prefecture, Central African Republic. At least three civilians were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the anti-Balaka militia.
04/11/2014: Assailants attacked a police checkpost in Waziribad city, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. Six Levies personnel were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2014: Assailants attacked Katendeji village, Katanga province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. No casualties were reported, but 14 houses and a church were set on fire and a refugee leader was kidnapped. The outcome of the kidnapping is unknown. This was one of two villages attacked by the same assailants on this date. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents; however, sources attributed the attacks to the Mai Mai Bakata Katanga Militia.
04/11/2014: Assailants attacked Musesha village, Katanga province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. No casualties were reported, but 100 houses and several shops were set on fire and a nurse was kidnapped. The outcome of the kidnapping is unknown. This was one of two villages attacked by the same assailants on this date. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents; however, sources attributed the attacks to the Mai Mai Bakata Katanga Militia.
04/11/2014: Assailants attempted to set a traffic checkpoint on fire in Mahalah al-Kubra city, Gharbia governorate, Egypt. Two assailants were killed by authorities. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Muslim Brotherhood.
04/11/2014: Assailants opened fire on a police patrol near Asagoan city in Maharashtra state, India. One police officer was killed and five others were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
04/11/2014: Assailants opened fire on a police station in Remolino town, Taminango municipality, Narino department, Colombia. Two people, including one police officer and one assailant, were killed and one police officer was wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
04/11/2014: Assailants opened fire on a Rangers official in Sariflat area, Panjgur town, Balochistan province, Pakistan. The official was wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2014: Assailants opened fire on African-led International Support Mission to the Central African Republic (MISCA) peacekeepers in Bria town, Haute-Kotto prefecture, Central African Republic. One peacekeeper was wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2014: Assailants opened fire on an imam and a muezzin near a mosque in Khadra neighborhood, Tal Afar district, Nineveh governorate, Iraq. Both the imam and the muezzin were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2014: Assailants opened fire on civilians in Kashimbila village, Taraba state, Nigeria. Two people were killed, two women were abducted, and several houses were set on fire in the attack. The outcome of the abduction is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2014: Assailants opened fire on civilians traveling along the Biu-Maiduguri highway in Borno state, Nigeria. Eight civilians were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Boko Haram.
04/11/2014: Assailants opened fire on Ghulam Haider near Martin Quarters area, Karachi city, Sindh province, Pakistan. Haider, a lawyer, was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2014: Assailants opened fire on soldiers in Haikal area, Al Bayda governorate, Yemen. One soldier was killed and two others were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected that Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) carried out the attack.
04/11/2014: Assailants opened fire on the convoy of Saleh al-Mutlaq in Abu Ghraib city, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. Al-Mutlaq, the Deputy Prime Minister, was unharmed in the attack; however, one of his guards were killed and three others were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2014: Assailants released chlorine gas in Kafr Zita town, Hamah governorate, Syria. At least two people were killed and 101 others were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Al-Nusrah Front.
04/11/2014: Assailants stormed a mining firm in Quirino town, Ilocos Sur province, Philippines. There were no reported casualties; however, mining equipment was damaged in the attack. Armando Silva, the spokesperson of the Alfredo Cesar Command of the New People's Army (NPA), claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that the attack was punishment for the company's destructive activities.
04/11/2014: Assailants threw a grenade at a passenger bus in the Shamal Benghazi Club in Benghazi city, Benghazi district, Libya. There were no reported casualties in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2014: Three explosive devices were discovered near a polling station in Kankapal village, Chhattisgarh state, India. The polling station was moved to an alternative location. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected that Maoists had planted the devices.
04/11/2015: A suicide bomber detonated near the gates of the Baiji Oil Refinery outside of Bayji, Saladin governorate, Iraq. Following the blast, additional assailants then attacked the refinery. At least 18 assailants were killed and an unknown number of others were injured in the ensuing clash with security forces, which lasted until April 13, 2015. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2015: An explosive device detonated in front of the private residence of the mayor near Panare, Pattani province, Thailand. At least two people, a Royal Thai Police officer and his wife, were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/11/2015: An explosive device detonated near 4,000 Market in Shaab neighborhood, Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. At least two people were killed and seven others were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/11/2015: An explosive device detonated near an Iraqi Police Service (IPS) convoy outside of Adhaim, Diyala governorate, Iraq. At least two officers were killed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/11/2015: An explosive device detonated near an Iraqi Police Service (IPS) patrol in the south of Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. At least one civilian was killed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/11/2015: An explosive device detonated near Myanmar Police Force (MPF) officers in a village near Muse town, Shan state, Myanmar. At least two officers were killed and three others were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/11/2015: An explosive device detonated near shops in Al-Furat neighborhood, Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. At least one person was killed and two others were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/11/2015: An explosive device planted in a vending cart detonated near an Afghan Police vehicle in Ghorband district, Parwan province, Afghanistan. At least 11 people, including police officers and civilians, were injured in the blast. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/11/2015: An explosive device that was discovered by a scrap dealer detonated the next day after he hit it with a hammer in Borjhar village, Assam state, India. The scrap dealer was killed and at least three other people were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/11/2015: An explosive device was discovered and defused along Airport Road near Gwadar, Balochistan province, Pakistan. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/11/2015: An explosive device was discovered and defused on Summerhill Road in Dublin city, Dublin county, Ireland. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/11/2015: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated in Huwayk village, Homs governorate, Syria. At least two Lebanese nationals were killed and another was wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/11/2015: Assailants attacked an Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) voting station in Birin Fulani, Gombe state, Nigeria. At least one police officer was killed and ballot cards and readers were set on fire in the incident. This was one of three similar attacks in Gombe on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/11/2015: Assailants attacked an Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) voting station in Birnin Bolewa, Gombe state, Nigeria. At least one person was killed in the incident. This was one of three similar attacks in Gombe on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/11/2015: Assailants attacked an Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) voting station in Dukku, Gombe state, Nigeria. At least two people, including one assailant, were killed and an unknown number of others people were injured in the incident. This was one of three similar attacks in Gombe on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/11/2015: Assailants attacked the house of acting mayor, Monawara Ampatuan, in Labu-Labu village, Maguindanao province, Philippines. The mayor was unharmed the in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2015: Assailants attacked two United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) peacekeepers in Kidal city, Kidal region, Mali. It is unknown if there were any casualties in the incident. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/11/2015: Assailants attempted to attack military positions in eastern Arish, North Sinai, Egypt. There were no reported casualties as security forces repelled the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2015: Assailants fired a projectile that detonated in Shamsiyah village, Kirkuk, Iraq. At least three volunteer fighters were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/11/2015: Assailants fired a projectile that landed near the Royal Saudi Arabian Armed Forces Al-Manar Checkpoint in Najran province, Saudi Arabia. At least three soldiers were killed and two others were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to Huthis.
04/11/2015: Assailants fired projectiles that detonated in a residential area in Aden city, Adan governorate, Yemen. This was one of two projectile attacks in areas of Aden on the same day. At least two civilians were killed and 25 others were wounded across both incidents. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attacks to Huthis.
04/11/2015: Assailants fired projectiles that landed and detonated in Sulaimaniyah neighborhood, Aleppo city, Aleppo governorate, Syria. At least five people were killed and dozens of others were wounded in the blasts. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/11/2015: Assailants fired projectiles that landed near People's Protection Units (YPG) members outside of Tall Tamr, Al Hasakah governorate, Syria. At least 34 people, including 10 YPG members and 24 assailants, were killed in the ensuing clash. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/11/2015: Assailants kidnapped a doctor from Peerabad area, Karachi city, Sindh province, Pakistan. The doctor was released the following day after the assailants realized that he was not their intended target. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2015: Assailants opened fire on a Pakistan Armed Forces checkpost in Datta Khel, North Waziristan district, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. At least six people, including one soldier and five assailants, were killed in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/11/2015: Assailants opened fire on civilians in Dar Saad neighborhood, Aden city, Adan governorate, Yemen. This was one of two similar assaults in neighborhoods of Aden on the same day. At least three people were killed across both attacks. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incidents to Huthis.
04/11/2015: Assailants opened fire on civilians in Mualla neighborhood, Aden city, Adan governorate, Yemen. This was one of two similar assaults in neighborhoods of Aden on the same day. At least three people were killed across both attacks. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incidents to Huthis.
04/11/2015: Assailants opened fire on civilians outside of a grocery store near Takae, Pattani province, Thailand. At least one civilian was killed and two others were wounded in the assault. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to separatists.
04/11/2015: Assailants opened fire on construction laborers working on the Sohrab Dam in Gogdan, Balochistan province, Pakistan. At least 20 laborers were killed and three others were injured in the assault. The Baloch Liberation Front (BLF) claimed responsibility and stated that the attack was carried out in retaliation for military operations conducted in the area.
04/11/2015: Assailants opened fire on employees inside a tile factory in Kamaliya neighborhood, Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. At least two people, including the owner, were killed and two others were injured in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/11/2015: Assailants opened fire on Nurahman Japparul and his escort in Mangal village, Basilan province, Philippines. Both Japparul, the Mangal village chair, and his escort were killed in the assault. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG).
04/11/2015: Assailants opened fire on Pir Mohammad Kuchi near the Governor House in Maydan Shahr city, Wardak province, Afghanistan. Kuchi, the provincial chief financial official, was killed in the assault. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/11/2015: Assailants opened fire on Rafael Tesoro in Bualan village, Zamboanga del Sur province, Philippines. Tesoro, a village councilor, was injured in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/11/2015: Assailants opened fire on Somali Armed Forces (SAF) soldiers in Yaqshid neighborhood, Mogadishu, Banaadir region, Somalia. At least two soldiers were killed in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/11/2015: Assailants opened fire on Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) soldiers in Yukari Tutek village, Agri province, Turkey. At least five assailants were killed and five others, including four soldiers and one assailant, were injured in the ensuing clash. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
04/11/2015: Several assailants opened fire on a Special Task Force (STF) search operation inside Pedmal Forest in Sukma district, Chhattisgarh state, India. At least 42 people, including seven officers and 35 assailants, were killed and 25 others, including 10 officers and 15 assailants, were injured in the ensuing clash. The Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/11/2015: Several students at Fatiha School fell ill after eating beans sold to them by a vendor in Herat city, Herat province, Afghanistan. Approximately 100 students were hospitalized as a result of the poisoning. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/11/2016: A border police officer opened fire on his colleagues at a checkpoint in Wesh, Kandahar, Afghanistan. At least five officers were killed in the attack. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2016: A mortar struck a residential area in Jakkuk, Baghdad, Iraq. At least four people were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2016: A roadside landmine detonated targeting a bus carrying Ministry of Education employees in Kamari, Kabul, Afghanistan. At least two employees were killed and seven others were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected the involvement of the Taliban.
04/11/2016: A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle at a local government office in Mogadishu, Banaadir, Somalia. In addition to the bomber, five people were killed and seven others were injured in the blast. Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2016: A suicide bomber detonated targeting a bus carrying military recruits in Surkh Rod, Nangarhar, Afghanistan. In addition to the bomber, 12 recruits were killed and 38 other people, including civilians, were injured in the blast. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2016: An explosive device detonated in a civilian residence in Samarra, Saladin, Iraq. Two displaced residents who had returned to the house were killed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2016: An explosive device detonated in Budhanagar, Eastern development, Nepal. A civilian was injured in the blast; additionally, seven other explosive devices were discovered and defused at the scene following the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2016: An explosive device detonated in Qarghuliyah, Diyala, Iraq. At least two people were killed and five people were injured in the blast. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2016: An explosive device detonated in Zafraniya, Baghdad, Iraq. At least one person was killed and seven people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2016: An explosive device detonated near a market in Al-Bakriyah, Baghdad, Iraq. At least two people were killed and nine people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2016: An explosive device detonated targeting a military patrol in Arab Ebjur, Baghdad, Iraq. At least four soldiers were injured in the blast. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2016: An explosive device detonated targeting a military patrol in Falahat, Al Anbar, Iraq. At least four military personnel were killed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2016: An explosive device detonated targeting the Chana train station in Chana, Songkhla, Thailand. At least two people were killed and 11 others were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities attributed the attack to Runda Kumpulan Kecil (RKK) and Barisan Revolusi Nasional (BRN).
04/11/2016: Assailants abducted Lalchoilou Nehsiel, a Kuki Students Organization (KSO) general secretary, and Thangzou Gangte, a civilian, from Longlen, Manipur, India. Nehsiel was killed and Gangte escaped during an encounter between the assailants and security forces on April 13, 2016. The Zeliangrong United Front claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2016: Assailants attacked and killed two National Uprising Movement (NUM) members in Burka, Baghlan, Afghanistan. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Taliban.
04/11/2016: Assailants attacked Angai, Taraba, Nigeria. This was one of three coordinated attacks on villages in the area on the same day. At least 44 people were killed across two of the three events. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents; however, sources attributed the attacks to Fulani militants.
04/11/2016: Assailants attacked Ndole, Taraba, Nigeria. This was one of three coordinated attacks on villages in the area on the same day. At least 44 people were killed across two of the three events. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents; however, sources attributed the attacks to Fulani militants.
04/11/2016: Assailants detonated an explosives-laden vehicle and opened fire at a military outpost in Hani, Diyarbakir, Turkey. At least two soldiers were killed and 46 others, including civilians and military personnel, were injured in the attack. The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that the attack was carried out in revenge for the death of a PKK member and military operations against the group.
04/11/2016: Assailants executed 10 owners of electrical shops in Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/11/2016: Assailants in Syria fired five rockets into Kilis, Turkey. At least one person was killed and 11 others were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/11/2016: Assailants kidnapped Nur-e-Alam, a student, from Nilphamari, Rangpur, Bangladesh. Alam was rescued on December 8, 2016. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2016: Assailants killed two civilians in Bali, Taraba, Nigeria. This was one of three coordinated attacks on villages in the area on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents; however, sources attributed the attacks to Fulani militants.
04/11/2016: Assailants opened fire on a military patrol in Yusufiyah, Babil, Iraq. At least one soldier was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2016: Assailants opened fire on Imbonerakure members at a market in Gisuru, Ruyigi, Burundi. At least five people were killed and six others were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2016: Assailants set fire to a fitness center in Van, Turkey. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
04/11/2016: Assailants set fire to a kendu leaf godown in Gourapali, Odisha, India. There were no reported casualties in the attack. Maoists claimed responsibility for the incident and threatened local officials involved in corruption in construction projects.
04/11/2016: Assailants set fire to a truck in Dhiri Murum, Madhya Pradesh, India. There were no reported casualties. Maoists claimed responsibility for the incident and demanded better wages for workers.
04/11/2016: Assailants set fire to four vehicles and two pieces of forestry machinery equipment in Araucania, Chile. There were no reported casualties in the attack. Mapuche activists claimed responsibility for the incident and left a note that stated "Get out forestry companies, freedom for the Mapuche political prisoners."
04/11/2016: Assailants shot and killed two police officers in Serai Naurang, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2016: Security forces discovered three explosives-laden vehicles near Puttingal Devi temple in Paravur, Kerala, India. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2016: Security forces found explosive devices near a polling booth in Asansol, West Bengal, India. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2016: Security forces identified and arrested a suicide bomber targeting civilians in Rusafa, Baghdad, Iraq. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2016: Security forces identified and killed two suicide bombers in Bishkan, Saladin, Iraq. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/11/2016: Three suicide bombers attacked a police station in Novoselitskoye, Stavropol, Russia. The three assailants were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2017: An assailant rammed his motorcycle into a police station and stabbed police officers in Banyumas, Central Java, Indonesia. Three police officers were injured in the attack before the assailant, identified as Muhammad Ibnu Dar, was arrested. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Jamaah Ansharut Daulah.
04/11/2017: An assailant threw a grenade at a bus station in Bandar-e-Kabul, Kunduz, Afghanistan. At least 11 people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/11/2017: An explosive device attached to a traffic police vehicle detonated in Sar Makhzan, Kabul, Afghanistan. There were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2017: An explosive device detonated near a market in Zaidan, Al Anbar, Iraq. At least three people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2017: An explosive device detonated targeting a military patrol in Akarkouf, Baghdad, Iraq. At least three soldiers were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2017: An explosive device detonated targeting a military vehicle in Shinkay, Zabul, Afghanistan. Two soldiers were killed and another two soldiers were injured in the blast. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2017: Assailants abducted an Algerian nurse from Misrata, Libya. The outcome of the kidnapping is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Tripoli Province of the Islamic State.
04/11/2017: Assailants abducted Khalid Bibas, the acting director of the Civil Registry Authority, and a colleague in Tripoli, Libya. Bibas was released on April 13, 2017, and the fate of the remaining hostage is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Bab Tajura Brigade.
04/11/2017: Assailants attacked a military checkpoint in Abu Karmah, Diyala, Iraq. No casualties were reported in the attack. This was one of two related attacks in the village on this date. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/11/2017: Assailants attacked Iraqi Volunteer Forces personnel in Siniyah, Saladin, Iraq. There were an unknown number of assailant casualties as security forces repelled the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/11/2017: Assailants attacked Senior Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) investigator Novel Baswedan with acid in North Jakarta, Jakarta Special Capital Region, Indonesia. Baswedan was wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2017: Assailants detonated explosives underneath a police compound in Baglar neighborhood, Diyarbakir, Turkey. Three people, including a police officer and two civilians, were killed and 12 people were injured in the blast. The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that the attack was carried out in retaliation for the ill treatment of Kurdish citizens by Turkish authorities.
04/11/2017: Assailants fired mortars at Abu Karmah, Diyala, Iraq. No casualties were reported in the attack. This was one of two related attacks in the village on this date. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/11/2017: Assailants fired rockets at water wells in western Nineveh governorate, Iraq. At least two civilians were killed and nine civilians were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/11/2017: Assailants opened fire on the Pakistan Armed Forces Olai Top Border Security Post in Biazai, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. At least two assailants were killed and one soldier was injured in the ensuing clash. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/11/2017: Assailants shot and injured a conscript south of Arish, North Sinai, Egypt. The Sinai Province of the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/11/2017: Assailants shot and killed a farmer in San Antonio, Negros Occidental, Philippines. The New People's Army (NPA) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2017: Assailants shot and killed a Pakistani Police intelligence officer at a shop in Manghopir neighborhood, Karachi, Pakistan. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/11/2017: Assailants shot and killed a soldier in the 5th police district of Kabul, Afghanistan. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2017: Assailants stopped and set fire to a cargo truck in Macmod, North Cotabato, Philippines. There were no reported casualties in the attack. The New People's Army (NPA) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2017: Security forces discovered and destroyed two explosives-laden vehicles in Hatra district, Nineveh, Iraq. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/11/2017: Security forces identified and killed two suicide bombers in Tarmiyah, Saladin, Iraq. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/1998:  A female cadre  believed to be from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) lobbed a grenade into a crowded marketplace in Jaffna, Sri Lanka.  One civilian was killed and at least 15 were injured in the explosion.  The incident happened days before the Sri Lankan New Year.  The area was already on high alert, in case the rebels staged an attack during the holiday.  The LTTE denies responsibility for the attack.
04/12/1999: The Army of National Liberation (ELN- Army of National Liberation) hijacked an Avianca plane and diverted it to near San Pablo, Columbia. All the passengers and crew were taken hostage though nine passengers were released. The Army engaged the ELN, but by the end of April 1999, the situation had not been concluded and numerous passengers were still being held hostage in a rural area in northern Columbia.
04/12/1999: Thirteen people were killed, five injured, and four kidnapped at a fake roadblock set up by twenty armed Islamic militants in Zelamta, Algeria.
04/12/2000: A bomb exploded at the branch office of the Socialist party in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. No one was injured, but the explosion caused some minor damage. Both the government and opposition blamed each other for the explosion, but no one claimed responsibility.
04/12/2000: A car packed with explosives was detonated by remote control by militants at Rawalpora bypass on the outskirts of Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. The target was a convoy of vehicles carrying Indian Army personnel. One bystander was seriously injured. No group claimed responsible, and the perpetrators were unknown.
04/12/2000: A previously unknown anarchist group, Last Generation, claimed responsibility for the firebombing of two cars in Zografou, Greece. The cars were severely damaged, but there were no injuries.
04/12/2000: Electricity towers were destroyed by anti-personnel mines in Dihokohoko, Namibia. The National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) was believed to be behind the attacks. Two women were injured from the attack.
04/12/2000: In Cali, Colombia, a Mexican citizen was kidnapped by the National Liberation Army (NLA), who demanded $5 million in ransom. On April 16, 2000, the police arrested three of the kidnappers and freed the hostage.
04/12/2000: Sixteen people were killed by grenades and automatic weapons fire in an attack on a mosque in Mallow Wali, Pakistan. Qari Mehmood was arrested for this attack, however several others were presumed to also be involved.
04/12/2000: The New People’s Army (NPA) was suspected in an ambush attack on a police patrol in Sablayan, Philippines. Two were killed and three were seriously wounded in the attack by 20 to 30 NPA rebels. A land mine was used first, followed by automatic weapons fire.
04/12/2001: An explosion at the offices of the 10th television channel in Avtury, Shali District, Chechnya, killed Shamalu Deniyev, the Chechen government's deputy chief.  A cameraman was wounded in the exposion and the roof of the television studio was blown off.  No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2001: Palestinian authorities carried out a controlled detonation of a bomb found in a car that was to be sold to Nasser Abu Hamaid, the Fatah movement's Tanzim leader.  No one was injured and no damage was done.  Although no group claimed responsibility for the incident, Palestinian authorities claimed that Israel was behind this attempt, as Hamaid was a key leader in the uprising against Israel.  Israel denied these allegations.
04/12/2002: An explosion occurred at the Ardglass police station in County Down, Northern Ireland. There were no casualties, but 30 homes were evacuated. There were no suspects. Earlier explosions occurred at the Downpatrick police station.
04/12/2002: An explosion occurred in the Sheraton district of Sanaa, near the US Embassy. Though police believed the blast targeted a Yemeni intelligence officer and not the embassy, a group identifying as Sympathizers of Al-Qaida distributed pamphlets throughout Sanaa claiming responsibility for attempting to hit the embassy. No one was arrested.
04/12/2002: Andaleeb Tawataqah detonated a suicide bomb near the Mahane Yehuda outdoor market in Jerusalem. Tawataqah and six civilians were killed. 50 were injured. No group had claimed responsibility, but Tawataqah recorded a video prior to the explosion wearing the uniform of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade.
04/12/2002: Approximately 30 armed rebels wearing police uniforms attacked a British contingent of the International Security Assistance Force. Seven attackers were captured. There were no casualties.
04/12/2002: Armed men attacked the Indian Border Security Force camp at Gaibas Village in the Rajouri District. Two BSF members were killed and another was injured in the attack. The suspects escaped, but one was killed in later search operations. No one was arrested in connection with the attack.
04/12/2002:Two explosions occurred at the Downpatrick police station in County Down, Northern Ireland. No one was injured, but a small hole was found in the outer fence. There were no suspects. An explosion later occurred at the Ardglass police station.
04/12/2003: An Italian tourist believed to be Orfeo Bartolini was shot and killed by two suspected Taliban militants near Shahjoy, Afghanistan. Bartolini had arrived in the country and hired a car and driver without informing authorities. While en route to Kabul, two men on a motorbike stopped his car and killed Bartolini, but allowed the driver to live.
04/12/2003: Steve Lesniak, a security officer from the U.S. Embassy in Guyana, was abducted by at least five unknown assailants from the Lusignan Golf Club near Georgetown, Guyana. Mr. Lesniak was released unhurt later in the day after a friend paid $10,000 of the kidnappers' $300,000 ransom demand. At least five perpetrators were reported involved in the incident, but only two people performed the actual kidnapping.
04/12/2003: Three Malaysian journalists and five Malaysian Medical Relief Society workers were attacked by a group of unknown armed militiamen in Baghdad, Iraq. Datuk Dr. Jemilah Mahmood and colleague Dr. Baba Deni suffered gunshot wounds, and an Iraqi pharmacist and a Syrian driver were killed in the incident. The three Malaysian journalists were also kidnapped in the event. The journalists were released unharmed after being held captive for three hours.
04/12/2003: Unidentified militants lobbed a grenade at a bus stand in Kulgam, India, injuring five people.
04/12/2003: Unidentified militants threw a grenade at a crowded bus stop in Qazigund, India. The attack injured 24 people and killed one, Dr. Abdus Salam Qazi.
04/12/2003: Unidentified militants threw a grenade into the Punjab National Bank in Lalchowk, India, injuring 17 people.
04/12/2005: A home-made explosive device detonated at an empty intersection in Ambon, Indonesia. The explosion did not result in any casualties or damage. No group claimed responsibility for the bombing.
04/12/2005: An Iraqi Interior Ministry Official, General Tariq al-Baldawi, was the target of an assassination attempt in Baghdad, Iraq. Although al-Baladwi escaped injury, one of his escorts was killed in the attack. Three other people were injured in the attempted assassination as well. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2005: One police officer was killed and two others injured when a bomb exploded along a road between the city of Makhachkala and a nearby airport in Russia. No group claimed responsibility for the bombing.
04/12/2005: Sopore municipal councilor, Ghulam Nabi Changa, was the target of a botched assassination attempt in Sopore, India. Changa was uninjured in the attack, although his friend sustained a gunshot wound. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2005: Suspected militants killed an Indian soldier near Hari-Bhudda in India’s Jammu and Kashmir State. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2005: Suspected New People’s Army (NPA) members killed three soldiers in an ambush attack in San Mariano, Philippines. Several NPA members were injured in the attack as well. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2005: The Israeli army uncovered and defused two explosive charges, left by unknown assailants, each weighing 35k, found near the Israel-Egypt border, in Rafah, along the Gaza Strip. No one claimed responsibility for setting the charges.
04/12/2005: The military wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for firing two Mustafa rockets, as well as mortar rounds, at the Israeli settlement of Ganey Tal. This attack, related to similar incidents, comes in retaliation for the killing of three Palestinian teens by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and for the perceived breaking of an agreed ceasefire by the IDF. No damages or injuries were reported.
04/12/2005: Three police officers were injured when a bomb exploded near their police vehicle in Makhachkala, Russia. No group claimed responsibility for the bombing.
04/12/2005: Unidentified perpetrators bombed an electrical transmission tower in Gorug, Pakistan causing significant damage. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2005: Unidentified perpetrators fired rockets at the Panjgur Airport in Panjgur, Pakistan. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2005: Unidentified perpetrators killed three policemen in Tugaya, Philippines. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2005: Unknown gunmen opened fire on a police patrol in Kirkuk, Iraq; the perpetrators wounded two officers, no other casualties or injuries have been reported. No one claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2006: A doctor who heads the health center in Daqouq, Iraq was abducted by unidentified individuals.  No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2006: A Housing Ministry employee was killed by unknown gunmen as he drove to work in the Amil neighborhood oh Baghdad, Iraq. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2006: A leading pro-democracy activist, Edil Baisalov, leader of a coalition of civic groups called For Democracy and Civil Society, suffered a 5 cm wound in the back of the neck when unknown assailants attacked from behind as he was leaving his office at 6:00 p.m in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2006: A man lobbed a grenade into a busy restaurant in the Pacific coast town of Petatlán, Mexico, at 1:00 a.m., killing a man and injuring eight people. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2006: A parked car bomb exploded near a medical facility in the city of Khalis, Iraq, killing two bystanders and wounding at least 23 others. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2006: A roadside bomb targeted a convoy carrying the Diyala province Deputy Governor, Awf Rahhumi, in Ba'qubah, Iraq, wounding two of his guards. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2006: A suicide bomber in a car sped through a checkpoint and evaded police attempts to stop it outside a Shi'a mosque in Huwaider, Iraq, and detonated his car as worshippers left evening prayers, killing 31 people and wounding at least 70 others. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2006: A suicide car bomber drove up to a busy vegetable market and detonated his explosives in Tal Afar, Iraq, killing at least two shoppers and wounding seven others. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2006: About 300 protesters of the Islamic Defenders' Front (FPI) attacked Playboy's Jakarta, Indonesia, office several days after the magazine's circulation commenced there by throwing stones at building and shattering windows. There were no casualties.
04/12/2006: About forty suspected members of the Communist Party of India-Maoists kidnapped three employees of the Jharkhand State Road Construction Corporation and three laborers of the contractor working on a bridge project along National Highway 23 in Dasligaon, India. The Maoists also burned much of the construction equipment and two vehicles and a truck at the site while leaving.
04/12/2006: An Arab man, Muhammad Abu al-Hawa, accused of selling his property in the fiercely contested region of east Jerusalem, Israel, to Jewish settlers was murdered by Palestinians outraged by the sale to Jews of the three upper floors of a four storey property on the Mount of Olives area of Jerusalem. The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade claimed responsibility.
04/12/2006: An Assistant Sub-Inspector of the Intelligence Bureau (IB), Vinod Kumar, was killed while two police personnel were wounded when militants ambushed their IB vehicle on their way to Awantipore from Tral in the Pulwama (District) of India and opened fire. The Hizb ul-Mujahideen (HM) claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2006: An explosive charge went off near Al-Ashuriyin market in the Dawra area of Baghdad, Iraq, wounding five civilians and a police captain in addition to causing material damage to a car. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2006: An improvised bomb of three half-pound bars of TNT in a parcel was found and defused with a circuit-breaking device at 9:00 a.m. at a public telephone booth in the compound of a school in Aranyaprathet (District), Thailand, by a bomb expert team from the Border Patrol Police Unit 12 in Aranyaprathet. National Liberation Alliance of Sa Kaeo claimed responsibility in a note left at the scene.
04/12/2006: An internal affairs officer at the Interior Ministry was killed by men in two cars while leaving his house in Amil in western Baghdad, Iraq. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2006: An interpreter who had been working with British troops in Basra, Iraq, had been kidnapped on April 12 was found dead the next day. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2006: An unknown number of unidentified perpetrators fired a rocket from Shamkat Mountain in Alishang (District) to the northwest and landed in Qala-e-Seraj Guarden, Afghanistan, causing no damage or casualties.  No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2006: Armed men killed two drivers and set fire to their trucks which were transporting supplies to the U.S. Army on the road between Al-Ramadi and Al-Rutbah, Iraq. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2006: Gunmen kidnapped the daughter of an oil company employee in Kirkuk, Iraq. No further information was available, and No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2006: Gunmen shot down an Oil Ministry worker at a bus stop in Baghdad, Iraq. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2006: Gunmen stopped the car of two Iraqi contractors who supply the army with food and killed them in Kirkuk, Iraq. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2006: Hit men armed with assault rifles shot dead four men and wounded three others as they drove through Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2006: Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) cadres set off an improvised explosive device believed to target an army officer traveling in a double cab attached to a bicycle outside the gate of a vegetable market on the Central Road in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka, at 3:50 p.m. where people had readied to celebrate the Sinhala and Tamil New Year. The attack killed seventeen people, seven Sinhalese, six Tamils, and two Muslims, as well as a security force (SF) personnel, and wounded at least 50.
04/12/2006: Mortar shells targeted the buildings of the security departments of the federal department at 7:00 a.m in al-Miqdadiyah, Iraq. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2006: Mortar shells targeted the buildings of the security departments of the joint coordination office in al-Miqdadiyah, at 7:00 a.m. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2006: New People's Army guerrillas blocked a bus at dawn on an isolated road in Salay town in Misamis Oriental province, Phillipines, and ordered its driver and passengers out, and then set it on fire. No casualties were reported.
04/12/2006: Selvaratnam Wijekumar, 25, a businessman, was shot by two unidentified men in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2006: Sumsuding Salamae, a Muslim village chief, was shot dead by Islamic militants in front of his house after returning from a local mosque in Narathiwat, Thailand. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2006: Suspected Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels triggered a claymore mine in the vicinity of a truck carrying police officers in Kuchchaveli, Sri Lanka.  Two officers were immediately killed, while two more were injured in the blast.
04/12/2006: Terrorists triggered a bomb blast at a market place in Bannu, damaging about 10 music shops in Afzal Market in the area of Bairoon Lakki Gate in Bannu, Pakistan, at 1:00 a.m., but no casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2006: The director of the North Oil Company was wounded and his wife was killed when armed men attacked them in Kirkuk, Iraq.  No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2006: The Taliban fired two rockets that landed in the courtyard of the Ministry of Defense near the Presidential Palace at 10:00 p.m., and a third rocket landed in an area just outside the Ministry in Kabul, Afghanistan.
04/12/2006: Tribal elder Malik Mir Sharaf was attacked around noon while driving in his car to his village, Haiderkhel, Pakistan, from Mir Ali when five men, their faces covered and armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles, came riding in a vehicle and fired at his car as it drove on the side road to Haiderkhel from the Khajuri check-post. The tribal elder's bodyguards returned fire but no one from the either of the two sides was hurt. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2006: Unidentified people attacked the IOM [International Organization for Migration] clinic in the Janatkhel area of Naka (District) in Paktika, Afghanistan, destroying all the equipment there. There were no injuries or deaths. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2007: A human-rights activist was critically wounded when gunmen opened fire on him as he was driving in the Philippines’ Iloilo Province.  After the shooting, the gunmen abducted two other people who were riding in the car.  Nilo Arado, coordinator of the left-wing party Anakpawis, and Maria Luisa Posa-Dominado of Selda, a support group for political detainees, were both taken by the men and their fate was unknown.  No one claimed responsibility for the attack, but authorities believed communist insurgents were to blame.
04/12/2007: A Philippine policeman was shot and killed by approximately six gunmen in Surigao City as he was getting out of his vehicle.  No one claimed responsibility for the attack, but police believed that members of the New People’s Army (NPA) were to blame.
04/12/2007: A suicide bomber detonated his explosives inside a café in the Green Zone of Baghdad, Iraq, killing eight people and wounding 20 more.  Two members of parliament (MPs) and a parliamentary official were among those who were killed, and many of the wounded were also MPs.  Al-Qaida in Iraq claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2007: Eleven people were wounded by a bomb that exploded in a busy market in Thailand’s Yala Province.  No one claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2007: Eleven people were wounded when suspected militants detonated a bomb in a market in Thailand's Yala Province.  No one claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2007: One policeman was killed and five others were injured when suspected Taliban militants attacked their patrol in the Basram village in Afghanistan’s Laghman Province.   No one claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2007: Seven people were shot and killed by suspected members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the majority Sinhalese village of Avarantalawa in Sri Lanka’s Northern Province.  The LTTE did not claim responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2007: Six people, including one soldier, were killed in fighting between government troops and militant supporters of two Philippine politicians in the Philippines’ Sulu Province.  The militants attacked the village of Sagumbal by burning homes and opening fire on the town’s center.  There was no official claim of responsibility made for the attack.
04/12/2007: Ten people were killed and 26 were wounded when a suicide truck bomber detonated explosives on the al-Sarafiya bridge in northern Baghdad, Iraq.  The blast heavily damaged the bridge and sent cars plunging into the Tigris River below.  No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2007: The leader of a tribal faction in the Wild Ma’sud region of Yemen, Sheikh Nasir Humud al-Qu'aysi, was killed along with two of his brothers and five of his companions while they were hiding on Sunbul Mountain.  There  was no official claim of responsibility made for the attack, but followers of al-Houthi were blamed.
04/12/2007: Three Turkish soldiers were wounded by a landmine blast in the Turkey’s Bingol Province.  No one claimed responsibility for the attack, but authorities believed the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) was to blame.
04/12/2008: On Saturday evening at 2100 in Shiraz, Fars, Iran, during the evening prayer session, a bomb exploded at the Sayid Al-Shuhadan Husainiya, killing 12 civilians, wounding 200 others, and causing damage to the mosque.  Jihadi Movement of the Sunna People of Iran claimed responsibility.
04/12/2008: On Saturday night at 2200, unknown assailants threw a petrol bomb at a church in Fermanagh, Newtownbutler, Northern Ireland, causing scortch damage on the door, while also throwing green paint on the building. No injuries were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/12/2008: On Saturday night, in Sderot, Israel, militants fired two improvised rocket at the community. One hit the city and the other landed outside of the city. One woman suffered shock from the attack and no other casualties, damage or motive were reported. No group claimed responsibility.
04/12/2008: On Saturday, a Taliban suicide bomber attacked an Indian road construction crew in an undisclosed district in the southwestern Nimroz province of Afghanistan killing two people, including an Indian engineer. Eight other people, including five Indian workers and two civilians, were also wounded in the blast. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
04/12/2008: On Saturday, in Herat, Herat, Afghanistan, assailants threw a grenade at the residence of the Deputy Director of Radio Faryab, Khadija Ahadi, causing damages but no casualties. No group claimed responsibility.
04/12/2008: On Saturday, in southern Kirkuk, At Ta'mim, Iraq, assailants detonated a roadside improvised explosive device near a civilian vehicle being driven by an off-duty Iraqi soldier, wounding the soldier and one Sahwa Council member and damaging their car. There was no motive reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/12/2008: On Saturday, in Urubali village, Malkangiri, Orissa, India, assailants killed one village leader. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
04/12/2009: On Sunday afternoon at 1600, four Taliban militants on two motorcycles shot and killed a female provincial legislator as she was getting out of her car outside her home in Kandahar, Kandahar, Afghanistan.  The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2009: On Sunday afternoon, a suicide bomber detonated an improvised explosive device targeting a meeting of government officials in Aybak, Samangan, Afghanistan, wounding one civilian, damaging four government buildings, and one police vehicle. No group claimed responsibility.
04/12/2009: On Sunday evening at about 1930, in Mayang Imphal, Imphal West, Manipur, India, two motorcycle-borne assailants threw a grenade at the Congress political party office, wounding three civilians and damaging the office. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the Kangleipak Communist Party-Military Council (KCP-MC) was responsible.
04/12/2009: On Sunday evening at about 2115, in Karbi Anglong, Assam, India, assailants detonated two improvised explosive devices on the railway tracks between Doldoli and Diphu railway stations then fired upon the engine car of the Kamrup Express passenger train, damaging the tracks and one railway car but causing no casualties. No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the Karbi Longri North Cachar Liberation Front (KLNLF) was responsible.
04/12/2009: On Sunday evening at about 2130, in Damanjodi, Koraput, Orissa, India, approximately 200 assailants fired upon the National Aluminum Company (NALCO) bauxite mine, killing seven Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) members, wounding eight others, and damaging the mine premises. The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) claimed responsibility.
04/12/2009: On Sunday evening, in Mahagodaya village, Buttala, Uva, Sri Lanka, assailants fired upon a group of farmers as they were returning from their paddy fields, killing six civilians and three children. Five of the victims were hacked to death, while the other four succumbed to their injuries. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was responsible.
04/12/2009: On Sunday evening, in Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan, assailants threw a grenade into the house of a college educator, damaging one house but causing no casualties.  No group claimed responsibility.
04/12/2009: On Sunday morning in Derry, Northern Ireland, assailants poured a flammable liquid into a Sinn Fein office at the Rath Mor Centre and set it alight, causing minor damage to the building but no casualties.No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed republican dissidents were responsible.
04/12/2009: On Sunday morning, in Mianga, Nord-Kivu, Congo (Kinshasa), assailants fired upon DRC army positions, killing 10 soldiers and four civilians including some children. Following the attack, the assailants kidnapped the village chief and cut his throat, killing him. No group claimed responsibility, although it was believed the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda were responsible.
04/12/2009: On Sunday, in Koraput, Orissa, India, Communist Party of India- Maoist (CPI-Maoist) rebels set fire to an election office. No casualties were reported in the attack.
04/12/2009: On Sunday, in Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan, assailants threw a grenade at a computer business office, damaging one business and several homes but causing no casualties.  No group claimed responsibility.
04/12/2009: On Sunday, in the Dautohaja area of North Cachar Hills, Assam, India, Black Widow militants attacked the railway police force personnel guarding a railway station. No casualties were reported.
04/12/2009: On Sunday, in the Gorla Nala area of Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, India, Communist Party of India- Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants targeted a vehicle with an improvised explosive device, killing two security personnel and two civilians. No group claimed responsibility.
04/12/2009: On Sunday, unknown assailants detonated an improvised explosive device in the  area of Jist Diala in southeastern Baghdad, wounding seven civilians. No claim of responsibility has been reported.
04/12/2010: On Monday night around 0000 midnight, in Bishanpur village in Jamui District, Bihar, India, in one of two linked attacks, around 50 to 150 suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres abducted and killed two people. They were identified as panchayat samiti (block level local self Government institution) member Arjun Paswan, and his brother Prasadi. In the second attack, the Maoists also attacked adjoining Rajaun village and kidnapped and killed Bishundeo Yadav, village chief of Poorest Areas Civil Society program. On the morning of 04/13/2010, the bodies of all three victims were found hacked to death in Baba hills, a forest near the Rajaun village. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2010: On Monday night around 0000 midnight, in Bishanpur village in Jamui District, Bihar, India, in one of two linked attacks, around 50 to 150 suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres attacked Rajaun village and kidnapped and killed Bishundeo Yadav, village chief of Poorest Areas Civil Society program. In the first attack, the Maoists abducted and killed two people. They were identified as panchayat samiti (block level local self Government institution) member Arjun Paswan, and his brother Prasadi . On the morning of 04/13/2010, the bodies of all three victims were found hacked to death in Baba hills, a forest near the Rajaun village. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2010: On Monday night around 2200, at Khairachatar marketplace, in Bokaro District, Jharkhand, India, Ajay Kumar was branded as a police informer as well as an impostor by a Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) kangaroo court and was beheaded. According to police, Kumar was taken by 12 armed Maoists and brought to Khairachatar where they pronounced him guilty of informing the police about their movement between Jharkhand and Bengal and of collecting levy posing as a rebel leader. Kumar’s hands and legs were tied and his throat slit before the Maoists cut off his head and dumped his body in the marketplace. Maoist posters were posted in Khudibera warning that persons collecting money in the name of the CPI-M will meet the same fate.
04/12/2010: On Monday night at 0024, in Hollywood, six miles northeast of Belfast, Northern Ireland, Real Irish Republican Army (RIRA) militants detonated a vehicle borne improvised explosive device against the Palace barracks, injuring one civilian. According to reports, the bomb was placed inside of a stolen taxi, which was then left outside of the target building. This was one of two related attacks in northern Belfast between 04/11/2010 and 04/12/2010. RIRA both issued a threat prior to the blast, then claimed the attack in a phone call to the British Broadcasting Corporation.
04/12/2010: On Monday night, in Raja, Bahr al-Ghazal, Sudan, unknown assailants dressed in military attire entered the home of the president of the National Congress Party, fired upon and killed the political party president and eight others. It is unknown if the attack caused any property damage. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2010: On Monday, in al-Nour neighborhood in the Tall 'Afar district of Ninawa, Iraq, a roadside explosive device detonated and injured one civilian. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2010: On Monday, in al-Zanjili area of western Mosul, Ninawa, Iraq, two persons, including a traffic policeman, were killed and 22, including five policemen, women and children, were injured in a suicide car bomb blast that hit a Federal police patrol. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2010: On Monday, in Kandahar, Kandahar province, Afghanistan, in one of two related attacks, a group of three suicide bombers armed with guns, hand grenades and suicide vests attacked the main intelligence building in Afghanistan. One of them managed to blow himself up injuring two security officials while the other two were gunned down by security forces. The assailants also threw a hand grenade at a school, wounding a teacher and another worker. No group claimed responsibility.
04/12/2010: On Monday, in Kandahar, Kandahar province, Afghanistan, in one of two related attacks, a group of three suicide bombers armed with guns, hand grenades and suicide vests threw a hand grenade at a school, wounding a teacher and another worker while attacking the main intelligence building in Afghanistan. One of them managed to blow himself up injuring two security officials while the other two were gunned down by security forces. No group claimed responsibility.
04/12/2010: On Monday, in Malik Gojar Killay of Pampokha area in the Anbar sub-division of Mohmand Agency, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan, militants planted explosives and blew up a government boys’ primary school, completely destroying the school. The attack caused no casualties and no group claimed responsibility.
04/12/2010: On Monday, in Mogadishu, Banaadir, Somalia, assailants detonated two remote-controlled improvised explosive devices. The second explosion targeted police and civilians that had gathered around the attack site of the first explosion, killing six people, including two policemen and wounding five. It is unknown if the attack caused any property damage. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2010: On Monday, in Mogadishu, Banaadir, Somalia, assailants fired mortar shells targeting a military ceremony at the Mogadishu airport, killing seven people and injured 15 others. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2010: On Monday, in Moscow, Russian Republic, Russia, a court judge was shot and killed. Eduard Chuvashov, a 47-year-old city court judge who presided over several high-profile cases involving neo-Nazis, was shot in the stairwell on the third floor of his apartment building. The killer used a silencer and left no shells. Investigators obtained footage from surveillance cameras showing a tall Slavic man, about 30 years old, coming out of the apartment building shortly after the killing. It is unknown if the attack caused any property damage. No group claimed responsibility.
04/12/2010: On Monday, in the Al Mahmudiyah area of Baghdad, Iraq, an improvised explosive device went off near a fuel station and injured six civilians. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2010: On Monday, in the Zaafaraniya district in southeastern Baghdad, Iraq, a roadside bomb exploded and wounded one civilian. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2010: On Monday, in West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, suspected Communist Party of India - Maoists (CPI-Maoist) attacked and killed two Communist Party of India - Marxist supporters. The victims were identified as Ranjit Mal and Goutam Mal, residents of Dhula village. On 04/14/2010, the bodies of the two Marxists were recovered. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2011: On Tuesday evening at 1945, at kilometer marker 127 in the village of El Aserrío in Teorama, Norte de Santander, Colombia, the Río Zulia-Ayacucho oil pipeline owned by Ecopetrol was bombed with explosives by the 33rd Front of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). The explosion resulted in an oil spill in which 200 barrels of crude oil leaked into the Catatumbo River causing an unknown amount of environmental damage. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2011: On Tuesday morning, in Imphal, Manipur, India, unidentified militants entered the office of the Youth Affairs and Sports Department at Khuman Lampak stadium and set fire to work, training and financial documents in the Establishment Section and the accounts department. The militants also set fire to two Bolero jeeps that were parked in the Youth Affairs and Sports Department garage. An unknown amount of material damage was inflicted on the office and the two jeeps in the attack, but resulted in no casualties. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2011: On Tuesday morning, in Lumding, Nagaon, Assam, India, the Railway Protection Force (RPF) personnel recovered explosives weighing 37.5 kilograms from a general compartment of 15692 up Kachar Express which arrived at Lumding station from Silchar. The explosives contained 300 gelatin sticks, 1200 detonators and a large quantity of fuse wire packed in three bags. The attack caused no casualties or damages and no group claimed responsibility.
04/12/2011: On Tuesday morning, in Rishon Letzion, Central District, Israel, unknown assailants detonated an improvised explosive device that destroyed two civilian cars. Both cars went up in flames after the blast. There were no casualties and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2011: On Tuesday night at 2200, under Mahuataad Police Station in Daka Saram village, Bokaro District, Jharkhand, India, Jaleshwar Prajapati, a councilor of ward VI of Tilaiya panchayat (village level local self-Government institution) was abducted by a group of around 50 militants and later sentenced to death in a kangaroo court. The victim was repeatedly beaten before the militants slit his throat. His body was found in Tilaya village around 0400 on 04/13/2011. A pamphlet left by the Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) near the body warned that "Supporters of police will meet this fate."
04/12/2011: On Tuesday, in Bendi forest near the Hazaribagh-Chatra Road on the outskirts of Hazaribagh, Jharkhand, India, unidentified militants planted three can bombs to target police. However, the bombs were defused, causing no casualties or damages. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
04/12/2011: On Tuesday, in Four-Streets Square, Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq, unknown assailants detonated a sticky improvised explosive device attached to a civilian car. The blast killed one civilian, wounded three others and caused an unknown amount of damage to the car. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2011: On Tuesday, in Jowhar, Gobolka Shabeellaha Dhexe, Somalia, four unidentified men armed with knives amputated a hand and a leg from three men that had been accused of robbery by Sheik Yusuf Hassan Barow, an al-Shabaab judge. The militant group al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack through a public address.
04/12/2011: On Tuesday, in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, unknown gunmen on motorcycles approached the Mehmoodabad Gate and opened fire with 9 millimeter pistols on Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM)activists, killing three. The victims were identified as Syed Asif Ali, Muhammad Naeem, and Muneer Ahmed. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2011: On Tuesday, in Mogadishu, Banaadir, Somalia, at least four people were killed and more than 45 others were injured when unidentified militants fired mortars targeting the 51st Anniversary of Somali military forces celebration at the Villa Baidoa, a military base. It is unknown if the attack caused any property damage. No group claimed responsibility, but the militant group al-Shabaab was thought to be responsible for the attack.
04/12/2011: On Tuesday, in Speen Qabar area of Bara tehsil, Khyber, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan, suspected Lashkar-e-Islam (LI)militants kidnapped three civilians known as Fazal Shah, Inayat, and Abid, after they refused to fight against Zakhakhel tribe and Tirah-based militant organization Ansarul Islamand (AI). No group claimed responsibility and the status of the hostages is unknown.
04/12/2011: On Tuesday, in the Abu Ghurayb neighborhood of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq, unknown assailants detonated an improvised explosive device inside the home of a Sahwa Council member. The member's wife was killed, two of the group members sons and two women inside the house were wounded, and the house was damaged by the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2011: On Tuesday, in the al-Dour neighborhood, Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq, in one of three related attacks, unknown assailants detonated an improvised explosive device at a house belonging to an Iraqi contractor, severely damaging the house. Two contractors were killed, and three family members were wounded in the blasts. The casualties were reported cumulatively, so it is unclear how many people were killed or injured in each attack and all of the casualties were captured in the first incident. No group claimed responsibility.
04/12/2011: On Tuesday, in the al-Dour neighborhood, Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq, in one of three related attacks, unknown assailants detonated an improvised explosive device at a house belonging to an Iraqi contractor, severely damaging the house. Two contractors were killed, and three family members were wounded in the blasts. The casualties were reported cumulatively, so it is unclear how many people were killed or injured in each attack. No group claimed responsibility.
04/12/2011: On Tuesday, in the al-Mahal 840 area of al-Doura neighborhood, in Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq, unknown assailants detonated a sticky improvised explosive device attached to a civilian car. The blast killed the driver, wounded a nearby civilian, and caused an unknown amount of property damage to the car. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2011: On Tuesday, in the al-Salehiya area in the Karkh neighborhood of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq, unknown assailants fired a mortar shell that landed near the Foreign Ministry building. Three civilians were wounded in the blast and it is unknown if the attack caused any property damage. No group claimed responsibility.
04/12/2011: On Tuesday, in the Doura neighborhood, Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq, unknown assailants detonated a sticky improvised explosive device attached to a civilian car, killing the driver and causing an unknown amount of property damage to the car. No group claimed responsibility.
04/12/2011: On Tuesday, in the Yarmouk neighborhood of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq, unknown assailants detonated a sticky improvised explosive device attached to a minibus. The driver of the bus was killed, two nearby civilians were wounded and an unknown amount of property damage was caused to the bus. No group claimed responsibility.
04/12/2011: On Tuesday, on Mohammad al-Qassem Road in the Naaeiriya neighborhood of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq, unknown gunmen armed with silenced weapons shot and killed Colonel Mustapha Said Hamza while he was driving his car. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2011: On Tuesday, on the 14th of Ramadan Street in the al-Mansour neighborhood in Baghdad city, Baghdad province, Iraq, unknown assailants detonated an improvised explosive device attached to a civilian car wounded the driver and two civilian passerbys and caused an unknown amount of property damage to the civilian vehicle. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2011: On Tuesday, on the 14th Ramadan Street, Mansour neighborhood, Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq, unknown assailants detonated a sticky improvised explosive device attached to a civilian car, killing the driver and wounding two other civilians. The blast also set the car on fire, causing an unknown amount of property damage to the car. No group claimed responsibility.
04/12/2012: A grenade detonated at a market in Bordumsa town, Assam state, India. There were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2012: A suicide bomber detonated near the home of a Quick Reaction Force commander in Kunduz city, Kunduz province, Afghanistan. Five people were killed in the attack, and four others, including the commander, Abdullah Guard, were injured. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2012: An explosive device detonated near a civilian vehicle in Safar town, Helmand province, Afghanistan. Two children were killed and six others injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for this attack; however, authorities attributed it to the Taliban.
04/12/2012: An explosive device detonated near Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers in Greshk district, Helmand province, Afghanistan. Two ANA soldiers were killed and two others injured in the explosion. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2012: An explosive device detonated near government officials in Shokheu area, Kapisa province, Afghanistan. There were no casualties, but a vehicle was damaged in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2012: An explosive device was discovered and safely defused at a rubber plantation in Betong district, Yala province, Thailand. There were no casualties, and no group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2012: Assailants abducted 14 construction workers from Sui area, Balochistan province, Pakistan. No group claimed responsibility for this attack, and the outcome of the kidnapping is unknown.
04/12/2012: Assailants attacked a police patrol in Dadengre area, Meghalaya state, India. There were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for this attack; however, authorities attributed it to the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA).
04/12/2012: Assailants attacked a security checkpoint in Hadramout governorate, Yemen. Eight police officers were killed and six others injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for this incident; however, authorities attributed it to Al-Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
04/12/2012: Assailants attacked tribal fighters in Moudia town, Abyan province, Yemen. A firefight ensued, and three people were killed. No group claimed responsibility for this attack; however, authorities attributed it to Al-Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
04/12/2012: Assailants fired rockets at Heart Airport in Gozerah area, Herat province, Afghanistan. No casualties or damages were reported, and no group claimed responsibility for this attack.
04/12/2012: Assailants opened fire on a former police commander who joined the High Peace Council in Jangar area, Herat province, Afghanistan. The former commander, Mohammad Gul, was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2012: Assailants opened fire on a police patrol in Kharbat Aziz village, Kirkuk, Iraq. Two police officers were killed and three other people injured. No group claimed responsibility for this attack; however, police officials attributed it to the al-Naqshabandiya Army.
04/12/2012: Assailants opened fire on a shop in Quetta city, Balochistan province, Pakistan. Two civilians were killed in the attack. This was one of two attacks on members of the Hazara community in Quetta on this day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2012: Assailants opened fire on a tea shop in Quetta city, Balochistan province, Pakistan. One civilian was killed, and the store owner was injured. This was one of two attacks on members of the Hazara community in Quetta on this day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2012: Assailants opened fire on civilians in Smiljkovci village, Skopje region, Macedonia. Five people were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2012: Assailants threw explosives at a Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council religious building in Diwaniyah city, Al Qadisiyah governorate, Iraq. One person was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2012: Assailants threw two explosive devices at Abdulrahman Al Dakheel Boys Intermediate School in Hoora area, Capital governorate, Bahrain. There were no reported casualties or damage from the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2012: Two assailants opened fire on civilians watching soccer at a community center in Potiskum city, Yobe state, Nigeria. Two people were killed in the attack. Boko Haram claimed responsibility for this incident.
04/12/2013: A five-kilogram explosive device was discovered and defused outside the home of Assistant Sub-inspector Muhammad Nawaz in Peshawar city, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2013: A remote-controlled roadside bomb targeted the convoy of Amir Rahman, an Awami National Party (ANP) candidate, in Shewa area, Swabi district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. One person was injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2013: A roadside bomb detonated in Sada area, Kanaan city, Diyala governorate, Iraq. The blast was targeting Sunni worshippers returning home from a mosque; at least seven people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2013: A roadside bomb detonated in Toubchi area, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. Five civilians were injured and nearby shops were damaged in the explosion. No group has claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2013: A time bomb placed in a bag was discovered and defused at the Gulzar Habib Mosque in the Garden area of Karachi city, Sindh province, Pakistan. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2013: A time bomb was discovered and defused on a Taiwan High Speed Rail Corporation train in Hsinchu city, Hsinchu county, Taiwan. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, Hu Tsung-hsian and Chu Ya-dong were arrested on April 16th, 2013 in connection with the incident.
04/12/2013: An explosive device detonated inside a boys school in Chaman Kallay area of Bara tehsil, Akka Khel village, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. No one was injured; however, the building was destroyed. This was one of three attacks in Bara on the night of April 12th, 2013. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2013: An explosive device detonated outside of a Shia mosque in western Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. At least eight people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2013: An explosive device planted in a car detonated in Juffair area of Al-Manamah city, Capital governorate, Bahrain. The car was damaged in the blast; however, no casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2013: An explosive device targeting a police patrol detonated in Abu Ghraib city, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. Three civilians were wounded in the explosion. No group has claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2013: Approximately 100 assailants attacked a military outpost in Nari district, Kunar province, Afghanistan. The attackers fired grenades and guns at the outpost, leading to a five hour battle. At least 13 soldiers were killed in the attack and the post was nearly destroyed. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2013: Assailants attacked a check post in Nalla area, Khyber Agency, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. Seven security officials were reported injured in the assault. There was no claim of responsibility for this attack.
04/12/2013: Assailants burned down an empty house of a peace militia member, Ghafoor Khan, in Bara tehsil, Akka Khel village, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. No one was injured in the attack. This was one of three attacks in Bara on the night of April 12th, 2013. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2013: Assailants burned down an empty house of a peace militia member, Qasim Khan, in Bara tehsil, Akka Khel village, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. No one was injured in the attack. This was one of three attacks in Bara on the night of April 12th, 2013. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2013: Assailants launched a mortar at a house in Akka Khel area, Khyber Agency, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. A child was injured and two rooms were damaged in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2013: Assailants opened fire on a checkpoint manned by Interior Forces in Kharachi village, Untsukul district, Dagestan republic, Russia. There were no reported casualties resulting from the incident. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2013: Assailants opened fire on a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) convoy in Bati Kot district, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan. No damage was done to the vehicles. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2013: Assailants set a dump truck belonging to A.V. Laynes Construction on fire along a road between Caramoran town and Panganiban town, near San Miguel town, Catanduanes province, Philippines. No one claimed responsibility for the attack; however, the provincial spokesperson attributed the attack to the New People's Army (NPA), saying they torched the truck because the company did not pay a "revolutionary tax."
04/12/2013: Assailants threw a cracker explosive at a fuel station in Orangi Town area of Karachi city, Sindh province, Pakistan. Two vehicles were damaged in the blast; no casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2013: At least one explosive device detonated outside of the Omar Bin Abdul-Aziz mosque in Kanaan town, Diyala governorate, Iraq. At least seven people were killed and another 30 people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2013: Gunmen attacked a military ranger base in Rangae district, Narathiwat province, Thailand. No injuries were reported in the incident. Although no group claimed responsibility for the attack, police believed the ongoing peace talks were the motive for the attack.
04/12/2013: Gunmen on a bike shot and killed Bismallah Jan, an Awami National Party (ANP) local president, in Orangi Town area of Karachi city, Sindh province, Pakistan. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2013: Gunmen shot and killed an assistant village headman in Mayo district, Pattani province, Thailand. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2013: Ten Katyusha rockets hit a residence in Kadogli city, South Kurdufan state, Sudan. Two people were killed and ten others were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility; however, a media source attributed the attack to The Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North.
04/12/2013: Three bombs detonated near a car used by the Indian High Commission in Khulna city, Khulna division, Bangladesh. Members of the Indian envoy were not in the car at the time of the explosion; however, the driver and two other people were injured. No group has claimed responsibility; however, police suspect Jamaat-E-Islami (Bangladesh) may have been involved.
04/12/2013: Two gunmen with pistols on a motorcycle shot and killed prayer leader Maulana Ghazanfar Ali in the Nazimabad area of Karachi city, Sindh province, Pakistan. Officials said Ali was targeted as part of an ongoing sectarian conflict. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2013: Two suicide bombers attempted to detonate their explosive devices at a marketplace where Chadian soldiers were buying supplies in Kidal city, Kidal region, Mali. One of the attackers was able to detonate his belt while the other was arrested before he was able to act. In addition to the bomber, at least three people, including soldiers, died and at least four were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2013: Two suitcase bombs were found in the office of Taiwanese legislator Lu Chia-chen in Tucheng area, New Taipei City, New Taipei City special municipality, Taiwan. The explosive devices failed to explode. Two people, Hu Tsung-hsian and Chu Ya-dong, were arrested on April 16th, 2013 in connection with the attack.
04/12/2014: A land mine detonated near a bus carrying election officials in Bijapur district, Chhattisgarh state, India. Seven election officials were killed and five other people were wounded in the blast. The Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2014: A land mine detonated near a French military vehicle in Tessalit village, Kidal region, Mali. One soldier was wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
04/12/2014: A land mine detonated near an ambulance carrying Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel in Kamanar village, Chhattisgarh state, India. Seven people, including the ambulance driver and a medical technician, were killed and three others were wounded in the blast. The Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2014: A land mine, targeting security forces, was discovered and safely defused near Tiskopi city, Jharkhand state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
04/12/2014: An explosive device detonated at a primary school near the residence of Mirabai Akoijam, the Health and Family Welfare minister, in Manipur state, India. There were no reported casualties in the blast. The United Revolutionary Front claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2014: An explosive device detonated at the residence of two refugee families in Wajihiyah area, Diyala governorate, Iraq. There were no reported casualties; however, the house was damaged in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2014: An explosive device detonated in a fabric store in Sanaa city, Amanat Al Asimah governorate, Yemen. One person was killed and three others were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2014: An explosive device detonated near a civilian tractor in Gomal district, Paktika province, Afghanistan. One civilian was killed and three others were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2014: An explosive device detonated near a military vehicle east of Deir al Balah city in Gaza Strip, West Bank and Gaza Strip. There were no reported casualties in the blast. The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2014: An explosive device detonated near a police checkpost in Khost city, Khost province, Afghanistan. Four police officers were wounded in the blast. This was one of two attacks carried out by the Taliban in Khost city on April 12, 2014. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2014: An explosive device detonated near a police patrol in Dora district, Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. Four police officers were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2014: An explosive device detonated near a police patrol in Tarmiyah town, Saladin governorate, Iraq. One police officer was killed and six others were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2014: An explosive device detonated near police patrol in Mosul city, Nineveh governorate, Iraq. Three police officers were killed and six others were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2014: An explosive device planted in a fruit and vegetable market detonated in Hazara area, Quetta city, Balochistan province, Pakistan. There were no reported casualties in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2014: An explosive device, targeting a police vehicle, detonated near the Customs Department in Khost city, Khost province, Afghanistan. Two police officers were killed and one other was wounded in the blast. This was one of two attacks carried out by the Taliban in Khost city on April 12, 2014. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2014: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated in Jurf al Milih suburb, Baqubah city, Diyala governorate, Iraq. Three people were killed and 18 others were wounded in the blast. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2014: Assailants abducted a senior police officer of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in Tarim city, Hadramawt governorate, Yemen. The officer was killed and his body was discovered on December 4, 2014. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
04/12/2014: Assailants abducted and assaulted Ali Gul in Khost city, Khost province, Afghanistan. Gul, an election observer and former journalist, was released the following day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2014: Assailants attacked Dayamani Barla in Khunti district, Jharkhand state, India. Barla, a journalist and Aam Aadmi Party candidate, survived the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the People's Liberation Front of India.
04/12/2014: Assailants attacked Kula area in Benue state, Nigeria. At least two people were killed and several others were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected that Fulani militants were involved in the attack.
04/12/2014: Assailants attacked Ngoshe village, Borno state, Nigeria. At least 30 people were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Boko Haram.
04/12/2014: Assailants attempted to seize a regional prosecutor's office in Slovyansk city, Donetsk oblast, Ukraine. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Donetsk People's Republic.
04/12/2014: Assailants intercepted the vehicle of the Haditha Oil Refinery director on Baiji Hadithah road in Saladin governorate, Iraq. Five people were abducted, including the director, in the attack. The outcome of the abduction is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
04/12/2014: Assailants launched a mortar at the office of Major General Abdo al-Tareb in Sanaa city, Amanat Al Asimah governorate, Yemen. Al-Tareb, the Minister of Interior, was unharmed; however, the office was damaged in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2014: Assailants opened fire on a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) unit in Puli Alam city, Logar province, Afghanistan. One United States (US) soldier, Spc. Kerry M. G. Danyluk, was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2014: Assailants opened fire on a police checkpoint in Samarra city, Saladin governorate, Iraq. Four police officers were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2014: Assailants opened fire on a police station in Kramatorsk city, Donetsk oblast, Ukraine. There were no reported casualties; however, the building was damaged in the attack. The Donetsk People's Republic claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2014: Assailants opened fire on a police station in Krasnyi Liman city, Donetsk oblast, Ukraine. There were no reported casualties in the attack. The Donetsk People's Republic claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2014: Assailants opened fire on a Sahwa Council member in a village near Baqubah city, Diyala governorate, Iraq. The Sahwa Council member was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2014: Assailants opened fire on a supply convoy in Sultankhel area, Wardak province, Afghanistan. Three people, including an assailant, were killed and nine others, including three assailants, were injured in the attack. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2014: Assailants opened fire on a taxi carrying soldiers in Tikrit city, Saladin governorate, Iraq. Five people, including four soldiers and a taxi driver, were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2014: Assailants opened fire on Abdul-Aziz Mustafa Al-Trabulsi in Derna city, Derna district, Libya. Al-Trabulsi, the president of the Darna Court of Appeals, was wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2014: Assailants opened fire on Abdullah al-Thani in Tripoli city, Tripoli district, Libya. Al-Thani, a recently appointed Interim Prime Minister, was unharmed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2014: Assailants opened fire on an Afghan Local Police (ALP) checkpost in Gelan district, Ghazni province, Afghanistan. Ten assailants were killed and eight others were wounded in the attack. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2014: Assailants opened fire on members of the Hazara community in Quetta city, Balochistan province, Pakistan. Two people were killed in the attack. Jaish-e-Islam claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2014: Assailants opened fire on police personnel in Ramadi city, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. Three police officers were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2014: Assailants opened fire on the Donetsk Chemical Plant in Donetsk city, Donetsk oblast, Ukraine. One law officer was wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2014: Assailants opened fire on two military vehicles in Hadramawt governorate, Yemen. One soldier was killed and three others were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2014: Assailants seized a town hall in Artemivsk city, Donetsk oblast, Ukraine. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Donetsk People's Republic.
04/12/2014: Assailants seized the security service headquarters building in Slovyansk city, Donetsk oblast, Ukraine. There were no reported casualties in the attack. This was one of two attacks carried out by the Donetsk People's Republic on security buildings in Slovyansk city on April 12, 2014. The Donetsk People's Republic claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2014: Assailants set fire to the vehicle of journalist Oleksiy Matsuka in Donetsk, Ukraine. There were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected that the Donetsk People's Republic carried out the attack in retaliation for Matsuka's reporting on the armed group.
04/12/2014: Assailants stormed a local fair, where merchants sold cannabis, opium and cattle in Tirah Valley, Khyber district, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. Approximately 110 tribesmen were abducted in the attack and 40 were released the following day. The fate of the remaining 70 hostages is unknown. The Orakzai Freedom Movement claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the abduction to Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
04/12/2014: Assailants stormed a police station in Slavyansk city, Donetsk oblast, Ukraine. One police officer was killed and several people were abducted in the attack. The outcome of the abduction is unknown. This was one of two attacks carried out by the Donetsk People's Republic on security buildings in Slovyansk city on April 12, 2014. The Donetsk People's Republic claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2014: Assailants threw an explosive device at a hospital, which Health Minister Adel Al Adawi was scheduled to open, in Qena city, Qena governorate, Egypt. There were no reported casualties in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2014: Assailants threw two grenades at the residence of Sarungbam Birendra in Nambol Bazaar Makha Leikai area, Nambol city, Manipur state, India. Birendra, the director of the National Institute of Technology (NIT), was unharmed; however, the house was damaged in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected that the Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP) carried out the attack.
04/12/2014: Several hundred anti-government militia members engaged in an armed standoff with federal and local law enforcement officials near Bunkerville, Nevada, United States. The standoff took place against the backdrop of a years-long dispute over cattle grazing rights and federal government jurisdiction between the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and rancher Cliven Bundy. Militia members and demonstrators armed with firearms including AR-15 and AK-47 rifles took aim at BLM officers overseeing the seizure of Bundy's cattle. They made anti-government statements on camera and posted online. At least two participants were convicted of charges related to threatening, intimidating, and assaulting federal law enforcement officers. No casualties were reported; however, BLM ended the round-up and released the cattle due to concerns about the safety of officers and the public.
04/12/2015: A suicide bomber driving an explosives-laden vehicle struck a roadside bomb near Kirkuk city, Kirkuk, Iraq. The assailant was killed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/12/2015: An assailant opened fire on Harvinder Soni in Gurdaspur town, Punjab state, India. Soni, a Shiv Sena leader, was wounded in the attack. An unknown separatist group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2015: An explosive device detonated in a commercial area in the Amil area of Rasheed neighborhood, Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. Three people were killed and 11 others were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2015: An explosive device detonated near a Border Security Force (BSF) camp near the Light House neighborhood, Churachandpur district, Manipur state, India. Four civilians were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2015: An explosive device detonated near a military vehicle in Sheikh Zuweid town, North Sinai governorate, Egypt. At least six soldiers were killed and two others were wounded in the blast. The Sinai Province of the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2015: An explosive device detonated outside Evangelical Church in Zagazig town, Al Sharqia governorate, Egypt. This was one of two attacks on churches in Zagazig town on this day. No casualties were reported in the attacks. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Sinai Province of the Islamic State.
04/12/2015: An explosive device detonated outside Saint Joseph Church in Zagazig town, Al Sharqia governorate, Egypt. This was one of two attacks on churches in Zagazig town on this day. No casualties were reported in the attacks. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Sinai Province of the Islamic State.
04/12/2015: An explosive device detonated targeting a Malian Armed Forces vehicle near Diabaly town, Segou region, Mali. Two soldiers were killed and three others were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected the involvement of Muslim fundamentalists.
04/12/2015: An explosive device detonated targeting a military convoy in Salbu area, Maguindanao province, Philippines. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Movement (BIFM).
04/12/2015: An explosive device detonated targeting a police vehicle near a high school in Kandahar city, Kandahar province, Afghanistan. One police officer was killed and two others were wounded in the blast. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2015: An explosive device planted on a bus detonated in Sadr City neighborhood, Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. Two people were killed and five others were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2015: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated in Al-Thalathin area, Sirte district, Libya. No further information is available.
04/12/2015: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated in Karada neighborhood, Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. At least one person was killed and eight others were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2015: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated near a police station in Arish city, North Sinai governorate, Egypt. Eight people were killed and 44 others were wounded in the blast. The Sinai Province of the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the incident; sources also attributed the attack to Egyptian Tawhid and Jihad.
04/12/2015: Assailants abducted former members of the New People's Army (NPA) in Tagbalili village, Esperanza town, Agusan del Sur province, Philippines. The outcome of the kidnapping is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the abduction to the New People's Army (NPA).
04/12/2015: Assailants attacked a mining site in Kanker district, Chhattisgarh state, India. No casualties were reported, but at least 17 vehicles were set on fire. Maoists claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2015: Assailants attacked civilians in Marib governorate, Yemen. An unknown number of assailants were killed in the ensuing clash. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Huthis.
04/12/2015: Assailants attacked Mazrah area, Saladin governorate, Iraq. Security forces responded to the attack and killed six suicide bombers. There were no other reported casualties. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2015: Assailants attempted to attack al-Baghdadi town, Iraq. Security forces killed 15 assailants after intercepting them. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/12/2015: Assailants executed three civilians in Siniyah region, Saladin governorate, Iraq. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/12/2015: Assailants fired mortars at the convoy of Al Anbar's governor in Ramadi city, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/12/2015: Assailants kidnapped a Philippine Army (PA) soldier in Dumangas village, South Cotabato province, Philippines. The soldier, identified as Khen Subere, was released on June 13, 2015. The New People's Army (NPA) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2015: Assailants kidnapped five workers of the Solidarity aid organization in Gedo region, Somalia. The whereabouts of the victims are unknown. Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2015: Assailants kidnapped Mustafa Hujeiri from Arsal town, Beqaa governorate, Lebanon. Hujeiri was released later the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the abduction to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/12/2015: Assailants kidnapped Umayr Mubarak Umayr from his home in Fuwwah neighborhood, Al Mukalla city, Hadramawt governorate, Yemen. The whereabouts of Umayr, the son of the undersecretary of Hadramawt Governorate, were unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the kidnapping to Al-Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
04/12/2015: Assailants opened fire at a security checkpoint in Rafah city, North Sinai governorate, Egypt. Three security personnel were injured in the attack. The Sinai Province of the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2015: Assailants opened fire on a Frontier Corps (FC) convoy in Uch area, Balochistan province, Pakistan. One assailant was killed and one was wounded in the ensuing clash. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected the involvement of Baloch nationalists.
04/12/2015: Assailants opened fire on a Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) election camp in Dastagir area, Karachi city, Sindh province, Pakistan. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2015: Assailants opened fire on a village head near Krawa area, Pattani province, Thailand. The village head was killed in the attack. Additionally, two assailants were killed when a nearby civilian opened fire on them. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2015: Assailants opened fire on civilians in Sukhirin area, Narathiwat province, Thailand. This was one of two attacks on civilian homes in the same area on this day. Four people were killed across both attacks. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents; however, sources suspected the involvement of separatists.
04/12/2015: Assailants opened fire on civilians near Sukhirin area, Narathiwat province, Thailand. This was one of two attacks on civilian homes in the same area on this day. Four people were killed across both attacks. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents; however, sources suspected the involvement of separatists.
04/12/2015: Assailants opened fire on the South Korean embassy in Tripoli city, Tripoli district, Libya. Two guards were killed and one other was wounded in the attack. The Tripoli Province of the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2015: Assailants set fire to a health clinic in Alingar district, Laghman province, Afghanistan. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Taliban.
04/12/2015: Assailants threw an explosive device into the parking lot of a police station in Zubin Potok area, Kosovska Mitrovica district, Kosovo. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2015: Security forces discovered and defused 12 explosive devices in Yathrib area, Saladin governorate, Iraq. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2015: Security forces discovered and defused an explosives-rigged house in Albu Jayli area, Saladin governorate, Iraq. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2015: Security forces discovered and defused an explosives-rigged house in Yathrib area, Saladin governorate, Iraq. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2015: Six assailants opened fire on a former soldier in Sitio Panas, Mahayahay village, Cawayan town, Masbate province, Philippines. The former soldier was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the New People's Army (NPA).
04/12/2016: A landmine detonated targeting Libyan Petroleum Facilities Guards (PFG) between Bin Jawad and Sidra in Sirte district, Libya. One guard was killed and three were wounded in the blast. The Tripoli Province of the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2016: A roadside bomb detonated in Wadh, Balochistan, Pakistan. Three people were killed and another was injured in the blast. This was one of two related bombings in Wadh on this date. The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2016: A suicide bomber detonated targeting security forces in Aden, Yemen. In addition to the bomber, at least five soldiers were killed and 10 were injured in the blast. The Adan-Abyan Province of the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the incident. Sources also attributed the attack to Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
04/12/2016: An explosive detonated inside the vehicle of Yusuf Muhammad Abdiqadir in Beled Hawo, Gedo, Somalia. Abdiqadir, a district commissioner, was unharmed; however, three of his bodyguards were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2016: An explosive device attached to a civilian vehicle detonated in Husseiniyah, Diyala, Iraq. At least two people were killed and two people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2016: An explosive device attached to a vehicle detonated in Baladiat, Baghdad, Iraq. The owner of the vehicle, a school teacher, was killed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2016: An explosive device detonated in Wadh, Balochistan, Pakistan. There were no reported casualties in the attack. This was one of two related bombings in Wadh on this date. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2016: An explosive device detonated near a French military convoy in Tessalit, Kidal, Mali. At least three French soldiers were killed and two others were injured in the blast. Ansar al-Dine (Mali) claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2016: An explosive device detonated near shops in Obaydi, Baghdad, Iraq. At least one person was killed and six people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2016: An explosive device detonated outside a videoke location in Kulay Bato, Basilan, Philippines. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2016: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated targeting a Fatah official in Mieh Mieh, South governorate, Lebanon. The official was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2016: Assailants abducted 15 people, including at least three tribal elders, in Sirte city, Libya. No outcome was reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attacks to the Tripoli Province of the Islamic State.
04/12/2016: Assailants abducted a medical volunteer at al-Hakim Hospital in Aleppo city, Aleppo governorate, Syria. The hostage was tortured and killed later the same day. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to the Syrian Turkmen Brigades.
04/12/2016: Assailants attacked a military post in Bayhan, Shabwah, Yemen. One soldier was killed and nine soldiers were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Huthi extremists.
04/12/2016: Assailants attacked a security post in Mihtarlam, Laghman, Afghanistan. During the attack, the assailants fired a mortar that struck the Maulvi Habib Rahman School. Two students were killed and four others were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Taliban.
04/12/2016: Assailants attacked military personnel in Sirnak, Turkey. One soldier was killed and three others were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
04/12/2016: Assailants attacked Mir Jamal Khan Jamote in Karkh, Balochistan, Pakistan. Jamote, a tribal elder, was unharmed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2016: Assailants attacked security forces in Nawi Qala, Logar, Afghanistan. There were no reported casualties. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2016: Assailants attacked security forces in Qala-i-Mirak, Logar, Afghanistan. During the ensuing clash, assailants fired a mortar that struck a nearby residence, killing a civilian and injuring three others. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2016: Assailants attacked several areas in Taizz governorate, Yemen. Three soldiers and seven assailants were killed and 20 people, including 13 assailants, were injured in the ensuing clashes. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Huthi extremists.
04/12/2016: Assailants in Syria fired a rocket that struck a hostel in Kilis town, Kilis province, Turkey. At least two people were killed and six others were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/12/2016: Assailants opened fire on 'Abd al-Hakim Muhammad Abu al-Rawin, the mayor of Mizda, in Tripoli, Libya. Rawin was wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2016: Assailants opened fire on a Mozambique Armed Defense Forces (FADM) supply column in Gorongosa district, Sofala, Mozambique. At least five assailants were killed in the ensuing clash. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to the Mozambique National Resistance Movement (MNR).
04/12/2016: Assailants opened fire on Aziz Shah in Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan. Shah, an intelligence official, was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2016: Assailants opened fire on the vehicle of Mohammad Ilyas in Mingora, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Ilyas, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), was killed and one of his guards was injured in the attack. The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2016: Assailants seized eight General Electricity Company of Libya (GECOL) trucks and abducted drivers in Tripoli city, Libya. The outcome of the abduction is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2016: Assailants set fire to a Catholic church in Canete, Bio-Bio, Chile. There were no reported casualties in the incident. Weichan Auka Mapu claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that Catholic churches are involved in "occupying" Mapuche area.
04/12/2016: Assailants shelled Benghazi city, Libya. One person was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2016: Assailants shot and killed Mirza Mohammad, a development council leader, in Paktia province, Afghanistan. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2016: Assailants stopped and held a police vehicle at gunpoint in Lipakan, Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines. The officers were released shortly after. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the New People's Army (NPA).
04/12/2016: Assailants threw a grenade at the residence of Muhyryn Sultan Casi in Pikit, North Cotabato, Philippines. Casi, a mayor, was unharmed and there were no other reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2016: Assailants threw an incendiary device at the office of P Ramasamy, the State Deputy Chief Minister, in Taman Chai Leng, Penang, Malaysia. There were no reported casualties resulting from the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2016: Four assailants abducted four members of the Darfur Referendum Commission and their driver in Galab, North Darfur, Sudan. The outcome of the abduction is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the abduction.
04/12/2016: Police officials identified and defused an explosives-laden vehicle in Yesilli, Mardin, Turkey. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attempted attack to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
04/12/2016: Security forces identified and killed four assailants driving an explosives-laden vehicle in Al-Hajj, Nineveh, Iraq. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/12/2017: A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden jacket targeting government employees in Pul-e Yakpaysagi, Kabul, Afghanistan. In addition to the assailant, five people were killed and 10 people were injured in the blast. The Khorasan Chapter of the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2017: An explosive device detonated near a market in Wardiya, Diyala, Iraq. At least one person was killed and four people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2017: An explosive device detonated targeting a military vehicle in Kinablangan, Davao Oriental, Philippines. Three soldiers were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the New People's Army (NPA).
04/12/2017: An explosive device was discovered and defused outside a National Rally for Democracy (RND) office in Tiaret, Algeria. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2017: An explosives-laden motorcycle detonated at Razzaq Market along Airport Road in Gwadar, Balochistan, Pakistan. At least three people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2017: Assailants opened fire on a Frontier Corps (FC) checkpoint in Hoshab, Balochistan, Pakistan. At least one soldier was killed in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/12/2017: Assailants opened fire on a security checkpoint in Abu Sayda, Diyala, Iraq. At least two police officers were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2017: Assailants opened fire on the residence of Judge 'Abduh Isma'il Rajih in Sanaa, Amanat Al Asimah, Yemen. Rajih, the Specialized Criminal Court head, was not harmed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2017: Assailants raided a market in Abaji, Benue, Nigeria. There were no reported casualties, though several houses were set on fire in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2017: Assailants shot and killed a soldier in Arish, North Sinai, Egypt. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/12/2017: Security forces discovered and defused an explosive device planted between Hakkari and Van, Turkey. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attempted attack to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
04/12/2017: Two suicide bombers detonated and assailants opened fire at a military checkpoint in Dalori, Borno, Nigeria. In addition to the two bombers, one soldier was killed and one police officer was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Boko Haram.
04/13/1998: A remote triggered explosive device went off in Grozny, Chechnya, Russa, as the jeep of Mr. Varka Arsanov, the Vice President of Chechnya, was nearby. There were no casualties in this incident. Authorities suspected that Chechen Rebels perpetrated the assassination attempt.
04/13/1999: Supreme Court Chairman Islam Burlakov was injured after unidentified assailants threw grenades into the entry yard of his building in Karachay-Cherkessia Republic in Russia.
04/13/2000: The Continuity IRA claimed responsibility for an attempted attack on the Royal Ulster Constabulary base at Rosslea, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. The claim was made in a phone call to a newspaper in Belfast. The perpetrators attempted to launch a mortar at the base, but the device exploded in the back of the car which was being used to launch the shell. No one was hurt in the attack.
04/13/2000: The National Liberation Army (NLA) and the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC) were suspected of bombing a section of the Cano-Limon oil pipeline in La Cadena, Colombia. The explosion caused major damage and suspended oil production for several days. No one was injured in the attack.
04/13/2000: Twelve people were killed and six wounded by an armed group with automatic weapons at a market in Attatba, Algeria. There were about 10 perpetrators however none of them were captured or identified.
04/13/2001: Suspected Anti-imperialist Territorial Nuclei (NTA) militants threw a petrol bomb at an office of the Olive Tree [ruling center-left coalition] in Padua, Italy. No casualties resulted from the attack.
04/13/2001: Suspected Free Aceh Movement (GAM) militants killed two police officers in downtown Aceh, Indonesia.
04/13/2001: Unidentified assailants threw a petrol bomb at the Mercedes of Dmitriy Biryukov, President of the publishing house Sem Dnei, as it drove on the Leningradskoye highway in Moscow, Russia, around 11:20am.  No one was injured, although flames did engulf one side of the vehicle.  No group claimed responsibility for the incident, although sources suggest that the ongoing fight to keep a local newspaper independent of government control provided a possible motive.
04/13/2002: A bomb was detonated near a school in Latinbazaar in the Bajura District of Nepal. Three children were killed and four others were injured. No suspects have been found.
04/13/2002: Hizballah fired anti-tank rockets and mortar shells at Israeli Defense Forces position in Har Dov in the Golan Heights region. There were no casualties.
04/13/2002: Rocket-propelled grenades were fired at the airbase in Khost, Afghanistan. The number of dead or injured was unknown. No one was capture and none claimed responsibiltiy.
04/13/2002: United States and Afghan coalition forces were attacked by approximately 20 militants. No Coalition forces were killed. Air support was called in, and 5 militants were killed.
04/13/2003: Gertrudes Tan was abducted by five Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) militants while she was on her way to a mosque in Siasi, Philippines. Tan managed to escape from her captors on August 4, 2003. In the week prior to her escape (unspecified date), three couriers reportedly attempted to pay $12,000 (P700,000) ransom for Tan's release, but Abu Sayyaf rebels executed the couriers.
04/13/2003: National Council for the Defense of Democracy - Forces for the Defense of Democracy (NCDD-FDD) militants killed two guards in Muhweza zone of the Kayanza Commune in northern Burundi.
04/13/2003: Suspected People’s War Group rebels shot dead four people in Karpi, Jehanabad district, India.
04/13/2003: Unknown gunmen shot and killed Mohammad Qasim and injured his two bodyguards in Chaman, Pakistan. Qasim was an Afghanistan border security official and the cousin of the prominent Afghani Gul Agha, governor of Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province.
04/13/2004: Junpei Yasuda, a Japanese reporter, and Nobutaka Watanabe, a Japanese civil rights activist, were stopped and abducted by four cars of armed insurgents, while the men were traveling in a cab with an Iraqi to Abu Ghraib. The men were on their way to report on the emergency landing of an American helicopter when they were kidnapped. The Iraqi and taxi driver were quickly released, but the two Japanese civilians were held captive for four days.
04/13/2004: Members of the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) abducted the three crew members of a tugboat, named East Ocean 2, off the coast of the Taganak Island in Philippine waters. The victims, Toh Chiu Tiong and Wong Siu Ung, both Malaysians, and Captain J.E. Walter Sampel, an Indonesian, were held for a 10 million Philippine peso ransom (approximately $178,000), which was not paid. During a fourteen-month search, there were sightings of the hostages on Tawi-Tawi island. However, after their captors were killed in an armed conflict with the Indonesian army, the men were moved to another group within the Abu Sayyaf realm. On January 6, 2005, a Philippine Army Commander confirmed the deaths of the three men, stating that they either died from sickness or were killed by their captors.
04/13/2005: A home under construction in Sammamish, Washington in the United States was firebombed, suspectedly by the Earth Liberation Front (ELF).  The arson caused $100,000 in damages to the home's garage where the device was planted, but there were no injuries in the incident.  The incident appears to be related to an attempted firebombing of another home a few blocks away, which was claimed in a note, and both incidents were posted on the ELF website. Despite the claims and that the devices were similar to those used in the Snohomish county home arsons in 2004, authorities were unable to confirm ELF as the perpetrators.
04/13/2005: A mine planted under an oil pipeline exploded in Kirkuk, Iraq killing 12 people. Authorities suspected Ansar al-Islam was behind the attack after arresting a suspect, Saman Umar Ali, who was known to have been affiliated with the organization.
04/13/2005: At approximately 1:15 a.m. local time, an improvised explosive device (IED) was detonated on the grounds of an elementary school in New Bedford, Massachusetts, United States. No casualties and only minor property damage resulted from this incident. No group claimed responsibility for this attack, although two men were seen fleeing the scene moments before the explosion.
04/13/2005: Five Iraqis and four US contractors were killed when a car exploded outside the Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq. No group claimed responsibility for the bombing.
04/13/2005: Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) members attacked a Sri-Lankan paramilitary camp in Sorivil, Sri Lanka killing five soldiers and injuring two others.
04/13/2005: Unknown gunmen opened fire on the vehicle of a senior official from the Iraqi Interior Ministry, Col Naji Sa’b Husayn, from the Ministry’s Department of the Inspector-General in Iraq; the incident took place near the Al-Bu’aytha checkpoint in the south of the capital. The attack wounded the officer, as well Commissioner Hazim Hunun who also is from the Interior Ministry. No one claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/13/2005: Unknown perpetrators attempted to firebomb a home on Inglewood Hill Road in Sammamish, Washington in the United States.  The incendiary malfunctioned because the fuse blew out before the device ignited.  A motorist driving past the home in the morning, spotted the failed incendiary with a note next to it, reading "Where are all the trees. Burn Rapist Burn. ELF."  There were no casualties in the incident, nor damages. The incident appears to be related to a firebombing of another home a few blocks away on the same day, and both incidents were posted on the ELF website. Despite the claims and that the devices were similar to those used in the Snohomish county home arsons in 2004, authorities were unable to confirm ELF as the perpetrators.
04/13/2006: A car bomb ripped a market located in the Baghdad, Iraq, western Kadhimiyah neighborhood at 7:45 p.m., killing 15 and wounding 22. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/13/2006: A group of 40 unidentified young men attacked National-Bolshevik Party (NBP) activists near the building of the Moscow, Russia, Tverskoi Court, and targeted NBP leader Eduard Limonov, pelting his with eggs and smoke bombs as he was leaving a car near the courthouse. Several people were seriously injured in a fight, and one of them was taken to the hospital by an ambulance. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/13/2006: A group of about ten young men with wooden sticks and iron bars attacked gypsies in the Volgograd Region of Russia, killing a gypsy man and a Russian woman and hospitalizing a girl and an elderly woman with fractured jaws and brain concussions. Police in the Volga area said they detained three suspects in the attack.
04/13/2006: A group of about two dozen armed militants from the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade briefly took over the three-storey Palestinian Cabinet building in Ramallah, Palestine, by breaking into Palestinian Transportation Ministry and the office of PM Ismail Haniyeh forcing all employees to evacuate, demanding jobs and perks. National security forces negotiated with militants and convinced them to leave the premises after an hour.
04/13/2006: A member of the government-sponsored clerics council Maulvi Sayed Hassan Shah was killed early in the dawn when unidentified gunmen ambushed the cleric when he was on his way from home from a mosque in Zhali, Afghanistan.  No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/13/2006: A navy officer and his friend were killed by drive-by shooters while walking downtown in Basra, Iraq. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/13/2006: A radio-controlled bomb attached to a telegraph pole detonated and damaged a shop in Nazran, Russian Federation.
04/13/2006: A rebel was killed in a Claymore mine attack in Vavuniya, Sri Lanka. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/13/2006: A telecommunications tower was set ablaze in Yala, Thailand. No group claimed responsibility for the attack and no casualties were reproted.
04/13/2006: An explosive charge went off in the industrial zone in southern Samarra, Iraq, damaging a truck that was traveling on a nearby road. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/13/2006: An unknown number of Chadian rebels from the United Front for Democratic Change attacked the town of N'djamena, Chad. The rebels were repelled after a three hour firefight with government troops. There were 350 casualties that included government troops, the rebels, and civilians caught in the crossfire.
04/13/2006: An unknown number of unidentified gunmen shot to death an official of the Ulema Council of Kandahar (Province). The official was in charge of publication affairs in the province and he was reportedly heading towards mosque for prayer when he was gunned down in Kandahar (Province), Afghanistan. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/13/2006: British army explosives experts dismantled a crude van bomb that failed to detonate after it was left overnight near the main police station after gunmen hijacked a van the previous night on the Catholic west side of Londonderry, Northern Ireland and loaded the bomb into the back of the vehicle. The Irish Republican Army is suspected in the attack, but there was no claim of responsibility issued.
04/13/2006: Camel riders made up of 30 men armed with Kalashnikov rifles and machine guns raided the village of Warni in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan, to which the citizens clashed with and resisted the attackers, and as a result one person was killed and another wounded. The attackers then fled into the Nuba mountains. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/13/2006: Eleven Sunni employees of a construction company were kidnapped in Basra, Iraq, and seven were later found dead and three others released. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/13/2006: Gunmen destroyed a small Shi'a shrine in a mixed Sunni-Shi'a cemetery in Ba'qubah, Iraq. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/13/2006: Gunmen in western Baghdad, Iraq, ambushed a car a carrying a Foreign Ministry worker, forcing her driver out of the vehicle and taking both hostage. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/13/2006: Gunmen killed a policeman who was driving his sons to school in Mosul, Iraq. One of the sons also was killed and the other seriously wounded. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/13/2006: Gunmen opened fire on a convoy north of Baghdad, Iraq, and wounded seven truck drivers. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/13/2006: Gunmen stormed a village in Vavuniya, Sri Lanka, and killed seven people. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/13/2006: Gunmen stormed the house of a Sunni family in Basra, Iraq, and killed seven people, a father, five of his sons and another relative. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/13/2006: Lal Meer, leading tribal elder from Ahmadzai Wazir Tribe, along with friend Ajab Noor riding a bike was on his way from Wana bazaar to border town of Azam Warsak, Pakistan when some armed motorists opened indiscriminate fire at them, killing Lal Meer and injuring Ajab Noor who later died of injuries. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/13/2006: Mahmoud al-Hashimi, the brother of prominent Sunni Arab politician Tareq al-Hashimi, leading member of the Sunni National Concord Front coalition, and his companion were killed Thursday in a drive-by shooting in a Shi'a area in central Baghdad, Iraq. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/13/2006: More than a dozen youths attacked Chinese construction workers in Chita, Russian Federation, in an apparently racially-motivated assault. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/13/2006: Pancharatnam Kirupakaran, a Tamil businessman, was fatally shot when he responded to someone knocking on his door in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/13/2006: Perpetrators opened fire, killing 15 civilians, wounding 11, and stole 2177 livestock animals in Karamagay, Janub Darfur, Sudan. No claim of responsibility was reported, but it was believed that the Sudanese Janjaweed was responsible.
04/13/2006: Policemen and Federal Security Service officers discovered an explosive device in a bucket in a car parked in Imam Gazi-Magomed Street in Buynaksk, Russian Federation, outide a block of flats where two officers of law-enforcement agencies reside.  No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/13/2006: Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) 5th Front guerrillas torched a public service bus from the Gómez Hernández Transportation Company serving the Turbo Medellín route in Río Verde on the Dabeiba Uramita road and kidnapped the driver and his assistant. The fate of those kidnapped remains unknown.
04/13/2006: Suspects of the PBCP threw four home-made bombs at a shop in Paka village at Jiban Nagar in Chudanga (District), Belarus killing two and injuring three. About five minutes later, they shot an elderly woman a few meters (yards) away, killing her instantly. The attacks were in response to the capture of the group's leader.
04/13/2006: Three civilians were abducted from their homes by unidentified groups and their bullet-riddled bodies were dumped on the road side in Chavakachcheri, Sri Lanka. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/13/2006: Three nearly simultaneous explosions destroyed the Sharif Ridha shrine in Ba'qubah, Iraq, and left its dome in ruins, but did not kill or injure anyone. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/13/2006: Unidentified attackers opened fire on a vehicle of Health Ministry employees and wounded a laborer for the Health Ministry, and killed her driver and injured three officials traveling in the same vehicle in western Baghdad, Iraq. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/13/2007: A suicide bomber blew himself up in the Iraqi Parliament canteen in the heart of Baghdad's Green Zone, killing up to eight people in what was perceived as a staggering breach of security at Iraq's most heavily guarded site. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/13/2007: Five people, two of whom were children, were shot and killed by suspected members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the village of Chenkalady in eastern Sri Lanka.  The LTTE, however, claimed that they were not responsible and instead blamed the Sri Lankan military for the deaths.
04/13/2007: Gunmen shot and killed a journalist named Johnson Edouard while he was asleep in his home in Gonaives, Haiti.  Edouard had ties to ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's political party.  No one claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2007: In Narathiwat province, Thailand, two Muslim men aged 26 and 29, were gunned down by suspected Islamic militants in a drive-by shooting while they were riding a motorcycle.  No claim of responsibility was reported.
04/13/2007: The police chief of the Wama district in Afghanistan’s Nuristan Province was attacked by armed men while he was on his way to work, but he survived the attack.  No one claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2007: Three people were killed when gunmen entered a mosque in Kano, Nigeria and opened fire on the congregation.  The target of the attack, a radical cleric named Sheikh Jafar Adam, was among those killed.  No one claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/13/2008: On Sunday afternoon at 1315 in the afternoon in Karabulak, Ingushetia, Russia, armed assailants fired upon a vehicle carrying an Ingush Supreme Court judge, killing him and damaging his vehicle.  The Caucasus Emirate claimed responsibility.
04/13/2008: On Sunday evening, six persons, including four security force (SF) personnel and two civilians, were killed in a bombing attack by about 100 suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants at Jhajha railway station on the Patna-Howrah mainline in the Jamui district, Bihar province, India. Maoists first surrounded the Government Railway Police office on the platform and then opened indiscriminate fire before detonating explosives and blowing up the GRP office. Militants then looted arms and ammunition from the office. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
04/13/2008: On Sunday in Bossaso, Puntland, Somalia, a roadside bomb was detonated as a car carrying the Puntland Police Chief passed. No one was wounded, and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/13/2008: On Sunday night at 0045, in Tabontabon, Philippines, at least 20 assailants detonated two improvised explosive devices and set fire to the control rooms of two mobile telephone facilities, damaging the facilities but causing no injuries.The assailants also stole a weapon and communications equipment.No group claimed responsibility, although an Army spokesman said the New People's Army/Communist Party of the Philippines (NPA-CPP) was responsible.
04/13/2008: On Sunday, 15 minutes after the Catholic Church was bombed a second improvised explosive device exploded, damaging a coffee shop but causing no injuries in Zamboanga, Philippines.  No group claimed responsibility, although police confirmed that the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) was responsible.
04/13/2008: On Sunday, Cauca, Colombia, assailants detonated bombs in three energy towers of an energy infrastructure, damaging the facility. The attack left about 60,000 people without power in the towns of Toroto, Inza and Silvia. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed that the Jacobo Arenas Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)) was responsible.
04/13/2008: On Sunday, in Abu Saydah, Diyala, Iraq, assailants detonated a roadside improvised explosive device near a civilian car, killing one civilian, wounding one other, and damaging the car. There was no motive reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/13/2008: On Sunday, in Brahmanbaria, Chittagong, Bangladesh, assailants detonated an improvised explosive device targeting a shoe shop, damaging the shop but causing no injuries. No group claimed responsibility.
04/13/2008: On Sunday, in Karabulak, Ingushetia, unidentified gunmen shot and killed Khasan Yandiev, deputy chairman of Ingushetia's Supreme Court. According to a police official, Yandiev was driving his Mercedes through Karabulak when the assailants fired automatic weapons at his vehicle. The official said the gunmen fled immediately and that Yandiev died at the scene from multiple gunshot wounds. Yandiev had presided over a number of high-profile trials of local rebels and officials charged with corruption and it is possible that he was murdered because of his work. No group claimed responsibility.
04/13/2008: On Sunday, in Kirkuk, At Ta'mim, Iraq, assailants detonated an improvised explosive device near a government employee entrance to the health directorate, damaging the entrance but causing no casualties. There was no motive reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/13/2008: On Sunday, militants thought to be affiliated with Al Qaeda conducted a small arms attack in Marib, Yemen on the vehicle of the local military commander. The driver was killed and four people were injured, the commander was not in the vehicle at the time of the attack.
04/13/2008: On Sunday, one suspected United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) militant was shot dead by Army personnel who retaliated when eight suspected ULFA militants opened fire on them at upper Dihing Reserve Forest in the Tinsukia district, Assam province, India. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
04/13/2008: On Sunday, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants killed three activists of the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) in the Salboni area of West Midnapore district, West Bengal province, India. The killed individuals were among eight people supervising earth-digging work under the rural employment program when they were abducted by the Maoists. While five persons were later released, bodies of the three persons were recovered from a nearby forest. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
04/13/2008: On Sunday, Taliban militants opened fire on counter-narcotic Afghan policemen who were destroying poppy-cultivated fields in Maiwand district of Kandahar province, Afghanistan. Four policemen were killed from the attack and several Taliban militants were also killed from the firefight. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
04/13/2008: On Sunday, two improvised explosive device attacks occurred within five minutes of each other in Zamboanga City. One was planted under a van parked inside the compound of the Catholic cathedral and the other was planted in front of a coffee house that also houses the office of the Department of Foreign Affairs. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility but it was widely believe that the Abu Sayyaf Group was responsible.
04/13/2009: On Monday afternoon, in Mogadishu, Banaadir, Somalia, assailants fired mortar rounds into a neighborhood, killing one civilian, wounding five others, and damaging a Somali Red Crescent Society compound. No group claimed responsibility.
04/13/2009: On Monday at around 1920, in Mizur, North Ossetia, Russia, a homemade bomb exploded at a playground killing one and wounding seven others. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/13/2009: On Monday evening at 2100, gunmen threw a grenade on a liquor shop near Kahramana square in the Karradah neighborhood of downtown Baghdad, injuring four civilians. No claim of responsibility has been reported.
04/13/2009: On Monday morning at 1100, a Lebanese army vehicle was ambushed in Rayak by gunmen with machine guns and a rocket propelled grenade on their vehicle. Four soldiers were killed and an officer was wounded in the attack. No claim of responsibility has been reported.
04/13/2009: On Monday night at 0330, three bombs were thrown into the Constitutional Court with only one detonating, causing one security guard to be injured and minor damage to the building's windows in Bangkok, Thailand. One of the unexploded bombs hit the leg of the security guard. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/13/2009: On Monday night at about 0200, in Piendamo, Cauca, Colombia, in the village of Tunia, an improvised explosive device placed on the Pan American Highway exploded, injuring one civilian, one child, and damaging the road.  No group claimed responsibility, although it was reported that the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) was responsible.
04/13/2009: On Monday night at about 2230, in San Martin, Cesar, Colombia, in the village of Terraplen, assailants fired upon people, killing one person and wounding four others.  Two people were reported missing.  No group claimed responsibility, although authorities suspected the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) was responsible.
04/13/2009: On Monday, 16 buses were burned and 15 damaged in the intense anti-government protests in the capital city of Bangkok, Thailand. The metropolitan transportation authorities said at least 50 buses were seized by red-shirts during the confrontations between protesters and security forces, with 16 buses burned by angry protesters and 15 damaged. The total costs suffered by the authority were estimated at $846,000 (30 million Thai baht).
04/13/2009: On Monday, in Mogadishu, Banaadir, Somalia, assailants fired mortar shells at the Adan Adde International Airport, targeting a departing plane carrying United States Representative Donald M. Payne and six of his staff. The attack missed the airport and hit a nearby neighborhood, wounding 16 civilians and several children, and causing unknown damage to the neighborhood. Al-Shabaab al-Islamiya claimed responsibility.
04/13/2009: On Monday, in Pandu village, in Aurangabad, Bihar, India, 100 Communist Party of India- Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants raided a government building being used as a polling center and blew it up with dynamite, damaging the center, but causing no casualties.
04/13/2009: On Monday, in Utmanzai, North West Frontier, Pakistan, assailants attacked a village but caused no causalities or damage.  No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Taliban was responsible.
04/13/2009: On Monday, near Ananthapura Gate, Yelahanka, Kamataka, India, four assailants armed with sickles, rods, and knives, assaulted and killed the Chief Vigilance Officer of Kamataka Power Transmission Corporation, and wounded his driver. No group claimed responsibility.
04/13/2009: On Monday, near Dadamchilmi village, in Aurangabad, Bihar, India, assailants attacked the vehicle of a Shoshit Samaj Dal political party candidate, forcing the occupants to flee, then assaulted them, wounding the candidate and six civilians. The assailants also set fire to the vehicle, damaging the vehicle but causing no further casualties. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
04/13/2009: On Monday, Pro-Taliban militants blew up a school in the Noor area of Bannu, North West Frontier, Pakistan. No casualties were reported.
04/13/2009: On Monday, Taliban militants brought three people, convicted of sexually assaulting an eight year old boy, before a firing squad, killed them, and threw their bodies in Ara Khel square in Kohat, North West Frontier, Pakistan.
04/13/2009: On Monday, unknown gunmen killed the mayor of Al Qadisssiya in the Al Thaniya neighborhood of eastern Mosul. No claim of responsibility has been reported.
04/13/2010: On Tuesday afternoon around 1300, in the green belt near Overseas Pakistanis Foundation (OPF) College in Sector H-8/4 of Islamabad, Islamabad Capital Territory, Pakistan, an explosive device, apparently home-made, went off. The miscreants apparently did it for creating fear among the students. The explosive device was planted in a garbage trolley placed near the boundary wall of the OPF College. No group has claimed responsibility and no casualties were reported.
04/13/2010: On Tuesday evening at 2030, near Basilan National High School in Barangay Eastside in Isabela, Basilan, Philippines, 25 suspected members of the Abu Sayyaf extremist group disguised in police and military uniforms detonated an improvised explosive device planted in a Hyundai Starex van parked at the track and field oval, allegedly targeting a government building, leaving two civilians and one militant dead. No group claimed responsibility but Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) was suspected.
04/13/2010: On Tuesday evening at 2100, in Talusan, Zamboanga Sibugay, Philippines, armed assailants fired at a group of local candidates and wounded one of them. No damage was reported, and no group claimed responsibility.
04/13/2010: On Tuesday morning at 1100, at Santa Isabel Cathedral, on J.S. Alano Street in Isabela, Basilan, Philippines, 25 suspected members of the Abu Sayyaf extremist group disguised in police and military uniforms detonated an improvised explosive device rigged to a motorcycle, heavily damaging the church, but causing no casualtiesNo group claimed responsibility.
04/13/2010: On Tuesday morning, in Isabela, Basilan, Philippines, 25 suspected members of the Abu Sayyaf extremist group disguised in police and military uniforms attempted to detonate an improvised explosive device outside the residence of Basilan Regional Trial Court Judge, Leo Jay Principe. The bomb was detonated by members of the Zamboanga Explosives and Ordnance Disposal Team. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/13/2010: On Tuesday night, in Gaziosmanpasa District, Istanbul, Turkey, suspected Partiya Karkaren Kurdistan (PKK) activists threw an incendiary device at a bus, which was heading from the Yunus Emre disrtict to Beyazit. No casualties were reported in the attack however the bus was set on fire and extinguished quickly by the bus driver. The attack was believed to have been organized because of an assault on the former Democratic Society Party (DTP) leader Ahmet Türk who was punched in the face on Monday in Samsun. No group claimed responsibility.
04/13/2010: On Tuesday, in Abaseen Market in Mingora city of Swat, North West Frontier Province, Pakistan unidentified armed men opened fire at a shop and killed two persons, including Awami National Party's (ANP) provincial leader. ANP’s provincial leader Sajjad Khan, son of Lakhti Khan and one Abdul Ghafoor died on the spot, while two others, Rahmatullah and Naimatullah, sustained injuries. No group claimed responsibility.
04/13/2010: On Tuesday, in an unspecified location in the Sa'dah province of Yemen, a gunfight broke out when a guard confronted several rebels at a school. An exchange of fire led to the death of the school guard and one of the attackers. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/13/2010: On Tuesday, in Basra, Al Basrah, Iraq, two civilians were killed instantaneously when a bomb went off. The two persons were riding a motorcycle, and the bomb may have been hidden inside their motorcycle. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/13/2010: On Tuesday, in Chitkan bazaar in Panjgur District, Balochistan, Pakistan, two persons riding a motorcycle threw a hand grenade at a barber shop injuring barbers, Fazalul Haq and Jahanzeb. The blast badly damaged the shop but no group claimed responsibility.
04/13/2010: On Tuesday, in Dalbandin town of Chagh, Balochistan, Pakistan, unidentified persons, who were riding a motorbike, threw acid on two girls identified as Gul Babo, 13, and Durjamal, 12. The girls were rushed to a nearby hospital, where doctors said their faces had been burnt severely. Residents of the area believe that this attack was carried out by the shadowy Baloch Ghaeratmand Group who had distributed flyers in the area, warning women and young girls to remain indoors. It also clearly warned women and girls against stepping out of their houses with their faces uncovered, or even going to a doctor unaccompanied by a man. "Acid will be thrown on the faces of women and girls who step out of their houses without covering their faces," the flyer says. It ends with a chilling warning: "People who fail to comply with these orders will themselves be responsible for the consequences." No group claimed responsibility.
04/13/2010: On Tuesday, in Garmsir, Helmand province, Afghanistan, an Afghan employee of Arlington-based International Relief and Development was shot and killed by unknown gunmen. No group claimed responsibility, but the Taliban was suspected to be behind the attack.
04/13/2010: On Tuesday, in Sa'dah city in the Sa'dah province of Yemen, unknown rebels shot and wounded a soldier. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/13/2010: On Tuesday, in the Ali al-Saleh region of Baghdad, Iraq, a bomb exploded and injured two persons. No damages or claim of responsibility were reported.
04/13/2010: On Tuesday, in the city of Kandahar in Afghanistan's Kandahar province, an Afghan female employee of a United States-based development company was shot dead by an unidentified militant as she left her office. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/13/2010: On Tuesday, in the Doura district of southern Baghdad, Iraq, a bomb planted inside the vehicle of a public relations officer at moderately influential satellite TV channel Al-Rasheed -- generally considered critical of the Shi'ite-led government exploded wounding him and five other people including a police officer. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/13/2010: On Tuesday, in the town of Mahmoudiya, Baghdad, Iraq, a bomb attached to a car killed a police lieutenant colonel and injured five civilians. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/13/2010: On Tuesday, in the town of Washash in western Baghdad, Iraq, a roadside bomb injured two people. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/13/2010: On Tuesday, in the Zayouna district in eastern Baghdad, Iraq, a roadside bomb exploded near an alcohol shop, killing three and wounding seven. The explosion came after people posing as customers left behind a black plastic bag filled with explosives. The explosion damaged the liqour store, and several nearby stores. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/13/2011: On Wednesday evening around 2030, on Ashurov Street in Nalchik, Kabardino Balkariya, Russia, an unidentified militant opened fire on a police car. Police returned fire on the individual, killing the militant. The militant was later identified as Amir Kasymov. It is unknown if the attack caused any property damage. No other casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/13/2011: On Wednesday morning at 0900, in the central market in the village of El Obelisco in El Tambo, Cauca, Colombia, several male militants from the National Liberation Army (ELN) detonated two improvised explosive devices targeting civilian residences and fired indiscriminately in the town. The explosions caused an unknown amount of property damage to the roofs of the civilian residences and to the market plaza as well but resulted in no casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/13/2011: On Wednesday morning at 1115, in Asmar, Konar, Afghanistan, a suicide bomber detonated his explosive device during a tribal meeting leaving 10 civilians killed, including a tribal leader Malik Zarin, and seven others injured. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage and no group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but Taliban militants were suspected.
04/13/2011: On Wednesday night, in the al-Meshraq neighborhood in Mosul, Ninawa, Iraq, unknown assailants detonated a sticky improvised explosive device attached to the front door of a civilian house. The blast wounded the owner of the house and killed his wife. An unknown amount of property damage was caused to the house. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/13/2011: On Wednesday, in Atikheta village in Latehar District, Jharkhand, India, two former cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) were shot and killed by Maoist cadres. The bullet-riddled bodies of Nirmal Singh and Birendra Singh Kharwar were recovered during the day and a note left by the Maoists accused the duo of rape and robbery after quitting their ranks to Jharkhand Janmukti Parishad (JJP), a CPI-Maoist splinter group.
04/13/2011: On Wednesday, in Bardhere, Gedo, Somalia, unidentified militants kidnapped six Somali citizens who had been accused of having links to Ahlu Sunna Wahl Jamea. No casualties were reported and the status and location of the hostages is unknown. No group claimed responsibility, but the militant group al-Shabaab is thought to be responsible for the attack.
04/13/2011: On Wednesday, in Kirkuk, At Ta'mim, Iraq, unknown assailants detonated a vehicle borne improvised explosive device at a marketplace. One civilian was killed and 16 were wounded in the blast, including three children, two women, and three police. The blast caused an unknown amount of property damage. No group claimed responsibility.
04/13/2011: On Wednesday, on the road between the Jalawlaa and al-Saadiya areas of Khaniqin, Diyala, Iraq, unknown assailants detonated a roadside improvised explosive device targeting the car of Ahmad al-Zarkoushi, the Mayor of Saadiya city. The mayor and three of his guards were wounded in the blast and unknown amount of property damage was caused. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/13/2012: An explosive device attached to a motorcycle detonated near a bus stop in Sangin district, Helmand province, Afghanistan. Eleven people were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for this attack; however, police officials attributed it to the Taliban.
04/13/2012: An explosive device detonated in a field in Sangin district, Helmand province, Afghanistan. A farmer was killed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for this attack; however, police officials attributed it to the Taliban.
04/13/2012: An explosive device detonated in a field in Shahwal district, Helmand province, Afghanistan. A farmer collecting opium was killed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for this attack; however, police officials attributed it to the Taliban.
04/13/2012: An explosive device detonated in Gereshk district, Helmand province, Afghanistan. The attack, which wounded two people, was one of two coordinated attacks in Gereshk on this day. This blast detonated after first responders arrived on the scene of the previous blast. No group claimed responsibility for these attacks.
04/13/2012: An explosive device detonated near a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) vehicle in Agha Qala area, Ghazni province, Afghanistan. An unknown number of NATO soldiers were killed or wounded in the blast. The Taliban claimed responsibility for this attack.
04/13/2012: An explosive device detonated near a police patrol in Shakar Shella area, Helmand province, Afghanistan. One police officer was killed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for this attack.
04/13/2012: An explosive device detonated near a police vehicle in Firozi area, Badghis province, Afghanistan. Five police officers were wounded in the blast, and no group claimed responsibility for this attack.
04/13/2012: An explosive device detonated near civilians in Gereshk district, Helmand province, Afghanistan. One person was killed and one wounded in the blast. This was one of two coordinated attacks on this group of people, neither of which were claimed by any group.
04/13/2012: An explosive device detonated near police officers in Mirano area, Zabul province, Afghanistan. Three officers were injured in the blast, and no group claimed responsibility for this attack.
04/13/2012: An explosive device detonated near the vehicle of a district administrative head in Ghormach district, Badghis province, Afghanistan. The administrator, Muhammad Hashim Habibi, was killed, and four of his guards were injured in the blast. The Taliban claimed responsibility for this attack.
04/13/2012: Assailants attacked an Eni SpA oil pipeline in Clough Creek area, Bayelsa state, Nigeria. There were no casualties; however, a wallhead and a manifold were destroyed. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement, demanding that the group's members be included in an amnesty program or it would continue to attack oil infrastructure.
04/13/2012: Assailants opened fire on a bus in Tro Bon area, Pattani province, Thailand. Eight civilians were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for this incident; however, police attributed it to separatists.
04/13/2012: Assailants opened fire on a guard at a shop in Quetta city, Balochistan province, Pakistan. The guard was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for this incident.
04/13/2012: Assailants opened fire on a police patrol in Chokpot area, Meghalaya state, India. A police officer and a civilian were injured. No group claimed responsibility for this attack; however, sources attributed it to the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA).
04/13/2012: Assailants opened fire on a senior National Congress Party (NCP) leader in Gadchirol district, Maharashtra state, India. The leader, Kewal Atkamwar, was killed and two others injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for this incident; however, sources attributed it to Maoists.
04/13/2012: Assailants threw a grenade at a shop near Omporar Railway Station in Ompora area, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. The shopowner and his son were injured in the explosion. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2012: Assailants threw a grenade at construction workers in Gwadar city, Balochistan province, Pakistan. Eight people were injured in the explosion. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2012: Two assailants attacked a Shia religious scholar and leader in the Husseiniyah mosque in Damascus city, Damascus governorate, Syria. The religious leader, Sayed Naser al-Alawi, was killed. No group claimed responsibility for this attack.
04/13/2012: Two explosive devices detonated in Cartagena city, Bolivar department, Colombia. Sources indicated that the attack was meant to target the sixth Summit of Americas taking place in Cartagena. There were no reported casualties, and no group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2012: Two explosive devices detonated near the United States Embassy and an attorney general's office in Bogota city, Cundinamarca department, Colombia. There were no reported casualties, but buildings were damaged. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected left-wing activists.
04/13/2013: A five-kilogram pressure cooker bomb was discovered and defused at the home of Maulana Fazal Ali Haqqani, a Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI) candidate, in Swabi district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/13/2013: A police vehicle struck a roadside bomb in Kashkak area of Pusht-e-Koh district, Farah province, Afghanistan. At least two police officers were injured in the explosion. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2013: A roadside mine detonated near a convoy of political activists in Gandawa area, Jhal Magsi district, Balochistan province, Pakistan. Four people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2013: An explosive device detonated at a police station in Badhber village, Peshawar district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. No one was injured in the blast; however, the explosion caused some damage to the building. No group has claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2013: An explosive device detonated at the election office in Miranshah town, North Waziristan agency, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. There were no casualties reported, but the explosion destroyed the office belonging to candidate Kamran Khan. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/13/2013: An explosive device detonated near an election center in Baiji district, Saladin governorate, Iraq. No one was injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2013: An explosive device place under a seat on a bus detonated in Mattani town, Peshawar district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. Nine people were killed and at least seven injured by the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2013: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated as a Turkish Red Crescent aid convoy passed in the Muuriyo area of Mogadishu city, near Mogadishu airport, Banaadir region, Somalia. Five people were killed in the blast, including the driver of a car in the convoy, and three people were injured. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources siuspect that Al-Shabaab was behind the incident.
04/13/2013: An individual carrying a firearm, ammunition, and a map of the area was arrested by soldiers near a military post in the Samaria area of the West Bank, Jenin governorate, West Bank and Gaza Strip. Upon questioning, the individual admitted that he was en route to carrying out an attack on the military post. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2013: Assailants abducted the head of Mawlana private university in Mazar-e-Sharif area, Balkh province, Afghanistan. The victim's body was discovered two days later on April 15, 2013 in Jaldani district. No group claimed responsibility for the abduction and killing.
04/13/2013: Assailants ambushed Monguno Secondary School students returning home from exams in Monguno town, Borno state, Nigeria. An unknown number of students were killed when the assailants cut their throats. No group claimed responsibility for the incident, however locals suspect Boko-Haram was behind the attack.
04/13/2013: Assailants attacked a Tarok tribal village in an unknown location in Plateau state, Nigeria. Six people were killed in the incident. There was no claim of responsibility for this attack; however, residents of the village attributed the attack to the Jukun people. The Jukun people are a Muslim ethnic group, while the Tarok are Christian.
04/13/2013: Assailants attacked a Tarok tribal village in an unknown location in Plateau, Nigeria. Four people were killed. There was no claim of responsibility for this attack; however, residents of the village attributed the attack to the Jukun people. The Jukun people are a Muslim ethnic group, while the Tarok are Christian.
04/13/2013: Assailants fired three rockets into the Jalalabad airport in Nangarhar province, Afghanistan. No casualties were reported; however, one helicopter was damaged. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2013: Assailants hurled a grenade at police after officers instructed their vehicle to stop at a checkpoint in Regi area of Peshawar city, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. One officer was killed and three others were wounded in the blast. Officers returned fire and killed two of the assailants. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2013: Assailants opened fire on Hatem al-Dulaimi near his home in Baiji town, Saladin governorate, Iraq. Dulaimi, a provincial poll candidate for al-Insaf Front, was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspect he was targeted for his more moderate political views.
04/13/2013: Assailants threw a hand grenade at the house of an Awami National Party (ANP) candidate in Khyber Agency, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. There were no injuries reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2013: Assailants threw three explosive devices at Mahbubul Alam Hanif's private residence in the Gulshan area of Dhaka city, Dhaka division, Bangladesh. Hanif, the Awami League (AL) Joint General Secretary, was not injured in the attack because the devices failed to detonate. No group claimed responsibility; however, the victim suspects that the attack was carried out by both Jamaat-E-Islami (Bangladesh) and the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).
04/13/2013: Gunmen attacked a police checkpoint near Wadi Feiran town, South Sinai governorate, Egypt. No injuries or casualties were reported. No group has claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2013: Gunmen attacked the police station in Sabha city, Sabha district, Libya. One police officer was killed and two injured. There was no claim of responsibility for this attack; however, police officials attributed it to pro-Gaddafi loyalists.
04/13/2013: Gunmen on motorcycles shot and killed Mohammad Akram, a tribal elder, in Hangu district, Orakzai agency, Pakistan. Four people were also injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2013: Gunmen open fired on a police van providing security to polio workers in Katlang area, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. No one was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2013: Gunmen shot and killed Malk Saifullah, a tribal elder, between Pacheer Agam district and Jalalabad district, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan. No group claimed responsibility; however, the news article noted that sources suspected the elder was killed by anti-government assailants.
04/13/2013: Several gunmen detonated an explosives-laden vehicle outside a courthouse complex, and proceeded inside the main building, in Mogadishu city, Banaadir region, Somalia. The assailants who entered the main building were all wearing suicide vests. Thirty-eight people were killed, including nine assailants, and 58 were injured. Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the incident, stating that the judicial system was sponsored by people whose policies were not compatible with their religion.
04/13/2013: Three assailants attacked the Uthayan newspaper office in Jaffna city, Northern province, Sri Lanka. The assailants shot bullets, lit the office on fire and destroyed the printing press. No group has claimed responsibility however, there is speculation that the attack could have been conducted by the government or government sponsored militia.
04/13/2013: Three rockets fired from an unknown location struck a power pylon in Jamrud tehsil of Khyber Agency, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. The pylon, which supplied power to the Landikotal grid, was destroyed in the attack, causing a disruption in the power supply to nearby areas. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2013: Two assailants opened fire on prominent lawyer Homer Mabale's vehicle in Barangay Tugbungan, Zamboanga city, Zamboanga del Sur province, Philippines. Two people on Mabale's staff were killed and Mabale was injured in the attack. No group has claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2013: Two gunmen attacked a security officer in Hadramawt governorate, Yemen. The counter-terrorism officer, Abdel Kader Hazza, was killed in the incident. No group claimed responsibility for the incident, however sources suspected that Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) was responsible.
04/13/2014: A sniper opened fire on a soldier in Al Houz neighborhood, Ramadi city, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. The soldier was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2014: A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle at a security checkpoint in Dibis town, Kirkuk, Iraq. In addition to the suicide bomber, eight people were killed and 10 others were wounded in the blast. The victims included both security personnel and civilians. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) was involved in the attack.
04/13/2014: An assailant opened fire on civilians outside a Jewish community center in Overland Park, Kansas, United States. At least two people were killed in the assault. This was one of two attacks carried out by the same assailant within a few minutes. Frazier Glenn Cross claimed responsibility for the incidents and stated that he intended to target members of the Jewish community.
04/13/2014: An assailant opened fire on civilians outside a Jewish retirement home in Overland Park, Kansas, United States. At least one person was killed in the assault. This was one of two attacks carried out by the same assailant within a few minutes. Frazier Glenn Cross claimed responsibility for the incidents and stated that he intended to target members of the Jewish community.
04/13/2014: An explosive device detonated among civilians in Dujail town, Saladin governorate, Iraq. Three people were killed and four others were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2014: An explosive device detonated among civilians in Husseinia neighborhood, Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. Three civilians were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2014: An explosive device detonated among civilians in Radwaniyah area, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. One civilian was killed and one other was wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2014: An explosive device detonated at a bar, while customers were watching a soccer match, in Overland Park neighborhood, Arusha city, Arusha region, Tanzania. At least fifteen people were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2014: An explosive device detonated in Dera Bugti town, Balochistan province, Pakistan. There were no reported casualties in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2014: An explosive device detonated near a civilian residence in Al Askari neighborhood, Fallujah city, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. This was one of two similar attacks in Fallujah city on April 13, 2014. Two people were wounded across blasts. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2014: An explosive device detonated near a civilian residence in Julan area, Fallujah city, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. This was one of two similar attacks in Fallujah city on April 13, 2014. Two people were wounded across blasts. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2014: An explosive device detonated near a civilian vehicle in Shirqat city, Saladin governorate, Iraq. One civilian was killed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2014: An explosive device detonated near a police patrol in Radwaniyah area, Babil governorate, Iraq. Three police officers were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2014: An explosive device detonated near a police patrol in Wadi Hajar neighborhood, Mosul city, Nineveh governorate, Iraq. Two police officers were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2014: An explosive device detonated near a shop in Wangkhei Keithel Ashangbi neighborhood, Imphal city, Manipur state, India. There were no reported casualties; however, the shop was damaged in the blast. The United Revolutionary Front claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2014: An explosive device detonated near the residence of the mayor in Al Arbain area, Tikrit city, Saladin governorate, Iraq. One police officer was wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2014: An explosive device detonated outside the offices of the Intelligence Bureau (IB) and the Balochistan National Party (BNP) in Pakki Colony neighborhood, Dera Murad Jamali city, Balochistan province, Pakistan. There were no reported casualties; however, several buildings were damaged in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2014: An explosive device, targeting the convoy of Usamah al-Nujayfi, detonated near Kirkuk city, Kirkuk, Iraq. Al-Nujayfi, the Council of Representatives speaker, was unharmed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2014: An explosives-laden motorcycle detonated near the Afghan Customs Department building in Herat province, Afghanistan. One civilian was wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2014: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated and assailants opened fire on a police checkpoint west of Samarra city in Saladin governorate, Iraq. Four police officers were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2014: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated near a joint military and police patrol in Zahra neighborhood, Mosul city, Nineveh governorate, Iraq. Ten people, including security personnel and civilians, were killed and eight others were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) carried out the attack.
04/13/2014: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated near a police checkpoint in Jurf al-Sakhar city, Babil governorate, Iraq. Five police officers were killed and four civilians were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2014: An unknown number of a explosive devices detonated near a military convoy in Momauk, Kachin, Myanmar. Two soldiers were killed and four others were wounded in the blast. The Kachin Independence Army (KIA) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2014: Assailants abducted a hospital director and two hospital employees in Hadithah city, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. The outcome of the abduction is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2014: Assailants abducted Artem Deynega after he was spotted filming events in the street from his balcony in Slovyansk city, Donetsk oblast, Ukraine. Deynega, a civilian, was released unharmed on May 6, 2014. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Donetsk People's Republic.
04/13/2014: Assailants abducted Lieutenant Abdul Hakim Nasser Belaid, a Directorate General for Technical Affairs employee, from his residence in Janzour city, Zawiya district, Libya. The outcome of the abduction is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2014: Assailants abducted Luis Alberto Alvarez in Puerto Politico area, Arauca department, Colombia. Alvarez, a farmer, was found dead on April 20th, 2014. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities attributed the attack to the National Liberation Army of Colombia (ELN).
04/13/2014: Assailants abducted Saliv Momn Jon in Marib city, Marib governorate, Yemen. Jon, a foreign doctor, was released on April 19, 2014. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the abduction to tribesmen.
04/13/2014: Assailants abducted the son of a village sheikh and his host in Al-Shati village, Shirqat district, Saladin governorate, Iraq. The outcome of the abduction is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2014: Assailants ambushed soldiers in Masara village, Maco town, Compostela Valley province, Philippines. There were an unknown number of casualties in the attack. Daniel Ibarra, a spokesperson for the New People's Army (NPA), claimed responsibility for the incident, stating that the ambush was related to attacks on April 7 and 10, 2014, which targeted mining companies accused of destroying the environment.
04/13/2014: Assailants armed with hand grenades attempted to attack a military checkpoint in Mosul city, Nineveh governorate, Iraq. Three assailants were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2014: Assailants assaulted Igor Abyzov in Torez city, Donetsk oblast, Ukraine. Abyzov, the Director of the Pro Gorod Newspaper, was wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to the Donetsk People's Republic.
04/13/2014: Assailants attacked a joint African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) and Juba Interim Administration (JIA) base near Kismayo University in Kismayo city, Lower Juba region, Somalia. There were an unknown number of casualties in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Al-Shabaab.
04/13/2014: Assailants attacked an African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) base in Fafahdun area, Gedo region, Somalia. The outcome of the attack is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Al-Shabaab.
04/13/2014: Assailants attacked an African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) base in Wajid town, Bakool region, Somalia. There were an unknown number of casualties in the assault. Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2014: Assailants attacked civilians in Kaigamari village, Borno state, Nigeria. Eight people were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Boko Haram.
04/13/2014: Assailants attacked Somali National Army (SNA) forces in Godan area, between Rabdure and Xuxul districts, Bakool region, Somalia. Six soldiers were killed in the attack. Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2014: Assailants launched a mortar shell near a civilian bus in Damascus city, Damascus governorate, Syria. One civilian was killed and 22 others were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2014: Assailants launched a mortar shell near Jaramana neighborhood, Damascus city, Damascus governorate, Syria. One person was killed in the attack. This was one of two mortar attacks in Damascus governorate on April 13, 2014. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2014: Assailants launched a mortar shell near Tabbaleh neighborhood, Damascus city, Damascus governorate, Syria. One person was killed in the attack. This was one of two mortar attacks in Damascus governorate on April 13, 2014. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2014: Assailants launched four mortar shells near a residential area in Al Wardiyah neighborhood, Madain city, Diyala governorate, Iraq. Four civilians were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2014: Assailants opened fire at a military checkpoint in Bangkal village, Patikul municipality, Sulu province, Philippines. Five assailants were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG).
04/13/2014: Assailants opened fire on a Frontier Corps (FC) checkpost in Awaran city, Balochistan province, Pakistan. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2014: Assailants opened fire on a government unit outpost in Barobo town Surigao del Sur province, Philippines. There were no reported casualties; however, a backhoe was damaged in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2014: Assailants opened fire on a military base in Huanta Corazonpata district, Ayacucho region, Peru. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Shining Path (SL).
04/13/2014: Assailants opened fire on a military vehicle in Tarim town, Hadramawt governorate, Yemen. One soldier was killed and three others were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected that Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) was involved in the attack.
04/13/2014: Assailants opened fire on a police checkpost in Tobra Kash area, Kunduz province, Afghanistan. Six assailants were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2014: Assailants opened fire on a police post in Amchide town, Extreme North region, Cameroon. Three assailants were killed and two people, including a gendarme and a police officer, were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Boko Haram.
04/13/2014: Assailants opened fire on a polling party in Nawada district, Bihar state, India. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
04/13/2014: Assailants opened fire on a security official in Sanaa city, Amanat Al Asimah governorate, Yemen. The security official was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected that Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) carried out the attack.
04/13/2014: Assailants opened fire on a water resources project in Mushirfah area, Nineveh governorate, Iraq. Six employees were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2014: Assailants opened fire on an African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) convoy near Xuddur city in Bakool region, Somalia. Eleven people, including assailants and soldiers, were killed and 24 others were wounded in the attack. Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2014: Assailants opened fire on Lieutenant General Samir Sheikh in Damascus city, Damascus governorate, Syria. Sheikh, a senior military officer, was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2014: Assailants opened fired at the residence of Yawar Masoodi in Khrew town, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. Masoodi, a youth wing leader of Jammu & Kashmir National Conference (NC), was unharmed; however, two police officers were killed in the attack. Al-Shuda Brigade claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2014: Assailants seized a police building in Yenakiieve city, Donetsk oblast, Ukraine. There were no reported casualties in the attack. This was one of two attacks carried out by the same group in Yenakiieve city on this day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Donetsk People's Republic.
04/13/2014: Assailants seized a prosecutor's office in Yenakieve city, Donetsk oblast, Ukraine. There were no reported casualties in the attack. This was one of two attacks carried out by the Donetsk People's Republic in Yenakieve city on April 13, 2014. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Donetsk People's Republic .
04/13/2014: Assailants seized a town hall in Makiivka city, Donetsk oblast, Ukraine. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Donetsk People's Republic.
04/13/2014: Assailants stormed the residence of a local Sahwa Council leader in Sulayman Beg town, Saladin governorate, Iraq. Three of the leader's family members were killed, four were wounded, and two others were abducted in the attack. The outcome of the abduction is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) carried out the attack.
04/13/2014: Assailants stormed the residence of James Joyce in Culaman village, Jose Abad Santos municipality, Davao Occidental province, Philippines. Joyce, the Jose Abad Santos town mayor, was unharmed; however, the assailants stole 16 shotguns in the attack. The New People's Army (NPA) claimed responsibility for the incident, stating that it targeted James Joyce Jr. as punishment for his actions against the NPA's activities. Additionally, the group stated that the mayor's personal army was being used to attack civilians.
04/13/2014: Assailants threw explosive devices and opened fire on civilians in Amchaka village, Borno state, Nigeria. Sixty people were killed and several others were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Boko Haram.
04/13/2014: Assailants threw incendiary devices and paving slabs at police personnel in Thessaloniki city, Thessaloniki region, Greece. Two police officers were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2014: Assailants threw incendiary devices at the Democracy Lovers Network radio station in Lat Sawai area, Pathum Thani province, Thailand. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2014: Two explosive devices detonated near a military patrol in Al Shayhah area, near Iskandariyah city, Babil governorate, Iraq. Two soldiers were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2014: Two explosive devices were discovered and safely defused in Bokaro district, Jharkhand state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
04/13/2014:A land mine detonated at the Lakhisarai railway station in Lakhisarai city, Bihar state, India. There were no reported casualties; however, a train engine was damaged in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
04/13/2015: An explosive device detonated as security forces were attempting to defuse it in Sararogha area, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. At least three security personnel were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2015: An explosive device detonated in a parking lot in Jisr Diyala area, Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. At least three people were killed and nine others were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2015: An explosive device detonated in Kirkuk, Iraq. At least one person was killed and three others were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2015: An explosive device detonated in Markazi Bihsud district, Wardak province, Afghanistan. Three civilians were killed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2015: An explosive device detonated near a civilian residence in Wajihiyah area, Diyala governorate, Iraq. At least one person was killed and five others were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2015: An explosive device detonated near shops in Hamamiyat village, Saladin governorate, Iraq. At least two people were killed and seven others were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2015: An explosive device detonated outside a government building in Helwan district, Cairo governorate, Egypt. Two security guards were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2015: An explosive device detonated targeting a military patrol in Tarmiyah district, Saladin governorate, Iraq. At least one soldier was killed and four others were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2015: An explosive device detonated targeting a military vehicle in Machi Khel area, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. Two soldiers were killed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2015: An explosive device detonated targeting a military vehicle in Spinwam Tehsil, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2015: An explosive device detonated targeting a police patrol vehicle in Sangar Manda area, Zabul province, Afghanistan. Two police officers were killed and one other was wounded in the blast. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2015: An explosive device planted in a tunnel underneath the Air Force Intelligence Directorate Headquarters detonated in Jamia al-Zayraa neighborhood, Aleppo city, Aleppo governorate, Syria. Following the blast, assailants then attacked the base with projectiles and firearms. At least 13 assailants were killed and more than 20 soldiers were killed or wounded in the incident. The Shamiya Front claimed responsibility and stated that the attack was carried out in revenge for the killing of women and children in Aleppo by the Asad regime. Al-Nusrah Front, Ansar al-Din Front, and Al-Sham Legion also claimed responsibility for the attack, while sources attributed the attack to Fajr al-Khilafah.
04/13/2015: An explosive device planted on a bus detonated in Sheikh Omar area, Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. At least one person was killed and five others were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2015: An explosive device was discovered and defused along the Gomia-Visungrah road in Gomia town, Jharkhand state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, a source attributed the attempted attack to Maoists.
04/13/2015: An explosives-laden bicycle detonated at a Yemeni Army site in Lahij city, Lahij governorate, Yemen. Fifteen soldiers were killed and five soldiers and five civilians were wounded in the blast. Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2015: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated at the Moroccan embassy in Tripoli city, Tripoli district, Libya. No casualties were reported. The Tripoli Province of the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2015: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated near a market in Amil area, Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. At least five people were killed and 25 others were injured in the blast. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2015: Assailants abducted a villager from Bara village, Odisha state, India. This was one of two related abductions in Odisha villages on this date. Two of the hostages were released on April 15, 2015, while the remaining hostages were released on April 16, 2015. The Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) claimed responsibility for the abductions.
04/13/2015: Assailants abducted six villagers from Kartanpalli village, Odisha state, India. This was one of two related abductions in Odisha villages on this date. Two of the hostages were released on April 15, 2015, while the remaining hostages were released on April 16, 2015. The Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) claimed responsibility for the abductions.
04/13/2015: Assailants attacked a military checkpoint controlled by the 35th Armored Brigade in Taizz city, Taizz governorate, Yemen. Three soldiers were killed and an unknown number were wounded. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Huthis.
04/13/2015: Assailants attacked a police post in Karampur area, Sindh province, Pakistan. One officer was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2015: Assailants attacked a polling center in Abbasiya district, South Kordofan state, Sudan. No casualties were reported. This was one of two related attacks in Abbasiya on this date. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents; however, sources attributed the attacks to the Sudan People's Liberation Movement - North.
04/13/2015: Assailants attacked a polling center in Habeila district, South Kordofan state, Sudan. No casualties were reported. This was one of three related attacks in Habeila on this date. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents; however, sources attributed them to the Sudan People's Liberation Movement - North.
04/13/2015: Assailants attacked a protestor in Dahi District, Al Hudaydah governorate, Yemen. The protestor was killed in the incident. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to Huthis.
04/13/2015: Assailants attacked Afghan National Civil Order Police (ANCOP) officers in Muqur district, Badghis province, Afghanistan. Two officers were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Taliban.
04/13/2015: Assailants attacked an Iraqi Army position in Al-Farhatiyah area, Balad district, Saladin governorate, Iraq. Two military officers and two soldiers were killed in the assault. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2015: Assailants attacked Huthis in Abyan governorate, Yemen. Seven Huthis were taken hostage during the attack. The whereabouts of the kidnapped Huthis is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the incident to tribesmen.
04/13/2015: Assailants attacked Huthis in Al Dali governorate, Yemen. At least 16 Huthis and allied forces were killed in the attack. The Southern Mobility Movement (SMM) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2015: Assailants attacked Huthis in Ataq city, Shabwah governorate, Yemen. Eight Huthis were taken hostage during the attack. The whereabouts of the kidnapped Huthis are unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the incident to tribesmen.
04/13/2015: Assailants attacked Huthis in Taizz governorate, Yemen. Twenty Huthis were killed during the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the incident to supporters of Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi.
04/13/2015: Assailants attacked Khalid al-Khatib in Maqbilah area, Shabwah governorate, Yemen. Al-Khatib, the commander of the 2nd Infantry Mountainous Brigade, was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Popular Resistance Committees (Yemen).
04/13/2015: Assailants attacked pro-Russian journalist Sergey Sukhobok in Kiev city, Kiev oblast, Ukraine. Sukhobok was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2015: Assailants detonated an explosive device and opened fire targeting Chhattisgarh Armed Force (CAF) personnel along the Cholnar-Kirandul road in Cholnar area, Chhattisgarh state, India. Five CAF soldiers were killed and seven others were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist).
04/13/2015: Assailants fired a shell that struck a civilian residence in Rafah, North Sinai, Egypt. Three civilians were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2015: Assailants fired Katyusha rockets at Rahmaniya neighborhood, Dalang town, South Kordofan state, Sudan. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Sudan People's Liberation Movement - North.
04/13/2015: Assailants fired projectiles that landed and detonated in Al-Shihan neighborhood, Aleppo city, Aleppo governorate, Syria. At least three people were killed in the blasts. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/13/2015: Assailants fired projectiles that landed and detonated in Dzerzhynsk town, Donetsk oblast, Ukraine. Two civilians were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities suspected the involvement of the Donetsk People's Republic.
04/13/2015: Assailants kidnapped a civilian in Wadi Hmeid area, Arsal town, Beqaa governorate, Lebanon. The civilian was released six hours later. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the abduction to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/13/2015: Assailants kidnapped four truck drivers from the road linking Qaim and Rutbah districts, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. The outcome of the kidnapping is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed that abduction to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/13/2015: Assailants kidnapped two electoral officials in Sardauna district, Taraba state, Nigeria. The outcome of the kidnapping is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2015: Assailants opened fire on a Border Security Force (BSF) camp in Kanker district, Chhattisgarh state, India. Two people, an assailant and a BSF soldier, were killed and a BSF soldier was injured in the ensuing clash. In addition, three explosive devices were discovered and defused following the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist).
04/13/2015: Assailants opened fire on a civilian in Saydabad district, Wardak province, Afghanistan. The civilian was wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Taliban.
04/13/2015: Assailants opened fire on a former journalist in Balagtas village, Batangas city, Batangas province, Philippines. The journalist was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2015: Assailants opened fire on a health official in Rueso district, Narathiwat province, Thailand. The official was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2015: Assailants opened fire on Amanullah in Bhag city, Kachhi district, Balochistan province, Pakistan. A doctor was killed and another person wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2015: Assailants opened fire on an Egyptian Armed Forces checkpoint in Rafah city, North Sinai governorate, Egypt. One soldier was killed in the attack. This was one of two attacks on military checkpoints in Rafah city on this day. The Sinai Province of the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/13/2015: Assailants opened fire on an Egyptian Armed Forces checkpoint in Rafah city, North Sinai governorate, Egypt. One soldier was wounded in the attack. This was one of two attacks on military checkpoints in Rafah city on this day. The Sinai Province of the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/13/2015: Assailants opened fire on civilians at a rubber plantation in Baro subdistrict, Yala province, Thailand. Two civilians were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to separatists.
04/13/2015: Assailants opened fire on civilians in Crater neighborhood, Aden city, Adan governorate, Yemen. A municipal official was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Huthis.
04/13/2015: Assailants opened fire on civilians Korangi Town, Sindh province, Pakistan. Three civilians were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2015: Assailants opened fire on intelligence agents in Juba area, Central Equatoria state, South Sudan. Two agents were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2015: Assailants opened fire on the vehicle of Ashraf Abbas in Karachi city, Sindh province, Pakistan. Abbas, a government worker, was killed and his daughter was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2015: Assailants set fire to a mosque in Witten city, North Rhine-Westphalia state, Germany. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2015: Assailants set fire to the facility of a poultry company on Agiou Pablou Street in Peristeri neighborhood, Athens, Attica region, Greece. There were no reported casualties in the attack. The Earth Liberation Front (ELF) claimed responsibility and stated that the attack was carried out in solidarity with detainees being held in Greece.
04/13/2015: Assailants set fire to two water containers along Sheikh Zuweid-Gora highway near Sheikh Zuweid, North Sinai, Egypt. There were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2015: Explosive devices detonated at an electricity pylon in Sixth of October city, Giza governorate, Egypt. No casualties were reported. This was one of two related attacks on electricity pylons in the same area on this day. Both the Revolutionary Punishment Movement and Ajnad Misr claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/13/2015: Security forces discovered and defused two explosive devices planted under a suspension bridge in Mandori area, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2015: Two explosive devices were discovered and defused in Samba district, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2016: A roadside bomb detonated targeting Egyptian soldiers in Sheikh Zuweid, North Sinai, Egypt. One person was killed and four were wounded in the blast. The Sinai Province of the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2016: A roadside bomb detonated targeting the convoy of Remegio Sioson in Pandan, Maguindanao, Philippines. Sioson, a vice mayor and a present mayoral candidate, was unharmed; however, three of his aides were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2016: A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle near Essdada checkpoint in Qararat al-Qatef, Misrata, Libya. In addition to the bomber, a security forces member was killed and four others were injured in the blast. This was one of two coordinated attacks on this date. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Tripoli Province of the Islamic State.
04/13/2016: A suicide bomber detonated targeting members of the Misrata Brigades who were responding to an earlier attack on Essdada checkpoint in Qararat al-Qatef, Misrata, Libya. In addition to the bomber, at least one member was killed and another was injured in the attack. This was one of two coordinated attacks on the same date. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Tripoli Province of the Islamic State.
04/13/2016: An assailant opened fire on Anthony Savariz in Cadoldolan, Iloilo, Philippines. Savariz, the chief village guard of Cadoldolan, was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2016: An explosive device detonated at the Church of San Marco to the Marshes in Fermo, Marche, Italy. There were no reported casualties in the blast. Two anarchists, identified as Martino Paniconi and Marco Bordoni, admitted responsibility for the attack after their arrest.
04/13/2016: An explosive device detonated in Abu Disheer, Baghdad, Iraq. At least one person was killed and five people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2016: An explosive device detonated in Amin, Baghdad, Iraq. At least two people were killed and five people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2016: An explosive device detonated in Camp Sarah area, Baghdad, Iraq. At least two people were killed and four people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2016: An explosive device detonated targeting Assam Rifles personnel in Imphal, Manipur, India. An Assam Rifles member was killed and three others were injured in the blast. The United National Liberation Front (UNLF) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2016: An explosive device detonated targeting military personnel at a livestock market in Afgoye, Lower Shebelle, Somalia. At least three soldiers were killed and 10 others, including civilians, were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Al-Shabaab.
04/13/2016: Assailants abducted 55 civilians from Mirza Qam, Faryab, Afghanistan. The hostages were released shortly after the abduction. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2016: Assailants and suicide bombers attacked security forces in Nineveh, Iraq. Security members repelled the assault, killing seven suicide bombers. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2016: Assailants attacked a military camp between Bani Walid and Misrata in Misrata district, Libya. Five people were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2016: Assailants attacked a military post in Boni, Mopti, Mali. It is unknown if the assault resulted in any casualties. Ansar al-Dine (Mali) claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources also suspected that Macina Liberation Front (FLM) was involved.
04/13/2016: Assailants attacked a Mozambique Republic Police (MRP) post in Gorongosa, Sofala, Mozambique. At least one officer was injured in the incident. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to the Mozambique National Resistance Movement (MNR).
04/13/2016: Assailants attacked a police checkpoint in Ghaziabad, Kunar, Afghanistan. This was one of four related attacks that occurred in four different districts of Kunar on this date. At least 13 assailants were killed and 25 others, including assailants, police and civilians, were injured in the ensuing clashes. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/13/2016: Assailants attacked a police checkpoint in Marawara, Kunar, Afghanistan. This was one of four related attacks that occurred in four different districts of Kunar on this date. At least 13 assailants were killed and 25 others, including assailants, police and civilians, were injured in the ensuing clashes. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/13/2016: Assailants attacked a police checkpoint in Sarkani, Kunar, Afghanistan. This was one of four related attacks that occurred in four different districts of Kunar on this date. At least 13 assailants were killed and 25 others, including assailants, police and civilians, were injured in the ensuing clashes. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/13/2016: Assailants attacked a police checkpoint in Shaygal Wa Shiltan, Kunar, Afghanistan. This was one of four related attacks that occurred in four different districts of Kunar on this date. At least 13 assailants were killed and 25 others, including assailants, police and civilians, were injured in the ensuing clashes. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/13/2016: Assailants attacked a security checkpoint along the Kabul-Kandahar highway in Wardak, Afghanistan. No casualties were reported in the attack. This was one of two attacks on checkpoints along the highway on this date. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents; however, sources attributed the attacks to the Taliban.
04/13/2016: Assailants attacked a security checkpoint along the Kabul-Kandahar in Qarabagh, Ghazni, Afghanistan. Six assailants were killed and seven others were wounded in the attack. This was one of two attacks on checkpoints along the highway on this date. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents; however, sources attributed the attacks to the Taliban.
04/13/2016: Assailants attacked a security checkpost in Baharak, Badakhshan, Afghanistan. Five assailants were killed in the ensuing clash. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Taliban.
04/13/2016: Assailants attacked army and popular resistance positions in Nihm, Sanaa governorate, Yemen. At least 13 soldiers and popular resistance members were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Huthi extremists.
04/13/2016: Assailants attacked police checkpoints in Khair Khana, Badghis, Afghanistan. Five assailants were killed and four others were injured in the ensuing clash. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2016: Assailants attacked the vehicle of aid workers from the Danish Demining Group (DDG) in Yei region, Central Equitoria South Sudan. Two employees were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/13/2016: Assailants beheaded two civilians at Yarmuk Refugee Camp in Damascus city, Damascus governorate, Syria. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/13/2016: Assailants destroyed the Mashqi Gate in Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq. There were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/13/2016: Assailants detonated an explosive device in front of an oil company office in Seiyun, Hadramawt, Yemen. One person was killed and two others were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2016: Assailants fired at least ten shells into Juliana, Benghazi, Libya. There were no reported casualties in the attack; however, one ammunition depot was destroyed. This was one of two areas of the city shelled on this day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2016: Assailants fired mortars into a village in Shabwa govenrorate, Yemen. Three children were killed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Huthi extremists.
04/13/2016: Assailants fired two rockets at the center of Taza Khurmatu, Kirkuk, Iraq. There were no reported casualties resulting from the attack. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2016: Assailants kidnapped 33 people, including state employees and security members, in Hawijah, Kirkuk, Iraq. The outcome of the kidnapping is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/13/2016: Assailants kidnapped three soldiers from a military checkpoint near Al-Qubbah Derna, Libya. The outcome of the abduction is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/13/2016: Assailants opened fire on a train in Koto Tuera, Yala, Thailand. There were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2016: Assailants opened fire on Lopez Pedriza in Rawis, Samar, Philippines. Pedriza, a village councilor, was killed and his nephew was wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2016: Assailants raided the offices of Al-Nahar newspaper in Baghdad, Iraq. No further information is available.
04/13/2016: Assailants set fire to at least 20 residences at Yarmuk Refugee Camp in Damascus city, Damascus governorate, Syria. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2016: Assailants set fire to the office of Mzuzile Mpondwana in Cape Town, South Africa. Mpondwana, an African National Congress ward councilor, was meeting with four other people at the time of the incident. The individuals were forced at gunpoint to leave the building before it was set alight. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2016: Assailants set fire to the Palestine Hospital at Yarmuk Refugee Camp in Damascus city, Damascus governorate, Syria. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/13/2016: Assailants shelled Kilis, Turkey. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/13/2016: Assailants shelled military positions in Sanaa governorate, Yemen. At least six soldiers were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Huthi extremists.
04/13/2016: Assailants shelled the center of Benghazi city, Libya. There were no reported casualties in the attack. This was one of two areas of the city shelled on this day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2016: Assailants shot and killed Focas Bakana, a ruling party official, in his residence in Kajaga, Bujumbura Rural, Burundi. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2016: Assailants shot and killed the commander of a pro-government army brigade, Major General Zaid Al Huri, in Sanaa, Yemen. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Huthi extremists.
04/13/2016: Assailants stopped a mayoral convoy and abducted three officials in Santa Isabel, Isabela province, Philippines. One hostage was killed shortly after the abduction while the others were released later the same day. The New People's Army (NPA) claimed responsibility for the incident and accused Ronaldo Lucas of not adhering to the NPA's campaign instructions.
04/13/2016: Security forces arrested three suicide bombers in Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan. There were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2016: Security forces discovered and attempted to defuse an explosive device in Sajariyah, Al Anbar, Iraq. The device detonated, killing a volunteer forces officer. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2017: An assailant shot and killed Carl Williams, a security guard, at a Motel 6 in Fresno, California, United States. Kori Ali Muhammad, an anti-white extremist, claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that he targeted the victim because Williams had disrespected him. Sources also noted that Muhammad had a history of anti-white and anti-government social media posts.
04/13/2017: An explosive device detonated at St. Yusuf Catholic Church in Ambarawa, Central Java, Indonesia. There were no reported casualties in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2017: An explosive device detonated at the General Bus Stand in Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. At least three people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/13/2017: An explosive device detonated in Bashir, Kirkuk, Iraq. A volunteer fighter was injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2017: An explosive device detonated near a market in Shaab area, Baghdad, Iraq. At least two people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2017: An explosive device detonated near shops in Euphrates district, Baghdad, Iraq. At least three people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2017: An explosive device, intending to target security forces, detonated in Paktia, Afghanistan. The device hit a civilian vehicle, killing three people and injuring two. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2017: Assailants equipped with explosives-laden vehicles attacked military forces in Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. No casualties were reported as security forces repelled the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2017: Assailants opened fire at a market in Abaji, Benue, Nigeria. At least one person was killed and three people were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2017: Assailants opened fire on a police patrol in Kibiti, Pwani, Tanzania. Eight police officers were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Muslim extremists.
04/13/2017: Assailants raided medical facilities and abducted an unknown number of workers in Mushairafah area, Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq. The outcome of the kidnapping is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and stated that the victims were accused of failing to collect the needed materials to treat wounded ISIL members.
04/13/2017: Assailants raided Oko-Asagun, Lagos, Nigeria. Five people, including three police officers and two community leaders, were killed and four people were injured in the attack. In addition, at least four telecommunication workers were abducted, and the outcome of the kidnapping is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/13/2017: Assailants shot and killed Hajji Abdi, a tribal elder and electoral delegate, in Baidoa, Bay, Somalia. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Al-Shabaab.
04/13/2017: Assailants shot and killed Shire Dongale, a tribal elder and electoral delegate, in Labadhagax area, Mogadishu, Somalia. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Al-Shabaab.
04/13/2017: Assailants threw an incendiary device at the campaign headquarters of Marine Le Pen, the National Front (FN) presidential candidate, in Paris, France. There were no reported casualties. Fight Xenophobia claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/1974: Two white boys, Ward Anderson and Terry White, were waiting at a bus stop at the corner of Fillmore and Hayes Streets on Easter Sunday in San Francisco, California, United States, when a tall African-American man with a muscular build, quickly turned the corner onto Fillmore Street and passed the two boys at the bus stop.  Anderson asked the man if he had a cigarette, but he kept walking until he suddenly stopped, turned around, pulled out a gun and shot two .32 caliber bullets into Anderson.  As Anderson collapsed to the ground, the man shot Terry White three times.  Both boys were seriously injured, but survived the attack.  Manuel Moore was charged with assault with a deadly weapon for shooting Anderson and White.  The motives were racist in origins and a response to the racial rhetoric of the time.  This was the eighteenth in a series of 20 attacks (with 23 victims) on random whites by black Muslims who came to be known as the Zebra Killers.
04/14/1978: Puerto Rican nationalists, suspected to be members of the Front for the National Liberation of Puerto Rico, attempted to bomb a Coast Guard Housing Project in Puerto Rico.
04/14/1978: Puerto Rican nationalists, suspected to be members of the Front for the National Liberation of Puerto Rico, attempted to bomb a First Federal Savings and Loan bank in Puerto Rico.
04/14/1978: Puerto Rican nationalists, suspected to be members of the Front for the National Liberation of Puerto Rico, attempted to bomb a U.S. Army Recruiting Agency in Puerto Rico.
04/14/1998: An anti-abortion activist set fire to an area within a Sante Fe gallery in New Mexico, U.S.A.. This attack occurred just moments before a pro-choice abortion activist was set to speak. The gallery suffered minor fire damage, but there were no casualties.
04/14/1998: One policeman was injured when two grenades were thrown from a moving car in Vranjevac, Kosovo. The Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) claimed responsibility for this attack.
04/14/1998: The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) attacked a police post in Panchcanur, Sri Lanka, killing two people and wounding several others. The police post sustained minor damage. Another post was also attacked.
04/14/1999: Six Angolans, all working for local NGOs, were killed when the car in which they were traveling was ambushed on the Gabela-Sumbe road in Salina, Angola. The victims represented local offices of Save the Children, the Christian Youth Association, and the Christian Congressional Association. It was presumed that the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) perpetrated this attack, though no group formally claimed responsibility.
04/14/2000: Maoist rebels kidnapped former Minister Reg Bahadur Subedi and his son Suresh Subedi from their home in Gajul, Rolpa district, Rapti zone, Nepal. Over 200 rebels took part in the kidnapping according to reports. Reports did not indicate if and/or when the victims were released.
04/14/2000: Nineteen employees of the Noble Drilling Oil Company in Warri, Nigeria, were kidnapped by gunmen suspected to be Ijaw youths. There was no information on the fate of the hostages.
04/14/2000: The tax office in Gaziantep, Turkey, was bomb. The time explosive device caused minor damage however there were no injuries. A leftist organization was suspected, but no specific group was mentioned.
04/14/2001: Nine people, including the bomber, were killed and at least twenty more were wounded when a remote-controlled bomb was detonated in a crowded open air concert celebrating the Hindi New Year in Dahka, Bangladesh.  It was thought that this attack was part of a larger plot in which at least four people were carrying bombs to be detonated at the event. Sources suggest that this was not supposed to be a suicide attack, but that one bomber was killed and at least two were injured in the explosion.  Another bomb exploded in the concert shortly after the first.  No details regarding property damage were reported.  Although no group claimed responsibility for the attack, the leader of Harkat-ul Jihad Islami, Mufti Abdul Hannan, was ultimately sentenced to death in connection with the attack.
04/14/2001: No one was wounded when a bomb detonated near two vehicles on Herzl Street, Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv district, Israel around 8:15pm.  A group calling themselves the Brigades of the Martyrs of al-Aqsa contacted the Agence France-Presse and claimed responsibility for one of two bombings that occurred on Herzl Street that day, but it was unclear which bombing they were responsible for.  The group claimed the bombing was a response to Israel's treatment of Palestinians.
04/14/2001: One person was wounded when a bomb detonated one hour after, and only a short distance away from, a previous detonation near two cars on Herzl Street, Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv district, Israel.  A group named the Brigades of the Martyrs of al-Aqsa contacted the Agence France-Presse and claimed responsibility for one of the two bombing that occurred on Herzl Street, but it was unclear which bombing they perpetrated.  They claimed the bombing was a response to Israel's actions against Palestinians.
04/14/2001: Suspected Maoist Communist Center members killed 13 people in a raid on the eastern Beltu village of the Bihar state in India.
04/14/2001: The Earth Liberation Front (ELF) claimed responsibility for setting fire to three cement trucks that belonged to the Ross Island Sand & Gravel Company, in Portland, Oregon U.S.A. The attack was perpetrated, according to the group, to protest the company's mining of a 40-acre site in the Columbia River Gorge. The fire was started when four containers of gasoline were lit with a timing device. The damages totaled over $210,000. In their written communiqué, the group states, "Let this be a warning to all the greedy corporations who exploit our Earth's natural resources." In October of 2002, two men, Jacob Sherman and Michael Scarpitti, were arrested in connection with this arson attack and another that took place in June 2001, which targeted a logging company is Estacada.
04/14/2001: Three unknown militants attacked an Indian security bunker at Lal Chowk in Srinagar, Kashmir. The attack killed four members of the Indian military.
04/14/2001: United Self-defense Forces of Colombia (AUC - Las Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia) militants killed 25 farmers in Alto Nayo, Colombia in an apparent political vendetta.
04/14/2001: Unknown perpetrators detonated a bomb outside of a post office in Hendon, London; minor damage to the building resulted but no casualties were reported in the incident.
04/14/2002: A car-bomb exploded along Colombian Presidential Candidate Alvaro Uribe Velez's campaign route in Barranquilla as he traveled to the Port Authority headquarters. The bomb destroyed Uribe's armored car and a bus. Uribe was not killed. There were 3 civilian causalties and approximately 20 injured. There were no claims of responsibility, though the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC)is suspected.
04/14/2003: Eight Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels and two soldiers were killed when militants attacked an army detachment in Matanog, Maguindanao province, Philippines.
04/14/2003: Four civilians and two security personnel were injured when suspected militants threw a grenade on Hari Singh High street in Srinagar, India.
04/14/2003: Ilir Selmanaj and Ferid Selmanaj were killed in an ambush by several unknown militants (unspecified number) in Osuja in Nobergjan while returning home from Pec, Kosovo. Ilir had testified in 2002 in the trial of the Dukagjini Group.
04/14/2003: Two people were injured when suspected rebels threw a grenade into the Nishat garden in Srinagar, India.
04/14/2003: Unknown assailants partially destroyed a McDonalds in Sergy, France. There were no casualties reported in the incident.
04/14/2003: Unknown Ijaw youths attacked the Itsekiri village of Ugbuwangue near Warri, Nigeria, killing six people. The Ijaw sought to disrupt the National Assembly elections.
04/14/2003: Unknown militants open fired on the Hotel Gloria, a favorite among politicians visiting the city, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. No casualties were reported in the attack.
04/14/2004: A bomb that was placed in a cart on a main road in Kandahar, Afghanistan, exploded, injuring Provincial security Director General Salam and at least one of his bodyguards. Police suspected the Taliban in the attack.
04/14/2004: At a security checkpoint in Birmal, Afghanistan, five Taliban militants disguised as pro-government forces in full uniform, stopped a car and the people inside if they supported President Hamid Karzai. After the civilians said they did, the Taliban killed the seven civilians and injured one.
04/14/2004: In Kashmir, India, an Islamic militant threw a grenade off the top of a building into a crowd at a political rally in support of the Congress Party. The unidentified attackers were not apprehended, but police believed that it was in retaliation against the killing of a rebel commander of the pro-Pakistan Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group. The grenade exploded and killed one civilian, while injuring 22 others, including two police officers.
04/14/2004: Maoist rebels planted a landmine in the path of a police patrol in Patna, India, but the landmine was tripped by a bus transporting nine civilians instead. Three people were killed and six were injured in the attack.
04/14/2004: Unidentified militants threw a grenade from the top of a roadside bridge into a crowded market in Guwahati, India. The explosion injured four policemen and two civilians who were rushed to the hospital. There was no claim of responsibility for the act and police did not arrest anyone. The incident came just days before an election and during the Assamese New Year.
04/14/2005: A dissident group of the IRA has been believed to plant an explosive device outside of a civil center in Lisburn, in Antrim County, in Northern Ireland. Bomb experts discovered the bomb and defused it safely in time. The bomb was described as crude but viable, and potentially lethal. After an anonymous caller warned of the device, three hundred fifty people were evacuated from the civic center where they had gathered to watch a theater production; there were no reported injuries.
04/14/2005: A multi-car suicide bomber attack targeted US troops and the Iraqi Ministry of Interior within Baghdad's Green Zone killing 18 Iraqis and injuring 24 others. No group claimed responsibility for the bombing.
04/14/2005: A suicide car-bomb exploded outside a US military office building in Tikrit, Iraq injuring several Iraqis. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/14/2005: An unknown suicide bomber killed four policemen and wounded six civilians when the briefcase he was carrying his bomb in detonated at 7:00pm at a market in Mahawil, Iraq, which is just north of Hillah. No one claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/14/2005: One hundred masked Sunni militants drove into the town of Madain, Iraq, and attacked the Husseiniyat al-Rasul al-Adham mosque with explosives. The mosque was heavily damaged; allegedly during the attack, thirtyfive to one hundred people were taken hostage, yet conflicting reports are non-conclusive, and no other information was given.
04/14/2005: Relating to a previous attack which occurred in the vicinity of the Interior Ministry, a car bomb, left by unknown perpetrators, was found and defused in Baghdad, Iraq. The bomb was discovered after two suicide bombings took place that day, targeting a police convoy and US troops, and ultimately killing eighteen people, and wounding fifty.
04/14/2005: Six policemen were killed and three others injured when unknown assailants attacked a police station in Kirkuk, Iraq. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/14/2005: Suspected Basque militants set fire to a power substation in Lezo, Spain. The arson attack damaged the substation resulting in several homes being left without power for a short time after the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/14/2005: Unknown assailants left an explosive device, weighing two hundred kg and attached to seventy gun cartridges, in south Lebanon, in Marjeyoun village. The device was found by the Lebanese Army and defused.
04/14/2005: Unknown gunmen attack and kill a police intelligence officer in Baghdad, Iraq, First Lt. Firas Hussein, as he was leaving for work. No one claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/14/2005: Unknown perpetrators planted an explosive charge that exploded near a US military patrol in Baqubah, Iraq. The explosion killed two US soldiers and wounded two others. Four Iraqi civilians were injured in the blast as well. No group claimed responsibility for the bombing.
04/14/2006: A bombing next to Al-Aqsa mosque in the Al-Qatun neighborhood of Ba'qubah, Iraq, killed three people and wounded two. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/14/2006: A civilian died and three others were wounded in a bombing near the Sa'd Bin Mu'adh mosque in Ba'qubah, Iraq. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/14/2006: A civilian was wounded in a shooting by assailants on a motorcycle armed with assault rifles in the Rangae district of Thailand. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/14/2006: A drive by shooting killed a man walking along the street in Baiji, Iraq. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/14/2006: A hand grenade attack occurred at a security forces bunker at Magarmal Bagh in Srinagar, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but Lashkar-e Taiba's involvement was suspected.
04/14/2006: A hand grenade was tossed on a BSF vehicle on the Exchange Road in Srinagar, India, near the high security Central Telegraph Office (CTO) in the heart of the city around noon, injuring two jawans and three civilians.  No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but Lashkar-e Taiba's involvement was suspected.
04/14/2006: A home-made explosive device was found in and Cambo-les-Bains tourist office following a telephone call made by a man who is apparently a sympathizer with the separatist cause.
04/14/2006: A home-made explosive device was found in Biarritz-Parme Airport in Bayonne, France, between 2:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. following a telephone call made by a man who was apparently a sympathizer with the separatist cause.
04/14/2006: A home-made explosive device was found in dustbins near Bayonne, France, sub-prefecture [local administrative offices] following a telephone call made by a man who was apparently a sympathizer with the separatist cause.
04/14/2006: A man from the Sinhalese community was stabbed to death in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/14/2006: A mine planted by suspected Tamil Tiger rebels blew up a hired truck was carrying food rations and wounded two Sri Lankan soldiers and the driver and two bystanders in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka.
04/14/2006: Abdulloh Mayusoh, a fruit grower, was shot dead by gunmen while he was in his fruit orchard behind his house in tambon Paluru, Sungai Kolok (District), Thailand. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/14/2006: An Afghan national vendor was attacked in Apraksin Dvor, the biggest market in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation, by three unidentified people, resulting in the victim’s broken his arm and leg. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/14/2006: An attack was directed at a vehicle carrying tourists at Badyari Chowk in Srinagar, India, on the banks of the lake near Dal Gate at 1:15 p.m., but missed its target and instead hit a road near a bus stop killing three people and injuring eight.  No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but Lashkar-e Taiba's involvement is suspected.
04/14/2006: An attack with an explosive was made on a CRPF post at Hari Singh High Street in Srinagar, India, but fell short of the target, killing two civilians, a Nepalese woman and a Kashmiri man, and injuring at least thirteen.  No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but the involvement of Lashkar-e Taiba is suspected.
04/14/2006: An attacker armed with sharp objects entered Saints Church in Alexandria, Egypt, and killed one person and injured two. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/14/2006: An attacker armed with sharp objects entered the Virgin Mary Church in Muharam Beck neighborhood of Alexandria, Egypt, but escaped before injuring anyone, being pursued and caught during his trial to enter a church in Umar Lutfi Street, Bab Sharq (District).  No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/14/2006: An attacker deemed to be mentally unstable entered Mary Girgis Church in Al-Hadra area of Alexandria, Egypt, armed with sharp objects and injured three people with a knife.
04/14/2006: Lieutenant Colonel Ali Mohammed was shot by four unknown gunmen as he drove to work through central Basra, Iraq. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/14/2006: Militants hurled a grenade, the sixth of the day, at security forces in Sakkidafar Lal Chowk, Srinagar, India, injuring at least fifteen people, including six paramilitary and police personnel.  No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but the involvement of Lashkar-e Taiba is suspected.
04/14/2006: Militants lobbed agrenade at a parked police vehicle in Batamaloo, Srinigar, India, injuring the driver and a police officer.  No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but the involvement of Lashkar-e Taiba is suspected.
04/14/2006: Mortar rounds struck near a Shi'a mosque after prayers in the southern Baghdad, Iraq, neighborhood of Zafaraniya, but there were no casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/14/2006: Railways officials said suspected attackers planted an explosive device beneath the 150 ft bridge of the railway track on the Sibi-Harnai Section of Pakistan, which exploded, tearing apart a three feet portion of the track. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/14/2006: Sakariya Mala Heng was shot in the body and died instantly near Yala-Betong road in tambon Tanoh Putae, Bannang Sata (District), Thailand, as he was on his way back from mosque. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/14/2006: Several gunmen emerged from the bushes in Rangae (District), Thailand, and used 'war weapons' to ambush the house of Jonawi Sa-i's where a party was being thrown to celebrate his son's circumcision and fired on four people, killing Arong Ali, a local government official member of the Phadungmat tambon administrative organisation, who was shot in the chest and died later in hospital, and injuring the three others. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/14/2006: Suspected militants threw a grenade apparently at a passing police patrol, injuring two policemen and one civilian in the old city portion of Srinagar, India at nightfall.  No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/14/2006: Two armed rebels who had taken part in a rebellion led by radical Zaidi preacher Hussein Badr Eddin al-Huthi attacked a government appointed mosque preacher from Egypt in Haraf Sofian, Yemen, and prevented him from delivering his sermon in a mosque. The attack resulted in a gun fight with police outside the mosque that left one policeman dead and five wounded, and two militants killed and four wounded, and two arrested.
04/14/2006: Two brothers were gunned down in front of their elderly mother, who was wounded when assailants stormed into their home in Baghdad, Iraq. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/14/2006: Two explosive devices were thrown around midnight at a house in which lives a Serbian family in the Bosnjacka Mahala (District) of northern Kosovska Mitrovica, Serbia, causing a fire and lesser damage, but no injury to the seven family members inside. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/14/2006: Two low-intensity bombs kept in plastic bags detonated in quick succession near the water tank in the main courtyard of the Jama Masjid, India, when around either 1,000 people or far fewer depending on different sources had gathered for evening prayers. The first bomb exploded at 5:26 p.m. near the ablution pond, doing the most damage and causing panic when the second one went off seven minutes later about 15 ft. away, wounding 14 people in all. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but investigators suspect the involvement of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) bomb-maker Abdul Karim Tunda.
04/14/2006: Unknown armed men fired four rockets at the Pir Koh gas field in Dera Bugti, Pakistan, which landed near the Well No 10, but didn't cause any casualties or damage to the gas field. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/14/2007: A railway employee and a passenger were wounded when gunmen opened fire on a train that was running between Yala city and Sungai Kolok in Thailand.  No one claimed responsibility for the attack, but authorities suspected that Islamic insurgents were to blame.
04/14/2007: A suicide car bomber killed 37 people and wounded 168 in an attack near a holy Shi i Muslim shrine in Karbala, Iraq.  No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/14/2007: Eight policemen and one civilian were killed when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives at the gate of a border police unit just outside of Khost, Afghanistan.  In addition, five policemen were injured by the blast.  The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/14/2007: Seven policemen were shot and killed in their police station by gunmen in Elelenwo, Nigeria.  The suspected militants also freed prisoners and destroyed the building with explosives.  No one claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/14/2007: Ten people were killed and 15 were wounded when a suicide car bomber detonated his explosives on the Jadiriyah bridge in Baghdad, Iraq.  The bridge sustained very little damage, and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.    No claim of responsibility was reported.
04/14/2007: The 'Martyr Yasir Arafat Brigades', who are part of the Fatah-affiliated Al-Aqsa brigades, have claimed responsibility for launching four homemade projectiles at the area of Sderot and the western Negev in southern Israel. The brigades assured that they would continue their projectile launching in response to Israel's assassination operations against the Palestinian people's leaders;  there were no damages or casualties due to the attacks.
04/14/2007: Two brothers wearing belts packed with explosives blew themselves up within moments of each other outside the consulate and the American Language Center, a privately run school and cultural center on the same street, several blocks away. Police said the brothers apparently were unable to breach security barriers at the sites. Apart from the two dead perpetrators, the only casualty was a bystander who was reported slightly injured.  No claim of responsibility was reported.
04/14/2007: Two homemade bombs exploded 15 minutes apart in Poso, Indonesia; No one was hurt.  The first blast Saturday night was in an empty lot, followed by a second blast a little more than a mile away in front of a Christian residence.  No claim of responsibility was reported.
04/14/2008: On Monday afternoon at 1355, the military wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), The Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades  fired a homemade projectile at the Kerem Shalom border crossing, HaDarom, Israel. They said in a statement that the shelling came in retaliation for ongoing Israeli atrocities against the Palestinian people in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
04/14/2008: On Monday at about 01:00, a bomb planted inside a parked car belonging to the embassy of Saudi Arabia exploded near the Saudi Arabian embassy in the northern suburb of Halandri near central Athens, Greece province, Greece. Police believed that the bomb was activated using mechanical timer devices. The remains of two gas canisters were also found under the car. An unidentified man called a local telephone station and said a group called the "Forbidden blockade" claimed responsibility for the attack. No casualties were reported but the vehicle was destroyed form the bombing attack.
04/14/2008: On Monday evening in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, two remotely triggered bomb blasts went off within an hour of each other targeting National Oil Company gas stations. Three civilians were killed and 18 others injured in the attack. No groups have claimed responsibility.
04/14/2008: On Monday evening, at about 1930, in Maisthan, Birgunj, Parsa, Nepal, assailants detonated a bomb on a busy road, wounding five civilians. No damage or motive were reported.  No group claimed responsibility.
04/14/2008: On Monday morning, in Ashkelon, Israel, Palestinian militants fired an improvised rocket from Gaza. The rocket landed in a coastal area. A greenhouse was damaged and no casualties or were reported. No group claimed responsibility.
04/14/2008: On Monday night, nine bombs were hurled at a procession during the Hindu festival of Ramnavami at Pithoria block in Urguttu village of Jharkhand's Ranchi district, India. Though only three of the bombs exploded, sixteen people were injured in the blasts. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
04/14/2008: On Monday, in Ganeshthan, Nuwakot, Nepal, 25 assailants used stones and sickles to assault and wound Ram Sharan Mahat, the Nepalese Finance Minister, and eight Nepali Congress members. There was no damage reported and no group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)/United People's Front was responsible.
04/14/2008: On Monday, militants thought to be affiliated with Al Qaeda fired two unspecified rockets at the provincial military headquarters in Marib province. The rockets landed in an empty lot causing no casualties.
04/14/2009: On Tuesday in the early morning, in Gosain-Bersa village, Gaya, Bihar, India, assailants detonated explosives on a school being used as a polling center, damaging the school but causing no casualties.  No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
04/14/2009: On Tuesday morning at 0715, Gumersindo Lasam, the regional director of Department of Agriculture, was shot by two men on a motorcycle in Solana town, Cagayan province, Philippines. No groups claimed responsibility.
04/14/2009: On Tuesday morning, assailants blew up four homes belonging to Shiite families in the al Mualimeen neighborhood of western Ba'qubah injuring three civilians, including one child.  Al-Qaeda is the group suspected of responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2009: On Tuesday night at 0110, another National Transmission Corporations (TransCo) tower located in Barangay Pana-ton in Kolambugan town, Lanao del Norte on Mindanao island, Philippines was bombed by lawless elements, but the attack did not disrupt power supply to Lanao del Norte province. Dawis said four improvised explosive devices (IEDs) made of 81-millimeter mortar shells with a timing device were attacked to the power pylon posts. Fortunately, only one exploded and although it destroyed the pylon’s legs to which it was attached, the tower remains upright. The remaining three IEDs were safely detonated by bomb specialists. No group claimed responsibility.
04/14/2009: On Tuesday, assailants fired upon and killed two police officers during  their doctor’s appointment in a hospital in Saravena, Arauca, Colombia .  No group claimed responsibility. Authorities suspect The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia were responsible for the attack.
04/14/2009: On Tuesday, in Aurangabad, Bihar, India, assailants hijacked the vehicle of a Janata Dal-United (JD-U) political party candidate, along with the driver. They later set the driver free but set fire to the campaign vehicle, damaging the vehicle but causing no casualties. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
04/14/2009: On Tuesday, in Deuthai, Karbi Anglong, Assam, India, assailants threw a grenade at the residence of a Congress party leader, causing no casualties or damage. No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the Karbi Longri North Cachar Liberation Front (KLNLF) was responsible.
04/14/2009: On Tuesday, in Ukhrul, Manipur, India, one soldier was killed and six others wounded when they were ambushed by the United National Liberation Front (UNLF) militants on a road connecting the Leishang and Kongkan villages. The militants belonged to the UNLF's Manipur People's Army (MPA).
04/14/2009: On Tuesday, Taliban militants publically executed an eloping couple with AK-47's in Khash Rud, Nimruz, Afghanistan.  The Taliban claimed responsibility.
04/14/2010: On Wednesday evening at 2128, in the Cotabato City area of the Philippines' Maguindanao province, two unidentified militants on a motorcycle threw a grenade at a political gathering, killing one civilian and wounding 14 others. No damage was reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/14/2010: On Wednesday night around 2200, on a Sampark Kranti Express train travelling from Manikpur to New Delhi, in Mahoba of the Uttar Pradesh province of India, passengers discovered an improvised explosive device planted (IED) in the toilet of a S-2 sleeper-coach car. Bomb disposal personnel took the IED to an open location and defused the bomb through a controlled blast. According to police officials, the entire structure of the bomb suggested that it was planted to create panic. No casualties or damages resulted and no group claimed responsibility, but the Students' Islamic Movement of India was suspected.
04/14/2010: On Wednesday night, near Lalgarh, West Midnapore, West Bengal, India, around 30 suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-Maoist) abducted and killed Tapan Das (42), a Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-Marxist) branch-committee secretary from Domohini village. The CPI-Marxist leader was dragged from his in-laws’ house and shot in the head and killed at a village near Lalgarh. On 04/15/2010, around 0530 in the morning, the body of Das was discovered at Bagjhapa village. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/14/2010: On Wednesday, in Athens, Greece, a bomb made of gas containers exploded in front of the offices of a Socialist deputy causing only minor damage. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/14/2010: On Wednesday, in Bajaur, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan, 10 unidentified masked militants made a failed attempt to abduct a journalist, Muhammad Imran Khan, a correspondent for a private news agency in Khar, and his 14 year-old sister from their home, leaving them injured. No group claimed responsibility, but the Tehreek-e-Taliban are suspected.
04/14/2010: On Wednesday, in central Baghdad, Iraq, a bomb detonated inside a shop selling sports equipment at a commercial area near the al-Ahrar bridge on the eastern bank of the Tigris River. A civilian was killed, six others injured, and the store recieved extensive structural damage in the bomb explosion. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/14/2010: On Wednesday, in the Hawijah district, At Ta'mim, Iraq, a roadside bomb injured a local leader of a government-backed militia and three of his bodyguards. Police said another bomb hit a police patrol heading to the scene and injured two police officers. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/14/2010: On Wednesday, in Thessaloniki, Greece, a bomb was placed in front of a shipping firm, SAOS, but authorities neutralized it causing no damages. This attack was one of four related attacks that also targeted politicians in Salonika. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/14/2010: On Wednesday, in Thessaloniki, Greece, a bomb was placed in front of the offices of a conservative member of parliament, but was defused by authorities. This attack was one of four related attacks that targeted politicians and a shipping firm in Salonika. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/14/2010: On Wednesday, in Thessaloniki, Greece, a home-made explosive device made of gas containers exploded at the entrance of the political offices of Ecologists-Greens Europarliament deputy Michalis Tremopoulos causing material damage. This attack was one of four related attacks in a series of linked incidents that targeted politicians and a shipping firm in Salonika. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/14/2010: On Wednesday, in Thessaloniki, Greece, a small homemade explosive device made of gas containers exploded in front of the office of a far-right legislator, MP Kyriakos Vellopoulos, causing material damage. This attack was one of four related attacks in a series of linked incidents that targeted politicians and a shipping firm in Salonika. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/14/2010: On Wednesday, near As-Said in the Shabwah province of Yemen, a vehicle-borned improvised device killed a retired army officer and wounded his brother, a colonel. The bomb was placed under the driver's seat of his car. He was retired but his brother worked with security forces. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/14/2011: On Thursday afternoon at 1400, in Datu Puas Inda village, President Roxas, North Cotabato, Philippines, unidentified assailants kidnapped a former councilwoman, Lorie Lastimoso, and two soldiers, Corporal Sarucom and Private First Class Valenzuela. The victims were on their way to another village for a consultation with residents when their vehicle was flagged down by heavily armed militants. The captives were believed to have been brought to the border of President Roxas and Arakan towns. There were no casualties or damages reported and no group claimed responsibility, but the New People's Army (NPA) is suspected. The status of the hostages is unknown.
04/14/2011: On Thursday evening around 2130, in an unspecified city of County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, unidentified militants threw an incendiary device at Social Democratic Labor Party candidate, Patsy McGlone's jeep vehicle. An unknown amount of damage was caused although no casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/14/2011: On Thursday evening at 1930, in Baksan, Kabardino Balkariya, Russia, an unidentified Islamic militant opened fire on a police patrol, who then returned fire killing the militant. A search of the scene revealed an automatic rifle and RGD grenade. No other casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/14/2011: On Thursday evening at 2030, in Salpara area in East Garo Hills district, Meghalaya, India, suspected Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) rebels threw an improvised explosive device at a petrol pump. The explosion damaged the window pane of the petrol pump cash counter, but resulted in no casualties. No group claimed responsibility.
04/14/2011: On Thursday morning around 0730, in Musayi, Kabul, Afghanistan, a suicide bomber driving an explosive-packed truck detonated himself in front of the entry gate of the Musayi district administrative office building, injuring four people including three policemen and a civilian. The explosives were planted under firewood in the vehicle. The headquarters building and several cars parked around were badly damaged. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack by unknown means.
04/14/2011: On Thursday morning at 0900, near Sarpanchguda in Chintalnar Police Station limits in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, three Koya Commando personnel were killed, nine injured and two went missing while about 30 suspected Communist Part of India-Maoist (CPI-M) cadres were killed during an over four-hour-long encounter. As many as 300 Koya Commando personnel on regular patrol between Tirpur and Sarpanchguda were surrounded by three companies of armed rebels numbering 1,000. The deceased were identified as Mandawi Mukesh, Dasamu and Vicky while Kamlu Sukara, Karti Singh, Podiyam Unna, Naresh Kunjam, Kawasi Deva, Kadwa Unna, Madawi Singa, Warsa Ganga and Minkuram Nag were severely injured. The status of the missing is unknown and no group claimed responsibility.
04/14/2011: On Thursday morning, in Jabaliya, Gaza Strip, West Bank and Gaza Strip, an improvised explosive device prematurely detonated killing a resistance fighter for the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), Khader Abu Elbeh, while he was on a 'jihad mission' targeting Israelis. No other casualties were reported, and the blast caused an unknown amount of property damage. The DFLP claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement issued by the group.
04/14/2011: On Thursday morning, near the Pakistani Embassy building in Basundhara, Kathmandu, Bagmati, Nepal, an employee of the Pakistani Embassy in Kathmandu, identified as Mehboob Asim, was shot and wounded by unidentified gunmen on a motorcycle. Police identified the sharpshooter responsible for the attack as Indian national Mohammad Bakar Saiyed. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/14/2011: On Thursday night around 0100, in Rangamati, Chittagong, Bangladesh, a member of the Parbatto Chittagong Janasanghanghati Samity (PCJSS), Chijimon Chakma, was shot and killed along with his daughter, Arko Moni Chakma, during an attack by unidentified militants at a private residence. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/14/2011: On Thursday, in an unknown city, Gaza Strip, West Bank and Gaza Strip, Jihad Brigades in Palestine kidnapped an Italian activist Vittorio Arrigoni. Arrigoni was a member of the pro-Palestinian International Solidarity Movement. A previously unknown group calling itself "The Brigade of the Gallant Companion of the Prophet Mohammed bin Muslima" claimed responsibility in a video posted online, and demanded the release of Tawhid and Jihad leader Sheikh Hisham al-Saedini. The body of the Italian was found by security forces on 04/15/2011. In September 2012 four Salafist Jihadists were convicted of kidnapping and killing Arrigoni.
04/14/2011: On Thursday, in Jamal Goth, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, unidentified militants shot and killed an activist of Awami National Party (ANP), Hazratullah, while he was sitting outside his home. No group claimed responsibility for this incident.
04/14/2011: On Thursday, in Khobai area of Shabqadar tehsil, Charsadda district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, unidentified militants blew up Khobai Educational Academy, a private high school. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility for this incident.
04/14/2011: On Thursday, in Kirkuk, At Ta'mim, Iraq, unknown assailants detonated a roadside improvised explosive device targeting a civilian car. Two civilians were wounded in the blast. One worked for the National Security Center and the other is an employee at a cotton ginning plant. The blast caused an unknown amount of property damage to the car. No group claimed responsibility.
04/14/2011: On Thursday, in Orangi town, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, unidentified militants shot and killed three Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) activists. The victims were identified as Habib, Wages, and Zaheer. No group claimed responsibility.
04/14/2011: On Thursday, in Saindad Goth in the limits of Sohrab Goth Police Station, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, unidentified militants shot and killed an activist of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), Shahbaz Rafiq, while he was sitting at his tea stall. No group claimed responsibility for this incident.
04/14/2011: On Thursday, in the al-Shurja area of Kirkuk, At Ta'mim, Iraq, unknown assailants threw a hand grenade into the house of the Assistant Director of the Notary Public. The assistant director was not wounded, but his house sustained an unknown amount of property damage. No group claimed responsibility.
04/14/2011: On Thursday, in the al-Zaafaraniya neighborhood in Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq, unknown assailants detonated an improvised explosive device outside a barber shop. Three civilians were wounded and the shop was damaged in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/14/2011: On Thursday, in the Yousifiyah neighborhood of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq, unknown assailants detonated two roadside improvised explosive devices that killed two civilians and wounded 13 others. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage and no group claimed responsibility.
04/14/2011: On Thursday, near the Bibi Nani Shrine in the Sariab Road area in Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan, unidentified militants shot and killed a cleric, identified as Maulana Abdul Kabir Qadri Qambrani, a student of his seminary, Dur Khan. Two other civilians were also injured. No group claimed responsibility.
04/14/2012: A grenade detonated in southern Philippines. Three people were killed and 34 others injured in the explosion. No group claimed responsibility for this attack.
04/14/2012: A suicide bomber in an explosives-laden vehicle detonated near a police van in Zarifi Maina area, Kandahar province, Afghanistan. One police officer was injured in the attack. no group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2012: An explosive device attached to a government vehicle detonated in Sadr City, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. One civilian was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2012: An explosive device attached to a vegetable cart detonated at a market in Baiji district, Saladin governorate, Iraq. One person was killed and 14 others injured in the explosion. The cart, which belonged to an off-duty police officer, was also damaged. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2012: An explosive device detonated at the house of the president of the Samajee Behbood Rabita Council in Swabi district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. The president, Rohal Amin, was not injured, but the house was damaged in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2012: An explosive device detonated near a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) vehicle in Dosaraka area, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan. One NATO soldier was injured in the blast. This was one of three attacks on NATO targets in Afghanistan on this day, all of which the Taliban claimed.
04/14/2012: An explosive device detonated near a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) vehicle in Hassan Khel area, Maidan Wardak province, Afghanistan. Military authorities did not report any casualties. This was one of three attacks on NATO targets in Afghanistan on this day, all of which the Taliban claimed.
04/14/2012: An explosive device detonated near a police patrol in Mansour district, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. Two police officers were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2012: An explosive device detonated near a police vehicle in Ramadi city, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. Two police officers were killed and one other injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/14/2012: An explosive device detonated near a police vehicle in Shobar area, Zabul province, Afghanistan. One police officer was killed in the explosion. The Taliban claimed responsibility for this incident.
04/14/2012: An explosive device detonated near a security patrol in Khalidiya city, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. Two police officers were killed and one injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2012: An explosive device detonated near two North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) vehicles in Dooab area, Kandahar province, Afghanistan. There were no reported casualties, but both vehicles were damaged in the blast. This was one of three attacks on NATO targets in Afghanistan on this day, all of which the Taliban claimed.
04/14/2012: An explosive device detonated outside a Eurobank branch in Athens city, Attica region, Greece. There were no casualties reported, but the building was damaged in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2012: An explosive device detonated outside Narathiwat Airport, Narathiwat province, Thailand. The blast caused minor damage, though no casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for this attack.
04/14/2012: An explosive device detonated outside the home of an Excise and Taxation Department inspector in Peshawar city, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. The inspector was killed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/14/2012: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated near a police station in Morales town, Cauca department, Colombia. There were no casualties reported, but at least four houses were destroyed and at least 12 others damaged. This was one of two attacks on police targets in Morales on this day, for which no group claimed responsibility.
04/14/2012: Assailants abducted a senior intelligence officer and two soldiers in Rada district, Al Bayda governorate, Yemen. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, and the outcome of the kidnapping is unknown.
04/14/2012: Assailants attacked a police vehicle in Morales town, Cauca department, Colombia. One police office was killed and two others injured in the attack. This was one of two attacks on police targets in Morales on this day; this one targeted reinforcements being sent to the location of an earlier incident. No group claimed responsibility for these incidents.
04/14/2012: Assailants attacked a security checkpoint in Jawalah area, Adan governorate, Yemen. Twelve people, including eight assailants, were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to Al-Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
04/14/2012: Assailants opened fire on civilians on Sabzal road in Quetta city, Balochistan province, Pakistan. One person was killed and one injured in the attack. This was part of a string of attacks on members of the Hazara community, three of which occurred in Quetta on this day. Lashkar-e-Jhangvi claimed responsibility for most of the incidents.
04/14/2012: Assailants opened fire on security personnel escorting a Freeport Indonesia water tanker convoy at Mile 36 of Jalan Tanggul Timur area, Mimika district, Papua province, Indonesia. There were no reported casualties, but the vehicles were damaged. This was one of two coordinated attacks on this convoy on this day, neither of which were claimed by any group.
04/14/2012: Assailants opened fire on security personnel escorting a Freeport Indonesia water tanker convoy in Mimika district, Papua province, Indonesia. There were no reported casualties, but the vehicles were damaged. This was one of two coordinated attacks on this convoy on this day, neither of which were claimed by any group.
04/14/2012: Assailants opened fire on Shia Muslims in a car on Brewery Road in Quetta city, Balochistan province, Pakistan. Six people were killed in the attack. This was part of a string of attacks on members of the Hazara community, three of which occurred in Quetta on this day. Lashkar-e-Jhangvi claimed responsibility for most of the incidents.
04/14/2012: Assailants set fire to a district council leader's house in Chapa Dara district, Kunar province, Afghanistan. The leader, Haji Sakhi, was not wounded in the attack, but two children were injured and the house was damaged. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2012: Assailants shot and killed a police officer in Quetta city, Balochistan province, Pakistan. This was part of a string of attacks on members of the Hazara community, three of which occurred in Quetta on this day. Lashkar-e-Jhangvi claimed responsibility for most of the incidents.
04/14/2012: Assailants threw explosive devices at a home in Parakkadavu village, Kerala state, India. This was one of three attacks on homes in this area, across which two people were injured. No group claimed responsibility for these incidents.
04/14/2012: Assailants used mortars to attack a hospital in Baidoa city, Bay region, Somalia. This was one of three coordinated attacks in Baidoa on this day, across which an unknown number of people were killed or wounded. No group claimed responsibility for these incidents; however, sources attributed them to Al-Shabaab.
04/14/2012: Assailants used mortars to attack an airport in Baidoa city, Bay region, Somalia. This was one of three coordinated attacks in Baidoa on this day, across which an unknown number of people were killed or wounded. No group claimed responsibility for these incidents; however, sources attributed them to Al-Shabaab.
04/14/2012: Assailants used mortars to attack the presidential palace in Mogadishu city, Banaadir region, Somalia. There were an unknown number of casualties and injuries. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/14/2012: Assailants used mortars to attack the statehouse in Baidoa city, Bay region, Somalia. This was one of three coordinated attacks in Baidoa on this day, across which an unknown number of people were killed or wounded. No group claimed responsibility for these incidents; however, sources attributed them to Al-Shabaab.
04/14/2012: Explosive devices detonated at the Gamboru II Primary and Junior Secondary Schools in Maiduguri city, Borno state, Nigeria. The schools were destroyed, but no casualties were reported. This was one of two attacks on schools in Maiduguri on this day. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/14/2012: Explosive devices detonated at the Kulagumna Primary School in Maiduguri city, Borno state, Nigeria. The school was destroyed, but no casualties were reported. This was one of two attacks on schools in Maiduguri on this day. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/14/2012: Four assailants threw a grenade at a shop in Karachi city, Sindh province, Pakistan. One person was killed and two others injured. No group claimed responsibility for this attack.
04/14/2013: A booby-trapped body detonated in Shura town, Mosul city, Nineveh governorate, Iraq. Five police officers were killed and three were injured in the attack. No group has claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2013: A car bomb detonated in Furqan city, Aleppo governorate, Syria. At least two people were killed and three were injured in the blast, including television journalists and soldiers. No group has claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2013: A hand grenade thrown from a motorcycle near Price Bond market was defused in Karadar area, Karachi city, Sindh province, Pakistan. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/14/2013: A mortar shell fired from an unknown location landed on a garment factory in the Alamgudar area of Bara Tehsil, Khyber Agency, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. There were no injuries in attack; however, the factory was damaged by the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2013: A motorcycle bomb was discovered and defused near a Frontier Corps (FC) checkpost in Chaman district, Balochistan province, Pakistan. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2013: A pressure cooker bomb was discovered and defused at the construction site for the house of Muhammad Naeem Khan, an election candidate for the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), in Swabi district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/14/2013: A roadside bomb detonated near a military patrol in Zawa area, Shindand district, Herat province, Afghanistan. Two Italian soldiers were wounded in the attack. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2013: A roadside bomb detonated near a police patrol and checkpoint in Falluja city, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. Two police officers were killed and another three officers were injured. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2013: A roadside bomb detonated near the convoy of a Sunni candidate, Najam Saeed, in Muqadiyah town, Diyala governorate, Iraq. Saeed was killed in the attack, along with three other people, including his bodyguards and family members. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2013: A roadside bomb detonated prematurely in Mailsala village, North Cotabato province, Philippines. No injuries were reported, as the device detonated before an army truck passed by. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2013: A roadside bomb detonated targeting an Awami National Party (ANP) leader in Charsadda district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. The ANP leader, Syed Masoom Shah, was killed and two other people were injured in the explosion. This was one of two attacks targeting ANP politicians on the same day. The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the incidents, stating that they were going to continue targeting secular parties.
04/14/2013: A roadside bomb struck a police patrol in Musa Qala district, Helmand province, Afghanistan. Four officers were killed and three others were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2013: A roadside bomb targeting an Awami National Party (ANP) leader detonated near Manglawar village, Swat district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. Mukarram Shah, the ANP leader, was killed in the explosion. This was one of two attacks targeting ANP politicians on the same day. The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the incidents, stating that they were going to continue targeting secular parties.
04/14/2013: A rocket fired from an unknown location landed near the Election Commission office in Kalat district, Balochistan province, Pakistan. There were no reports of injuries or property damage in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2013: A suicide bomber was discovered on a bus near the Japan Friendship Tunnel in Suni Khel area, Kohat district, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. Officials arrested the suspect before he could detonate his explosives. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2013: A two-kilogram bomb in a shopping bag was discovered and defused outside the home of Rahmat Khaliq, a Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI) party member, in Gilgit city, Gilgit-Baltistan province, Pakistan. No other information was provided.
04/14/2013: An explosive device attached to a motorcycle detonated in Ali Khan area, Chak district, Wardak province, Afghanistan. Two civilians were killed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2013: An explosive device detonated in Lilong Heinou Makhong area, Thoubal district, Manipur state, India. A child, Mohammad Naseeruddin, was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities attributed the attack to the People's Liberation Army (India).
04/14/2013: An explosive device detonated prematurely as assailants attempted to plant it along a road in Naw Bahar district, Zabul province, Afghanistan. Six Assailants were killed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities attributed the failed attack to the Taliban.
04/14/2013: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated in the Financial Harbour district of Manama city, Capital governorate, Bahrain. There were no reported casualties or damages resulting from the blast. The February 14th Movement claimed responsibility for the incident, stating that they were in opposition to the Formula One race that was scheduled for the following week.
04/14/2013: Assailants abducted two police officers from Agusan del Sur province, Philippines. The officers were able to escape on April 18, 2013, shooting and killed two captors. The New People's Army (NPA) claimed responsibility for the kidnapping, stating that the officers were targeted because of their involvement in "anti-people activities."
04/14/2013: Assailants attacked an Afghan police checkpoint in Darzab district, Jawzjan province, Afghanistan. Two police officers killed in the attack and another six were abducted. The whereabouts of the missing officers remain unknown. A Taliban spokesperson claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2013: Assailants detonated an explosive near, and opened fire on, a group of Assam Rifles in Pheijaton village, Manipur state, India. One member of the Rifles was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities suspect the attack was perpetrated by the People's Liberation Army (India).
04/14/2013: Assailants planted an explosive device near a police station and a camp of the Assam Rifles in Lilong Heinoumakhong village, Thoubal district, Manipur state, India. Manipur police carried out a controlled explosion on the device and no one was injured in the incident. No group claimed responsibility for planting the device.
04/14/2013: Attackers threw a grenade at a Rangers checkpost in Qasba Mor area of Karachi city, Sindh province, Pakistan. No one was injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2013: Gunmen opened fire on a group of soldiers near the La Esmeralda Corregimiento cemetery in Arauquita municipality, Arauca department, Colombia. Three soldiers were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities attributed the attack to the National Liberation Army of Colombia (ELN).
04/14/2013: Gunmen opened fire on a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) container truck in the Teddy Bazaar area of Jamrud tehsil, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. The driver of the truck was killed and his assistant was wounded in the attack. An individual identifying himself as "Abu Hamza" claimed responsibility for the incident. Local officials, however, dismissed Hamza's claim as baseless and insisted that Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) was responsible for the attack.
04/14/2013: Gunmen shot and killed three family members in a house in Pajak village of Dihyak, Ghazni province, Afghanistan. One person was also injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the attack; however, the police suspected the Taliban targeted the family because they were previously members of an anti-Taliban rebellion.
04/14/2013: Gunmen shot and killed Yohanna Yakubu, the younger brother of the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), in his vehicle in Idon town, Kaduna state, Nigeria. One source speculates that the true target of the attack was Yakubu's older brother. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2013: Rockets landed in Al-Qasr town, Bekaa governorate, Lebanon. An unknown number of people were killed and injured. This was one of two rocket attacks in Bekaa governorate on April 14th. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2013: Rockets landed in Hawsh Sayyid Ali area of Hermel city, Bekaa governorate, Lebanon. An unknown number of people were killed and injured. This was one of two rocket attacks in Bekaa governorate on April 14th. No group has claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2013: Three mortars landed on the Pullman bus station in Jaramana neighborhood of Damascus city, Damascus governorate, Syria. Four people were killed and 20 others were wounded in the attack. No group has claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2013: Three soldiers and a civilian were kidnapped in Tagbina village, Surigao del Sur province, Philippines. The victims were released on Wednesday, April 17th, 2013. The New People's Army (NPA) claimed responsibility, stating that they released the victims after investigations showed that the soldiers had not committed "serious offenses against the people."
04/14/2013: Two motorcycle bombs were discovered and defused near a bus terminal in Bannu city, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2014: An assailant attempted to break into the residence of Godwin Sidi in Yenagoa area, Bayelsa state, Nigeria. Sidi, a former People's Democratic Party (PDP) Youth Wing leader, was unharmed; however, one assailant was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2014: An assailant attempted to detonate an explosives-laden truck in Tirin Kot city, Uruzgan province, Afghanistan. Security forces detained the assailant before the attack could be carried out. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2014: An explosive device attached to a police vehicle detonated in Kunduz province, Afghanistan. Two police officers were killed and one other was wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2014: An explosive device attached to the vehicle of a Sahwa Council member detonated in Abu Ghraib city, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. One Sahwa Council member was killed and another member was wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2014: An explosive device detonated among civilians in Mahmudiyah city, Babil governorate, Iraq. Three civilians were killed and six others were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2014: An explosive device detonated near a Congolese Army convoy in Ngadi neighborhood, Beni area, North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Four soldiers and their driver were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2014: An explosive device detonated near a social security center in Tarmiyah town, Saladin governorate, Iraq. Three people were killed and nine others were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2014: An explosive device detonated near an Afghan National Army (ANA) soldier at an unknown location in Afghanistan. The soldier was killed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2014: An explosive device planted on a motorcycle detonated near the vehicle of Wadaira Wali Dad in Daipal area, Dera Bugti district, Balochistan province, Pakistan. Dad, a tribal elder, was unharmed; however, the vehicle was damaged in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2014: An explosive device, targeting a civilian vehicle, detonated in Rafaiyat area, Saladin governorate, Iraq. Two civilians were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2014: An explosive device, targeting a police patrol, detonated in Biland Manzal neighborhood, Khost city, Khost province, Afghanistan. Two people were killed and nine others were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2014: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated at the Nyanya bus terminal in Abuja city, Abuja Capital Territory, Nigeria. At least 71 people were killed and 124 others were wounded in the blast. Abubakar Shekau, the leader of Boko Haram, claimed responsibility for the blast, stating that the attack was in retaliation for Nigeria's cooperation with the United States in killing Muslims.
04/14/2014: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated in Homs governorate, Syria. Between this and an unrelated attack in Damascus city, 12 people were killed. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2014: Assailants abducted a United States (US) embassy employee in Tripoli city, Tripoli district, Libya. The employee, who was wounded in the attack, escaped the following day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2014: Assailants abducted three employees of a non-governmental organization funded by Saudi Arabia near Kulachi town in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. The outcome of the abduction is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2014: Assailants attacked a crew repairing an oil pipeline in Teorama municipality, Norte de Santander department, Colombia. There were no reported casualties; however, a truck and a trailer were set on fire in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2014: Assailants attacked a Somali National Army (SNA) base in Yaqshid district, Mogadishu city, Banaadir region, Somalia. There were an unknown number of casualties in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Al-Shabaab.
04/14/2014: Assailants attacked African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) personnel in Fafahdun town, Gedo region, Somalia. At least ten assailants were killed in the ensuing clash. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Al-Shabaab.
04/14/2014: Assailants attacked an Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) base in Goof Gaduud area, Bay region, Somalia. There were an unknown number of casualties in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Al-Shabaab.
04/14/2014: Assailants attacked an oil refinery in Bentiu city, Unity state, South Sudan. At least three workers were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2014: Assailants attacked an unknown number of joint Somali National Army (SNA) and African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) bases in Qoryoley city, Lower Shebelle region, Somalia. At least two assailants were killed in the ensuing clash. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Al-Shabaab.
04/14/2014: Assailants attacked Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) campaigners in Thanjavur district, Tamil Nadu state, India. Muruganandam, a BJP candidate, was wounded along with 30 campaigners in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2014: Assailants attacked civilians in Grimari city, Ouaka prefecture, Central African Republic. At least 20 people were killed in the attack, which lasted for three days. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Seleka.
04/14/2014: Assailants attacked Mohammad Habbas in Andar district, Ghazni province, Afghanistan. Three people, including Habbas, an anti-Taliban local leader, and two of his bodyguards were killed and three other people were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Taliban.
04/14/2014: Assailants attacked the residence of an Aman Lashkars commander in Toghi Bugti village, Balochistan province, Pakistan. Nine people were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2014: Assailants launched a grenade at the residence of Suthep Thaugsuban in Phutthamonthon Sai 2 area, Bangkok city, Bangkok province, Thailand. Thaugsuban, the People's Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC) leader, was unharmed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2014: Assailants launched at least two rockets at Labweh village, Beqaa governorate, Lebanon. There were no reported casualties; however, a telephone booth was damaged in the blast. Liwa Ahrar al-Sunna claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that the attack was carried out in retaliation to Hezbollah's military involvement in Syria.
04/14/2014: Assailants launched mortar shells at Fallujah city, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. Two civilians were killed and six others were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2014: Assailants launched mortar shells at Hamra neighborhood, Homs governorate, Syria. This was one of two mortar attacks in Homs governorate on April 14, 2014. Nine people were killed across attacks. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2014: Assailants launched mortar shells at Karm al Shami neighborhood, Homs governorate, Syria. This was one of two mortar attacks in Homs governorate on April 14, 2014. Nine people were killed across both attacks. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2014: Assailants launched mortars and opened fire on a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) supply truck in Hawaldari Chowk area, Jamrud town, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. The driver was wounded in the attack. This was one of three similar attacks on NATO vehicles on April 14, 2014. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2014: Assailants launched mortars and set a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) vehicle on fire in Ali Masjid area, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. The driver was killed in the attack. This was one of three similar attacks on NATO vehicles on April 14, 2014. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2014: Assailants launched mortars at Damascus city, Damascus governorate, Syria. Between this and an unrelated attack in Homs governorate, 12 people were killed. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2014: Assailants launched rockets near Jableh area, Lattakia governorate, Syria. There were no reported casualties; however, property was damaged in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2014: Assailants launched two mortar shells at a military patrol in Kissufim area, Southern district, Israel. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2014: Assailants opened fire and detonated an explosive device at a Border Security Force (BSF) camp in Bhejangiwada area, Odisha state, India. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
04/14/2014: Assailants opened fire on a Citizens Armed Forces Geographical Unit (CAFGU) in San Pascual municipality, Northern Samar province, Philippines. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the New People's Army (NPA).
04/14/2014: Assailants opened fire on a Kurdish Asayish member and a civilian south of Kirkuk city in Kirkuk, Iraq. The Kurdish Asayish member and the civilian were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2014: Assailants opened fire on a military checkpoint in Fallujah city, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. Two soldiers were killed and five others were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2014: Assailants opened fire on a police building in Horlivka city, Donetsk oblast, Ukraine. At least three people were wounded in the attack. The Donetsk People's Republic claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2014: Assailants opened fire on a police checkpoint in Hajjaj area, Saladin governorate, Iraq. One police officer was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2014: Assailants opened fire on a police checkpoint in Sheikh Zuweid town, North Sinai governorate, Egypt. One police officer was wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2014: Assailants opened fire on a Sahwa Council checkpoint in Qayyarah area, Nineveh governorate, Iraq. One Sahwa Council member was killed and one other was wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2014: Assailants opened fire on Al-Manar TV Station journalists in Maaloula town, Rif Dimashq governorate, Syria. Three staff members were killed and two others were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Muslim fundamentalists.
04/14/2014: Assailants opened fire on an Israeli vehicle traveling to a Passover celebration near Hebron city, West Bank, West Bank and Gaza Strip. Deputy Major General Baruch Mizrahi, a police intelligence officer, was killed and two other people were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2014: Assailants opened fire on border guards near the Yemeni border in eastern Jazan province, Saudi Arabia. One border guard was killed and one other was wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2014: Assailants opened fire on civilians in Wasasa village, Bauchi state, Nigeria. One person was killed and at least one other was wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected that Boko Haram was involved in the attack.
04/14/2014: Assailants opened fire on Farooq Hussaini in Herat city, Herat province, Afghanistan. Hussaini, a prominent religious scholar, was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2014: Assailants opened fire on Shahzada Khogyani in Afghan Mina area, Jalalabad city, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan. Khogyani, the Deputy Chancellor of Aryana University, was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2014: Assailants opened fire on soldiers escorting Paul Sadala, a leader of the Mai Mai Simba militia, in Molokai village, Orientale province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. At least five people, including two soldiers, two assailants, and Sadala were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Mai Mai Simba militia.
04/14/2014: Assailants opened fire on soldiers in Teresa village, Compostela Valley province, Philippines. Four soldiers were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the New People's Army (NPA).
04/14/2014: Assailants opened fire on two North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) containers in Sur Kamar area, Jamrud tehsil, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. One person was killed and one other person was wounded in the attack. This was one of three similar attacks on NATO vehicles on April 14, 2014. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2014: Assailants seized a town hall in Khartsyzk city, Donetsk oblast, Ukraine. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Donetsk People's Republic.
04/14/2014: Assailants seized a town hall in Kirovske city, Donetsk oblast, Ukraine. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Donetsk People's Republic.
04/14/2014: Assailants seized a town hall in Zhdanivka city, Donetsk oblast, Ukraine. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Donetsk People's Republic.
04/14/2014: Assailants stormed a government-run secondary school for girls in Chibok, Borno, Nigeria. The assailants killed a soldier and a police officer, then kidnapped 276 students. As of January 4, 2018, at least 164 hostages and five children born in captivity have escaped or have been released and six other victims were killed. The fate of the remaining 106 captives is unknown; however, sources speculate that they are being held in Niger, Chad, and Cameroon. Boko Haram claimed responsibility for the incident, stating that they were planning to sell the captives.
04/14/2014: Assailants threw a hand grenade at the residence of Shakil Durrani in Khuzdar town, Balochistan province, Pakistan. Durrani, a local Pakistan Muslim League: Nawaz (PML-N) leader, was unharmed; however, a woman was wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2014: Assailants threw incendiary devices at a police vehicle in Hamad town, Northern governorate, Bahrain. There were no reported casualties; however, the vehicle was damaged in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2015: A civilian discovered an explosive device near Strabane town, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. The device was safely defused by security forces. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2015: A police vehicle struck an explosive device in Adraskan district, Herat province, Afghanistan. One police officer was killed and five others were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2015: A suicide bomber attempted to target security forces with an explosives-laden vehicle in Nadhaim At Taqsim area, Fallujah district, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. Security forces killed the bomber before the explosives could detonate. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/14/2015: An Afghan National Army (ANA) truck struck an explosive device in Chopli village, Jawzjan province, Afghanistan. Two soldiers were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2015: An explosive detonated near a mosque in Shirin Tagab district, Faryab province, Afghanistan. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Taliban.
04/14/2015: An explosive device and explosives-laden vehicle detonated at a taxi stand in Madain area, Diyala governorate, Iraq. Four people were killed and 12 others were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2015: An explosive device detonated against a civilian on a motorcycle in Bukhtiarabad area, Balochistan province, Pakistan. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2015: An explosive device detonated at a market in Saba al-Bor area, Saladin governorate, Iraq. Three people were killed and eight others were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2015: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated in a car park in Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. At least five people were killed and 17 others were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2015: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated in a car park in Wihdah area, Diyala governorate, Iraq. This was one of two simultaneous car bombings in the same area. At least six people were killed and 13 others were injured in the blasts. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/14/2015: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated in a commercial area in Mahmudiyah district, Babil governorate, Iraq. At least four people were killed and 15 others were injured in the blast. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2015: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated in Waziriya area, Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. At least one person was killed and nine others were injured in the blast. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2015: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated near shops in Mashtal area, Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. At least five people were killed and 20 others were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2015: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated outside of the Libya TV and military intelligence offices in Tubruq, Butnan district, Libya. One person was wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2015: An explosives-rigged house detonated as police forces were attempting to defuse it in Al Qadisiyah neighborhood, Tikrit city, Saladin governorate, Iraq. Four police officers were killed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2015: Approximately 60 explosive devices were discovered and defused in Sitpania area, Bihar state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, a source attributed the attempted attacks to Maoists.
04/14/2015: Assailants attacked a military detachment in Banglag village, Compostela Valley province, Philippines. A Citizens Armed Forces Geographical Unit (CAFGU) member and one other person were killed in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the New People's Army (NPA).
04/14/2015: Assailants attacked a mining compound in Banglag village, Compostela Valley province, Philippines. A security guard was killed in the assault. The New People's Army (NPA) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2015: Assailants attacked a police post in Khwaja Ghar district, Takhar province, Afghanistan. Two police officers were killed and one was wounded in the attack. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2015: Assailants attacked At-Tamim neighborhood in Ramadi city, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/14/2015: Assailants attacked the oil refinery near Baiji city, Saladin governorate, Iraq. A federal police commander and nine other guards were killed during the raid. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2015: Assailants detonated explosive devices at a school in Shirin Tagab district, Faryab province, Afghanistan. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Taliban.
04/14/2015: Assailants established a roadblock on the Davao-Butuan highway in Bankerohan Sur village, Compostela Valley province, Philippines. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the New People's Army (NPA).
04/14/2015: Assailants fired missiles at Kadugli city, South Kordofan state, Sudan. Two civilians were killed and two others were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Sudan People's Liberation Movement - North.
04/14/2015: Assailants fired mortars at Toumat neighborhood, Dalang town, South Kordofan state, Sudan. Two civilians were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Sudan People's Liberation Movement - North.
04/14/2015: Assailants kidnapped 14 soldiers in Ataq city, Shabwah governorate, Yemen. The soldiers were killed later the same day. Both Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and the Shabwah Province of the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the incident; AQAP later retracted its claim.
04/14/2015: Assailants opened fire on a military camp in Cervantes town, Ilocos Sur province, Philippines. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, police officials suspected the involvement of the New People's Army (NPA).
04/14/2015: Assailants opened fire on a police officer in Babini area, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. The targeted police officer was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2015: Assailants opened fire on a police station in Arish city, North Sinai governorate, Egypt. Police Chief Jaber Al Saeed was wounded in the attack. The Sinai Province of the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2015: Assailants opened fire on Abel Manuel Bautista Raymundo in Juxtlahuaca district, Oaxaca state, Mexico. Raymundo, the director of Radio Espacio, was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2015: Assailants opened fire on Syrian nationals in Arsal town, Beqaa governorate, Lebanon. One person was killed and another was wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2015: Officers defused an explosive device placed outside the house of a senior advocate of the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC), Abdul Latif Afridi, in Hayatabad city, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2015: Security forces defused an explosive device after it fell off a suspected assailant's motorcycle in Guiwan neighborhood, Zamboanga City, Zamboanga del Sur province, Philippines. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2015: Security forces discovered and defused an explosive device in Chormara area, Bihar state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2015: Security forces discovered and defused an unknown number of explosive devices in Albu Khalifah area, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2015: Security forces discovered and defused an unknown number of explosive devices in Albu Khanfar area, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2015: Security forces discovered and defused an unknown number of explosive devices in Albu Sawdah area, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2015: Two suicide bombers detonated an explosives-laden vehicle and an explosives-laden bicycle at the Ministry of Education, Culture and Higher Education in Mogadishu city, Banaadir region, Somalia. Five other assailants then stormed the building, leading to a clash with security forces. In addition to seven assailants, at least 17 people were killed and 15 others were wounded. Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2016: A sniper opened fire on a civilian exiting the Hamza bin 'Abd al-Mutallab mosque in Derna city, Libya. The civilian was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Barqa Province of the Islamic State.
04/14/2016: An assailant attempted to attack Israeli soldiers with an ax in Al-Aroub, West Bank. The assailant was killed when the soldiers responded to the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Hamas (Islamic Resistance Movement).
04/14/2016: An assailant opened fire on police officers during a document check in Sograti, Dagestan, Russia. The assailant was killed in the ensuing clash. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Gunib Group.
04/14/2016: An explosive device attached to a vehicle detonated in Mahdiyah, Baghdad, Iraq. The owner of the vehicle, an Oil Ministry employee, was killed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2016: An explosive device detonated in Lamitan, Basilan, Philippines. Gean Gallardo, the Lamitan police chief, was injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG).
04/14/2016: An explosive device detonated in Mahmudiyah, Babil, Iraq. At least two people were killed and seven people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2016: An explosive device detonated in Suwaib, Baghdad, Iraq. At least one person was killed and four people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2016: An explosive device detonated in Tobji, Baghdad, Iraq. At least one person was killed and seven people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2016: An explosive device detonated near a cement factory in Hawari district, Benghazi, Libya. One soldier was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2016: An explosive device detonated targeting a Peshmerga patrol in Al-Multaqa, Kirkuk, Iraq. At least one Peshmerga member was injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2016: An explosive device detonated targeting police personnel in an area between Matwada and Jangla villages, Chhattisgarh, India. A police officer was killed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
04/14/2016: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated in Novooleksiyivka, Kherson, Ukraine. One person was killed and four individuals were wounded. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2016: Assailants abducted several people from their farms in Wadi Jarif, Sirte, Libya. The outcome of the abduction is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Tripoli Province of the Islamic State.
04/14/2016: Assailants attacked a construction site and set fire to a number of vehicles in Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh, India. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
04/14/2016: Assailants attacked a Palestinian civilian in Shuafat, Jerusalem, West Bank. The civilian, identified as Zoheir Abu Khdeir, was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources identified the assailants as Israeli extremists.
04/14/2016: Assailants attacked a refugee camp in Azaz district, Aleppo, Syria. This was one of three incidents targeting refugee camps in Azaz on the same day. At least two people were killed, many others were injured, and an unknown number of people were abducted across all three attacks. The outcome of the kidnapping is unknown. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incidents to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/14/2016: Assailants attacked an unknown number of security posts in Dahana-i-Ghuri, Baghlan, Afghanistan. There were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Taliban.
04/14/2016: Assailants attacked Heinrich Apostol in Dicamay, Isabela, Philippines. Apostol, a candidate for village councilor, was killed and another person was wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2016: Assailants attacked police checkpoints in Bala Buluk, Farah, Afghanistan. Two police officers and five assailants were killed and three police officers were injured in the ensuing clash. No group claimed responsibility for the attack; however, sources attributed the incident to the Taliban.
04/14/2016: Assailants attacked the residence of Abdifatah Nur Matan in Beled Hawo, Gedo, Somalia. Matan, a Member of Parliament, was unharmed; however, four people were injured in the incident. Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/14/2016: Assailants attacked two Afghan police officers in Shindand, Herat, Afghanistan. One officer was killed and another was kidnapped in the attack. The outcome of the abduction is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2016: Assailants fired a rocket at Peshmerga forces in Maktab Khalid, Kirkuk, Iraq. At least one Peshmerga member was injured in the attack. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2016: Assailants fired projectiles at a Syrian Armed Forces (SAF) airplane as it took off in Khalkhalah, As Suwayda, Syria. There were no reported casualties in the attack. The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2016: Assailants launched rockets at a police department in Cinar, Diyarbakir, Turkey. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
04/14/2016: Assailants opened fire on a police vehicle in Khurmabi, Takhar, Afghanistan. At least eight people, including a police commander were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Taliban.
04/14/2016: Assailants opened fire on a traffic police post in Buynaksky, Dagestan, Russia. Two traffic police officers were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2016: Assailants opened fire on an Afghan Police convoy in Farah Rud, Bala Buluk district, Farah, Afghanistan. At least 23 people, including two officers and 21 assailants, were killed and two other officers were injured in the ensuing clash. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to the Taliban.
04/14/2016: Assailants opened fire on Gerald Fermin in San Pascual, Nueva Ecija, Philippines. Fermin, a village chairperson and a town council candidate, was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2016: Assailants raided several homes in the center of Sirte, Libya. At least five sheikhs were abducted. The outcome of the abduction is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attacks to the Tripoli Province of the Islamic State.
04/14/2016: Assailants set fire to Cairnshill Methodist Church in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2016: Assailants set fire to the Geelong West Presbyterian Church in Geelong, Victoria, Australia. There were no reported casualties, but the church was damaged in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suggested that the attack may have been related to allegations of past sexual abuse by local priests.
04/14/2016: Assailants shot and killed Nanaji Nagose, a bodyguard for Deepak Atram, a former Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA), in Chhallewada, Maharashtra, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist).
04/14/2016: Security forces identified and arrested a suicide bomber in Nasiriyah, Dhi Qar, Iraq. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2017: An explosive device detonated against a minibus in Nawa-i-Barakzayi, Helmand, Afghanistan. At least 11 people were killed in the blast. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2017: An explosive device detonated at a market in Taji, Saladin, Iraq. At least three people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2017: An explosive device detonated in Lashkar Gah, Helmand, Afghanistan. One person was injured in the blast. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2017: An explosive device detonated near a market in Malef area, Baghdad, Iraq. At least one person was killed and five people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2017: An explosive device detonated targeting a Ugandan African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) vehicle in Afgoye district, Lower Shebelle, Somalia. There were no reported casualties in the blast, and two additional explosive devices were discovered defused at the scene. Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2017: An explosive device detonated targeting security forces in Catak district, Van, Turkey. Two people, including a soldier and a village guard, were killed and an unknown number of people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however sources attributed the attack to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
04/14/2017: Assailants abducted a civilian in Yei, Yei River state, South Sudan. The hostage was injured and released after being held for 30 days. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/14/2017: Assailants attacked a gendarmerie post in Tene, Segou, Mali. There were no reported casualties, but the post was set on fire in the attack. Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2017: Assailants opened fire on a military patrol in Cuchilla, Cauca, Colombia. At least one soldier was killed and two soldiers were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the National Liberation Army of Colombia (ELN).
04/14/2017: Assailants opened fire on Maulana Mohammad Hamid in Yakatoot neighborhood, Peshawar, Pakistan. Hamid, a pro-Taliban Afghan cleric, was killed in the assault. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to the Khorasan Chapter of the Islamic State.
04/14/2017: Assailants raided a military barracks in Raja, Lol, South Sudan. This was one of two coordinated attacks in Raja on this date. At least 44 assailants and four soldiers were killed in this assault. In addition, at least 10 civilians were killed and 28 people, including soldiers and civilians, were injured across both attacks. The Sudan People's Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO) claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/14/2017: Assailants raided the governor's residence in Raja, Lol, South Sudan. This was one of two coordinated attacks in Raja on this date. At least 15 assailants and one solder were killed in this assault. In addition, at least 10 civilians were killed and 28 people, including soldiers and civilians, were injured across both attacks. The Sudan People's Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO) claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/14/2017: Assailants set fire to the Assemblee Chretienne church in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2017: Assailants shot and killed a soldier in Mogadishu, Banaadir, Somalia. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2017: Assailants shot and killed Gibert Baaco, a provincial disaster official, in Barong Barong, Palawan, Philippines. The New People's Army (NPA) claimed responsibility for the incident; however, officials questioned the veracity of this claim.
04/14/2017: Assailants threw a hand grenade at a house in Ribat neighborhood, Basra, Iraq. There were no reported casualties in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2017: Assailants threw an incendiary device at a building housing Syrian refugees in Artern, Thuringia, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2017: Assailants threw two petrol bombs at a complex housing refugees in Kremmen, Brandenburg, Germany. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/14/2017: Security forces discovered and defused an explosives-rigged house in Hawrah area, Baghdad, Iraq. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/1998: Gunmen belonging to a subclan loyal to Ali Mahdi Mohammed, who controlled the northern section of Mogadishu, kidnapped ten International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies workers after their airplane landed in north Mogadishu, Somalia. One hostage, Ibrahim Ahmad, was a naturalized American of Somali origin. The other hostages hailed from Western Europe and sub-Saharan Africa. United Nations officials suspected that the abductions were part of an intra-clan power struggle. Somali leaders and the Red Cross negotiated for release of the hostages, and the group was freed unharmed after nine days of captivity on April 24, 1999. No ransom was paid in this incident.
04/15/1999: Eighteen gas canisters exploded outside the General Motors car dealership in Maroussi, Greece, near Athens, setting three cars on fire. The unknown perpetrators spray-painted anti-NATO messages on the walls surrounding the bombs.
04/15/1999: Fourteen people died and thirty were injured after an explosive device detonated in Laguan Village, Philippines, while the residents were celebrating a fiesta. The perpetrators of this incident were unknown.
04/15/1999: In one of four related attacks, a bank in Arauca, Columbia, on the Venezuelan border, was attacked with explosive devices that destroyed the automatic teller machines. No casualties resulted from this incident and the perpetrators were unknown.
04/15/1999: Two Catholic families in Randalstown, County Antrim, Northern Ireland had crude pipe bombs pushed through their letter boxes by unknown perpetrators. The bombs were safely exploded by bomb squads.
04/15/2000: A bomb attack badly damaged a former police station in Lecumberry, France. The device was a gas cylinder bomb weighing about 13kg. The Basque group Iparretarrak (IK) claimed responsibility through a statement sent to the Agence France Presse.
04/15/2000: A bomb exploded at a public market in Cagayan de Oro, Philippines. Another bomb exploded at the Oro Rama Department Store. A total of two people were wounded in the related attacks. The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) was blamed.
04/15/2000: A bomb exploded at the Oro Rama Department Store in Cagayan de Oro, Philippines. Another bomb exploded at a public market. A total of two people were wounded in the related attacks. The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) was blamed.
04/15/2000: Homemade bombs were defused after being planted on the road between Benchoud and Ouled Keddache, Algeria. The perpetrators were unknown.
04/15/2000: Radio Kashmir Srinagar (RKS) was the target of a bomb attack in Srinagar, India. The bomb did minor damage to the boundary wall, but the transmitter and buildings were undamaged. The perpetrators were unknown.
04/15/2000: The discotheque “Amnesia” in Bonifacio, France, was the target of a bomb attack. The attack caused major damage to the building, but no one was injured. No one claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/15/2001: National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) rebels killed seven people and kidnapped 50 others in a village raid in Benguela, Angola. UNITA forces also looted houses and stores, burned homes, and destroyed a vehicle in the incident. According to Benguela Governor Dumilde Rangel, Civil Defense and the National Police captured two of the perpetrators, one of which was a cadet officer. A UNITA representative claimed responsibility for the incident through a statement e-mailed to The Associated Press in Lisbon, Portugal.
04/15/2002: An explosion occurred on the Thai-Burmese Friendship Bridge connecting the towns of Mae Sot and Myawadi. The bomb was attached to a three-whelled bicycle which was used to transport people and produce over the bridge. Seven civilians were killed and approximately 27 injured. Authorities blamed the Karen National Union (KNU), though the KNU denied responsibility for the explosion.
04/15/2002: An unknown number of unknown rebels attacked the police station in Barpak Village. Four guerillas, nine policemen and a civillian were killed before the rebels destroyed the building and stole firearms. There were no arrests.
04/15/2003: A Palestinian gunman opened fire and threw fragmentation grenades at a group of Israeli workers at the Qarni crossing in the Gaza Strip. Two Israelis were killed and three were wounded in the incident; the Palestinian gunman was also killed in the incident. HAMAS reported that one of its militants, Mohamed Younis, carried out the attack.
04/15/2003: Five Indian policemen were killed when suspected Maoist Communist Center rebels detonated a mine near the policemen in Govindpur, Nawada district, India.
04/15/2003: Ten people were killed when suspected Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels raided the Oroko displaced people’s camp in Aswa, Gulu district, Uganda. The perpetrators also torched approximately 200 grass-thatched houses in the incident.
04/15/2004: A police convoy was ambushed by Taliban militants, using AK-47's and machine guns. Police Chief Yar Mohammed was being escorted to his hometown by at least nine other soldiers at the time of the attack. All of the soldiers and the police chief were killed, along with one Taliban militant.
04/15/2004: About 20 rebels from the Lord's Resistance Army attacked a bus that was part of a civilian convoy at the Pakirinya-Ayugi Bridge along the Gulu-Adjumani Road, 410 kilometers north of Kampala in northern Uganda, killing thirteen and injuring eight. The rebels fired a rocket propelled grenade, which hit a pick-up truck that then caught fire and rammed into the bus directly ahead of it.
04/15/2004: Iranian First Secretary and Press Attaché Khalil Nai'imi was assassinated outside the Iranian Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq. Unidentified attackers shot at the Secretary's car, spraying it with bullets, then shooting the Secretary twice in the head at close range and fleeing the scene. No group claimed responsibility for this attack.
04/15/2005: A military wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Martyr Abu-Ali Mustafa Brigades, has claimed responsibility for attacks on the Israeli settlement of Nisanit. The group fired several Mustafa rockets, yet no injuries or casualties resulted. This attack, relating to several other previous attacks, is in retaliation for Israeli soldiers killing three Palestinian youths, as well as their violation of a ceasefire.
04/15/2005: Almost identical to the previous attack, a military wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the Martyr Abu-Ali Mustafa Brigades, has claimed responsibility for attacks on the Israeli settlement of Yasmit. The group fired several Mustafa rockets, yet no injuries or casualties resulted. This attack, related to several other previous attacks, is in retaliation for Israeli soldiers killing three Palestinian youths, as well as their violation of a ceasefire.
04/15/2005: Maoists attacked the village of Baragadawa, Nepal killing 10 people and injuring several others. The perpetrators accused the villagers of assisting anti-Maoist vigilantes.  The perpetrators destroyed 15 houses in the attack as well.
04/15/2005: Members of Abu-Mus'ab al-Zarqawi’s Al-Qaida in Iraq organization coordinated a suicide car bombing near the Russian embassy in Baghdad, Iraq. The explosion blew out the embassy building’s windows and wounded five people.
04/15/2005: Members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) attacked the city of Toribo, Colombia killing four people and injuring 17 others. The perpetrators destroyed 20 houses during the attack as well.
04/15/2005: Suspected Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) members fired at the Mahindapura Army camp in Mahindapura, Sri Lanka.  No one was injured.  According to a military spokesman, this was a clear violation of the cease-fire agreement.
04/15/2005: Suspected Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) members shot and killed T. Thavarajah, a Sri Lankan divisional secretary, near Tirrukkovil, Sri Lanka. No group claimed responsibility for the assassination.
04/15/2005: Suspected members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) kidnapped six medical workers in Uribe, Colombia. The medical workers were released after having been held captive for several hours.
04/15/2005: Unidentified gunmen assassinated Shamal Ahmad, who is a correspondent of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani’s Patriotic Union of Kurdistan’s TV station in Kirkuk, Iraq.
04/15/2005: Unknown gunmen assassinated the chieftain of the Al-Salman Village in al-Ramadi, Iraq; the man was identified as Khalad Hamid.
04/15/2005: Unknown gunmen assassinated the imam and speaker of Al-Rawiyin Mosque in Al-Qa’im, in western Iraq. The imam was identified as Shaykh Habib Isma’il al-Rawi.
04/15/2005: Unknown perpetrators dropped two bombs on top of the district prosecutor’s office in Makhachkala, Russia. The bombs, each twenty-five kg of TNT, were dropped on the office building in the Makhachkala’s Lenin district, from a nearby building. Five people were injured due to the blasts, and the building was completely destroyed as a result.
04/15/2006: A car bomb attack against a passing police patrol killed 4 civilians and wounded 28 others at al-Malaz restaurant on Palestine street in Baghdad, Iraq. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/15/2006: A gang of around ten men attacked two Mongolian nationals, one a student of the State University of Design and Technology, and the other a student of the State University of Low Temperature Food Processing, at the Moskovskiye Vorota station, St. Petersburgh, Russian Federation, requiring both victims to get hospital treatment. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/15/2006: A member of President Jalal Talabani's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) party was kidnapped in Kirkuk, Iraq. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/15/2006: A small bomb exploded at a school near the border town of Sungai Kolok in Narathiwat, Thailand, but no one was hurt. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/15/2006: Maoists abducted a village secretary, civilians and unarmed police personnel in Lamjung (District) of Nepal.
04/15/2006: Mortar shells landed on an electricity station in al-Mussayeb, killing two electricity workers, one engineer and one manual worker, and injuring a manual worker, and forced the suspension of electricity generation that feeds central and southern areas of Baghdad, Iraq. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/15/2006: Sri Lankan troops thwarted a landmine attack when they found two mines along a main highway in the island's north at Omanthai. A military official stated a man carrying a detonator was arrested. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/15/2006: Suspected militants lobbed and exploded grenades at a bunker manned by the personnel of the paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) near the Khanyar shrine in Srinagar, India, but no one was wounded. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/15/2006: Taliban insurgents gunned down Abdul Majid, the governor for the province's Baghran (District), in his car, and wounded two of his guards in Baghran district, Helmland province, Afghanistan.
04/15/2006: Two gunmen killed a Tamil civilian in the northern Jaffna Peninsula, Sri Lanka. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/15/2006: Vandals broke into the Sveta Petka church, near the village of Gojbulja in the municipality of Vucitrn, Serbia. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/15/2007: A suicide bomber driving a motorcycle detonated his explosives near a convoy of security personnel belonging to an American firm called United States Protection and Investigations (USPI), killing three Afghan guards and their driver.  Another security guard was also wounded in the attack.  The guards were providing security for a road construction project.  No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/15/2007: A suicide bomber killed approximately eight people and wounded 11 more when he detonated his explosives on a minibus in Baghdad, Iraq near a courthouse in the al-Utafiyah neighborhood.  No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/15/2007: A suicide bomber riding an explosive-laden motorcycle blew himself up near a convoy of coalition forces in Afghanistan’s Kandahar Province, killing three civilians and wounding two others.  Coalition forces suffered no casualties.  No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/15/2007: A suicide bomber that rode a motorcycle blew himself up near a convoy of the American security firm, U.S. Protection and Investigations. Two employees were killed and another was wounded in Kandahar province, Afghanistan; there was no claim of responsibility.
04/15/2007: An African peacekeeper belonging to the Ghanaian military was shot and killed by gunmen in Sudan’s Darfur region.  No one claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/15/2007: In the Sires Umm al-Qura district of Sudan, assailants armed with unspecified firearms attacked and damaged eleven villages, killing 73 civillians.  No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely  believed to be the actions of the Janjaweed Militia.
04/15/2007: Suspected LTTE members shot dead a youth named Selvaraja Gajendran at his residence in Ganeshapuram, Vavuniya, Sri Lanka around 9:15pm. Police believed that the victim had been forced to join the LTTE several times but had refused to fall in line, and this was why he was killed.
04/15/2007: Suspected militants beheaded a Muslim man in the Pulwama district in India’s Jammu and Kashmir State.  No one claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2007: The headmaster of Shaikh Amir High School in Afghanistan’s Khost Province, Faiz Mohammad, and his friend, a retired military officer named Mohammad Akbar, were attacked by gunmen who were riding a motorcycle while they were out for a walk.  The headmaster was killed and the other man was injured in the attack.  No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2007: Three explosions hit Gaza City, Palestine, damaging two Internet cafes and a Christian bookstore; no one was hurt and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/15/2007: Two car bombs exploded nearly simultaneously in a market in a Shi i area of Baghdad, Iraq, killing at least 34 people and wounding another 50.  No one claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/15/2008: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated in Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq. This was one of two bombings in Mosul on the same day; this later explosion targeted first responders at the scene. At least 12 people, including four police officers, were injured across both blasts. No group claimed responsibility for the attacks.
04/15/2008: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated near a joint Multi-National Force – Iraq (MNF-I) and Iraqi Police Services (IPS) patrol in Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq. This was one of two bombings in Mosul on the same day. At least 12 people, including four police officers, were injured across both blasts. No group claimed responsibility for the attacks.
04/15/2008: In the early hours of Tuesday morning, seven Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) militants abducted a civilian, Abid Hussain, at gun point from his house in the Darhal area of Rajouri district, Jammu and Kashmir province, India, after accusing him of being an informer for the security forces. The militants assaulted Hussain and later left him in an injured condition at a nearby field. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
04/15/2008: On Tuesday at 1330, in Baghdad, Iraq, a vehicle born improvised explosive device detonated in the Rusafa district, wounding 11 civilians, but causing no reported damage. There was no motive reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/15/2008: On Tuesday evening at 19:00, unidentified militants lobbed a grenade at the residence of Bhubon Terang, executive member of the Karbi Anglong Autonomous Council, at Diphu in the Karbi Anglong district,  Assam province, India. No casualties or property damage were reported and no claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
04/15/2008: On Tuesday evening, in Al Basrah, Al Basrah, Iraq, four assailants fired upon and wounded Sheik Ali al-Khafaji, a representative of Grand Ayatollah Ali al Sistani, as he was leaving a mosque after attending evening prayers. There was no damage reported and no group claimed responsibility, although the Mahdi Army was suspected of perpetrating this attack in retribution for the shooting death of a senior Sadrist Party official in An Najaf on 04/08/2008.
04/15/2008: On Tuesday evening, unknown assailants detonated a bomb in Birgunj, Narayani, Nepal, injuring six civilians.  No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/15/2008: On Tuesday morning, on Conventry Road, in Hastings, New Zealand, six pipe bombs were found and dismantled by the Army's bomb disposal units at Cash for Scrap. No casualties or damage resulted from the attempted attack. No motive was reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/15/2008: On Tuesday night, in Ein HaShlosha, Israel, Palestinian militants fired heavy machinegun fire at a residential building from Gaza, damaging the roof of the house. No casualties or motive were reported. No group claimed responsibility.
04/15/2008: On Tuesday shortly after midnight, a Saudi Arabian embassy car was damaged by a homemade bomb attack in the northern Athens suburb of Gerakas in Greece.  A makeshift bomb consisting of gas canisters was used on the car and no claim of responsibility was made for the incident. No casualties were reported from the bombing attack.
04/15/2008: On Tuesday, assailants attacked Israeli motorists with stones and petrol bombs in Azzun, West Bank, West Bank and Gaza Strip, causing no casualties but damaging several vehicles. No group claimed responsibility.
04/15/2008: On Tuesday, at 1315, in the Karradah district of Baghdad, Iraq, assailants detonated a roadside vehicle-borne improvised explosive device near a police convoy transporting Major Ali Sabri, the Director of the Police Affairs Directorate, near the Mosa Bin Nasir fuel station in the central Al Wahda neighborhood, killing one civilian, wounding five police officers and three civilians, and damaging at least one convoy vehicle and several shops. There was no motive reported and no group claimed responsibility, although the United States military blamed this attack on the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI).
04/15/2008: On Tuesday, in Rangae, Narathiwat, Thailand, assailants fired upon a motorcycle, killing a Muslim civilian and wounding his 14-year-old son.  No group claimed responsibility, although police suspected Muslim separatists were responsible.
04/15/2008: On Tuesday, in the Rakin area, in Khash Rud, Nimruz, Afghanistan, assailants fired upon and killed one religious scholar. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Taliban was responsible.
04/15/2009: On Wednesday afternoon at 1600, Francisco Mecutuan, 58, an election official in southern Philippines, was gunned down by still unidentified assailants along the highway in Barangay Buayan in M’lang town, province of North Cotabato. Mecutuan was waylaid by two bonnet-wearing men on a black Honda motorcycle. The victim was the election official of Tulunan town for the Commission on Elections (Comelec). Authorities recovered from the crime scene empty shells from a .45 caliber pistol. No groups claimed the responsibility.
04/15/2009: On Wednesday afternoon at about 1230, in Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, Bolivia, a bomb placed at the entrance to a Catholic Cardinal's residence exploded, causing damage to the entrance and shattered the windows of the religious residence and many nearby residences but no casualties.  No group claimed responsibility.
04/15/2009: On Wednesday afternoon at about 1600, assailants detonated a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device near a bus transporting Interior Ministry Oil Police (OP) personnel in the Wasti district of southern Kirkuk, At Ta'mim, Iraq, killing 11 OP officers, wounding 13 others, destroying the bus, and damaging several shops and civilian cars. The Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) claimed responsibility.
04/15/2009: On Wednesday evening at 2115, a roadside bomb detonated in the Dora neighborhood in southern Baghdad, Iraq, wounding two civilians. No claim of responsibility has been reported.
04/15/2009: On Wednesday evening, in Mogadishu, Banaadir, Somalia, unknown gunmen killed Somali MP Sheikh Abdul Rahim Issa Addow, in a drive-by shooting. According to witness reports, gunmen in an unknown vehicle shot the lawmaker and former Islamic Courts Union (ICU) militant commander, in the northern Huriwa District. No group claimed responsibility.
04/15/2009: On Wednesday morning around 0600, an improvised explosive device (IED) was recovered near the house of Lanao del Sur Governor Mamintal Adiong in Barangay Saduc in Marawi, Philippines. The IED, fashioned out of an 81-millimeter mortar shell and fitted with a timing device, was found some 15 meters away from the back gate of Adiong's house along Dianalan Road. The bomb, placed inside a red bag, was discovered by civilians and provincial guards. The Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team defused the bomb and brought it to the EOD headquarters. No group claimed responsibility.
04/15/2009: On Wednesday morning at 0900, in the Al Kazimiyah of Baghdad, Iraq, assailants detonated a magnetic improvised explosive device attached to a civilian car on Haifa Street in the central Utayfiya neighborhood, wounding two civilians and damaging their car.  No group claimed responsibility.
04/15/2009: On Wednesday morning at approximately 0640, in Sai Buri, Pattani, Thailand, armed assailants fired upon a civilian riding his motorcycle to work, killing the civilian and damaging the motorcycle. Mayalee Suemeng, 45, was shot in the face and died at the hospital. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed that Muslim separatists were responsible.
04/15/2009: On Wednesday night between 0140 and 0700, in Dhansa Valley, Rhotas, Bihar, India, about 200 Communist Party of India- Maoist (CPI-M) rebels armed with automatic guns and rocket launchers attacked a Border Security Force (BSF) encampment, injuring one officer.
04/15/2009: On Wednesday night, on Jail Road in Mach, Balochistan, Pakistan, assailants detonated an improvised explosive device targeting a residence, killing one child, Osama, wounding one other, Abdul Quddus, and two women, Mst Ayesha and Mst Shazia damaging the residence. No group claimed responsibility.
04/15/2009: On Wednesday, a bomb stuck to a civilian car by unknown gunmen went off in the Al Attifiya region in northern Baghdad, wounding two civilians and causing material damage to the car. No claim of responsibility has been reported.
04/15/2009: On Wednesday, in Gaya, Bihar, India, Communist Party of India- Maoist (CPI-M) rebels attacked election polls, killing three security staff. No damages were reported.
04/15/2009: On Wednesday, in Latehar, Jharkhand, India, assailants kidnapped five villagers to use as forest guides, then detonated a landmine improvised explosive device on a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) bus, killing two CRPF members, the bus driver, five civilians, wounding 11 CRPF members, and damaging the bus. No group claimed responsibility, but it was believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
04/15/2009: On Wednesday, in Planadas, Tolima, Colombia, in the village of Gaitania, assailants fired upon and killed four civilians. No group claimed responsibility, although the military suspected the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) was responsible.
04/15/2009: On Wednesday, near Migrengdisa, in North Cachar Hills, Assam, India, assailants fired upon a goods train, damaging the train but causing no casualties.  No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the Dima Halim Daogah-Jewel Garlossa (DHD-J) was responsible.
04/15/2009: On Wednesday, Taliban militants executed a man and a woman with an AK-47 on charges of having illicit relations in Hangu, North West Frontier, Pakistan.
04/15/2009: On Wednesday, unknown assailants fired a Qassam rocket at Jewish communities in the Eshkol region in Israel, causing no casualties or damage. No claim of responsibility has been reported.
04/15/2010: On Thursday evening at 2040, in Kaspiisk, Dagestan, Russia, a roadside explosive device detonated as a bus transporting a unit of ten border guards crossed over a railroad. It is unknown if the attack caused any property damage. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/15/2010: On Thursday night around 0100, in Liboi, North Eastern, Kenya, armed gunmen attacked and raided two hotels and several buildings; no casualties were reported. The militants left a bomb and an unknown amount of ammunition at the scene of the attack. No group has claimed responsibility, but the militant group Al-Shabaab was thought responsible for the attack.
04/15/2010: On Thursday night at 0100, in Makhachkala, Dagestan, Russia, unidentified assailants fired on a unit of traffic policemen on Yaragsky Street, not far from the main department of the Emergency Situations Ministry, wounding one officer. The attackers' VAZ- 21014 car then hit a lamppost as they were trying to flee the scene. The attackers managed to escape leaving the car behind which authorities later found a bomb in. No group claimed responsibility.
04/15/2010: On Thursday night at 2350, in the Calicut district of Kerala, India, unknown assailants threw three improvised explosive devices at the Chombala police station. One of the bombs exploded inside the office of the Sub-inspector and the other two on the premises of the police station. No casualties were reported, but a portion of the wall and furniture were damaged. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/15/2010: On Thursday night, in the Thiruvallur panchyat of Calicut district, in the Kerala province of India, unidentified assailants set fire to the workshop of P. Anandan, a blacksmith who is also a Communist Party of India (Maoist) activist. No casualties were reported but the shop was damaged. No group claimed responsibility.
04/15/2010: On Thursday, in Bosaso, Bari, Somalia, unknown assailants detonated an improvised explosive device outside the house of Puntland's former deputy minister of internal affairs, Ibrahim Haji Bakin, injuring four people. It is unknown if the attack caused any property damage. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/15/2010: On Thursday, in Mansour neighborhood in Baghdad, Iraq, a magnetic bomb that was stuck to a civilian car detonated near the Baghdad International Fair grounds. The explosion killed one civilian, injured four others, and damaged the car. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/15/2010: On Thursday, in Mayanglangjing Mayai Leikai in Imphal West District, Manipur, India, unidentified militants lobbed a Chinese grenade at the residence of pradhan (chief) of Mayang Langjil gram panchayat (village level local self-Government institution), identified as Takhelambam Tompok (48). The bomb however failed to explode and was subsequently defused by the Police. No group claimed responsibility.
04/15/2010: On Thursday, in the Abu Ghurayb area of Baghdad, Iraq, armed men blew up a 50 meter high communications tower belonging to Asiacell company, causing severe damage to the tower. No casualties were reported and no group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/15/2010: On Thursday, in the Aurangabad district of Bihar, India, suspected Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants set ablaze three construction vehicles belonging to a construction company at Seema village. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/15/2010: On Thursday, in the Bandwan area of Puruliya district, in the West Bengal province of India, suspected Communist Party of India (Maoist) militants abducted Mansaram Singh, an alleged former Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader who had recently joined the Trinamool Congress, and took him away to an unknown location. The abductors shot and killed Singh later that night. There was no claim of responsibility.
04/15/2010: On Thursday, in the city of Kandahar in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, six people - three foreign nationals and three Afghan troops - were killed and 16 others were wounded when an unidentified militant detonated a suicide vehicle-borne improvised explosive device outside a compound used by Western companies. The compound includes the offices of the international contracting company Louis Berger Group, the Afghanistan Stabilization Initiative and the aid contracting company Chemonics International. No group claimed responsibility.
04/15/2010: On Thursday, in the city of Mingora in Swat district in North West Frontier Province, Pakistan, Qaumi Lashkar chief, Alamgir Khan, was shot dead alongside another person, Mukaram Khan, by two suspected pro-Taliban militants. It was unclear whether the other person killed was a civilian or Lashkar member. No group claimed responsibility.
04/15/2010: On Thursday, in the Ghaljo Darra area of Anbar sub-district in the Mohmand Agency, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan, a government run girl's school was blown up by unidentified militants. The structure of the school was completely destroyed. No casualties were reported in the attack, and no group claimed responsibility.
04/15/2010: On Thursday, in the Nabozai area of Gardez district, Paktia province, Afghanistan, one civilian was killed and another was injured when their tractor struck an improvised explosive device placed by unidentified militants. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/15/2010: On Thursday, in the Vaishali district of Bihar, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres set ablaze several trucks belonging to a construction company. The Maoists attacked the office of the construction firm in Madarna and set fire to two bulldozers, a tractor, truck and dumpsters, creating panic among the workers and officials of the company. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/15/2010: On Thursday, in the Wara Kor area of Ambar sub-district in Mohmand Agency, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan, a government run boy’s primary school was blown up by unidentified militants. The structure of the school was completely destroyed. No casualties were reported in the attack and no group claimed responsibility.
04/15/2010: On Thursday, in Yangon, Myanmar, assailants threw three grenades near the Kandawgyi lake during the annual water festival killing nine people and wounding 62. There was no reported damage and no group claimed responsibility.
04/15/2010: On Thursday, near Jairolpokpi under Jiri Police Station in Imphal East District, Manipur, India, suspected People's Liberation Army (PLA) cadres set ablaze a Mithana-ma (betel leaves) laden truck, damaging the vehicle. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/15/2010: On Thursday, near the Bagh-e Shamal area of Baghlan, Baghlan province, Afghanistan, five Afghan nationals working for the United Nations Office for Projects were reported missing on 04/15/2010 after unidentified militants hijacked their vehicle. The victims' statuses are unknown and no casualties were reported. No group has claimed responsibility but the Taliban is suspected to be behind the attack.
04/15/2010: On Thursday, near the Rabbi Canal area of Dera Murad Jamali in Nasirabad district, Balochistan, Pakistan, a Bugti tribal chieftain, identified by security officials as Wadera Meer Muhammad Bugti, was killed and six of his followers were wounded during an attack by unidentified militants when they opened fire on the chieftain's compound. No group claimed responsibility.
04/15/2011: On Friday afternoon at 1430, on the Imphal-Ukhrul road near Rehang village in Ukhrul, Manipur, India, unidentified militants ambushed a convoy belonging to Wungnaoshang Keishing, a Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) of Phungyar Constituency. Six police officers and one civilian were killed and six others were injured. Keishing escaped unhurt. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that National Socialist Council of Nagaland- Isak Muivah (NSCN-IM) militants were responsible.
04/15/2011: On Friday afternoon, in Kandahar city, Kandahar province, Afghanistan, a suicide bomber dressed in police clothing detonated his explosives in the courtyard of the heavily guarded police headquarters, killing police chief of Kandahar province, Khan Mohammad Mujahid and two other police officers. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage and no group claimed responsibility.
04/15/2011: On Friday evening around 1915, near Azazga, Tizi Ouzou, Algeria, 14 Algerian soldiers were killed and 12 soldiers were injured when 50 unidentified militants attacked an Algerian military post with grenades and unknown firearms. It is unknown if the attack caused any property damage. No group claimed responsibility, but the militant group Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) was thought to be responsible for the attack.
04/15/2011: On Friday evening around 1930, in Maiduguri, Borno, Nigeria, an unknown number of police officers were injured when unidentified militants riding motorcycles threw an improvised explosive device into the office of the Independent National Electoral Commission. One car was destroyed in the attack and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/15/2011: On Friday night, at Karpora in Pakherpora, Charar-e-Sharief, Budgam, Jammu and Kashmir, India, unidentified militants shot and killed a woman candidate for Panchayat (local level self-government institution), identified as Hasina Begum. No group claimed responsibility for this incident.
04/15/2011: On Friday, at a mosque inside a police compound in Cirebon, West Java, Indonesia, a suicide bomber detonated a bomb packed with nails and other metal objects. The bomber was killed and 29 people were injured but no damages were reported. The suicide bomber was identified as Muhammad Syarif, who was one of the fugitives being hunted by police for involvement in an attack at a department store in Cirebon district recently. Evidence was found during a raid at the house of Syarif's parent-in-law, including cables, batteries, nails and other explosive materials. Many people were arrested in connection with the bombing. The alleged mastermind behind a series of recent bomb threats, Sigit Qurdowi, was shot and killed by police counterterrorism officers. He was the commander of Laskar Hisbah, believed to be the armed wing of hard-line Islamic group Jemaah Ansharut Tauhid.
04/15/2011: On Friday, in Ahvaz, Khuzestan, Iran, eight unidentified militants on motorcycles opened fire at a police station, killing three people including a police officer and injuring three others. No group claimed responsibility for the attack but Arab People's Group was suspected. Eight members of the said group were arrested in connection with the attack.
04/15/2011: On Friday, in Kirkuk, At Ta'mim, Iraq, unknown assailants detonated a sticky improvised explosive device attached to a civilian car. Two civilians were wounded, including a security guard, and the car was damaged. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/15/2011: On Friday, in Loti gas field area of Dera Bugti, Balochistan, Pakistan, unidentified militants blew up an eight inch pipeline supplying gas from well number 10. No casualties were reported, but the supply of national gas to the purification plant was suspended. No group claimed responsibility.
04/15/2011: On Friday, in the al-Rifaie neighborhood, Mosul, Ninawa, Iraq, unknown assailants threw a hand grenade at the 7th Emergency Police contingent patrol. One policeman was wounded in the blast. An unknown amount of property damage was caused and no group claimed responsibility.
04/15/2011: On Friday, in the Sholwai area of Malakand district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, unidentified militants blew up a government run primary school, partially damaging the building but causing no casualties. No group claimed responsibility.
04/15/2012: A suicide bomber and explosives-laden vehicles detonated at the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) offices in Jalalabad city, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan. This was one of 21 coordinated attacks in Afghanistan on this day, across which 51 people, including 36 assailants, were killed and 74 others wounded. The Haqqani Network claimed responsibility for all of the incidents.
04/15/2012: A suicide bomber in an explosives-laden vehicle detonated near a security checkpoint in Al Hodn area, Abyan governorate, Yemen. Four tribal members were killed in the blast. Al-Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) claimed responsibility for this attack.
04/15/2012: An explosive device attached to a vehicle detonated in Karada district, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. One civilian was injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for this attack.
04/15/2012: An explosive device detonated at a bar in Kano city, Kano state, Nigeria. Three people were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected that Boko Haram was involved.
04/15/2012: An explosive device detonated near a civilian home in Baquba city, Diyala governorate, Iraq. Two civilians were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2012: An explosive device detonated near a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) vehicle in Kunar province, Afghanistan. One United States (US) soldier, Staff Sergeant David P. Nowaczyk, was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2012: An explosive device detonated near a police commander's vehicle in Mahmude Raqi town, Kapisa province, Afghanistan. The commander, Jan Agha Faizi, and three other police officers were killed in the blast. The Taliban claimed responsibility for this attack.
04/15/2012: An explosive device detonated near a police station as police officers attempted to defuse it on Sitra island, Central governorate, Bahrain. Five police officers were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2012: An explosive device detonated near a security patrol in Al Qatn village, Hadramout governorate, Yemen. Three civilians were killed and one person wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources suspected Al-Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
04/15/2012: An explosive device detonated near the vehicle of a Sahwa Council leader in Hawija town, Kirkuk, Iraq. The leader was not injured, but his son was killed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/15/2012: An explosive device detonated outside a clothing store in Makhachkala city, Dagestan republic, Russia. Two people were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2012: An explosive device was discovered and safely defused at a government office in Kanchanpur district, Mid-Western developmental region, Nepal. Pamphlets from Samyukta Jatiya Mukti Morcha (SJMM) were found at the site of the explosion.
04/15/2012: An explosives-laden car detonated near a conference on nonviolence at the University of Kirkuk in Kirkuk city, Kirkuk, Iraq. A bodyguard was killed in the attack, and 15 others, including three professors, were injured. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2012: Assailants abducted a security director in Reida district, Hadramout governorate, Yemen. The outcome of this kidnapping is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for this attack; however, sources suspected Al-Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
04/15/2012: Assailants abducted a Swiss missionary from Abaradjou neighborhood in Timbuktu city, Timbuktu region, Mali. The missionary was released on April 24, 2012. Ansar al-Dine (Mali) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2012: Assailants attacked a checkpost in Ladha tehsil, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. One soldier was killed in the assault. Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2012: Assailants attacked a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) base in Kabul city, Kabul province, Afghanistan. This was one of 21 coordinated attacks in Afghanistan on this day, across which 51 people, including 36 assailants, were killed and 74 others wounded. The Haqqani Network claimed responsibility for all of the incidents.
04/15/2012: Assailants attacked a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) base in Pol-e Alam city, Logar province, Afghanistan. This was one of 21 coordinated attacks in Afghanistan on this day, across which 51 people, including 36 assailants, were killed and 74 others wounded. The Haqqani Network claimed responsibility for all of the incidents.
04/15/2012: Assailants attacked a police training center in Gardez city, Paktia province, Afghanistan. This was one of 21 coordinated attacks in Afghanistan on this day, across which 51 people, including 36 assailants, were killed and 74 others wounded. The Haqqani Network claimed responsibility for all of the incidents.
04/15/2012: Assailants attacked Ghaiba Khawar checkpoint in Halimzai area, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. This was one of two coordinated attacks on security checkpoints in the area on this day, both of which were claimed by Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
04/15/2012: Assailants attacked government buildings in Logar province, Afghanistan. This was one of 21 coordinated attacks in Afghanistan on this day, across which 51 people, including 36 assailants, were killed and 74 others wounded. The Haqqani Network claimed responsibility for all of the incidents.
04/15/2012: Assailants attacked the 111th Army Brigade infantry barracks in Lawdar town, Abyan governorate, Yemen. One soldier and seven assailants were killed in the ensuing firefight. No group claimed responsibility for this attack; however, security officials attributed it to Al-Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
04/15/2012: Assailants attacked the Afghan Parliament building with explosives and guns in Kabul city, Kabul province, Afghanistan. This was one of 21 coordinated attacks in Afghanistan on this day, across which 51 people, including 36 perpetrators, were killed and 74 others wounded. The Haqqani Network claimed responsibility for all of the attacks.
04/15/2012: Assailants attacked the Iranian embassy in Kabul city, Kabul province, Afghanistan. This was one of 21 coordinated attacks in Afghanistan on this day, across which 51 people, including 36 assailants, were killed and 74 others wounded. The Haqqani Network claimed responsibility for all of the incidents.
04/15/2012: Assailants attacked the Kabul Military Training Centre in Qabel Bay area, Kabul province, Afghanistan. This was one of 21 coordinated attacks in Afghanistan on this day, across which 51 people, including 36 assailants, were killed and 74 others wounded. The Haqqani Network claimed responsibility for all of the incidents.
04/15/2012: Assailants attacked the Khara Shah checkpoint in Khwezai subdivision, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. One Levies officer was killed in the assault. This was one of two coordinated attacks on security checkpoints in the area on this day, both of which were claimed by Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
04/15/2012: Assailants attacked the police headquarters in Pol-e Alam city, Logar province, Afghanistan. This was one of 21 coordinated attacks in Afghanistan on this day, across which 51 people, including 36 assailants, were killed and 74 others wounded. The Haqqani Network claimed responsibility for all of the incidents.
04/15/2012: Assailants attacked the provincial governor's office in Pol-e Alam city, Logar province, Afghanistan. This was one of 21 coordinated attacks in Afghanistan on this day, across which 51 people, including 36 assailants, were killed and 74 others wounded. The Haqqani Network claimed responsibility for all of the incidents.
04/15/2012: Assailants attacked the Star Hotel in Kabul city, Kabul province, Afghanistan. This was one of 21 coordinated attacks in Afghanistan on this day, across which 51 people, including 36 assailants, were killed and 74 others wounded. The Haqqani Network claimed responsibility for all of the incidents.
04/15/2012: Assailants attacked the United States (US) embassy in Wazir Akbar Khan neighborhood, Kabul province, Afghanistan. This was one of 21 coordinated attacks in Afghanistan on this day, across which 51 people, including 36 assailants, were killed and 74 others were wounded. The Haqqani Network claimed responsibility for all of the incidents.
04/15/2012: Assailants fired rockets at the Canadian embassy in Wazir Akbar Khan neighborhood, Kabul province, Afghanistan. This was one of 21 coordinated attacks in Afghanistan on this day, across which 51 people, including 36 assailants, were killed and 74 others wounded. The Haqqani Network claimed responsibility for all of the incidents.
04/15/2012: Assailants fired rockets at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Camp Warehouse base in Qabel Bay area, Kabul province, Afghanistan. This was one of 21 coordinated attacks in Afghanistan on this day, across which 51 people, including 36 assailants, were killed and 74 others wounded. The Haqqani Network claimed responsibility for all of the incidents.
04/15/2012: Assailants launched a rocket at the Kabul City Hospital in Kabul city, Kabul province, Afghanistan. This was one of 21 coordinated attacks in Afghanistan on this day, across which 51 people, including 36 assailants, were killed and 74 others were wounded. The Haqqani Network claimed responsibility for all of the incidents.
04/15/2012: Assailants launched rockets at the British embassy compound in Wazir Akbar Khan neighborhood, Kabul province, Afghanistan. This was one of 21 coordinated attacks in Afghanistan on this day, across which 51 people, including 36 assailants, were killed and 74 others wounded. The Haqqani Network claimed responsibility for all of the incidents.
04/15/2012: Assailants launched rockets at the German embassy in Wazir Akbar Khan neighborhod, Kabul province, Afghanistan. This was one of 21 coordinated attacks in Afghanistan on this day, across which 51 people, including 36 assailants, were killed and 74 others wounded. The Haqqani Network claimed responsibility for all of the incidents.
04/15/2012: Assailants launched rockets at the Japanese embassy in Wazir Akbar Khan neighborhood, Kabul province, Afghanistan. This was one of 21 coordinated attacks in Afghanistan on this day, across which 51 people, including 36 assailants, were killed and 74 others wounded. The Haqqani Network claimed responsibility for all of the incidents.
04/15/2012: Assailants opened fire on a police checkpoint near the airport in El Arish city, North Sinai governorate, Egypt. Two police officers were killed and one injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2012: Assailants opened fire on North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) forces in eastern Afghanistan. One United States (US) soldier, Specialist Jason K. Edens, was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2012: Assailants planted an explosive device underneath a civilian vehicle in Londonderry city, Derry district, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. The car belonged to the parents of a police officer, and the device was safely defused by an Army bomb squad. No group claimed responsibility for this attack; however, sources indicated that the Real Irish Republican Army (RIRA) may have been involved.
04/15/2012: Assailants shot and killed an Iraqi Army soldier in his home in Aalah ad-Din governorate, Iraq. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2012: Assailants threw an explosive device at the home of a United Nations (UN) engineer in Batticaloa city, Eastern province, Sri Lanka. The engineer, Ilangowan Kanthdeepa, was not injured, but the house was damaged in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2012: Four assailants, including two suicide bombers, were arrested at they attempted to attack Vice President of Afghanistan Karim Khalili in Kabul city, Kabul province, Afghanistan. This was one of 21 coordinated attacks in Afghanistan on this day, across which 51 people, including 36 assailants, were killed and 74 others wounded. The Haqqani Network claimed responsibility for all of the incidents.
04/15/2012: Suicide bombers attacked a business center in Gardez city, Paktika province, Afghanistan. This was one of 21 coordinated attacks in Afghanistan on this day, across which 51 people, including 36 assailants, were killed and 74 others wounded. The Haqqani Network claimed responsibility for all of the incidents.
04/15/2012: Suicide bombers detonated at the Jalalabad airport near Jalalabad city, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan. A firefight then ensued between the assailants an North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) forces. This was one of 21 coordinated attacks in Afghanistan on this day, across which 51 people, including 36 assailants, were killed and 74 others wounded. The Haqqani Network claimed responsibility for all of the incidents.
04/15/2012: Three explosive devices detonated at a civilian home in Taji town, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. At least three people were killed and one injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2013: A hand grenade detonated in the Galatsi area of Athens city, Attica region, Greece. There were no reported injuries; however, one car and two motorcycles were damaged in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2013: A homemade explosive device planted at the main gate to the home of Civil Judge, Sanam Taj, detonated in the Shabqadar area, Charsadda district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. There were no injuries in the attack; however, the blast damaged the gate and a boundary wall to the home. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2013: A roadside bomb detonated in Karrada city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. Two people were killed and 15 were injured in the attack. This was one of 35 coordinated attacks that occurred in Iraq on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/15/2013: A roadside bomb detonated near a police patrol in Baladiyat area, Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. Five police officers were injured in the attack. This was one of 35 coordinated attacks that occurred in Iraq on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/15/2013: A roadside bomb detonated near a police patrol in Fallujah city, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. Three police officers were wounded in the blast. This was one of 35 coordinated attacks that occurred in Iraq on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/15/2013: A roadside bomb targeting a Khwaja Was police van was discovered and defused in Shabqadar tehsil, Charsadda district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2013: A rocket targeting a check post hit a nearby house in Korizi area, Sabari district, Khost province, Afghanistan. Two women were killed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/15/2013: A sniper shot and killed a soldier in Santa Fe village, Davao del Norte province, Philippines. The soldier had been talking with community residents in a chapel at the time of the attack. No group claimed responsibility; however, officials attribute the incident to the New People's Army (NPA).
04/15/2013: A suicide bomber detonated an explosive vest at a police checkpoint near Al-Daur city, Saladin governorate, Iraq. The bomber was killed and thirteen police officers were wounded in the blast. This was one of 35 coordinated attacks that occurred in Iraq on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/15/2013: A suicide car bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle at a federal police checkpoint in Rasas area, Samarra city, Saladin governorate, Iraq. The bomber was killed and 12 people were wounded in the attack. This was one of 35 coordinated attacks that occurred in Iraq on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/15/2013: A suicide car bomber rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into a police checkpoint in Fallujah city, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. In addition to the bomber, two police officers were killed and six other were injured in the attack. This was one of 35 coordinated attacks that occurred in Iraq on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/15/2013: A three-kilogram explosive device was discovered and defused in Gandawa village, Balochistan province, Pakistan. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2013: A tractor trailer struck a roadside bomb in Malizai area of Qalat city, Souri district, Zabul province, Afghanistan. At least seven people were killed and another four were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, officials attribute the incident to the Taliban.
04/15/2013: Acting on a tip, police and Levies forces discovered and defused an explosive device that had been planted in Jhal Magsi district, Balochistan province, Pakistan. No group claimed responsibility for planting the device.
04/15/2013: An explosive detonated in a car market in Sadr City district, Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. An unknown number of people were killed and injured in the blast. This was one of 35 coordinated attacks that occurred in Iraq on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/15/2013: An explosive device attached to a police officer's car detonated in Buhriz city, Diyala governorate, Iraq. The officer was killed in the explosion. This was one of 35 coordinated attacks that occurred in Iraq on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/15/2013: An explosive device attached to the vehicle of a Sunni cleric and leader, Sa'id al-Lafi, detonated in Ramadi city, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. One guard was killed and two others were injured in the blast. This was one of 35 coordinated attacks that occurred in Iraq on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/15/2013: An explosive device consisting of a pressure cooker, nails, BBs, and a detonator fashioned from the remote control of a toy car detonated near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Boylston Street in the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. This was the first of two similar bombs that detonated approximately 12 seconds and 100 yards apart. The detonation of first device, which was located near Marathon Sports, killed spectator Krystle Campbell. Approximately 264 others were wounded in the two attacks. The alleged assailants of the blasts were later identified as Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, brothers who immigrated to the United States from Russia in 2002 and 2003. On April 19, 2013, as part of an attempt to flee the Boston area, the assailants were involved in a shootout with police that resulted in the death of Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was arrested later that evening after he was discovered hiding in a boat that was parked in a Watertown, Massachusetts resident's backyard. Tsarnaev had written a claim of responsibility on the side of the boat. On July 10, 2013, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev pleaded not guilty to 30 federal counts related to the attack, including one for the use of a weapon of mass destruction. Tsarnaev was ultimately found guilty on all counts, and sentenced to the death penalty on June 24, 2015.
04/15/2013: An explosive device consisting of a pressure cooker, nails, BBs, and a detonator fashioned from the remote control of a toy car went off near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Boylston Street in the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. This was the second of two similar bombs that detonated approximately 12 seconds and 100 yards apart. The detonation of second device, which was located near Forum Restaurant, killed spectators Martin Richard and Lingzi Lu. Approximately 264 others were wounded in the two attacks. The alleged assailants of the blasts were later identified as Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, brothers who immigrated to the United States from Russia in 2002 and 2003. On April 19, 2013, as part of an attempt to flee the Boston area, the assailants were involved in a shootout with police that resulted in the death of Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was arrested later that evening after he was discovered hiding in a boat that was parked in a Watertown, Massachusetts resident's backyard. Tsarnaev had written a claim of responsibility on the side of the boat. On July 10, 2013, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev pleaded not guilty to 30 federal counts related to the attack, including one for the use of a weapon of mass destruction. Tsarnaev was ultimately found guilty on all counts, and sentenced to the death penalty on June 24, 2015.
04/15/2013: An explosive device detonated at the Ain el-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp near Sidon city, South governorate, Lebanon. No one was injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2013: An explosive device detonated near a hilltop bunker in Dari area of Tirah valley in Khyber Agency, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. One Tauheedul Islam (TI) volunteer was killed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2013: An explosive device detonated near a police patrol in Mosul city, Nineveh governorate, Iraq. Three police officers were injured in the attack. This was one of 35 coordinated attacks that occurred in Iraq on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/15/2013: An explosive device detonated near a police van in Pacha Qalindar village, Gortipa area, Kunduz city, Kunduz province, Afghanistan. No one was injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2013: An explosive device detonated near a school in Buinaksk town, Dagestan republic, Russia. One police officer was killed and three more were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2013: An explosive device detonated under a valve of the Sui Southern Gas Company pipeline in Machhar Colony area of Karachi city, Sindh province, Pakistan. No one was injured in the blast; however, the valve was damaged. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2013: An explosive device placed on a pushcart detonated near an Afghan National Army (ANA) vehicle in Tara Khel area, Baghlan province, Afghanistan. No one was injured in the blast; however, a vehicle sustained damage. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2013: An explosive device targeting a police patrol detonated in Tuz Khormato city, Saladin governorate, Iraq. This was one of four bombs targeting police patrols in Tuz Khormato that collectively killed five people and injured 67 others. This was one of 35 coordinated attacks that occurred in Iraq on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/15/2013: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated at a market and bus station in Umm Maalif district, Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. Four people were killed and 15 were injured in the attack. This was one of 35 coordinated attacks that occurred in Iraq on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/15/2013: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated at a market in Mussayab city, Babil governorate, Iraq. Two people were killed and 13 others were injured in the attack. This was one of 35 coordinated attacks that occurred in Iraq on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/15/2013: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated in a commercial area in Al-Bazool village, Diyala governorate, Iraq. Three people were wounded in the explosion. This was one of 35 coordinated attacks that occurred in Iraq on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/15/2013: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated in Musalla area, Kirkuk city, Kirkuk, Iraq. Eight people were injured in the attack. This was one of 35 coordinated attacks that occurred in Iraq on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/15/2013: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated in Nasiriyah area, Dhi-Qar governorate, Iraq. Seven people were injured in the explosion. This was one of 35 coordinated attacks that occurred in Iraq on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/15/2013: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated in Shurta area, Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. Two people were killed and nine were injured in the attack. This was one of 35 coordinated attacks that occurred in Iraq on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/15/2013: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated in southeastern Mosul city, Nineveh governorate, Iraq. There were no reported casualties resulting from the blast. This was one of 35 coordinated attacks that occurred in Iraq on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/15/2013: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated near a bus station in Kamaliya area, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. Four people were killed and 13 others were injured in the blast. This was one of 35 coordinated attacks that occurred in Iraq on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/15/2013: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated near a fire department on Ishrin Street, Nasiriyah village, Dhi-Qar governorate, Iraq. Seven people were injured in the explosion. This was one of 35 coordinated attacks that occurred in Iraq on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/15/2013: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated near a Kurdish Peshmarga force patrol southwest of Kirkuk city, Kirkuk, Iraq. Five members of the patrol and one civilian were injured in the attack. This was one of 35 coordinated attacks that occurred in Iraq on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/15/2013: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated near a restaurant in Al-Musayyib district, Babil governorate, Iraq. Fifteen people were injured in the explosion. This was one of 35 coordinated attacks that occurred in Iraq on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/15/2013: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated near a restaurant in Al-Shawmali district, Babil governorate, Iraq. Four people were injured in the explosion. This was one of 35 coordinated attacks that occurred in Iraq on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/15/2013: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated near the convoy of the Kirkuk University President in Almas city, Kirkuk, Iraq. One person was killed and 15 others were injured in the attack. This was one of 35 coordinated attacks that occurred in Iraq on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/15/2013: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated when security personnel were trying to defuse it in Tal Ubtta village, Nineveh governorate, Iraq. One police officer was killed and two others were injured in the attack. This was one of 35 coordinated attacks that occurred in Iraq on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/15/2013: An explosives-laden vehicle targeting the Daquq police chief, General Tawih Gharib, detonated in Banjat Ali area, Kirkuk city, Kirkuk, Iraq. One police officer was killed and four other were injured in the blast. This was one of 35 coordinated attacks that occurred in Iraq on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/15/2013: Approximately 15 assailants raided a Dole Philippines packing plant in Libona village, Bukidnon province, Philippines. There were no reported injuries resulting from the attack; however, the assailants set fire to pieces of heavy machinery. This was one of two similar attacks on the same day. The New People's Army (NPA) claimed responsibility for the incident, saying the company had failed to pay its revolutionary tax.
04/15/2013: Approximately 40 assailants raided a Dole Philippines plantation in Claveria town, Misamis Oriental province, Philippines. There were no reported injuries resulting from the attack; however, the assailants set fire to pieces of heavy machinery. This was one of two similar attacks on the same day. The New People's Army (NPA) claimed responsibility for the incident, saying the company had failed to pay its revolutionary tax.
04/15/2013: Assailants abducted four Civilian Armed Forces Geographical Unit (CAFGU) soldiers from San Luis town, Agusan del Sur province, Philippines. All of the victims belonged to the 23rd Infantry Battalion. The victims were released on April 17th, 2013. The New People's Army (NPA) stated that they released the victims after investigations showed that the soldiers had not committed "serious offenses against the people."
04/15/2013: Assailants abducted six individuals, including Cesar Octavio Guzman, the father of the mayor of Vega municipality, in Cauca department, Colombia. Five of the victims were released the next day, April 16, 2013; however, Guzman remains in captivity. No group claimed responsibility for the abduction.
04/15/2013: Assailants attacked a military checkpoint in Muharibin Qadama area, Mosul city, Nineveh governorate, Iraq. This was one of two armed attacks on checkpoints in Mosul; two officers were killed across the two attacks. This was one of 35 coordinated attacks that occurred in Iraq on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/15/2013: Assailants attacked a military checkpoint in Tal Afar area near Mosul city, Nineveh governorate, Iraq. This was one of two armed attacks on checkpoints in Mosul; two officers were killed across the two attacks. This was one of 35 coordinated attacks that occurred in Iraq on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/15/2013: Assailants attacked Doctor Amir al-Jalali's clinic in an attempt to abduct him at Azadi Hospital, Kirkuk city, Kirkuk, Iraq. The doctor was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2013: Assailants beheaded a man in Leego area, Lower Shabeelle region, Somalia. No additional information was available. No group claimed responsibility; however, the media source claims that Al-Shabaab was responsible for the attack.
04/15/2013: Assailants fired at a taxi in Cebu City, Cebu province, Philippines. In the attack, Cristina Lauro, the live-in partner of the mayor of Masbate city, was killed, while Councilor Leny Betonio-Eser was injured. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/15/2013: Assailants fired two mortars at the residence of al-Tahiri al-Shadadi, the governor of Al-Bayda, in Al-Bayda governorate, Yemen. One of the mortars exploded, damaging the house but injuring no one. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2013: Assailants opened fire on a group of soldiers in Lalakhel area of Chak district, Wardak province, Afghanistan. There were no reported military casualties resulting from the attack; however, one civilian was injured. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2013: Assailants opened fire on Dino Melaye, a former member of the House of Representatives in the Central Business district of Abuja city, Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria. Melaye was able to escape unharmed. No group has claimed responsibility for the incident; however, Melaye attributed the attack to people opposed to his anti-corruption stance.
04/15/2013: Assailants set fire to the Ramnagar Madinatul Ulum Dakhil Madrassah in Sadar upazila of Lakshmipur district, Chittagong division, Bangladesh. There were no injuries in the attack; however, two rooms of the madrassah were damaged by the blaze. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2013: Assailants stormed a pearl farm in Taytay town, Calauag municipality, Palawan province, Philippines. The assailants held 12 people hostage before releasing them unharmed and fleeing with communications equipment and firearms. The New People's Army (NPA) claimed responsibility for the incident, stating they perpetrated the incident in response to the farmer's abuse of workers.
04/15/2013: Assailants threw a grenade near a police station in Mauripur area of Karachi city, Sindh province, Pakistan. A child was injured in the attack. No group has claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2013: Assailants threw a hand grenade at an Election Commission office in Panjgur district, Balochistan province, Pakistan. One policeman was injured in the explosion. No group has claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2013: At least two explosives-laden vehicles detonated at a police checkpoint near the International Airport in Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. At least two civilians were killed and 16 others were injured in the blast. This was one of 35 coordinated attacks that occurred in Iraq on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/15/2013: Four mortars landed near a federal police checkpoint in Rasas area, Samarra city, Saladin governorate, Iraq. Twelve police officers were injured in the attack. This was one of 35 coordinated attacks that occurred in Iraq on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/15/2013: Gunmen ambushed a patrol of Police Public Protection Force officers in Haft Asiab area, Sayed Abad district, Wardak province, Afghanistan. Five officers were killed and one other was injured in the attack. One assailant was also killed and three were wounded when the officers returned fire. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities attributed the attack to the Taliban.
04/15/2013: Gunmen opened fire and threw grenades at the government compound in Ad Dali governorate, Yemen. The attack injured three soldiers guarding the compound. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, a security official attributed the attack to the Southern Mobility Movement (Yemen).
04/15/2013: Gunmen shot and killed four civilians after dragging them from their vehicle in Nanai Baba area of Ghazni Province, Afghanistan. The victims included three engineers of a local construction company. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, a spokesperson for the Ghazni governor's office attributed the attack to the Taliban.
04/15/2013: Gunmen shot at the motorcade of a South Waziristan independent candidate in the Dera Ismail Khan district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. Two people died and three were injured in the attack. The candidate, Abdul Rahim Burki, was not in the vehicle at the time of the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2013: Two assailants on motorcycles shot and killed a Master Sergeant driving in Tambon Moh Mawee, Yarang district, Pattani province, Thailand. No group has claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2013: Two explosives-laden vehicles detonated at the home of a Shia election candidate outside of Kirkuk city, Kirkuk, Iraq. There were no reported casualties resulting from the blast. This was one of 35 coordinated attacks that occurred in Iraq on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/15/2013: Two explosives-laden vehicles detonated at the National Masses Coalition office in Tikrit city, Saladin governorate, Iraq. Seven people were wounded in the attack. This was one of 35 coordinated attacks that occurred in Iraq on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/15/2014: A land mine detonated near a civilian tractor in Tarnak Wa Jaldak district, Zabul province, Afghanistan. Two civilians were killed and six others were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2014: A suicide bomber, targeting a market, detonated explosives prematurely in Shirin Tagab district, Faryab province, Afghanistan. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Taliban.
04/15/2014: An explosive device attached to a solar-powered street lamp detonated in Kasa Populare neighborhood, Mogadishu city, Banaadir region, Somalia. At least one civilian was killed and five others were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected that Al-Shabaab carried out the attack.
04/15/2014: An explosive device detonated at a construction site in Tilpapara neighborhood, Khilgaon district, Dhaka division, Bangladesh. Four people were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2014: An explosive device detonated at a gas pipeline near Karoundi area, Sindh province, Pakistan. The pipeline was damaged in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2014: An explosive device detonated at the residence of a member of the police chief's protection team in Qabr al Abd area, Nineveh governorate, Iraq. There were no reported casualties; however, the under-construction house was damaged in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2014: An explosive device detonated near a gas pipeline in Dera Bugti district, Balochistan province, Pakistan. There were no reported casualties; however, the gas pipeline was damaged in the blast. The Balochistan Republican Army (BRA) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2014: An explosive device detonated near a gas pipeline in Zardari village, Sindh province, Pakistan. There were no reported casualties; however, the pipeline was damaged in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2014: An explosive device detonated near a military convoy along Ghulam Khan road between Miran Shah town and Ghulam Khan Kalay area, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. One soldier was wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2014: An explosive device detonated near a police patrol in Mansur neighborhood, Mosul city, Nineveh governorate, Iraq. One police officer was wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2014: An explosive device detonated near a police vehicle in Ad Doqi neighborhood, Giza city, Giza governorate, Egypt. Three people were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2014: An explosive device detonated near a traffic police post in Ad Doqi neighborhood, Giza city, Giza governorate, Egypt. Two police officers were wounded in the blast. Ajnad Misr claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2014: An explosive device planted in a laptop bag was discovered in Port Harcourt village, Rivers state, Nigeria. Authorities safely detonated the device in a controlled explosion. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2014: An explosive device planted in a sewer pipe detonated in Mojarras village, Meraderes municipality, Cauca department, Colombia. There were no reported casualties; however, the highway was damaged in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
04/15/2014: An explosive device was discovered and safely defused at a bar located within a bus station in Arusha city, Arusha region, Tanzania. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2014: An explosive device was discovered and safely defused on the Mandagaon-Mendra road, Kanker district, Chhattisgarh state, India. This was one of two devices discovered and safely defused in this area on April 15, 2014. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected that Maoists planted the device.
04/15/2014: An explosive device, targeting a Biji Oil Refinery official, detonated in Baiji city, Saladin governorate, Iraq. One civilian was killed and two others, including the official, were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2014: Assailants abducted a soldier in Mosoco village, Paez municipality, Cauca department, Colombia. The soldier was released on April 17, 2014. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the abduction to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
04/15/2014: Assailants abducted two Ukrainian soldiers in Krasnyi Luch city, Luhansk oblast, Ukraine. The outcome of the abduction is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the pro-Russia militia.
04/15/2014: Assailants attack an African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) base in Burdhubo city, Gedo region, Somalia. At least seven assailants were killed in the ensuing clash. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Al-Shabaab.
04/15/2014: Assailants attacked a Catholic church, where civilians were hiding, and abducted a number of people in Bentiu town, Unity state, South Sudan. An unknown number of civilians were killed in the attack. This was one of five attacks in Bentiu town on April 15, 2014. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Sudan People's Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO).
04/15/2014: Assailants attacked a mosque being used as a civilian shelter and abducted a number of people in Bentiu town, Unity state, South Sudan. At least 287 people were killed and 400 others were wounded in the attack. This was one of five attacks in Bentiu town on April 15, 2014. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Sudan People's Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO).
04/15/2014: Assailants attacked Abu village, West Darfur state, Sudan. This was one of 11 coordinated attacks carried out by the Janjaweed on April 15, 2014. At least five people were killed, an unknown number of people were wounded and an unknown number of women and girls were abducted across attacks. The outcome of the abduction is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Janjaweed.
04/15/2014: Assailants attacked an abandoned World Food Programme (WFP) building serving as a civilian shelter and abducted an unknown number of people in Bentiu town, Unity state, South Sudan. An unknown number of people were killed in the attack. This was one of five attacks in Bentiu town on April 15, 2014. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Sudan People's Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO).
04/15/2014: Assailants attacked Dali village, West Darfur state, Sudan. This was one of 11 coordinated attacks carried out by the Janjaweed on April 15, 2014. At least five people were killed, an unknown number of people were wounded and an unknown number of women and girls were abducted across attacks. The outcome of the abduction is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Janjaweed.
04/15/2014: Assailants attacked General Vasyl Krutov outside an airport in Kramatorsk city, Donetsk oblast, Ukraine. Krutov, the Anti-Terrorist Unit Chief, was unharmed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Donetsk People's Republic.
04/15/2014: Assailants attacked Hashaba village, West Darfur state, Sudan. This was one of 11 coordinated attacks carried out by the Janjaweed on April 15, 2014. At least five people were killed, an unknown number of people were wounded and an unknown number of women and girls were abducted across attacks. The outcome of the abduction is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Janjaweed.
04/15/2014: Assailants attacked Kadarik village, West Darfur state, Sudan. This was one of 11 coordinated attacks carried out by the Janjaweed on April 15, 2014. At least five people were killed, an unknown number of people were wounded and an unknown number of women and girls were abducted across attacks. The outcome of the abduction is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Janjaweed.
04/15/2014: Assailants attacked Krafula village, West Darfur state, Sudan. This was one of 11 coordinated attacks carried out by the Janjaweed on April 15, 2014. At least five people were killed, an unknown number of people were wounded and an unknown number of women and girls were abducted across attacks. The outcome of the abduction is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Janjaweed.
04/15/2014: Assailants attacked Kuijr village, West Darfur state, Sudan. This was one of 11 coordinated attacks carried out by the Janjaweed on April 15, 2014. At least five people were killed, an unknown number of people were wounded and an unknown number of women and girls were abducted across attacks. The outcome of the abduction is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Janjaweed.
04/15/2014: Assailants attacked Kutto village, West Darfur state, Sudan. This was one of 11 coordinated attacks carried out by the Janjaweed on April 15, 2014. At least five people were killed, an unknown number of people were wounded and an unknown number of women and girls were abducted across attacks. The outcome of the abduction is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Janjaweed.
04/15/2014: Assailants attacked Nuer civilians hiding in a hospital in Bentiu town, Unity state, South Sudan. At least 19 people were killed in the incident. This was one of five attacks in Bentiu town on April 15, 2014. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Sudan People's Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO).
04/15/2014: Assailants attacked Sharafah village, West Kordofan state, Sudan. This was one of 11 coordinated attacks carried out by the Janjaweed on April 15, 2014. At least five people were killed, an unknown number of people were wounded and an unknown number of women and girls were abducted across attacks. The outcome of the abduction is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Janjaweed.
04/15/2014: Assailants attacked the residence of a merchant and abducted 48 traders in Bentiu town, Unity state, South Sudan. Forty-five traders were killed and three others were wounded and released the same day. This was one of five attacks in Bentiu town on April 15, 2014. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed it to the Sudan People's Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO).
04/15/2014: Assailants attacked Tumu village, Darfur state, Sudan. This was one of 11 coordinated attacks carried out by the Janjaweed on April 15, 2014. At least five people were killed, an unknown number of people were wounded and an unknown number of women and girls were abducted across attacks. The outcome of the abduction is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Janjaweed.
04/15/2014: Assailants attacked Umm Driseiya village, Darfur state, Sudan. This was one of 11 coordinated attacks carried out by the Janjaweed on April 15, 2014. At least five people were killed, an unknown number of people were wounded and an unknown number of women and girls were abducted across attacks. The outcome of the abduction is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Janjaweed.
04/15/2014: Assailants attacked Umm Triter village, Darfur state, Sudan. This was one of 11 coordinated attacks carried out by the Janjaweed on April 15, 2014. At least five people were killed, an unknown number of people were wounded and an unknown number of women and girls were abducted across attacks. The outcome of the abduction is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Janjaweed.
04/15/2014: Assailants fired rocket propelled grenades at the vehicle of Zarakia Ahmed in Salam neighborhood, Benghazi city, Benghazi district, Libya. Ahmed, a member of the Special Forces, was wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2014: Assailants launched a rocket near a military facility in Suwayda city, As Suwayda governorate, Syria. There were no reported casualties in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2014: Assailants launched mortars at a school in Bab Touma neighborhood, Damascus city, Damascus governorate, Syria. One child was killed and 36 other people were wounded in the attack. This was one of two mortar attacks on schools in Damascus city on April 15, 2014. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2014: Assailants launched mortars at schools in Duwaila neighborhood, Damascus city, Damascus governorate, Syria. Five people were wounded in the attack. This was one of two mortar attacks on schools in Damascus city on April 15, 2014. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2014: Assailants launched two rockets at the Al Fursan police station in Ramadi city, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. At least nine people, including police officers and civilians, were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2014: Assailants opened fire at a barber shop in Killay Bengalzai area, Quetta city, Balochistan province, Pakistan. Two people were killed and a child was wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2014: Assailants opened fire at the residence of Abdirahman Qordhere in Shaqalaha neighborhood, Kismayo city, Lower Juba region, Somalia. Qordhere, a Juba Interim Administration (JIA) senior official, and one of his bodyguards were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected that Al-Shabaab carried out the attack.
04/15/2014: Assailants opened fire on a joint African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) and Juba Interim Administration (JIA) military base in Kismayo city, Lower Juba region, Somalia. Two soldiers were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Al-Shabaab.
04/15/2014: Assailants opened fire on a Libya Shield Force member in Benghazi city, Benghazi district, Libya. The Libya Shield Force member was wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2014: Assailants opened fire on a local council employee in Sabha city, Sabha district, Libya. The employee was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2014: Assailants opened fire on a military checkpoint in Mosul city, Nineveh governorate, Iraq. Two assailants were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2014: Assailants opened fire on a military outpost in Baqubah city, Diyala governorate, Iraq. Three assailants were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2014: Assailants opened fire on a passenger bus near the Grand Renaissance Dam in Metekel district, Banishangul Gumuz region, Ethiopia. At least nine people were killed and six others were wounded in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/15/2014: Assailants opened fire on a police outpost in Tagcatong village, Agusan del Norte province, Philippines. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the New People's Army (NPA).
04/15/2014: Assailants opened fire on a police patrol in Baiji city, Saladin governorate, Iraq. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2014: Assailants opened fire on a security forces patrol in Doabb area, Baharak district, Badakhshan province, Afghanistan. One assailant was killed and three others, including two assailants and one soldier, were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Taliban.
04/15/2014: Assailants opened fire on a soldier at the Baghdad Coach Station in Nineveh governorate, Iraq. The soldier was wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2014: Assailants opened fire on a Somali National Army (SNA) soldier in Radarka neighborhood, Mogadishu city, Banaadir region, Somalia. The soldier was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected that Al-Shabaab carried out the attack.
04/15/2014: Assailants opened fire on Abd-al-Mun'im Salih al-Urfi in Benghazi city, Benghazi district, Libya. Al-Urfi, a local council candidate, was wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2014: Assailants opened fire on civilians in Nwokyo village, Taraba state, Nigeria. At least seven people were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Fulani militants.
04/15/2014: Assailants opened fire on civilians in Obagaji area, Benue state, Nigeria. Twelve people were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Fulani militants.
04/15/2014: Assailants opened fire on Emmanuel de Merode between Goma and Rumangabo areas, North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Merode, the director of the Virunga National Park, was wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2014: Assailants opened fire on Hussein Dian in Al Dughailah neighborhood, Bayda town, Al Bayda governorate, Yemen. Dian, the undersecretary of Al Bayda governorate, was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
04/15/2014: Assailants opened fire on members of World Relief, a non-governmental organization (NGO), in Mutego town, North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. No casualties were reported; however, the assailants stole valuables from the group. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2014: Assailants opened fire on the convoy of Fawaz al-Etan in Mansour neighborhood, Tripoli city, Tripoli district, Libya. Al-Etan, a Jordanian ambassador, was abducted and his driver was wounded in the attack. Al-Etan was released on May 13, 2014. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the abduction to the Libya Shield Force.
04/15/2014: Assailants opened fire on the palace of Alhaji Idrissa Timta in Sabon Kasuawa village, Borno state, Nigeria. Timta, the emir of Gwoza, and a guard were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Boko Haram.
04/15/2014: Assailants opened fire on the security team of Desmond McKenzie in Kingston city, Saint Andrew parish, Jamaica. McKenzie, a Member of Parliament (MP), was unharmed; however, an assailant was wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2014: Assailants opened fire on the vehicle of Adnan Yildiz, a former Member of Parliament (MP), in Istanbul city, Istanbul province, Turkey. Three people were killed, including the wife and daughter of Yildiz and one assailant, and three others, including Yildiz, his son , and an assailant, were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2014: Assailants opened fire on the vehicle of Ahmad Shah Waheed in Khair Khana neighborhood, Kabul city, Kabul province, Afghanistan. Waheed, the Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Public Works, was abducted and his driver was wounded in the attack. Waheed was released on April 23, 2014. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2014: Assailants opened fire on the vehicle of Mariam Koofi in Shahrak-i-Arya neighborhood, Kabul city, Kabul province, Afghanistan. Koofi, a Member of Parliament (MP), was wounded, along with one of her bodyguards and an assailant in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2014: Assailants seized a town hall in Torez city, Donetsk oblast, Ukraine. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Donetsk People's Republic.
04/15/2014: Assailants stormed a city hall in Horlivka city, Donetsk oblast, Ukraine. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2014: Assailants stormed and opened fire on Soro village, Bauchi state, Nigeria. One person was killed and three vehicles, including two United Nations (UN) hilux vans, were stolen in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2014: Assailants threw an explosive device, targeting members of the Bagri Clan, at a residence in Bhit Shah area, Sindh province, Pakistan. Four people were killed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2014: Assailants threw petrol bombs at the residence of Ghulam Muhammad Bhat in Jamalatta neighborhood, Srinagar city, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. Bhat, a Jammu & Kashmir National Conference (NC) worker, was unharmed; however, the house was damaged in the attack. This was one of two similar attacks on National Conference (NC) workers in this area on April 15, 2014. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2014: Assailants threw petrol bombs at the residence of Mohammad Shafi Lone in Jamalatta neighborhood, Srinagar city, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. Bhat, a Jammu & Kashmir National Conference (NC) worker, was unharmed; however, the house was damaged in the attack. This was one of two similar attacks on National Conference (NC) workers in this area on April 15, 2014. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2014: At least one suicide bomber detonated near a police station in Al-Aziziyah neighborhood, Ramadi city, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. In addition to the bomber, at least two police officers were killed and four others were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/15/2014: Authorities discovered and safely defused a number of explosive devices in Kandahar province, Afghanistan. A total of 29 explosive devices were discovered and safely defused in Helmand, Nangarhar, Laghman, and Kandahar provinces on April 15, 2014. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Taliban.
04/15/2014: Authorities discovered and safely defused a number of explosive devices in Laghman province, Afghanistan. A total of 29 explosive devices were discovered and safely defused in Helmand, Nangarhar, Laghman, and Kandahar provinces on April 15, 2014. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Taliban.
04/15/2014: Authorities discovered and safely defused a number of explosive devices in Nangarhar province, Afghanistan. A total of 29 explosive devices were discovered and safely defused in Helmand, Nangarhar, Laghman, and Kandahar provinces on April 15, 2014. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to the Taliban.
04/15/2014: Authorities discovered and safely defused an explosive device at the residence of Meinya Thokchom, a Member of Parliament (MP), in Khumbong area, Manipur state, India. The Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2014: Authorities discovered and safely defused an unknown number of explosive devices in Helmand province, Afghanistan. A total of 29 explosive devices were discovered and safely defused in Helmand, Nangarhar, Laghman, and Kandahar provinces on April 15, 2014. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Taliban.
04/15/2014: Two roadside bombs detonated in Baqubah city, Diyala governorate, Iraq. Three civilians were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2015: A civilian vehicle struck an explosive device in Podina area, Kandahar province, Afghanistan. Two civilians were killed in the blast. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2015: A suicide bomber in an explosives-laden vehicle detonated at a United Nations Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) camp in Ansongo town, Gao region, Mali. In addition to the bomber, three civilians were killed and 16 others, including seven civilians and nine peacekeepers, were injured in the blast. Al-Mua'qi'oon Biddam Brigade (Those who Sign with Blood) and Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO), two groups that reportedly merged into Al-Mourabitoun, claimed responsibility and stated that the attack was aimed at Niger nationals for their President's participation in a pro-Charlie Hebdo rally, and for allowing American and French troops to enter Mali.
04/15/2015: An assailant rammed his vehicle into a bus stop in French Hill neighborhood, Jerusalem city, West Bank, West Bank and Gaza Strip. A civilian was killed and two others, including the assailant, were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources identified the assailant as a Palestinian extremist.
04/15/2015: An explosive device detonated at the Qartuna mosque in Sirte city, Sirte district, Libya. Two people were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2015: An explosive device detonated near a cafe in Riyadh area, Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. At least one person was killed and seven others were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2015: An explosive device detonated near a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp near Lerie Colony, Kohima area, Nagaland state, India. There were no reported casualties in the blast. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Khaplang (NSCN-K).
04/15/2015: An explosive device detonated near a market in Abu Disheer area, Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. Eight people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2015: An explosive device detonated near a minibus in Kafr el-Sheikh city, Kafr El-Sheikh governorate, Egypt. Three students from a military academy were killed and six others were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2015: An explosive device detonated near a restaurant in Husseiniyah area, Diyala governorate, Iraq. At least three people were killed and four others were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2015: An explosive device detonated targeting a Sahwa Council patrol in western Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. Two Sahwa members were killed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2015: An explosive device was discovered and defused at a private residence in Khukundi village, Assam state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2015: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated at the residence of the Iraqi Minister of Electricity in Sufiyah area, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. The minister was not harmed, although his adviser was killed in the blast. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2015: Assailants ambushed Rihab al-Qaysi's vehicle in Al-Sikak neighborhood, Baiji district, Saladin governorate, Iraq. Qaysi, an Iraqi Volunteer Forces leader, was not harmed, although one of his guards was killed and three more guards were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/15/2015: Assailants attacked a military convoy in Taizz city, Taizz governorate, Yemen. Two soldiers were killed and 10 others were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Huthis.
04/15/2015: Assailants attacked a military patrol with explosives and grenades in Timba area, Cauca department, Colombia. At least 13 people, including 11 soldiers and two assailants, were killed and 19 others were wounded in the attack. The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Columbia (FARC) claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that the attack was in response to alleged government offensives on the FARC during a declared ceasefire.
04/15/2015: Assailants attacked Albu Khalifa village, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. This was one of four coordinated raids on villages surrounding Ramadi city on the same day. At least 13 security force members were killed across this and two other attacks. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/15/2015: Assailants attacked an Afghan National Army (ANA) convoy in Alingar district, Laghman province, Afghanistan. One assailant was killed in the ensuing clash. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Taliban.
04/15/2015: Assailants attacked an Iraqi Volunteer Forces position west of Dujail area, Balad district, Saladin governorate, Iraq. At least two volunteer fighters and four assailants were killed and 10 volunteers were injured in the ensuing clash. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2015: Assailants attacked farmers in Matiba village, Mbau area, North Kivu region, Democratic Republic of the Congo. At least 19 people were killed, nine of which were beheaded, in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF).
04/15/2015: Assailants attacked pro-Russian former Ukrainian parliamentarian Oleg Kalashnikov in his home in Kiev city, Kiev oblast, Ukraine. Kalashnikov was killed in the attack. The Ukrainian Insurgent Army claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2015: Assailants attacked security forces and family clan members near a police station in Albu Ghanim, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. At least nine police officers and four clan members were killed in the ensuing clash. This was one of four coordinated attacks on villages surrounding Ramadi city on the same day. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/15/2015: Assailants attacked Sor village, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. This was one of four coordinated raids on villages surrounding Ramadi city on the same day. At least 13 security force members were killed across this and two other attacks. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/15/2015: Assailants attacked volunteer fighters in Baiji district, Saladin governorate, Iraq. At least one person was killed and three others were injured in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/15/2015: Assailants detonated explosives-laden vehicles at a government complex in Ramadi city, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. At least nine people were killed across this and another attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/15/2015: Assailants fired mortars at Kadugli town, South Kordofan state, Sudan. This was one of two attacks in this area on this day. Four civilians were killed and nine others were wounded across both incidents. Sudan People's Liberation Movement - North claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2015: Assailants fired mortars that landed and detonated in Dalang town, South Kordofan state, Sudan. This was one of two similar attacks in Sudan on this date. Four civilians were killed and nine wounded across both attacks. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Sudan People's Liberation Movement - North.
04/15/2015: Assailants fired projectiles that landed and detonated in residential areas in Aden city, Adan governorate, Yemen. At least three civilians were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Huthis.
04/15/2015: Assailants kidnapped 37 civilians in Rutshuru district, North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The whereabouts of the victims are unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the kidnapping; however, sources attributed the abduction to the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR).
04/15/2015: Assailants kidnapped a German development worker with the Federal Enterprise for International Cooperation (GIZ), from Angor Bagh area, Kunduz city, Kunduz province, Afghanistan. The kidnapped worker was rescued on May 29, 2015. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2015: Assailants kidnapped Dr. Amir Bakhsh, the coordinator of the Balochistan Health Department, from Sariab Road area, Quetta city, Balochistan province, Pakistan. The whereabouts of the victim are unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2015: Assailants kidnapped four Hazara Shia civilians in Malistan district, Ghazni province, Afghanistan. The beheaded bodies of the civilians were found on April 17, 2015. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to both the Khorasan Chapter of the Islamic State. Sources also suspected that the incident was carried out by the Taliban, who denied involvement.
04/15/2015: Assailants launched a missile at a civilian residence in Ziruk district, Paktika province, Afghanistan. One civilian was killed and three others were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Taliban.
04/15/2015: Assailants opened fire on a Frontier Works Organization (FWO) vehicle in Sabz Aap area, Panjgur district, Balochistan province, Pakistan. One person was killed and seven others were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2015: Assailants opened fire on a government of Thon Sai municipal assembly member in Sai Buri district, Pattani province, Thailand. The assembly member was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2015: Assailants opened fire on a joint security checkpoint in Sulayman Beg region, Saladin governorate, Iraq. Four assailants were killed in the ensuing clash. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2015: Assailants opened fire on a military headquarters in Kabingi village, Maguindanao province, Philippines. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Movement (BIFM).
04/15/2015: Assailants opened fire on Popular Resistance Committee members in Aden city, Adan governorate, Yemen. At least four members were killed in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Huthis.
04/15/2015: Assailants, including three suicide bombers driving explosives-laden vehicles, attacked Sufiyah village, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. This was one of four coordinated raids on villages surrounding Ramadi city on the same day. At least 13 security force members were killed across this and two other attacks. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/15/2015: Security forces discovered and defused 14 explosive devices northwest of Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2016: A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle near the foreign ministry building in Aden, Adan, Yemen. Besides the assailant, there were no reported casualties in the blast. The Adan-Abyan Province of the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the incident. However, sources also suspected the involvement of Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in the attack.
04/15/2016: An explosive device detonated against the vehicle of Al-Saiqa commander Fadl Al-Hassi in Al-Hawary, Benghazi, Libya. Al-Hassi was not injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2016: An explosive device detonated and assailants opened fire targeting the Tambon Don Sai Administrative Organization office in Mai Kaen district, Pattani, Thailand. There were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2016: An explosive device detonated in Banbon, Narathiwat, Thailand. There were no reported casualties in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2016: An explosive device detonated near police personnel in Sukma district, Chhattisgarh, India. There were no reported casualties in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2016: An explosive device detonated prematurely as assailants were planting it in Koyaliberda, Chhattisgarh, India. At least three assailants were killed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to Maoists.
04/15/2016: An explosive device detonated targeting a civilian vehicle in Bukavu, South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Three people were killed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2016: An explosive device detonated targeting a military vehicle in Savur, Mardin, Turkey. At least four soldiers were killed and two soldiers were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
04/15/2016: An explosive device detonated targeting a Thahan Phran patrol in Mo Mawi, Pattani, Thailand. Four soldiers were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2016: Assailants abducted Abdeljabar Abdallah, a trader, in Serif Omar, North Darfur, Sudan. The outcome of the kidnapping is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Janjaweed.
04/15/2016: Assailants abducted Saddam Mohamed Al-Rahim Al-Gheddafi in Libya. Al-Gheddafi was executed in Sirte on May 15, 2016. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to the Tripoli Province of the Islamic State and suggested that the victim was targeted for his allegiance to the military.
04/15/2016: Assailants abducted Surendra Dhurve and Rajkumar Dhurve in Malanjkhand, Madhya Pradesh, India. Surendra was killed and Rajkumar escaped on April 16, 2016. Maoists claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that the victims were police informants.
04/15/2016: Assailants ambushed an oil tanker convoy in Farah Rud, Farah, Afghanistan. Three drivers were taken hostage and 24 tanker trucks were set on fire during the assault. The outcome of the kidnapping is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Taliban.
04/15/2016: Assailants attacked a military base near Afgoye, Lower Shebelle, Somalia. There were an unknown number of casualties in the ensuing clash. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to Al-Shabaab.
04/15/2016: Assailants attacked a police post in Mullah Aman, Farah, Afghanistan. This was one of three related assaults targeting police posts in Pusht Rod district on this date. One police officer and five assailants were killed and seven assailants were injured in the ensuing clashes. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents; however, sources attributed the attacks to the Taliban.
04/15/2016: Assailants attacked a police post in Nawbahar, Farah, Afghanistan. This was one of three related assaults targeting police posts in Pusht Rod district on this date. One police officer and five assailants were killed and seven assailants were injured in the ensuing clashes. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents; however, sources attributed the attacks to the Taliban.
04/15/2016: Assailants attacked a police post in Shahre Kohna, Farah, Afghanistan. This was one of three related assaults targeting police posts in Pusht Rod district on this date. One police officer and five assailants were killed and seven assailants were injured in the ensuing clashes. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents; however, sources attributed the attacks to the Taliban.
04/15/2016: Assailants attacked a police station in Kabumba, Western, Rwanda. There were no reported casualties in the ensuing clash. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR).
04/15/2016: Assailants attacked an unknown number of police posts in Darzak, Herat, Afghanistan. Five assailants were killed in the ensuing clash. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Taliban.
04/15/2016: Assailants attacked an unknown number of security checkposts in Kunduz, Afghanistan. At least 40 assailants and two security members were killed and 53 assailants and six members were injured in the ensuing clashes. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2016: Assailants attacked an unknown number of security posts in Shahabuddin, Baghlan, Afghanistan. At least 15 assailants were killed and 10 assailants were wounded in the ensuing clash. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Taliban.
04/15/2016: Assailants attacked Shahrak district, Ghor, Afghanistan. Two assailants were killed in the ensuing clash. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Taliban.
04/15/2016: Assailants equipped with explosives-laden vehicles and rifles attacked military forces in Pulka, Borno, Nigeria. Security members repelled the assault, killing seven assailants and injuring an unknown number of assailants. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Boko Haram.
04/15/2016: Assailants equipped with explosives-laden vehicles attacked military positions in Al-Hawary, Benghazi, Libya. At least five assailants and six soldiers were killed and 25 soldiers were wounded in the assault. The Barqa Province of the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2016: Assailants fired mortars at Jamal Abdul Nasser street in Benghazi, Libya. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2016: Assailants fired projectiles that landed and detonated in Marea, Aleppo, Syria. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/15/2016: Assailants hijacked two Indonesian vessels from Sitangkai, Tawi-Tawi, Philippines. One sailor was injured and four sailors were abducted in the attack. The four hostages were released on May 11, 2016. No group claimed responsibility for the attack; however, sources attributed the incident to the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG).
04/15/2016: Assailants kidnapped a volunteer fighter in Hit, Al Anbar, Iraq. The victim was killed later the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/15/2016: Assailants opened fire on the vehicle of Vikizitha Mlotshwa in Bergville, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Mlotshwa, the National Freedom Party (NFP) chairperson for KwaZulu-Natal, was not injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2016: Assailants raided a village in Jakawa, Gambella, Ethiopia. This was one of ten related assaults targeting villages in Jakawa on this date. At least 60 assailants and 208 civilians were killed and 80 people were injured across the attacks. At least 159 children were also abducted. At least 91 hostages have been rescued as of June 11, 2016 but the whereabouts of the remaining victims are unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents; however, sources attributed the attacks to the Murle Tribe.
04/15/2016: Assailants set fire to vehicles in Chandra, Dhaka, Bangladesh. There were no reported casualties. This was one of two related attacks in the Kaliakair subdistrict on this day. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incidents to the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).
04/15/2016: Assailants shot and killed Assistant Sub-Inspector Thana Malik Altaf Qazi in Killi Hazar Khan, Balochistan, Pakistan. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2016: Assailants shot and killed Michael McGibbon in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. The New Irish Republican Army claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/15/2016: Assailants threw petrol bombs at a police vehicle in Kaliakair, Dhaka, Bangladesh. There were no reported casualties. This was one of two related attacks in the Kaliakair subdistrict on this day. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incidents to the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).
04/15/2016: Police discovered and defused an explosive device planted near a temple in Konta, Chhattisgarh, India. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to Maoists.
04/15/2016: Security forces identified and arrested a suicide bomber with an explosives-belt in Zafraniya, Baghdad, Iraq. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2017: A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle near an evacuation bus convoy in Rashidin neighborhood, Aleppo, Syria. In addition to the assailant, at least 126 people were killed and 55 other people were injured in the blast; the victims included aid workers, Ahrar al-Sham members, and civilians. Jaysh al-Islam (Syria) claimed responsibility for the attack. Sources also attributed the incident to Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham and suspected the involvement of Ahrar al-Sham.
04/15/2017: An explosive device detonated in Kadaikhodra, Chhattisgarh, India. One civilian was killed and another civilian was injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected the involvement of Maoists in the attack.
04/15/2017: An explosive device detonated near a market in Bakriyah area, Baghdad, Iraq. At least four people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2017: An explosive device detonated targeting a vehicle carrying government officials in Janikheil, Nangarhar, Afghanistan. Four officials, including a district governor, intelligence officials, and a district police chief, were injured in the blast. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2017: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated at a Syrian Armed Forces (SAF) base in Wadi al-Arzak, near Salma, Lattakia, Syria. At least 10 soldiers were killed and dozens of other soldiers were injured in the blast. Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham claimed responsibility for the attack. Sources also suspected that the attack was carried out by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/15/2017: Assailants abducted 13 civilians in Badghis, Afghanistan. The hostages were released the following day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Taliban.
04/15/2017: Assailants attacked a construction site in Badaspur, Bihar, India. A payloader driver was killed and construction equipment was set on fire in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected that Maoists carried out the attack.
04/15/2017: Assailants attacked a security post in Latai, Sari Pul, Afghanistan. There were no reported casualties in the attack. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2017: Assailants attacked a security post in Mirza Wulang, Sari Pul, Afghanistan. There were no reported casualties in the attack. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2017: Assailants attacked Abu Jamal Khalil's residence in Zalingei, Central Darfur, Sudan. Khalil, the leader of the Sudan Liberation Movement-General Command, was not harmed, though one guard was killed and a second guard and a civilian were injured in the ensuing clash. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2017: Assailants attacked military forces with chemical-laced projectiles in Bab al-Jadid neighborhood, Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq. No casualties were reported in the assault. This was one of two similar attacks in the area on this date. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incidents to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/15/2017: Assailants attacked military forces with chemical-laced projectiles in Urubah neighborhood, Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq. No casualties were reported in the assault. This was one of two similar attacks in the area on this date. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incidents to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/15/2017: Assailants attacked security checkposts near Ghatan, Ghazni, Afghanistan. During the attack, the assailants fired a rocket that struck a nearby house, killing four civilians. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2017: Assailants fired a mortar that struck a residential building near Baghdad, Iraq. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2017: Assailants fired chlorine-laced shells targeting military forces in Abar neighborhood, Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq. At least seven soldiers were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/15/2017: Assailants opened fire on a teacher in Jalayi Kalag, Sistan and Baluchestan, Iran. The teacher was killed and his two children were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Baloch nationalists.
04/15/2017: Assailants opened fire on Altaf Ahmad Dar in at a bus stand in Dhangerpora, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Dar, a Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party (PDP) worker, was injured in the attack. This was one of two similar attacks in Pulwama district on this date. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents; however, sources noted that the victim had previously been asked to halt his political activities.
04/15/2017: Assailants opened fire on Bashir Ahmad Dar at his residence in Rajpora, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Dar, a Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party (PDP) worker, was killed and another person was injured in the attack. This was one of two similar attacks in Pulwama district on this date. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents; however, sources noted that the victim had previously been asked to halt his political activities.
04/15/2017: Assailants opened fire on Ibrahim Vanli's motorcade in Muradiye district, Van, Turkey. Vanli, a Justice and Development Party (AKP) district head, was not harmed, though one guard was killed and another guard was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
04/15/2017: Assailants opened fire on Muhammad Ahmad Ali, a presidential palace official, in Mogadishu, Somalia. Ali and his companion were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2017: Assailants raided a police officer's residence in Hajipora, Jammu and Kashmir, India. The officer was injured in the attack. This was one of two similar attacks in Shopian district on this date. An unknown group claimed responsibility for the incident and demanded that the police officer resign from his job.
04/15/2017: Assailants raided a police officer's residence in Meldoora, Jammu and Kashmir, India. There were no reported casualties as the officer was not present during the attack. This was one of two similar attacks in Shopian district on this date. An unknown group claimed responsibility for the incident and demanded that the police officer resign from his job.
04/15/2017: Assailants set fire to a village council building in Banderpora, Jammu and Kashmir, India. There were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/15/2017: Security forces discovered and defused an explosive device near Polampalli, Chhattisgarh, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attempted attack to Maoists.
04/16/1974: White man, Nelson T. Shields IV, was accompanying a friend to 231 Vernon Street in the Ingleside district in San Francisco, California in the United States, at about 9:30pm, where the two were picking up a rug Shields' friend was buying from a rug dealer's home.  As Shields was rearranging items in the back of the station wagon to make room for the rug, he was shot three times in the back with a .32 caliber gun.  Although no indictments were brought on this crime other than the charge of conspiracy, authorities believe that witness descriptions of the perpetrator(s)  as could have matched either of three of the Zebra killers.  Additionally, just before Shields and his friend arrived at the rug dealer's home, the rug dealer noticed two African American men in their twenties parked in a car outside her home, but by the time Shields and his friend arrived, the men were gone.  This was the nineteenth in a series of 20 attacks (with 23 victims) on random whites by black Muslims who came to be known as the Zebra Killers.
04/16/1987: A fire set to the animal diagnostic center at the Veterinary Medicine Research Building at the University of California-Davis, in the United States, partially destroyed the building, causing an estimated $3,500,000 in damages. Additionally, vandals slashed tires and painted slogans such as "Animal Liberation Front" and "Stop the Torture," on about seventeen parked cars including university vehicles, in lots on the campus, about a half-mile from the fire. There were no casualties in the incident.  Hand-printed notes, signed "ALF," for Animal Liberation Front, claimed the vandalism of vehicles was "to retaliate in the name of thousands of animals tortured each year in campus labs." The notes were slipped under the front door of a building in Sacramento housing offices of both The Associated Press and United Press International.  Additionally, in an anonymous telephone call made to a Sacramento television station after the fire, the caller stated that ALF was responsible for the arson as well.
04/16/1996: An explosives-laden doll with a Star of David painted on it was planted on a bridge in Jena city, Urban district, Thuringia state, Germany.  The outcome of the attack was unknown.  No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to the National Socialist Underground.
04/16/1998: Chechen Rebels used explosives to attack the Russian Military, killing five people, including a major general and two colonels and injuring eight others in Chechnya, Russia.
04/16/1999: An explosive device filled with leaflets against NATO involvement in Kosovo exploded near a bank in downtown Buenos Aires, Argentina. There was minor damage, but no casualties in this incident. The Anti-Imperialist Commando claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/16/1999: In Turkey, an explosive device planted by unknown perpetrators caused damage to the Virtue Party election bureau in the Istanbul suburb of Maltepe.
04/16/2000: Four were injured by a bomb that exploded on a passenger train in Vavuniya, Sri Lanka. The attackers were unknown, and there was no claim of responsibility.
04/16/2000: The Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) killed Nepali Congress member Uday Bahadur Shahi in Kale Daanda, Nepal. A group of 15-20 perpetrators attacked his house with automatic weapons, injuring two others as well.
04/16/2001: A bomb at a police outpost on a road in Noviye Atagi, Shali district, Chechnya killed a policeman and a local resident whose car the policeman had stopped at the post to check his identification.  The driver's wife was injured in the blast, and the outpost was almost destroyed.  Although no group claimed responsibility for the incident, authorities believed individuals had left the bomb there some time before the explosion.
04/16/2001: Gunmen opened fire on a helicopter carrying the Minister of Youth and Sports, Francois Massaquoi, and supplies as it attempted to land in Voinjama, Liberia.  The helicopter escaped the gunfire but the minister was later pronounced dead at a hospital.  It was reported that a group calling themselves the Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy took responsibility for the attack.
04/16/2001. The National Liberation Army (NLA) kidnapped 92 Occidental Petroleum employees in Arauca, Colombia. Seventy-three of the hostages were released the following day, 17 April and the remaining hostages were released on 19 April. An ELN commander claimed responsibility for the incident in a telephone call to foreign news correspondents, saying that they were starting a sabotage campaign against Occidental because they were pillaging the Indian people of the area.
04/16/2002: An explosion occurred at a bazaar on the Srinagar-Jammu National Highway in Avantipura. The bomb was attached to a bicycle, and was detonated as an Army convoy passed through. Three civillians were killed and at least 16 others injured. There were no claims to responsibility.
04/16/2002: An explosion occurred at the back gates of the Northern Ireland Garnerville Police Training College in Garnerville. There were no injuries. The college and area home were evacuated. No group has claimed responsibility, but the government blames dissident republicans.
04/16/2002: An explosion occurred near the Yemeni Civil Aviation Authority building in Sanaa. There was no structural damage and no casualties. A group claiming to support Al-Qaida claimed responsibility. The group is believed to be the same that set off an explosion near the US embassy earlier in the month.
04/16/2002: Gunmen killed five civilians and injured two others in the Balhama Panzala village, located in the Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir, India. Gunmen attacked the home of Mahada Sheikh, though the motive was unknown. Two of the attackers were arrested.
04/16/2002: Members of an unknown militant group attacked government offices in Bharatpur. They set fire to furniture and official documents, and destroyed the buildings. There were no reported casualties. Simultanously, the militants attacked, and set fire to, the post office in Bhandara.
04/16/2002: Members of an unknown militant group attacked the Gondrang Coca-Cola Bottling factory. After holding the security guards hostage, the militants set fire to the building. Simulataneously, buildings in Baharatpur and Bhandara were set on fire. None were reported killed.
04/16/2002: Members of an unknown militant group attacked the post office in Bhandara. They set fire to the building, and destroyed it. Simultaneously, other members attacked government offices in Baharatpur.
04/16/2004: A 26-year-old man was arrested while in the process of placing gas canisters under a car belonging to a private security firm in Thessaloniki, Greece. Three policemen were injured when the perpetrator and an accomplice used paralytic spray on the officers. The perpetrator’s accomplice managed to escape. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, but police suspected that the men had been involved in other gas canister attacks in the area since the European Union summit in June 2003.
04/16/2004: Members of the pro-government Janjawid militia attacked the village of Donkidarisa in Darfur State, Sudan. The attackers burned a number of houses, stole sheep, and killed nine people including two police officers.
04/16/2004: Members of the Taliban kidnapped five school teachers in the Shajoy District of Zabul Province in Afghanistan. No group claimed responsibility for the kidnappings. The outcome of the kidnapping was unknown.
04/16/2004: Three campaign workers were killed and two bystanders wounded in an assassination attempt on Philippine House of Representatives candidate Lina Seachon on Masbate Island. Seachon was not injured in the politically motivated attack. Provincial Police Chief Senior Superintendent Romeo Mapalo stated that the incident had been carried out by private armed groups known to be maintained by political figures in the region. No group claimed responsibility for the assassination attempt.
04/16/2004: Two Iraqi policemen were killed when unidentified gunmen attacked a police patrol parked on the street in Kirbala, Iraq, with light firearms. No group claimed responsibility for the shooting.
04/16/2006: In Dantewara, Chhattisgarh, India, perpetrators began by hijacking a passenger bus. They proceeded to drive to a police post and opened fire, killing 10 police officers, wounding four, and damaging the post. They also broke into the post and stole various firearms, then blocked the highway to prevent any police involvement. No group claimed responsibility, but it was believed that the Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-M) was responsible.
04/16/2006: Perpetrators killed 17 civilians, wounded 13, and stole 10 livestock animals in Sha'riyah, Janub Darfur, Sudan. No claim of responsibility was reported.
04/16/2007: Nine police officers were killed and 25 were injured when a suicide bomber detonated an explosive vest in front of a police barracks in Kunduz province, Afghanistan. There was no claim of responsibility.
04/16/2007: Talal Younis al-Jalili, dean of the political science college of Mosul University, in Mosul, Iraq was killed by unknown armed men in front of the University main gate.  No claim of responsibility was reported.
04/16/2007: Unknown gunmen attacked a checkpoint manned by Iraqi soldiers outside the Addaiyah village, 80 km south of Mosul, Iraq. Thirteen soldiers were killed and four others were wounded.
04/16/2008: On Wednesday at 2:00 in the morning, about 20 Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants blew up a two-meter stretch of railway track between Hazaribagh Road and Parasnath railway station in the Giridih district of Jharkhand province, India. The Maoists later that day called for a 24-hour strike in Jharkhand and Bihar to protest the killing of eight rebels by security forces in Garwah District earlier that month in April 2008. No casualties were reported and no claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
04/16/2008: On Wednesday Palestinian militants operating in Gaza fired 8 improvised rockets at various Israeli targets in Negev, Southern District (Hadarom), Israel. There were no casualties or property damage reported.
04/16/2008: On Wednesday,  in Nong Chik, Pattani, Thailand, assailants fired upon and killed a shrimp farmer, Suppavit Mitchan. Mr. Suppavit was killed and then beheaded, on Wednesday, but his head had been carried off and was not found when the authorities arrived to investigate.  No group claimed responsibility, although police suspected Muslim separatists were responsible.
04/16/2008: On Wednesday, in an unknown location in Sahara, Algeria, a mediator between the Al Qaeda and Austrian authorities was killed while negotiations were going on to free two kidnapped vacationers. No group claimed responsibility but it is believed Mali rebels were involved.
04/16/2008: On Wednesday, in Yala, Thailand, assailants fired upon Muslim civilians in a pickup truck, killing two civilians (a 35-year-old woman and her 18-year-old daughter), wounding a 14-year-old child, and damaging the truck.  No group claimed responsibility, although police suspected Muslim separatists were responsible.
04/16/2008: On Wednesday, near Al Miqdadiyah, Diyala, Iraq, armed assailants fired upon a bus on the main road to Ba'qubah, killing two civilians, wounding five others, and damaging the bus. There was no motive reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/16/2008: On Wednesday, near the Abu-Idah factory in Jabaliya, Gaza Strip, West Bank and Gaza Strip, assailants fired a rocket at a community in Israel, which fell short and wounded two Palestinian civilians. No damage or motive were reported. No group claimed responsibility.
04/16/2009: On Friday, in Karbi Anglong, Assam, India, assailants fired upon a polling booth, causing no casualties or damage. No group claimed responsibility, but authorities believed the Karbi Longri North Cachar Liberation Front (KLNLF) was responsible.
04/16/2009: On Thursday night, a gas pipeline watchman was killed and two others injured when a landmine exploded near Sheikh Colony in Sui, Balochistan, Pakistan. It is unknown if the attack caused any property damage. No group has claimed responsibility.
04/16/2009: On Thursday, according to a local news report, Al Shabaab fighters in Baidoa, Bay, Somalia have abducted  Muhidin Hassan Mohammad, a Somali radio journalist who they accuse of printing lies about their fighters.  Mohammad reportedly broadcasted a story accusing Shabaab fighters of extorting money from Somali civilians at illegal roadblocks.  Colleagues of the victim have been told by Shabaab forces that the man will stand trail for the broadcast.
04/16/2009: On Thursday, around noon, unknown assailants detonated an adhesive bomb stuck to car belonging to the Sahwa leader in downtown Ba'quba, Diyala, Iraq, killing the Sahwa leader and injuring four policemen.  No group has claimed responsibility for this attack.
04/16/2009: On Thursday, four polling officials were abducted by Communist Party of India (Maoists), CPI-M, rebels from a polling booth 118 in  Hata village, Manika block, Latehar, Jharkhand, India.
04/16/2009: On Thursday, in Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, Communist Party of India- Maoist (CPI-M) militants killed a Central Reserve Police Force paramilitary trooper in an exchange of fire. No damages were reported.
04/16/2009: On Thursday, in Dantewara, Chhattisgarh, India, assailants fired upon polling booths at the Marokhi and Mangnar areas, causing no casualties or damage.  No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
04/16/2009: On Thursday, in Disobai, Karbi Anglong, Assam, India, police defused an improvised explosive device targeting a polling station. No group claimed responsibility for the planting of the device.
04/16/2009: On Thursday, in Gaya, Bihar, India, assailants fired upon and killed two police officers. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
04/16/2009: On Thursday, in Narayanpur, Chhattisgarh, India, assailants detonated improvised explosive devices on the polling booths, and attacked security forces in the Nemar, Sonapal and Kokaneta areas, damaging the booths but causing no casualties.  No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
04/16/2009: On Thursday, in Parachinar, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan, assailants detonated at least two improvised explosive devices, injuring two civilians.  No group claimed responsibility.
04/16/2009: On Thursday, in Phulwera village, Raj Nandgaon, Chhattisgarh, India, assailants detonated a landmine improvised explosive device on a vehicle carrying election officials, killing five election officials and wounding two others and damaging the vehicle.The Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) claimed responsibility.
04/16/2009: On Thursday, in Singhpur village, in Gaya, Bihar, India, over a dozen Communist Party of India- Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants opened fire on a polling station, killing a policeman, a home guard, and injuring another security personnel. No damages were reported in the attack.
04/16/2009: On Thursday, in the Jangampal area of Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, Communist Party of India- Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants attacked security forces near a polling booth. No casualties or damages were reported.
04/16/2009: On Thursday, seven polling booths were set ablaze by unknown assailants in Chitrakonda, Malkangiri district, Orissa, India.  One vehicle and two electronic voting machines (EVM's)  were also burned in the attack. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was responsible.
04/16/2009: On Thursday, suspected Communist Party of India - Maoists (CPI-M) rebels attacked paramilitary soldiers in Latehar, Jharkhand, India, killing six troopers. The attack was an attempt to disrupt the general election that occurred on that day. The Maoists say they are fighting for the rights of neglected tribal people and landless farmers.
04/16/2009: On Thursday, Taliban militants blew up a NGO office of National Rural Support Programme (NRSP) in Hattian village in Mardan, North West Frontier, Pakistan. A woman walking by the building was killed. The bomb was planted close to the office. Local Taliban leader Habibur Rehman claimed responsibility for the attack. He accused NGOs of propagating obscenity and vulgarity and threatened further attacks.
04/16/2009: On Thursday, unidentified militants kidnapped three employees of the Oil and Gas Development Company Limited (OGDCL) in Kohat, North West Frontier, Pakistan. The militants intercepted the three employees, took them hostage and escaped in their company vehicle, which was later discovered near Nakband village. Those kidnapped were identified as Mohammad Arif, Qamar Hasnain Naqvi and their driver Mohammad Khan. No casualties were reported and no group has claimed responsibility.
04/16/2009: On Thursday, unidentified militants shot and killed Shaheen Bibi, a former councilor of the Union Council Gujjar Garhi, in Mardan, North West Frontier, Pakistan. No group has claimed responsibility,
04/16/2009: On Thursday, unknown assailants detonated a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device near a Badoush Prison vehicle in the al-Shiffa neighborhood of western Mosul, injuring three prison guards and damaging their vehicle.  No claim of responsibility has been reported.
04/16/2010: On Friday evening, in Baidoa, Bay, Somalia, militants detained Mr. Alin Hilowle, the executive director of Isha Human Rights Organization, from his home and took a computer and other devices used to store documents; no casualties were reported. He was believed to have then been moved to Mogadishu. No group has claimed responsibility, but the militant group Al-Shabaab was thought responsible for the attack. The status of the hostage is unknown.
04/16/2010: On Friday, in Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan, a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a hospital killing at eight civilians and wounding 35 others, including a Member of Parliament from the ruling Pakistan People's Party. Unidentified assailants riding a motorcycle killed Ashraf Zaidi, the son of the chief of the Shia Conference Balochistan. Hundreds of people, including a local parliamentarian and dozens of journalists, rushed to the hospital where the body was lying. As the crowd gathered at the casualty ward, a suicide bomber blew himself up. Fifteen kilograms of explosives were used in the attack. Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/16/2010: On Friday, in the Touz district near Kirkuk, in At Ta'mim, Iraq, an improvised explosive device attached to a civilian vehicle owned by an interior ministry lieutenant in Baghdad exploded, leaving him and four others near the blast scene wounded. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/16/2011: On Saturday afternoon around 1300, in Galkayo, Mudug, Somalia, unidentified militants detonated a remote controlled roadside improvised explosive device killing Sheikh Ismail Hashi Hussein as he was driving home in his car and wounding two civilians. Sheikh Ismail Hashi Hussein was a prominent Somali cleric, director general from the local Ministry of Religious Affairs and member of the pro-Somali government group Ahlu Sunna Wahl Jama’a. An unknown amount of material damage occurred and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/16/2011: On Saturday evening, in the jurisdiction of Liaquatabad police station in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, unidentified militants shot and killed a Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) activist, Malik Ayub, while another, Warsi, was injured. The deceased was a member of MQM New Karachi Sector. No group claimed responsibility.
04/16/2011: On Saturday evening, in the village of Garsoor outside of Galkayo, Mudug, Somalia, four people were killed and 10 people were injured when unidentified militants armed with AK-47 rifles and unknown pistols fired upon civilians at the Salahu-duin Mosque. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/16/2011: On Saturday morning at 0630, in Moo 10 village of tambon Tanoh Puteh in Bannang Sata, Yala, Thailand, unidentified militants hiding in a rubber forest shot and killed an assistant village headman, identified as Museh Daleh, as he was on his way to work at his rubber plantation. No group claimed responsibility for this incident.
04/16/2011: On Saturday night at 2200, in Azadi Square, Sanandaj, Kordestan, Iran, in one of two related attacks, unknown assailants detonated an improvised explosive device. No casualties or damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/16/2011: On Saturday night at 2210, in Sanandaj, Kordestan, Iran, in the second of two related attacks, unknown assailants detonated an improvised explosive device that was planted in a garbage can, next to an ATM of Keshavarzi Bank Branch. The blast wounded one civilian. The ATM machine and multiple nearby shops were damaged. No group claimed responsibility.
04/16/2011: On Saturday night at 2300, in Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq, unknown gunmen stormed the home of a Shiite family and shot and killed four members of a family. A 16 year old boy and 14 year old girl were shot along with their parents. No group claimed responsibility.
04/16/2011: On Saturday night, in the Kabala West area of Kaduna, Kaduna State, Nigeria, two people were killed when unidentified militants detonated an improvised explosive device at the Jimmy Hotel. The attack caused an unknown amount of material damage and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/16/2011: On Saturday night, near Chatti village in Chintur, Dantewada, Chhattisgarh, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants set fire to a hydraulic excavator engaged in road construction. No casualties were reported, but the machine was badly damaged in the attack. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, the militants have made similar attempts to disrupt the ongoing road construction. No group claimed responsibility.
04/16/2011: On Saturday shortly after 0000 midnight, between the Peddamusaleru and Kurnapalli villages in Khammam, Andhra Pradesh, India, a group of suspected Communist Party of India-Maoists (CPI-M) militants sabotaged local transport infrastructure by digging up a section of newly-laid road, causing an unreported amount of property damage. The specific motive for the attack is unknown; however, the attack coincided with the second day of a 48-hour shutdown called by the Maoists. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/16/2011: On Saturday, in Bandirevu village in Dummugudem, Khammam, Andhra Pradesh, India, around 30 militants blew up the battery room of a Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) cell phone tower. No casualties were reported, but vital equipment in the battery room, including panel boards, were damaged. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
04/16/2011: On Saturday, in block Z within the limits of Gulshan Maymar police station in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, unidentified armed militants shot and killed Assistant Sub Inspector (ASI), Azam Jakhrani, while he was standing outside a relative's house. A neighbor, Tariq, was also wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility.
04/16/2011: On Saturday, in Dolangi village in Ramchandrapur, Surguja, Chhattisgarh, India, around 100-150 suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants assaulted two laborers of a road construction firm after setting fire to a Josephy Cyril Bamford (JCB) machine, two generators, two mixture machines, two tractors, one operating machine, and more than half a dozen other machinery parts and motor spare parts. The Maoists had reportedly demanded $111,334 (INR five million) as levy along with other demands. The damage was estimated at the worth of $334,002 (INR 15 million). No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/16/2011: On Saturday, in Kirkuk, At Ta'mim, Iraq, unknown assailants detonated a sticky improvised explosive device attached to a civilian car. The driver was killed in the blast and the car was damaged. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/16/2011: On Saturday, in Malir Tanki area within the limits of Khokhrapar police station in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, unidentified armed militants shot and killed a Muhajir Qaumi Movement-Haqiqi (MQM-H) cadre, Abdullah Ansari. No group claimed responsibility.
04/16/2011: On Saturday, in Pir Koh area of Dera Bugti District, Balochistan, Pakistan, unidentified militants detonated an improvised explosive device targeting a 24 inch diameter gas pipeline, causing a suspension of supply to a gas purification plant. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/16/2011: On Saturday, in Sherpao Colony in the limits of Quaidabad police station in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, unidentified armed militants shot and killed an activist of Awami National Party (ANP), Najeeb Ahmed. The victim was a security guard of ANP leader Jamal Khan Afridi. No group claimed responsibility.
04/16/2011: On Saturday, in the al-Shula neighborhood, in Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq, unknown assailants detonated a roadside improvised explosive device targeting the car of a government employee. The employee was wounded, and his car, other nearby cars, and buildings were damaged in the blast. No group claimed responsibility.
04/16/2011: On Saturday, in the Karrada neighborhood, in Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq, unknown assailants detonated a roadside improvised explosive device near a petrol filling station. The blast targeted the motorcade of Mohammed Abid, Director-General of Iraq's Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research. Three civilians were wounded and two cars were damaged in the blast. No group claimed responsibility.
04/16/2012: A rocket landed on a house in Day Mirdad district, Maidan Wardak province, Afghanistan. A civilian was injured in the explosion. No group claimed responsibility for this attack; however, government officials attributed it to the Taliban.
04/16/2012: An Afghan National Army (ANA) soldier opened fire on North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) soldiers in Khvoshab area, Kandahar province, Afghanistan. The assailant was killed when NATO forces returned fire. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/16/2012: An explosive device detonated at the Pakistan International Public School in Swabi city, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. There were no reported casualties, but the building was damaged in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2012: An explosive device detonated in a parking lot in Jalua area, Diyala governorate, Iraq. One civilian was killed and three others injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2012: An explosive device detonated outside of a home in Makhachkala city, Dagestan republic, Russia. The only casualty was the assailant attempting to plant the device. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2012: An explosive device detonated under the vehicle of the Federal Security Service (FSB) Khunzensky branch head Makhachkala city, Dagestan republic, Russia. The FSB officer was injured and his wife killed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2012: An explosive device planted inside a burning tire detonated in Hamad Town, Northern governorate, Bahrain. One civilian was injured and another killed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for this attack.
04/16/2012: An explosive device was discovered and safely defused in a field in Badaber area, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2012: Assailants launched rockets at the Japanese embassy in Wazir Akbar Khan neighborhood, Kabul province, Afghanistan. This attack was part of a larger wave of attacks across Afghanistan and the second time this embassy was attacked in two days. During the wave of attacks, including 36 assailants, were killed and 74 others wounded. The Haqqani Network claimed responsibility for all of the the incidents.
04/16/2012: Assailants opened fire on a shop owner in Quetta city, Balochistan province, Pakistan. The shop owner was killed in the attack. This incident was part of a series of attacks and one of two on this day which targeted members of the Hazara community, all of which were claimed by Lashkar-e-Jhangvi.
04/16/2012: Assailants opened fire on Afghan National Army (ANA) troops in Pusht-i-Hassan area, Nimroz province, Afghanistan. Two ANA soldiers and two assailants were killed, and one soldier and three assailants were injured. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/16/2012: Assailants opened fire on civilians in a taxi in Quetta city, Balochistan province, Pakistan. There were no reported casualties in the attack. This incident was part of a series of attacks and one of two on this day which targeted members of the Hazara community, all of which were claimed by Lashkar-e-Jhangvi.
04/16/2012: Assailants opened fire on farmers in Rashdiya area, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. Four farmers were killed and three others injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2012: Assailants threw a grenade at the Iqra Public School in Peshawar city, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. One student was killed and one other injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/16/2012: Three assailants attempted to plant explosive devices in Sheikh Qalandar area, Kandahar province, Afghanistan. All three assailants were killed when a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) airstrike targeted them. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2012: Three hundred assailants attacked the police post in Todonyang village, Rift Valley province, Kenya. Two police officers were killed and four injured. One other officer was also abducted during the attack. The outcome of the kidnapping is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for this incident; however, sources attributed it to the Merille militia.
04/16/2012: Two explosive devices were thrown at the home of a Catholic family in Londonderry city, Derry district, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. There were no reported casualties, but the house was damaged in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed it to loyalists.
04/16/2013: A car bomb exploded next to a police patrol in Tarmiyah village, al-Faris district, Saladin governorate, Iraq. One person was killed and five others were wounded. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/16/2013: A mortar shell fired from an unknown location landed on a civilian home in Bara tehsil, Khyber Agency, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. One child was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident
04/16/2013: A remote-controlled bomb under a bridge targeted the convoy of Sanaullah Zehri, the Provincial President of Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz (PML-N), in the Anjira area of Khuzdar district, Balochistan province, Pakistan. The explosion killed at least four people, including Zehri's son Mir Sikandar Zehri, nephew Mir Zaib Zehri and his brother Mehrullah Zehri; Sanaullah Zehri was not injured in the attack. In addition, at least 25 people were injured and five vehicles were damaged in the blast. The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/16/2013: A roadside bomb detonated in Mussayib area, Babil governorate, Iraq. One soldier was killed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2013: A roadside bomb detonated in the vicinity of a military patrol north of Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. Two soldiers were killed in the explosion and seven people, including two soldiers, were injured. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2013: A roadside bomb detonated near a military checkpoint in Mosul city, Nineveh governorate, Iraq. One soldier was killed and two soldiers and a civilian were injured. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2013: A roadside bomb detonated near the convoy of Doda Khan Zehri, a nephew of Sanaullah Zehri, who was attacked the day before, in Mangochar area, Balochistan province, Pakistan. Zehri, a Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) member, was not injured in the explosion. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/16/2013: A roadside bomb detonated targeting the Nineveh provincial governor in Qayara town, Mosul district, Nineveh governorate, Iraq. Atheel al-Nujaifi was not injured in the explosion, although his vehicle was damaged. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2013: A roadside bomb exploded near a military vehicle in Miranshah town, North Waziristan Agency, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. At least four soldiers were killed and eight were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/16/2013: A suicide bomber targeted Haroon Bilour, the nephew of Awami National Party (ANP) candidate Ghulam Ahmed Bilour, at a political rally in Yakatoot area, Peshawar city, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. Seventeen people were killed and 60 people, including the Bilours, were injured in the blast; several nearby cars were also damaged. The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility, stating they committed the attack as part of their campaign against secular parties.
04/16/2013: An explosive device detonated near the central police station in Beled Weyn town, Hiiraan region, Somalia. Two people, including a soldier and a civilian, were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources suspect that Al-Shabaab was behind the incident.
04/16/2013: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated in Aziziyah town, Wasit governorate, Iraq. At least seven people were killed and another 20 people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2013: Assailants abducted a Turkish truck driver in Khwaja Du Koh district, Jawzjan province, Afghanistan. Before fleeing the area, the assailants set fire to the victim's truck. The truck driver was released on July 12, 2013. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2013: Assailants ambushed a supplies convoy in Sayed Abad district, Wardak province, Afghanistan. Five guards died and one other guard was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/16/2013: Assailants attacked a police van in Wazirabad area, Tank district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. Four police officers and three civilians were injured in the attack and two attackers were killed in return fire. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2013: Assailants attacked polio vaccinators in Khanewal City, Khanewal District, Punjab province, Pakistan. Two female health workers were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2013: Assailants detonated an explosive device and then opened fire on a joint patrol of Afghanistan National Army (ANA) soldiers and police in Gangagal area, Sarkani district, Kunar province, Afghanistan. Four people, including two ANA soldiers, were killed in the incident and one was injured. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/16/2013: Assailants hurled a grenade at the residence of Pakistan People's Party (PPP) candidate, Zulfikar Afghani, in Peshawar city, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. There were no reports of injuries in the incident; however, a wall of the home suffered minor damage from the blast. Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2013: Assailants opened fire on a security checkpoint in Nakhl village, North Sinai governorate, Egypt. One police officer was killed and another was injured in the attack. No group has claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2013: Assailants opened fire on a village official, Jessie Pareja, in Ampatuan village, Maguindanao province, Philippines. Pareja, the Barangay Kauran Government official, and two family members were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2013: Assailants opened fire on the camps of road construction companies BSC and C&C in Swangre village, West Khasi Hills district, Meghalaya state, India. There were no reports of injuries or property damage in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities attributed the attack to the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) and stated that the incident was likely related to the companies' refusal to pay the group's extortion demand.
04/16/2013: Assailants opened fire on the Metcalf transmission substation after severing telecommunication wires in San Jose, California, United States. As a result, 17 transformers that supplied power to Silicon Valley were damaged, causing them to leak 52,000 gallons of oil. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/16/2013: Assailants remotely detonated a motorcycle bomb and then open fired on special forces soldiers in Pa Gu village, Thung Yang Dang district, Pattani province, Thailand. One soldier was killed, three were injured, and a truck was damaged in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2013: Assailants started a fire at a police station in Ierissos city, Macedonia-Thrace region, Greece. The building and three vehicles were damaged in the attack. No group has claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2013: Assailants took four soldiers hostage in Jawzjan province, Afghanistan. The beheaded bodies of the soldiers were found the next day. The Taliban took responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2013: At least ten assailants armed with firearms and grenades attacked a security checkpost in Si Sakhon district, Narathiwat province, Thailand. At least one paramilitary ranger was injured in the incident. No group claimed responsibility for the attack; however, the military suspects separatists.
04/16/2013: Gunmen attacked a security checkpost in Muhammad Ali Chowk, Akka Khel area, Khyber Agency, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. Six assailants were killed and five soldiers were injured in the ensuing firefight. This was one of two related incidents in this area on this day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Lashkar-e-Islam (LI).
04/16/2013: Gunmen open fired on a police patrol in Tudun Wara area of Kaduna city, Kaduna state, Nigeria. Two policemen were killed and an unknown number of officers were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources suspect that Boko Haram was behind the incident.
04/16/2013: Gunmen opened fire on a group of health workers administering polio vaccinations in Baldia Town area of Karachi city, Sindh province, Pakistan. There were no reports of injuries or property damage stemming from the incident. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/16/2013: Gunmen opened fire on a Joint Task Force (JTF) patrol outside of a mosque in Baga village, Borno state, Nigeria. One soldier was killed in the attack. The incident sparked a three day raid on Baga village by JTF forces that eventually saw 187 people killed, 77 wounded, and scores of homes destroyed. Boko Haram claimed responsibility for the killing of the soldier in a video posted online.
04/16/2013: Gunmen opened fire on a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) supply truck in Jamrud tehsil, Khyber agency, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. The driver of the truck was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2013: Gunmen shot and killed a toll gate attendant in Mawbon village, West Khasi Hills district, Meghalaya state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities attributed the attack to the Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA), who was trying to extort money from the tolls.
04/16/2013: Gunmen shot and killed Nely Joy Molina, the niece of Liberal Party candidate Ruel Molina, in Mahayahay area, Kumalarang municipality, Zamboanga del Sur province, Philippines. One person was also injured in the shooting. No group claimed responsibility for the attack. The media reported that Molina was on her way home from doing campaign work when she was shot.
04/16/2013: Security forces discovered and defused five explosive devices planted in Akka Khel area, Khyber Agency, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. The devices were discovered by soldiers shortly after they repelled an attack on a nearby checkpost. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2013: Three explosive devices detonated near a stage during a Baishakhi Fair in Atrai upazila, Naogaon district, Rajshahi division, Bangladesh. At least eight people were injured in the blasts. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2014: A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vest at a military checkpoint in Jazeera area, north of Ramadi city, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. In addition to the suicide bomber, four soldiers were killed and two others were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2014: An assailant attempted to plant a land mine in Haydarabad area, Jawzjan province, Afghanistan. The assailant was killed when the device detonated prematurely. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Taliban.
04/16/2014: An explosive device detonated near a bridge in Padnatand village, Giridih district, Jharkhand state, India. There were no reported casualties; however, the bridge was damaged in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
04/16/2014: An explosive device detonated near a market in Sab al Bur area, Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. One person was killed and five others were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2014: An explosive device detonated near a military patrol in Hammam al-Alil area, Nineveh governorate, Iraq. A military captain was killed and two soldiers were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2014: An explosive device detonated near a police vehicle in Arish city, North Sinai governorate, Egypt. A police officer was wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2014: An explosive device detonated outside the residence of a military officer in Kirkuk city, Kirkuk, Iraq. One person was killed and two others were wounded in the blast. This was one of three similar blasts in Kirkuk city on April 16, 2014. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2014: An explosive device detonated outside the residence of a North Oil Company official in Kirkuk city, Kirkuk, Iraq. The official was wounded in the blast. This was one of three similar blasts in Kirkuk city on April 16, 2014. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2014: An explosive device detonated outside the residence of a security officer in Kirkuk city, Kirkuk, Iraq. One person was killed and three others were wounded in the blast. This was one of three similar blasts in Kirkuk city on April 16, 2014. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2014: An explosive device detonated outside the residence of Anwar Safi in Gulbahar area, Peshawar city, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. Safi, a Pakistan People's Party (PPP) leader, was unharmed; however, one person was wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2014: An explosive device detonated outside the residence of Haji Gul Shahzad in Sheikh Maltoon town, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. Shahzad, a trader, was unharmed; however, the gate of the house was damaged in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2014: An explosive device planted in a truck was discovered and safely defused in Purace municipality, Cauca department, Colombia. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
04/16/2014: An explosive device planted in the vehicle of a Ministry of Industry and Minerals employee detonated in Amin area, Habibiya neighborhood, Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. The employee was killed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2014: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated among civilians in Obaydi neighborhood, Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. Two civilians were killed and nine others were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2014: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated among civilians in Thawra neighborhood, Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. Two people were killed and seven others were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2014: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated in Habibiya neighborhood, Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. Two people were killed and six others were wounded in the blast. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2014: Assailants abducted a bishop and three priests in Bossangoa town, Ouham-Pende prefecture, Central African Republic. They were released unharmed the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the abduction to the Seleka.
04/16/2014: Assailants abducted Abu Bakar Siddique in Narayanganj city, Dhaka division, Bangladesh. His driver was injured in the attack. Siddique, the husband of the chief executive of the Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association (BELA), was released on April 18, 2014. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2014: Assailants abducted Serhiy Lefter in Slaviansk city, Donetsk oblast, Ukraine. Lefter, a Ukrainian journalist and independent observer for the Open Dialogue Foundation, was released on May 6, 2014. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the abduction to the Donetsk People's Republic.
04/16/2014: Assailants ambushed a police vehicle and abducted five police officers in Saydabad district, Wardak province, Afghanistan. Four police officers were killed and one other escaped on the same day. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2014: Assailants attacked a police post in Hisarak district, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan. This was one of two attacks carried out by the Taliban at police posts in Nangarhar province on April 16, 2014. Four civilians were killed and four police officers were injured across attacks. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Taliban.
04/16/2014: Assailants attacked a police post in Muhmand Dara district, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan. This was one of two attacks carried out by the Taliban at police posts in Nangarhar province on April 16, 2014. Four civilians were killed and four police officers were injured across attacks. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2014: Assailants attempted to set a Lutheran Church on fire in Akureyri city, Northeast constituency, Iceland. No one was injured in the attack; however, the building was damaged. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2014: Assailants launched two mortars at a military barracks in Sab al Bur area, Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. Two soldiers were killed and nine others were wounded in the attack. The General Military Council for Iraqi Revolutionaries claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2014: Assailants opened fire on a joint police and Sahwa Council checkpoint in Al Hawz neighborhood, Ramadi city, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. Three police officers were killed and six others, including police officers and Sahwa Council members, were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/16/2014: Assailants opened fire on a police checkpoint in Beyotes town, Arauca department, Colombia. Two police officers were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the National Liberation Army of Colombia (ELN).
04/16/2014: Assailants opened fire on a police vehicle on the Barabaskhel Bridge in Hangu town, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. A police constable was wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2014: Assailants opened fire on a polio vaccination team in Ghariza area, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2014: Assailants opened fire on a Sahwa Council checkpoint in Baiji city, Saladin governorate, Iraq. A Sahwa Council leader was killed and a member of his security team was wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2014: Assailants opened fire on a shop, targeting the legal adviser of Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) and two other members, in Shahrah-e-Faisal neighborhood, Karachi city, Sindh province, Pakistan. Three people were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2014: Assailants opened fire on an unknown number of oil tankers in Al Jawf governorate, Yemen. Two assailants were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2014: Assailants opened fire on Graan Khan in Matta town, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. Khan, a Pakistan Muslim League: Nawaz (PML-N) leader, was killed and his driver was wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2014: Assailants opened fire on Renk city, Upper Nile state, South Sudan. An unknown number of people were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2014: Assailants opened fire on residents in Wala village, Borno state, Nigeria. At least 18 people were killed and several others were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Boko Haram.
04/16/2014: Assailants opened fire on Sahwa Council members in Tikrit city, Saladin governorate, Iraq. Two Sahwa Council members were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2014: Assailants opened fire on Sheikh Ali Dhega-Cadde in front of his residence in Afgoye town, Lower Shebelle region, Somalia. Dhega-Cadde, the spokesperson for Afgoye district, was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected that Al-Shabaab was involved.
04/16/2014: Assailants opened fire on traffic police officers in Al-Majmu'ah al-Thaqafiyah neighborhood, Mosul city, Nineveh governorate, Iraq. Two traffic police officers were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2014: Assailants threw an explosive device and opened fire outside the residence of Chief Oris Onyiri in Ogbogwu area, Rivers state, Nigeria. Onyiri, the President-General of Egi Peoples Assembly, was unharmed; however, five people, including an assailant, were killed and three others were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2014: Assailants threw an incendiary device at an Israeli settler vehicle in Hawara village, West Bank, West Bank and Gaza Strip. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2014: Assailants threw dynamite at the residence of Yiannis Sbokos in Kifissia city, Attica region, Greece. Sbokos, the former general secretary of the Hellenic Ministry of National Defense, was unharmed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2014: Assailants threw incendiary devices and opened fire on a Ukrainian National Guard base in Mariupol city, Donetsk oblast, Ukraine. Three assailants were killed and 13 others were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Donetsk People's Republic.
04/16/2014: Assailants threw incendiary devices at the Sintraemcali Union headquarters in Cali city, Valle del Cauca department, Colombia. There were no reported casualties; however, the building was damaged in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2014: Five explosive devices detonated simultaneously in Qurah Tibah area, Diyala governorate, Iraq. Two people were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2014: Five explosive devices, targeting polling personnel, were discovered and safely defused in Ambatanr village, Jharkhand state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
04/16/2014: Two suicide bombers simultaneously detonated two explosives-laden vehicles at the gates of the Anbar Operational Command headquarters in Ramadi city, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. In addition to the two bombers, at least five people, including civilians and police officers, were killed and seven others were wounded in the blasts. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/16/2015: A rocket struck a communications center in Sirte city, Sirte district, Libya. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2015: An assailant attacked and killed a radio journalist in Monkoto district, Equateur province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2015: An explosive device detonated in Nahrawan District, Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. Six people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2015: An explosive device detonated in Qalat city, Zabul province, Afghanistan. One civilian was killed and one other was wounded in the blast. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2015: An explosive device detonated near a cafe in Obaydi area, Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. At least three people were killed and eight others were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2015: An explosive device detonated near a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp in Lerie Colony, Kohima, Nagaland state, India. At least three people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to the National Socialist Council of Nagaland-Khaplang (NSCN-K).
04/16/2015: An explosive device detonated near a military vehicle in Rafah city, North Sinai governorate, Egypt. Two soldiers were wounded in the blast. The Sinai Province of the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2015: An explosive device detonated near a nursery in Beit Lahiya city, Gaza strip, West Bank and Gaza Strip. No further information is available.
04/16/2015: An explosive device detonated near an auto showroom in Bayaa area, Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. At least one person was killed and eight others were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2015: An explosive device detonated targeting a military vehicle in Bacasayan village, Santa Cruz town, Ilocos Sur province, Philippines. Three soldiers were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, a source attributed the attack to the New People's Army (NPA).
04/16/2015: An explosive device detonated while assailants were planting it in Tor Darra area, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. Three assailants were killed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources identified one of the assailants as a commander of the Khorasan Chapter of the Islamic State.
04/16/2015: An explosive device planted under a vehicle detonated in Yarmuk area, Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. The owner of the vehicle, a first lieutenant of the Interior Ministry, was killed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2015: Assailants attacked a joint Afghan National Army (ANA) and Afghan Police convoy near Aqcha district, Jawzjan province, Afghanistan. One police officer and 20 assailants were killed in the ensuing clash. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2015: Assailants attacked a police checkpoint in Miyahi village, Diyala governorate, Iraq. One police officer was killed and two others were injured in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2015: Assailants attacked a security checkpost in Ghakhi area, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. An unknown number of assailants were killed when security forces returned fire. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2015: Assailants attacked police officers and civilians in Bati Kot district, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan. One Afghan Local Police (ALP) commander was killed and two civilians were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to the Taliban.
04/16/2015: Assailants attacked residents in Bia town, Extreme-North region, Cameroon. At least 19 civilians were beheaded during the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Boko Haram.
04/16/2015: Assailants detonated explosives-laden vehicles and attacked a government complex in Ramadi city, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. At least seven people were killed and 30 others were injured in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/16/2015: Assailants fired grenade launchers at a military detachment in Pagatin village, Maguindanao province, Philippines. Six soldiers were injured in the ensuing clash. The Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Movement (BIFM) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2015: Assailants fired mortars at border guards in Najran province, Saudi Arabia. Three border guards were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Huthis.
04/16/2015: Assailants fired rockets at a Frontier Corps (FC) checkpoint in Tasp Nokabad area, Panjgur district, Balochistan province, Pakistan. One soldier was killed and two others were wounded in the attack. The Baloch Liberation Front (BLF) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2015: Assailants hijacked a bus in Omar Jilo area, Mandera district, Mandera county, Kenya. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the hijacking to Al-Shabaab.
04/16/2015: Assailants opened fire on a government employee in Rangae district, Narathiwat province, Thailand. The employee was wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2015: Assailants opened fire on a polling station in Es Serif district, North Darfur state, Sudan. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2015: Assailants opened fire on a vehicle in Qamaruddin Karez area, Balochistan province, Pakistan. Three civilians were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2015: Assailants opened fire on an intelligence officer in Al Hudaydah governorate, Yemen. The officer was killed in the attack. Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2015: Assailants opened fire on an intelligence services officer in Qadisiyah neighborhood, Kirkuk city, Kirkuk, Iraq. The officer was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2015: Assailants opened fire on Debra Lobo in Karachi city, Sindh province, Pakistan. Lobo, a United States citizen and vice principal of Jinnah Medical and Dental College, was wounded in the attack. The Khorasan Chapter of the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2015: Assailants opened fire on pro-Russian journalist Oles Buzyna in Kiev city, Kiev oblast, Ukraine. Buzyna was killed in the attack. The Ukrainian Insurgent Army claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2015: Assailants opened fire on the vehicle of Ejaz Khawaja on Korangi Road, Karachi city, Sindh province, Pakistan. Khawaja, a station house officer (SHO), was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2015: Assailants opened fire on Ukrainian soldiers in Krymske town, Luhansk oblast, Ukraine. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the incident to the Luhansk People's Republic.
04/16/2015: Four assailants abducted two Civilian Active Auxiliary (CAA) members from Balubad village, Quezon province, Philippines. The abductees were rescued on April 17, 2015. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the New People's Army (NPA).
04/16/2015: Security forces discovered and defused an explosive device at the entrance to the High Institute of Economic Science in Sirte city, Sirte district, Libya. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2015: Security forces discovered and defused explosive devices on a road in southern Rafah, North Sinai, Egypt. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2015: Security forces discovered and safely detonated two explosive devices on a road in Sheikh Zuweid, North Sinai, Egypt. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2015: Two explosive devices detonated near a military vehicle in Sheikh Zuweid town, North Sinai governorate, Egypt. At least one soldier was killed and one other was wounded in the blast. The Sinai province of the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2016: An explosive device detonated at a Sikh temple in Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. At least three people, including the temple priest, were injured in the blast. Two Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) supporters, identified as Yussuf T. and Mohammed B., claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/16/2016: An explosive device detonated at the house of Juma Sayeh, a former General National Congress (GNC) member, in Tripoli, Libya. There were no reported casualties in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2016: An explosive device detonated in Al-Dawanim, Baghdad, Iraq. At least one person was killed and five people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2016: An explosive device detonated in Sulaykh, Baghdad, Iraq. At least six people were killed and injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2016: An explosive device detonated near a market in Al-Bakriyah, Baghdad, Iraq. At least two people were killed and eight people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2016: An explosive device detonated targeting a military patrol in Tarmiyah, Saladin, Iraq. At least one military personnel was killed and three soldiers were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2016: Assailants abducted five police officers in Mapula, Davao del Sur, Philippines. This was one of two related attacks in Paquibato district on this date; the police officers were responding to the scene of an earlier attack on a paramilitary detachment. The officers were released on April 25, 2016. The New People's Army (NPA) claimed responsibility for the incidents and stated that the hostages were accused of possible war crimes.
04/16/2016: Assailants abducted four International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) employees near Abeibara, Kidal, Mali. One of the hostages was released on April 18, 2016, and the three remaining hostages were released on April 22, 2016. Ansar al-Dine (Mali) claimed responsibility for the incident and demanded the release of one of their members in exchange for the victims.
04/16/2016: Assailants abducted Stephen Ogbobe, an auditor, in Enugu state, Nigeria. Ogbobe was released on April 19, 2016. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Fulani militants.
04/16/2016: Assailants abducted three civilians in Thankchi, Chittagong, Bangladesh. The hostages were found dead on April 18, 2016. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Tripura Group.
04/16/2016: Assailants attacked a Citizens Armed Forces Geographical Unit (CAFGU) detachment in Salapawan, Davao del Sur, Philippines. A CAFGU member and a civilian were injured in the ensuing clash. This was one of two related attacks in Paquibato district on this date. The New People's Army (NPA) claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/16/2016: Assailants attacked a police checkpoint in Darae Bum, Badghis, Afghanistan. At least three officers and four assailants were killed and two officers were injured in the ensuing clash. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to the Taliban.
04/16/2016: Assailants attacked a police post in Kansak, Farah, Afghanistan. This was one of two related assaults targeting police posts in Kansak on this date. Six police officers were killed and two officers were injured across both attacks. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incidents to the Taliban.
04/16/2016: Assailants attacked the Al 'Ujayl oil refinery in Tikrit, Saladin, Iraq. Security forces repelled the assault, killing 22 assailants, including a suicide bomber. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/16/2016: Assailants attacked the residence of Ahmed Maetig, the Vice-Chair of the Presidential Council, in Tripoli, Libya. Two guards were killed and four guards were abducted in the attack. The outcome of the kidnapping is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Tripoli Revolutionaries Battalion.
04/16/2016: Assailants cut off the hand of a civilian in Sirte district, Libya. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Tripoli Province of the Islamic State and stated that the victim was accused of theft.
04/16/2016: Assailants fired a grenade launcher at a vehicle driven by Ukrainian soldiers near Pisky, Donetsk, Ukraine. Two soldiers were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2016: Assailants fired a rocket at a police vehicle in Sirnak, Turkey. One police officer was killed and two officers were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
04/16/2016: Assailants kidnapped an unknown number of civilians in Falahat, Al Anbar, Iraq. This was one of four coordinated abductions in the area that resulted in 150 missing civilians. The outcome of the kidnappings is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents; however, sources attributed the attacks to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/16/2016: Assailants kidnapped an unknown number of civilians in Fallujah, Al Anbar, Iraq. This was one of four coordinated abductions in the area that resulted in 150 missing civilians. The outcome of the kidnappings is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents; however, sources attributed the attacks to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/16/2016: Assailants kidnapped an unknown number of civilians in Halabsah Al Anbar, Iraq. This was one of four coordinated abductions in the area that resulted in 150 missing civilians. The outcome of the kidnappings is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents; however, sources attributed the attacks to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/16/2016: Assailants opened fire in front of a mosque in Shindand district, Herat, Afghanistan. At least two civilians were killed and two civilians were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2016: Assailants opened fire on a bar in Nyatubuye, Bururi, Burundi. Three members of the National Council for the Defense of Democracy—Forces for the Defense of Democracy (CNDD-FDD) party were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2016: Assailants opened fire on a bus near Shalan Bood, Lower Shebelle, Somalia. At least one person was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2016: Assailants opened fire on a military patrol in Arab Ebjur, Baghdad, Iraq. At least two soldiers were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2016: Assailants opened fire on a railway security checkpoint in Na Pradu, Pattani, Thailand. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2016: Assailants opened fire on Anuak civilians in Fugnido, Gambella, Ethiopia. At least 10 people were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to the Murle Tribe.
04/16/2016: Assailants opened fire on Mohammed Umtalal in Beida, Jabal Al Akhdar, Libya. Umtalal, a journalist, was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2016: Assailants set fire to a telephone signal control box in Ta Kae, Pattani, Thailand. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2016: Assailants set fire to and shot at a power transformer in Ta Kae, Pattani, Thailand. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2016: Assailants shot and killed Sheikh Akhtar Ali, an All India Trinamool Congress (AITMC) local leader, in Hugli district, West Bengal, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/16/2016: Assailants threw a grenade at a fuel facility in Gitega, Burundi. There were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2016: Assailants threw a petrol bomb at a police patrol in Karbabad, Capital, Bahrain. One officer was killed and two officers were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2016: Nine assailants attacked El Masora checkpoint near Rafah, North Sinai, Egypt. At least three assailants were killed and two soldiers and six assailants were injured in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2016: Police discovered and defused four explosive devices inside an election vehicle in Maldah, West Bengal, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2017: An explosive device detonated near shops in Basateen neighborhood, Baghdad, Iraq. At least two people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2017: An explosive device detonated prematurely as assailants were planting it in a seminary in Qala-e-Wazir, Logar, Afghanistan. Two assailants were killed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2017: An explosive device detonated targeting a Kenyan African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) and Somali National Army (SNA) joint convoy in Hosingow, Lower Juba, Somalia. At least nine soldiers were killed and an unknown number of soldiers were injured in the blast. Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2017: An explosive device detonated targeting a United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) convoy in 13 Kilometer area, Mogadishu, Somalia. At least two people were killed and two people were injured in the blast. Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/16/2017: An explosive device detonated targeting Saudi Border Guard personnel in Addayer, Jazan, Saudi Arabia. One border guard was killed and three border guards were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/16/2017: An explosive device was discovered and defused on Turbat-Dasht Road near Turbat, Balochistan, Pakistan. The device was thought to be targeting Pakistan Bureau of Statistics census teams and Pakistan Armed Forces soldiers. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/16/2017: Assailants abducted four teachers near Darzab, Jawzjan, Afghanistan. The teachers were tortured and released later the same day. No group has claimed responsibility for this attack, however sources attribute it to the Khorasan Chapter of the Islamic State.
04/16/2017: Assailants accused two civilians of adultery and stoned them to death in Mohammad Agha, Logar, Afghanistan. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Taliban.
04/16/2017: Assailants attacked military forces with chemical-laced weapons in Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq. At least six soldiers were injured in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/16/2017: Assailants attacked two vehicles belonging to Tarabin tribe members in Rafah, North Sinai, Egypt. There were an unknown number of casualties and the two vehicles were set on fire in the assault. This was one of two related attacks carried out by the same assailants on this date. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incidents to the Sinai Province of the Islamic State and stated that the vehicles were targeted for smuggling cigarettes in violation of a ban on tobacco products.
04/16/2017: Assailants executed 17 civilians in Hawijah district, Kirkuk, Iraq. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the incident and accused the victims of helping people leave the area.
04/16/2017: Assailants fired mortars targeting an African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) base at Aden Adde International Airport in Wadajir neighborhood, Mogadishu, Somalia. The mortars struck nearby residential areas, but there were no reported casualties in the attack. At least two assailants were killed and two assailants were arrested after being intercepted by security forces a short time later. Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/16/2017: Assailants opened fire on Ime Atakpa, the Ukanafun district council secretary, in Awonguyo, Akwa Ibom, Nigeria. Two people, including Atakpa, were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2017: Assailants opened fire on Imtiyaz Ahmad Khan outside a mosque in Pinjura, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Khan, a former public prosecutor and National Conference (NC) worker, was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2017: Assailants opened fire on Santosh Khadka in Laltipur, Province 3, Nepal. Khadka, the office secretary of the Federation of National Christian, Nepal (FNCN), was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2017: Assailants publicly executed eight Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) members in Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the incident and accused the victims of providing information to security forces.
04/16/2017: Assailants raided a Tarabin tribe member's residence and abducted three tribe members in Rafah, North Sinai, Egypt. The assailants fired a rocket-propelled grenade at the house before leaving with the three hostages. The outcome of the kidnapping is unknown. This was one of two related attacks carried out by the same assailants on this date. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incidents to the Sinai Province of the Islamic State.
04/16/2017: Assailants raided Aso, Kaduna, Nigeria. At least 12 people were killed, three people were injured, and one person was reported missing following the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Fulani extremists.
04/16/2017: Assailants raided the residence of a Jammu and Kashmir People's Democratic Party (PDP) worker in Kokernag, Jammu and Kashmir, India. The party worker was injured in the attack. An unknown group claimed responsibility for the incident and demanded that the victim publicly apologize for being a member of the People's Democratic Party (PDP).
04/16/2017: Assailants shot and killed Famous Giobaro, a broadcast journalist, at his residence in Yenagoa, Bayelsa, Nigeria. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2017: Assailants shot and killed four civilians accused of cooperating with the government in Sayyad, Sari Pul, Afghanistan. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Taliban, which denied involvement.
04/16/2017: Assailants shot and killed Luis Alberto Ortiz Cabezas, a former Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) member, in Guayacana, Narino, Colombia. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to a Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) dissident.
04/16/2017: Assailants shot and killed Rashid Billa, a former Ikhwan Force commander, at his residence in Hajan, Jammu and Kashmir, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2017: Assailants threw a petrol bomb at a Muslim-owned shop in Poruwa, Godapitiya, Southern province, Sri Lanka. There were no reported casualties. This was one of four coordinated attacks on shops in Poruwa on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/16/2017: Assailants threw an incendiary device at Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India. There were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/16/2017: Security forces identified and killed two suicide bombers attempting to attack a police station with an explosives-laden vehicle in Achin, Nangarhar, Afghanistan. The assailants were the only reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Khorasan Chapter of the Islamic State.
04/17/1998: Members of the Conscientious Arsonists (CA) claimed responsibility for torching the car of an Italian Embassy employee in Athens, Greece. There were no casualties, but the car was badly damaged in the attack.
04/17/1999: An explosive device filled with nails exploded in Brixton, south London, United Kingdom, injuring 39 people. Combat 18 claimed credit for the attack, followed by three other racist groups who each also claimed credit. The authorities would not give the names of the other groups. It was believed that the attack was racially motivated.
04/17/1999: Heavily armed members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) attacked and destroyed a radio and television station of the TRT network in Aka’i, Turkey, killing one and injuring one.
04/17/2003: A small bomb detonated outside a Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) bank in Buenos Aires, Argentina. A group called Comando Malvinas Argentinas claimed responsibility for the blast. The group claimed it was a protest against Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar's support for the war in Iraq in a communique. The device consisted of three cans of gasoline and was detonated by a battery-powered device. No one was injured, but there was some damage to the bank building's windows and doors.
04/17/2003: Suspected Islamic militants opened fire on a police post in the Udampur district of Kashmir. One police constable was killed and another police officer was seriously injured. Indian police estimated that 30 militants attacked the post that was housing 50 police officers.
04/17/2003: Unidentified assailants detonated an improvised explosive device outside a hospital in Magam, Badgam district. One policeman was killed and nine persons were injured.
04/17/2004: One Israeli Defence Forces soldier was killed and three others were wounded in a suicide bomb attack that took place at the Erez Crossing between the Gaza Strip and Israel. No group claimed responsibility for the bombing.
04/17/2004: Suspected Islamic separatists shot and killed a 50-year-old employee of The State Railway Authority of Thailand. The shooting prompted Thailand’s government to suspend all train departures into the three southernmost provinces. No group claimed responsibility for the shooting.
04/17/2004: Suspected Taliban and Al-Qaida members attacked a military checkpoint on the Kandahar-Heart Highway in the Delaram District in Afghanistan’s Farah Province. Eight Afghan security personnel died in the surprise attack after their checkpoint was struck by individuals in three Saracha-type cars. The perpetrators fled into Farah Province’s Bakwa area after the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident, but authorities suspected that the Taliban, al Qaida, and Hizb-I Islami were responsible.
04/17/2004: Thirteen students were wounded by two bomb attacks by Ethiopian Security Forces at Ambo Secondary School in southwestern Ethiopia. Several people were also wounded by bullets fired by the same security forces. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/17/2005: Members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) killed two policemen and wounded two others in an attack in Toribio, Colombia when detonating a gas cylinder bomb at Alvaro Ulcue Hospital. Six civilians were injured in the attack as well. Over 2,800 people fled the area following the bombing. The Colombian Army pursued and killed 16 members of FARC following the attack.
04/17/2006: A suicide bomber detonated an improvised explosive device (IED) outside of a restaurant in Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel. The explosion killed 11 civilians, wounded 66, and damaged the restaurant. Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/17/2007: A group of over 100 armed religious fundamentalists attacked and briefly occupied a police station in Kano, Nigeria. Eleven police officers and one civilian were killed in the attack by an unnamed group.  No claim of responsibility was reported.
04/17/2007: P. C. Ram, the executive director of the Food Corporation of India (North East Region), and his driver were kidnapped from the Ulubari area of Assam, India. The attack was claimed by the United Liberation Front of Assam’s (ULFA) leader Hira Sarania who demanded a ransom of $5 million dollars. The driver was released two days later however on June 30, 2007, Mr. Ram’s dead body was found buried in a shallow grave.
04/17/2007: Six government road project workers and a unassociated factory worker were abducted by Abu Sayyaf on Jolo Island, Philippines. The incident was believed to be led by Abu Sayyaf commander Albader Parad who demanded $105,000 ransom for the kidnapped workers. However, the captives were found beheaded two days later.
04/17/2007: Suspected Taliban militants shot dead Ghulam Haidar, the principal of a girls' school in Khost province, Afghanistan was killed on his way morning prayer.  No claim of responsibility was reported.
04/17/2007: Two men were shot and killed by suspected Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in Batticaloa district of Sri Lanka, 190 miles east of Colombo.
04/17/2008: On Thursday at 17:30, several shots were fired at workers at the Budafok depot in Budapest, Hungary province, Hungary.  It was believed that the sniper was using an air gun with bearing balls. The attack, which lasted for several hours, happened prior to a 24 hour strike by the company’s workers. No casualties were reported and no claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
04/17/2008: On Thursday at 20:30, National Liberation Forces (FNL) attacked the Burundian troops in Kamesa near the capital city of Bujumbura, Bujumbura state, Burundi. Four soldiers and 10 rebels were killed in the offensive attack after which FNL rebels launched a Katuysha missile towards the city after being repelled by Burundian army troops. The missile attack resulted in no additional casualties. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
04/17/2008: On Thursday evening, a suicide bomber killed 24 civilians and wounded more than 30 at the central mosque in Zaranj, Nimruz province, Afghanistan, as people prepared for evening prayers. Police suspected that there may have been more than one bomber. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
04/17/2008: On Thursday night at around 1900 in Assinovskaya, Chechnya, Russia, three armed assailants kidnapped and fired upon Captain Ali Gaidamurov, the Sunzhenskiy Rayon police chief, killing him. There was no motive or damage reported and the Caucasus Emirate claimed responsibility.
04/17/2008: On Thursday, in Al Basrah, Al Basrah, Iraq, in a drive-by shooting, assailants fired upon the car transporting Brigadier General Mohamed Kadhim al-Ali, the former city chief of police, killing one bodyguard, wounding two others and the former police chief, and damaging the car. There was no motive reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/17/2008: On Thursday, in Mogadishu, Banaadir, Somalia, a landmine exploded when the Somali Information Minister's vehicle struck it. Ahmed Abdisalan was not in the vehicle at the time, however, his personal driver and bodyguard were wounded, while the vehicle was also damaged. No group claimed responsibility.
04/17/2008: On Thursday, Young Communist League (YCL) militants set fire to a house of a Nepali Congress (NC) leader Padam Niraula in Sapteswor, Khotang, Nepal, causing no casualties but damaging the house.  Young Communist League (YCL) militants claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/17/2009: On Friday at 1200 noon, in Isfara, Sughd, Tajikistan, unidentified assailants fired upon a police officer, wounding him. The officer, Maj Noiron Yuldoshev, was shot three times with a Makarov pistol.  No group claimed responsibility.
04/17/2009: On Friday evening, around 1800, assailants hit houses with three mortar rounds in Jisr Al Diyala, Baghdad, Iraq, killing three civilians and injuring eight. No claim of responsibility has been reported.
04/17/2009: On Friday evening, in Luofu near Lubero, Nord-Kivu, Congo (Kinshasa), assailants set fire to the village, killing five children and two civilians and damaging 250 homes. The assailants also beat and wounded one civilian. Reportedly, assailants fired upon an unknown target, causing no casualties or damage. No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Democratic Forces for the Liberation for the Liberation of Rwanda was responsible.
04/17/2009: On Friday morning at 0500, Sondhi Limthongkul, a core leader of People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD), was on his way to his office in Banglampoo, Bangkok, Thailand, when a group of five armed men shot at his vehicle from two pick-ups, striking Sondhi's arm while his driver, Adul Daengpradub, was severely injured. The latest information showed that Adul is in stable condition after urgent surgery. About 100 AK-16 cartridges were collected from the scene along with M16 shells. The M16 shells found at the crime scene were believed to have been taken from the military's shooting practice as the shooters were not considered to be professional gunmen. The bullet holes in Mr Sondhi's truck indicate that the attackers didn't hold their guns firmly even though it appeared that they were shooting to kill. The assailants fled in a black Toyota Vigo pick-up truck and a blue Mazda pick-up. No group has claimed responsibility.
04/17/2009: On Friday morning at about 0706, in Caceres, Antioquia, Colombia, an improvised explosive device placed in a restaurant exploded, injuring three civilians including one child, two doctors and four police officers.  No group claimed responsibility.
04/17/2009: On Friday morning, unidentified militants hurled a grenade, which failed to detonate, at the house of a government contractor in the Singjamei Liwas area of Imphal West, Manipur, India. No casualties were reported and no group has claimed responsibility.
04/17/2009: On Friday night around 0130, armed assailants attacked the district headquarters with firearms and incendiary devices in Musakhel, Khost, Afghanistan, killing one police officer and destroying the building.The assailants then kidnapped two officers.The Taliban claimed responsibility and the status of the hostages is unknown.
04/17/2009: On Friday, a suicide bomber who was being pursued by police officers, detonated the improvised explosive device strapped to his body in Zaranj, Nimruz, Afghanistan, killing three civilians and injuring 16 others.No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Taliban was responsible.
04/17/2009: On Friday, two suicide bombers attempted to attack the minister of Refugee Affairs in Zaranj, Nimruz, Afghanistan killing three civilians and injuring three others. One was killed by the security guard and the other fled and detonated himself. No group has claimed responsibility.
04/17/2009: On Friday, unidentified militants blew up a power pylon in the Mirza Kalay area of Chamkani in the outskirts of Peshawar, North West Frontier, Pakistan. The bomb was planted under the tower and caused an estimated 3.5 million rupees ($43505.72) worth of damage. No casualties were reported and no group has claimed responsibility.
04/17/2009: On Friday, unidentified militants detonated a bomb targeting the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) office on Samunguli road in Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan. The bomb was planted outside the office. The explosion caused no casualties, but smashed the windowpanes of the FIA office and nearby buildings and it damaged the roof of a guard room. No group has claimed responsibility.
04/17/2010: On Saturday afternoon around 1715, in Shahrah-e-Faisal police precinct of Dalmia, Gulshan-e-Jamal in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, three unidentified armed men on a motorcycle shot and killed Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) Karachi vice-president, Manzoor Khan, when he was at a mechanic shop. The assailants used a nine millimeter pistol. Khan was shot nine times, first in the forehead. No group claimed responsibility.
04/17/2010: On Saturday afternoon at 1515 and 1530, in Bangalore, Karnataka, India, ten people, including four police personnel, five civilians, and a security guard were injured when unidentified militants detonated two low-intensity improvised explosive devices (IEDs) targeting the Chinnaswamy Stadium. The attack occurred as spectators were gathered to watch the last league match between the Royal Challengers Bangalore and Mumbai Indians. The first IED went off around 1515, at Gate 12 on Cubbon Road, damaging a wall. Fifteen minutes later, the second IED exploded in front of the State Police Wireless headquarters near the Anil Kumble Circle, close to the stadium. The second explosion caused no damages. A third IED was discovered at Gate eight on Queen’s Road around 1930 and was defused by security forces. On 04/18/2010, around 0900 in the morning, a fourth explosive was found near a bus stop close to Gate One, and more explosive material was found after a flex board near the stadium was opened during search operations. Sources said all the five bombs contained ammonium nitrate-based material known as powergel, commonly used in quarrying as the main explosive ingredient. No group claimed responsibility for the attack; however, police officials believe that an Indian Mujahedeen cell led by Mohammad Zarar Siddi Bawa may be behind the attack. On 04/20/2010, five people suspected were arrested in connection to the attacks.
04/17/2010: On Saturday morning at 1155 and Saturday afternoon at 1203, in the Kacha Pukka area of Kohat district, North West Frontier Province, Pakistan, 41 civilians were killed and 64 others were wounded when two suicide bombers dressed in burqas detonated their explosives inside a camp for the displaced. Eight to 10 kilograms of explosives were used in each suicide attack. The Al-Aalmi faction of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) claimed responsibility, and cited the presence of Shia Muslims at the camp was the reason for the attack.
04/17/2010: On Saturday morning prior to 0930, in Jalalabad city, in the Nangarhar province of Afghanistan, a bomb targeting an intelligence van exploded. Six people were injured and the van was damaged. No group claimed responsibility but the Taliban is suspected.
04/17/2010: On Saturday, at Chintalnar in Dantewada District, Chhattisgarh, India, suspected Communist Party of India (Maoist) gunmen dressed in Central Reserve Police Force uniforms fired at the Dantewada massacre probe team headed by former Border Security Force (BSF) Director General E. N. Rammohan. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/17/2010: On Saturday, in one of two linked attacks, in Sardheri area of Charsadda, North West Frontier Province, Pakistan, unknown assailants detonated an explosive device blowing up a government-run school, damaging the building but causing no casualties. No group claimed responsibility.
04/17/2010: On Saturday, in one of two linked attacks, in Sardheri area of Charsadda, North West Frontier Province, Pakistan, unknown assailants detonated an explosive device blowing up a government-run school, destroying all three rooms of the building but causing no casualties. No group claimed responsibility.
04/17/2010: On Saturday, in Orangi Town, Sindh, Pakistan, unidentified assailants shot a former activist of the Mohajir Qaumi Movement-Haqiqi (MQM-H) (Afaq group) outside his home. The victim was identified as 45-year-old Mumtaz Sheikh alias Adeeb. No group claimed responsibility.
04/17/2010: On Saturday, near the Somali airport in Mogadishu, Banaadir, Somalia, assailants fired mortar shells at African Union (AU) troops after the plane of the Somali President, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, had landed, killing six people including four civilians. It is unknown if the attack caused any property damage. No group claimed responsibility for the attack although Al Shabaab fighters were suspected.
04/17/2010: On Saturday, unidentified gunmen kidnapped an activist of the Mohajir Qaumi Movement-Haqiqi (MQM-H) in Landhi, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. The victim was identified as 28-year-old Farhan, son of Abdul Hameed Qureshi, who was shot three times in the chest and dumped at Lal Abad near Rehri Goth situated at graveyard of the Sherpao Colony. No group claimed responsibility.
04/17/2011: On Sunday evening at 1815, in Thangmeiband area in Imphal West district, Manipur, India, a hand grenade exploded at the residence of the Superintendent Engineer of the Irrigation and Flood Control Department (IFCD), Soibam Dhanabir Singh, causing an unknown amount of property damage. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/17/2011: On Sunday evening, near Khost city in Khost Province, Afghanistan, a provincial official, Khayal Mohammad, was killed and three of his family members were injured when their vehicle struck a mine. Mohammad served as head of human resources in the provincial administration. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage and no group claimed responsibility.
04/17/2011: On Sunday morning, in Galkayo, Mudug, Somalia, one person was killed and one person was injured when unidentified militants armed with AK-47 rifles and unknown pistols fired upon civilians at the Faruq Mosque. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/17/2011: On Sunday night, in Bandra village, Khunti, Jharkhand, India, in one of two related attacks, suspected People’s Liberation Front of India (PLFI) cadres abducted Balram Singh from his house and subsequently fired on and killed him. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/17/2011: On Sunday night, in Bandra village, Khunti, Jharkhand, India, in one of two related attacks, suspected People’s Liberation Front of India (PLFI) cadres abducted Sukra Pahan from his house and subsequently fired on and killed him. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/17/2011: On Sunday night, in Lawadi village, Palamau, Jharkhand, India, militants abducted two people identified as Bishwanath Yadav and Ajay Thakur. On 04/19/2011, the militants shot and killed the two men. Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) literature found at the incident site claimed responsibility, saying that the victims were supporters of the Tritiya Prastuti Committee (TPC), a breakaway faction of the Maoists and also that two men were police informers.
04/17/2011: On Sunday night, in Siraha, Sagarmatha, Nepal, militants detonated an explosive device at the Sagarmatha Transport Zonal (STZ) Office, partially damaging the window panes and the doors of the office. No casualties were reported and the eastern regional commander of the Rajan Mukti faction of Janatantrik Terai Mukti Morcha (JTMM), identified as Janamukti, claimed responsibility for the attack by unknown means.
04/17/2011: On Sunday, in Mamostayan neighborhood, near Nur Kabir Mosque in Kirkuk, At Ta'mim, Iraq, unknown assailants detonated a sticky improvised explosive device attached to a civilian, Omar Mohammed’s, car. The blast killed Mohammed and damaged his car. No group claimed responsibility.
04/17/2011: On Sunday, in New Karachi Police Lane in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, unidentified militants shot and killed Sub-Inspector (SI), Zulfiqar Qaimkhani, while he was standing near his residential quarter. No group claimed responsibility.
04/17/2011: On Sunday, in Ramadi, Al Anbar, Iraq, unknown assailants detonated a roadside improvised explosive device targeting the motorcade of Brigadier Hamad al-Duleimy, Anbar Province's Traffic Police Director. The blast damaged one of the motorcade's cars but did not cause any casualties. No group claimed responsibility.
04/17/2011: On Sunday, in the Hay al-Amil neighborhood, Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq, unknown assailants fired three rockets that targeted Baghdad Airport. No casualties were reported, and the attack caused an unknown amount of property damage. No group claimed responsibility.
04/17/2011: On Sunday, Kirkuk, At Ta'mim, Iraq, unknown assailants detonated an improvised explosive device that was attached to the car of a businessman. The blast killed the man and caused an unknown amount of property damage to the car. No group claimed responsibility.
04/17/2011: On Sunday, near a relief camp in the Miratpur area of Mirtur, Bijapur, Chhattisgarh, India, more than a dozen unidentified militants shot and killed a villager, identified as Chugadu, and a former village chief (sarpanch), identified as Chandru. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
04/17/2011: On Sunday, near Jogi Moor on National Highway in the limits of Shah Latif Police Station in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, two unidentified militants shot and killed Head Constable of Sukkhun Police Station, Ali Bux, while he was on his way to the police station. No group claimed responsibility.
04/17/2011: On Sunday, on Speen Kani Khurd Street near the shrine of Sufi saint Kaka Sahib in the limits of Nowshera Kalan Police Station of Nowshera, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, unidentified militants blew up a government primary school for boys, completely destroying one classroom and damaging another. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/17/2011: On Sunday, on the 14 Ramadan intersection in al-Mansour neighborhood, Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq, unidentified assailants detonated a sticky improvised explosive device attached to the vehicle of Muhammad Manasi, an employee for the National Security Agency. Manasi was killed while two passengers in the car, and two nearby civilians were wounded in the blast. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage and no group claimed responsibility.
04/17/2012: A rocket targeting district headquarters instead struck a house in Day Mirdad district, Maidan Wardak province, Afghanistan. There were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for this attack; however, sources attributed it to the Taliban.
04/17/2012: A school water tank was poisoned in Rostaq town, Takhar province, Afghanistan. One hundred and forty schoolgirls and teachers became ill as a result. No group claimed responsibility for this attack; however, authorities suspected the Taliban.
04/17/2012: A suicide bomber attempted to enter the United Nations (UN) compound in Baidoa city, Bay region, Somalia. The bomber detonated when a soldier tried to search him. Five people were killed in the explosion. Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for this attack.
04/17/2012: A suicide bomber in an explosives-laden vehicle detonated near a military checkpoint in Mukayras district, Al Bayda governorate, Yemen. Five soldiers were killed and five others injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for this attack; however, officials attributed it to Al-Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
04/17/2012: An explosive device attached to the vehicle of a Sahwa Council leader detonated in Baquba city, Diyala governorate, Iraq. The leader and a civilian were injured in the explosion. This was one of three attacks on Sahwa Council members in Iraq on this day. No group claimed responsibility for these incidents.
04/17/2012: An explosive device detonated at a maternity hospital in Khost province, Afghanistan. Four people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/17/2012: An explosive device detonated at a subdivision office in Cuttack city, Orissa state, India. There were no reported injuries of damages in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2012: An explosive device detonated near a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) vehicle in Balo area, Balkh province, Afghanistan. One NATO soldier was injured in the blast. The Taliban claimed responsibility for this attack.
04/17/2012: An explosive device detonated near an Afghan National Army (ANA) vehicle in Delaram district, Nimruz province, Afghanistan. Two ANA soldiers were killed, and four others, including two civilians, were injured in the blast. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/17/2012: An explosive device detonated near Sahwa Council forces southwest of Kirkuk, Iraq. A Sahwa captain was killed in the blast. This was one of three attacks on Sahwa Council members in Iraq on this day. No group claimed responsibility for these incidents.
04/17/2012: Assailants attacked police officers destroying poppy crops in Mimla area, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan. Five police officers were injured in the attack. The Taliban claimed responsibility for this incident.
04/17/2012: Assailants opened fire on a soldier in Baquba city, Diyala governorate, Iraq. The soldier was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2012: Assailants opened fire on Sayed Kamal in Marawara district, Kunar province, Afghanistan. Kamal, a social council leader and former commander of Hizb-I-Islami, was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2012: Assailants opened fire on the convoy of a Sunni Iraqiya parliament representative in Taji area, Saladin governorate, Iraq. The representative, Falah al-Naqeeb, was not injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2012: Assailants with assault rifles opened fire on a police station in Sulayman Beg area, Saladin governorate, Iraq. There were no reported casualties, and no group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2012: Explosive devices detonated at the house of a Sahwa Council member in Balad city, Saladin governorate, Iraq. One person was injured in the blast. This was one of three attacks on Sahwa Council members in Iraq on this day. No group claimed responsibility for these incidents.
04/17/2012: Four assailants opened fire on a cleric at his home in Maiduguri city, Borno state, Nigeria. The cleric was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for this incident; however, sources suspected that Boko Haram may have been involved.
04/17/2012: Four assailants opened fire on a hotel in Karachi city, Sindh province, Pakistan. Three civilians were killed and two others injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2012: Two assailants attempted to plant an explosive device in Tuz Khurmato town, Kirkuk, Iraq. One assailant was killed and the other arrested when they were discovered by Iraqi soldiers. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2013: A grenade detonated by the house of Liberal Party Mayor Rodrigo Orduna in Bugallon village, Bugayang municipality, Pangasinan province, Philippines. No one was injured in the attack. No group has claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2013: A North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) vehicle hit an explosive device in Wardak province, Afghanistan. At least one United States soldier, Barrett Austin, died in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2013: A remote-controlled bomb detonated near the vehicle of Farooq Khan, an Awami National Party (ANP) leader, in Sheikho area, Charsadda district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. Three people, including Khan, were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/17/2013: A roadside bomb detonated near the convoy of a Member of Parliament (MP) in Madain town, Diyala governorate, Iraq. The MP, Qais al-Shather, was not injured in the blast; however, four of his guards were wounded. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2013: A roadside mine detonated near a civilian vehicle in Aliabad village, Shindand district, Herat province, Afghanistan. Seven civilians were killed in the blast and four were injured. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, police attributed the attack to the Taliban.
04/17/2013: An explosive device attached to a teacher's vehicle detonated in Ramadi city, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. The teacher was killed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2013: An explosive device attached to a vehicle detonated in the Mansur area of Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. Two people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2013: An explosive device attached to a vehicle detonated near a Sunni protest area outside of Ramadi city, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. Two people were killed in the blast and another six were injured. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2013: An explosive device detonated at the Kano Central Mosque in the Gwale area of Kano city, Kano state, Nigeria. No one was injured in the blast; however, one assailant was killed by an angry mob and one was arrested. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources suspect that Boko Haram was behind the attack.
04/17/2013: An explosive device detonated prematurely in the Ghazalia area of Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. Two assailants planting the device were killed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2013: An explosive device hidden in a garbage can detonated near the parliamentary building in Kabul city, Kabul province, Afghanistan. There were no reported casualties or damages resulting from the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2013: An explosives-laden motorbike detonated near a Bharatiya Janata Party office in the Malleshwaram area of Bangalore city, Karnataka state, India. Sixteen people, including eleven police officers, were injured in the incident. No group claimed responsibility for the incident, however police suspect Panna Ismail, a former member of Al Ummah, of parking the motorcycle. Some police also separately attributed the attack to the Indian Mujahideen (IM).
04/17/2013: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated in the Jihad area of Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. One person was killed and six were injured in the explosion. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2013: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated in the vicinity of a police patrol in central Fallujah city, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. Three people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2013: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated near a government office in Abu Ghraib city, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. At least two people were killed and six were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2013: Assailants attacked a group of polio vaccinators with stones in Nawabshah village, Shaheed Benazir Abad district, Sindh province, Pakistan. Three members of the vaccination team were injured in the attack. After pelting the workers with stones, the Assailants held the victims hostage until they were later rescued by police. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2013: Assailants attacked a security checkpost in the Dabori area of Orakzai Agency, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. Eight assailants were killed and one soldier was wounded in the ensuing firefight. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, media sources attribute the attack to the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
04/17/2013: Assailants attacked an Afghan Local Police (ALP) checkpost in Bibe Hajira area, Mihtarlam district, Laghman province, Afghanistan. Four police officers were killed and one was injured. The Taliban took responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2013: Assailants fired two rockets from Sinai, Egypt into a residential area in Eilat village, South district, Israel. The attack resulted in no injuries. The group Mujahedeen Shura Council claimed responsibility, stating the attack was in response to the Israeli army's inhumane treatment of protestors.
04/17/2013: Assailants opened fire on a military checkpoint in Abu Ghraib city, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. Two soldiers were killed and at least four were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2013: Assailants opened fire on Abdul Malik Khurasani in Joram district, Badakhshan province, Afghanistan. Khurasani, the head Kokcha Radio station, was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2013: Assailants opened fire on Maarouf Ahmed al-Kobaisi's vehicle in Fallujah city, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. Al-Kobaisi, the chief prosecutor of the municipal civil court, was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2013: Assailants set fire to the West Fertilizer Company plant in West, Texas, United States. The subsequent explosion killed 15 people and injured at least an additional 151. No group claimed responsibility for the attack. On May 11, 2016 investigators announced that the fire was set intentionally; however, no suspects were announced.
04/17/2013: Assailants shot and killed a former translator for the United States Military in Samarra city, Saladin governorate, Iraq. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2013: Assailants threw a grenade at the residence of a local Balochistan National Party leader, Azeem Bareej, in Kharan district, Balochistan province, Pakistan. Two people were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/17/2013: Gunmen on motorcycles shot and killed councilor Felix Alfurnan in Barangay Puro. Katipunan village, Placer municipality, Masbate province, Philippines. No group claimed responsibility for the attack; however, the media suspected the attack was carried out as part of election-related violence.
04/17/2013: Gunmen opened fire on a Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS) mobile clinic vehicle in Khanaqah district, Jawzjan province, Afghanistan. Two Red Crescent workers were killed and one was wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2013: Gunmen shot and killed a soldier in his home in Prosperidad village, Agusan del Sur province, Philippines. No group has claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2013: Police discovered four remote-controlled explosive devices that had been planted around an electricity tower in the Laram area of Khazana town, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. The devices were successfully defused. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2013: Ten assailants attacked a security checkpost in the Arhanga Pass area of Orakzai agency, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. One security officer was wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2013: Two explosive devices detonated at the office of the Mural newspaper in the Jardines del Sol area of Zapopan city, Jalisco state, Mexico. There were no reported casualties, but the building was damaged. No group claimed responsibility for this attack.
04/17/2014: A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle and assailants opened fire on a military headquarters in Adayah village, Nineveh governorate, Iraq. At least 19 people, including nine assailants, were killed and 12 others were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/17/2014: A suicide bomber, targeting an army recruiting center, detonated an explosives-laden belt prematurely when a police officer attempted to intervene in Balad Ruz district, Diyala governorate, Iraq. In addition to the suicide bomber, the police officer and an army recruit were killed and ten others were wounded in the blast. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2014: An explosive device detonated at a school in Narayanpur village, Jharkhand state, India. There were no reported casualties; however, the school building was damaged in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
04/17/2014: An explosive device detonated near a civilian vehicle in Isfandi village, Ghazni city, Ghazni province, Afghanistan. Two civilians were killed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2014: An explosive device detonated near a military patrol in Bikr neighborhood, Mosul city, Nineveh governorate, Iraq. One soldier was killed and one other was wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2014: An explosive device detonated near an oil pipeline in Al Fathah neighborhood, Baiji city, Saladin governorate, Iraq. There were no reported casualties; however, the pipeline was damaged in the blast. This was one of two attacks on pipelines in Baiji city on April 17, 2014. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2014: An explosive device detonated near the Sahwa Council headquarters in Al Sajariyah neighborhood, Ramadi city, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. There were no reported casualties; however, the building was damaged in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2014: An explosive device detonated on a railway track in Bokaro district, Jharkhand state, India. There were no reported casualties; however, the railway track was damaged in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
04/17/2014: An explosive device planted in the vehicle of a police officer was discovered and safely defused in Al-Zera'a neighborhood, Sanaa city, Amanat Al Asimah governorate, Yemen. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected that Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) was involved in the attack.
04/17/2014: An explosive device planted under the vehicle of the wife of Deputy Speaker Giorgos Kalantzis detonated in Kavala city, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace region, Greece. There were no reported casualties; however, the vehicle was damaged in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2014: An explosive device was discovered and safely defused in Bohey area, Leitrim county, Ireland. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2014: An explosive device was discovered and safely defused near a Pakistan Air Force installation in Mattani area, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2014: An explosive device was discovered and safely defused outside the residence of a police officer in Mohill town, Leitrim county, Ireland. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2014: An explosive device was discovered at a polling booth and defused in Galudih area, Jharkhand state, India. The polling booth was moved to an alternative location. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
04/17/2014: An explosive device, targeting polling officials and security personnel, detonated in Kanker district, Chhattisgarh state, India. There were no reported casualties in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2014: An explosive planted in a haystack detonated near a civilian residence in Bhaturia village, Jessor Sadar subdistrict, Khulna division, Bangladesh. A woman was killed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2014: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated in Sabri neighborhood, Benghazi city, Benghazi district, Libya. There were no reported casualties; however, property was damaged in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2014: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated near the Al-Sayyid Idris Mausoleum in Karrada neighborhood, Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. At least five people were killed and 19 others were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/17/2014: An explosives-laden vehicle was discovered and safely defused in Takhta Baig area, Jamrud town, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2014: Assailants abducted a Finance Ministry employee and four Central Bank of Yemen (CBY) employees in Al-Khalq district, Al Jawf governorate, Yemen. The outcome of the abduction is unknown. Tribesmen claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that they carried out the abduction as a bargaining tool for better government services and other demands.
04/17/2014: Assailants abducted Abit Dogruer, a former mayor, and three others in Diyarbakir province, Turkey. The victims were released unharmed on April 18, 2014. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the abduction to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
04/17/2014: Assailants abducted and assaulted Sami Nawaz and Farrukh Saleem in Gulshan-e-Maymar neighborhood, Karachi city, Sindh province, Pakistan. Nawaz and Saleem, United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) staff members, were rescued on April 21, 2014. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2014: Assailants abducted and opened fire on Mohammed Amin Pandith in Gulzarpora village, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. Pandith, a village head, was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2014: Assailants abducted Laaroussi Kontassi in Tripoli city, Tripoli district, Libya. Kontassi, an adviser to the Tunisian ambassador, was released on June 29, 2014. Ansar al-Sharia (Tunisia) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2014: Assailants abducted Volodymyr Rybak in Horlivka city, Donetsk oblast, Ukraine. Rybak, a city council member, was found dead on April 22, 2014. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Donetsk People's Republic.
04/17/2014: Assailants attacked a military base in Landi Kotal town, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. There were an unknown number of casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
04/17/2014: Assailants attacked a police patrol in Ibb governorate, Yemen. Three police officers were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Al-Islah party.
04/17/2014: Assailants attacked Adisak Latae and forced him out of a mosque, where they opened fire on him in Kholo Tanyong area, Pattani province, Thailand. Latae, a chairperson of the Tambon Korlortanyong Administrative Organisation (TAO), was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2014: Assailants detonated an explosive device and opened fire on the vehicle of Ahmad Khalil al-Atawi in Tikrit city, Saladin governorate, Iraq. Al-Atawi, a political candidate, was unharmed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2014: Assailants detonated an explosive device near Gamharia village, Jharkhand state, India. There were no reported casualties in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
04/17/2014: Assailants held Nelya Shtepain hostage in Slovyansk city, Donetsk oblast, Ukraine. Shtepain, the mayor of Donetsk oblast, was released on April 22, 2014. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Donetsk People's Republic.
04/17/2014: Assailants launched eight rockets at Al-Muthanna airport in Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. There were no reported casualties; however, the airport was damaged in the attack. The Military Council of the Tribal Revolutionaries (MCTR) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2014: Assailants launched explosive devices at a military base in Benghazi city, Benghazi district, Libya. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2014: Assailants launched rocket propelled grenades and opened fire on a United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan (UNMISS) base, where civilians had sought refuge in Bor town, Jonglei state, South Sudan. At least 62 people, including 15 assailants, were killed and 100 others were wounded in the attack. Additionally, an unknown number of people were abducted and the whereabouts of the hostages in unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2014: Assailants opened fire on a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) patrol in Bokaro district, Jharkhand state, India. One CRPF officer was wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
04/17/2014: Assailants opened fire on a hardware store in Nazimabad area, Karachi city, Sindh province, Pakistan. The store owner, a member of the Shia community, was killed and his employee was wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2014: Assailants opened fire on a local council headquarters building in Misau town, Misau local government area, Bauchi state, Nigeria. An unknown number of assailants were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2014: Assailants opened fire on a Somali National Army (SNA) convoy in Daynuunay area, Bay region, Somalia. Twelve people, including six assailants and six soldiers, were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Al-Shabaab.
04/17/2014: Assailants opened fire on an African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) and Somali National Army (SNA) base in Burdhubo city, Gedo region, Somalia. Seven assailants were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources, attributed the attack to Al-Shabaab.
04/17/2014: Assailants opened fire on customs officials on Maiduguri road between Sade and Lanzai towns in Darazo local government area, Bauchi state, Nigeria. Two customs officials were killed and four others were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2014: Assailants opened fire on Husayn Badran in Garage area, Mosul city, Nineveh governorate, Iraq. Badran, a city council director and member of the Shabak community, was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2014: Assailants opened fire on Major Hamid al-Qaffari in Seiyun city, Hadramawt governorate, Yemen. Al-Qaffari, a military officer, was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
04/17/2014: Assailants opened fire on Musa Islavov in Khasavyurt city, Dagestan republic, Russia. Islavov, a Member of Parliament (MP), and his driver were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2014: Assailants opened fire on Prosper Erhinyojare at a beer parlor in Warri city, Delta state, Nigeria. Erhinyojare, the chair of Udu Central Vigilante was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2014: Assailants opened fire on the residence of Colonel Ibrahim al-Fatmani in Benghazi city, Benghazi district, Libya. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2014: Assailants set fire to the boiler room of the Dunanney Centre in Rathcoole area, Newtownabbey district, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. No casualties were reported; however, the building was damaged and the gas and water supply were destroyed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2014: Assailants set the Pro Gorod Newspaper office on fire in Torez city, Donetsk oblast, Ukraine. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Donetsk People's Republic.
04/17/2014: Assailants stopped and opened fire on a vehicle carrying soldiers in Bir Ahmad area, Tuz Khurmatu district, Saladin governorate, Iraq. Three soldiers were killed and a bus driver was beaten in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2014: Assailants stormed the residence of a former soldier and opened fire on him in Zammar area, Nineveh governorate, Iraq. The former soldier was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2014: Assailants threw an explosive device at a real estate office in Benghazi city, Benghazi district, Libya. Two people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2014: Explosive devices planted in three tunnels, which assailants had dug underneath a military barracks detonated in Hanano neighborhood, Aleppo city, Aleppo governorate, Syria. At least 47 people, including 27 soldiers and members of a pro-government militia and 20 assailants, were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the blast to Al-Nusrah Front and the Islamic Front (Syria).
04/17/2014: Seven explosive devices detonated successively in Bistuur area, Giridih district, Jharkhand state, India. There were no reported casualties in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
04/17/2014: Two explosive devices detonated near a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp in Giridih district, Jharkhand state, India. There were no reported casualties in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
04/17/2014: Two land mines detonated simultaneously near a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) vehicle in Bokaro district, Jharkhand state, India. Four people were wounded, including three CRPF officers and one civilian. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
04/17/2014: Two land mines were discovered and safely defused at a polling station in West Singhbhum district, Jharkhand state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
04/17/2014:An explosive device detonated near the Baiji-Hadithah gas pipeline in Baiji city, Saladin governorate, Iraq. There were no reported casualties; however, the pipeline was damaged in the blast. This was one of two attacks on pipelines in Baiji city on April 17, 2014. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2015: A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle targeting Major General Nawman al-Zawba'i's convoy in Al-Baghdadi region, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. Al-Zawba'i, an Iraqi Army commander, and three of his guards were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/17/2015: A suicide bomber in an explosives-laden vehicle detonated and assailants attacked a police headquarters in Ramadi city, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. In addition to the bomber, three guards and five assailants were killed and six guards were injured in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/17/2015: A suicide bomber in an explosives-laden vehicle detonated near the United States Consulate in Ankawa neighborhood, Arbil city, Arbil governorate, Iraq. In addition to the bomber, at least two people were killed and eight others were injured in the blast. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2015: A suicide bomber in an explosives-laden vehicle detonated targeting a group of police officers in Hunadi area, Baiji district, Saladin governorate, Iraq. In addition to the bomber, two police officers were killed and four others were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2015: An assailant armed with a knife attempted to attack a military officer in Tagbak village, Indanan town, Sulu province, Philippines. The assailant was killed after the officer opened fire in response. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, a source identified the attacker as a Muslim fundamentalist.
04/17/2015: An explosive device detonated at a military detachment in Magaslong village, Maguindanao province, Philippines. No casualties were reported. The Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Movement (BIFM) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2015: An explosive device detonated at the Rashid market in Dora neighborhood, Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. Three people were killed and eight others were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2015: An explosive device detonated near a cafe in southeastern Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. Three people were killed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2015: An explosive device detonated near a Pakistan Armed Forces convoy in Achini Bala area, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2015: An explosive device detonated near government offices and the former residence of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Gaza city, Gaza strip, West Bank and Gaza Strip. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2015: An explosive device detonated on a commercial street in Baghdad al-Jadeeda area, Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. At least one person was killed and nine others were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2015: An explosive device detonated targeting a vehicle carrying Sahwa Council members in Rashid area, Babil governorate, Iraq. Two Sahwa members were killed and three other members were injured in the blast. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2015: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated at a market in Amil area, Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. Thirteen people were killed and 24 others were injured in the blast. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2015: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated near an auto showroom in Habibiyah area, Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. Fifteen people were killed and 26 others were injured in the blast. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2015: Assailants abducted 15 elders from a village near Harardhere town, Mudug, Somalia. Two of the hostages escaped shortly after the abduction; the fate of the remaining hostages is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the abduction to Al-Shabaab.
04/17/2015: Assailants attacked a wedding party and abducted the bride and groom in Twelve Mile village, Namkham subdistrict, Shan, Myanmar. The outcome of the kidnapping is unknown. This was one of two incidents in the village on the same day. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to the Ta'ang National Liberation Army (TNLA).
04/17/2015: Assailants attacked displaced civilians being evacuated by military forces near Gwoza town, Borno state, Nigeria. At least 10 people were killed in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Boko Haram.
04/17/2015: Assailants attacked military forces in Am Chide area, Extreme-North region, Cameroon. It is unknown if the attack resulted in casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Boko Haram.
04/17/2015: Assailants briefly detained a civilian in Derna city, Derna district, Libya. The hostage was released after his hand was cut off. No group claimed responsibility; however, a source attributed the attack to the Barqa Province of the Islamic State.
04/17/2015: Assailants detonated explosive devices near a logging firm vehicle in Limulan area, Sultan Kudarat province, Philippines. Following the blasts, assailants also opened fire on the vehicle. At least three people were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to the New People's Army (NPA).
04/17/2015: Assailants detonated explosives at a police officer's residence in Albu Souda area, Ramadi city, Iraq. This was one of six related attacks targeting the houses of security force members. No casualties were reported. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/17/2015: Assailants detonated explosives at a Sahwa Council member's residence in Albu Souda area, Ramadi city, Iraq. This was one of six related attacks targeting the houses of security force members. No casualties were reported. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/17/2015: Assailants fired a missile which hit protesters in Kish Square, Benghazi city, Benghazi district, Libya. One civilian was killed and an unknown number of others were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, a source attributed the attack to the Shura Council of Benghazi Revolutionaries.
04/17/2015: Assailants fired mortars that landed and detonated in Kish area, Benghazi city, Benghazi district, Libya. One civilian was killed and 19 others were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2015: Assailants fired projectiles that landed and detonated in Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. At least eight soldiers were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/17/2015: Assailants kidnapped former general Yehya Zahra from Arsal town, Beqaa governorate, Lebanon. Zahra was found dead later the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/17/2015: Assailants opened fire on a civilian vehicle in Gedo area, Kurram district, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. Two people were killed and three others were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2015: Assailants opened fire on a former New People's Army (NPA) member in Esperanza village, Pilar town, Sorsogon province, Philippines. The former member was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, a source attributed the attack to the New People's Army (NPA).
04/17/2015: Assailants opened fire on a former Territorial Defense Volunteers (TDV) member in Sadawa area, Pattani province, Thailand. The volunteer was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2015: Assailants opened fire on a mdeia executive in Karachi city, Sindh province, Pakistan. The executive was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2015: Assailants opened fire on a Pangsay People's Militia (PPM) outpost after attacking a wedding party in Twelve Mile village, Namkham subdistrict, Shan, Myanmar. At least two people, including a civilian and an assailant, were killed and two other people were injured in the assault. This was one of two incidents in the village on the same day. The Ta'ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) claimed responsibility for the attack and stated that the outpost was being used for narcotics.
04/17/2015: Assailants opened fire on civilians and Popular Resistance Committee members in Aden city, Adan governorate, Yemen. At least 13 people were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Huthis.
04/17/2015: Assailants opened fire on drivers of a United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) convoy near Gao city, Gao region, Mali. Two drivers were killed and one other person was wounded in the attack. Al-Mua'qi'oon Biddam Brigade (Those who Sign with Blood) and Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO), two groups that reportedly merged into Al-Mourabitoun, claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2015: Assailants set fire to a mosque in Komotini area, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace region, Greece. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2015: Assailants set fire to a mosque in Toowoomba city, Queensland state, Australia. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2015: Five explosive devices were discovered and defused on a private bus in Chhatauni, Bihar state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2015: Security forces discovered and defused an unknown number of explosive devices in Farah province, Afghanistan. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2015: Security forces discovered and defused an unknown number of explosive devices in Samangan province, Afghanistan. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2015: Security forces discovered and defused an unknown number of explosive devices in Zabul province, Afghanistan. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2015: Security forces discovered and safely detonated ten explosive devices planted along a road in North Sinai governorate, Egypt. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2015: Security forces identified and killed two assailants attempting to plant an explosive device in southern Sheikh Zuweid, North Sinai, Egypt. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2015: Suicide bombers detonated two explosives-laden vehicles near the Grand Mosque in Ramadi city, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. In addition to the bombers, at least seven police officers were killed and five others were injured in the blasts. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2016: A sniper opened fire on a military checkpoint in Sheikh Zuweid, North Sinai, Egypt. A soldier was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2016: A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle at a military checkpoint near Aden International Airport in Aden, Adan, Yemen. In addition to the assailant, at least four soldiers were killed and two soldiers were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2016: A suicide bomber detonated targeting the residence of a peace committee member in Zakha Khel, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. In addition to the assailant, one guard was killed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2016: An assailant threw an explosive device at a Justice and Development Party (AKP) office in Sutluce neighborhood, Istanbul, Turkey. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2016: An explosive device detonated and assailants opened fire targeting a military vehicle in Guirang, Samar, Philippines. At least five soldiers were injured in the ambush. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the New People's Army (NPA).
04/17/2016: An explosive device detonated in Saba al-Bor, Saladin, Iraq. At least two people were killed and seven people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2016: An explosive device detonated targeting a water pipeline in Midyat district, Mardin, Turkey. There were no reported casualties in the blast. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
04/17/2016: An explosive device detonated targeting police personnel in Nusaybin, Mardin, Turkey. One police officer was killed and three officers were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
04/17/2016: An explosive device detonated targeting the boundary walls of Usmania Plaza in Parachinar, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. There were no reported casualties in the blast. This was one of three related attacks in Parachinar on this date. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/17/2016: Assailants abducted five Mercy Corps employees near Nyanzale, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The employees were released on April 23, 2016. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the kidnapping to the Nyatura Militia and noted that the assailants demanded a ransom payment. Sources also suspected the involvement of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) in the attack.
04/17/2016: Assailants attacked a military base in Ramadi, Al Anbar, Iraq. Security forces repelled the assault, killing four assailants, including two suicide bombers. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/17/2016: Assailants attacked a police post in Chahar Bolak district, Balkh, Afghanistan. At least 12 assailants were killed and one police officer was injured in the ensuing clash. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to the Taliban.
04/17/2016: Assailants attacked a security checkpost in Qush Tepa district, Jawzjan, Afghanistan. At least six soldiers and 17 assailants were killed in the assault. The Taliban and the Imam al-Bukhari Brigade claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2016: Assailants attacked joint security forces in Yuksekova district, Hakkari, Turkey. A police officer was killed and a soldier was injured in the assault. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
04/17/2016: Assailants attacked the 'Allas Oilfield in Tikrit, Saladin, Iraq. Security forces repelled the assault, resulting in an unknown number of casualties. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/17/2016: Assailants killed a civilian at a checkpoint in Damt, Ad Dali, Yemen. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Huthi extremists.
04/17/2016: Assailants opened fire on a bus in Zhob, Balochistan, Pakistan. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2016: Assailants opened fire on a United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) patrol in Rafai, Mbomou, Central African Republic. At least one peacekeeper was killed in the assault. This was the second of two related attacks in Mbomou on this date; MINUSCA peacekeepers were responding to an earlier raid in Agoumar. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incidents to the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).
04/17/2016: Assailants opened fire on a vehicle carrying a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) employee in Mogadishu, Banaadir, Somalia. The employee was killed and her sister was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2016: Assailants opened fire on Medio Bisana in St. Francis II, Bataan, Philippines. Bisana, coordinator for Limay Mayor Ver Roque, was killed and his wife was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2016: Assailants raided Agoumar, Mbomou, Central African Republic. There were no reported casualties in the assault. This was the first of two related attacks in Mbomou on this date. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incidents to the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).
04/17/2016: Assailants shot and killed shopkeeper Khurshid Ahmad Lone in Heff Shirmal, Jammu and Kashmir, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2016: Security forces discovered and defused an explosives-laden vehicle in Aden, Adan, Yemen. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2016: Security forces discovered and defused an explosives-rigged house in Ramadi, Al Anbar, Iraq. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2016: Security forces discovered and defused three explosive devices in Parachinar, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. This was one of three related attacks in Parachinar on this date. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/17/2016: Security forces identified and killed a suicide bomber targeting security forces with an explosives-laden vehicle in Al-Khasfah, Al Anbar, Iraq. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2016: Security forces identified and killed an unspecified number of suicide bombers equipped with explosives-laden vehicles in Derna district, Libya. The Barqa Province of the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/17/2016: Two assailants attacked a church in Tokapal, Chhattisgarh, India. A pastor and his wife were injured in the assault. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP).
04/17/2017: A explosive device attached to an Afghan Parliament vehicle detonated in Kabul, Afghanistan. At least two people were injured in the blast. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2017: An explosive device attached to a police ranger vehicle detonated in Lahori Gate, Kabul, Afghanistan. At least one police officer was injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2017: An explosive device detonated at a gas station in Tacurong, Sultan Kudarat, Philippines. There were no reported casualties in the blast. This was one of two coordinated attacks at the same location within a short period of time. The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/17/2017: An explosive device detonated in Jinnah Town neighborhood, Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan. At least one child was killed and two other children were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/17/2017: An explosive device detonated in Jisr Diyala neighborhood, Baghdad, Iraq. Three civilians were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2017: An explosive device detonated near a gas station in Tacurong, Sultan Kudarat, Philippines. At least 14 people, including five police officers and nine civilians, were injured in the blast. This was one of two coordinated attacks at the same location within a short period of time; this second bombing targeted police personnel responding to the site of an earlier blast. An additional explosive device was defused at the scene. The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/17/2017: An explosive device detonated targeting a vehicle carrying security guards for oil and gas facilities near Batuyah Mountain, Kirkuk, Iraq. One guard was injured in the blast. This was one of two related attacks in the area within a short period of time. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/17/2017: An explosive device detonated targeting security forces responding to an earlier attack near Batuyah Mountain, Kirkuk, Iraq. There were no reported casualties in the blast. This was one of two related attacks in the area within a short period of time. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/17/2017: An explosive device detonated targeting Special Task Force (STF) personnel near Gudase, Chhattisgarh, India. Two STF officers were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
04/17/2017: An explosives-laden fire extinguisher detonated at a Societe Generale bank branch on Cours Paoli, Corte, Corsica, France. There were no reported casualties in the blast. Corsican nationalists claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/17/2017: Assailants abducted Ami Ali from his house in Hpweyar, Rakhine, Myanmar. Ali, a village head, was stabbed and killed shortly after the kidnapping. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2017: Assailants attacked a police station in Tarhouna, Murqub, Libya. At least four police officers were killed and one police officer was injured in the ensuing clash. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Kani Brigade.
04/17/2017: Assailants attacked an Iraqi Army checkpoint in Abu Ghraib, Al Anbar, Iraq. There were no reported casualties, though a vehicle was set on fire in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2017: Assailants attacked and killed two civilians outside their residence in Kulheya, Jharkhand, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) and stated that the victims were accused of supporting the Tritiya Prastuti Committee (TPC).
04/17/2017: Assailants attacked Qoryoley, Lower Shebelle, Somalia. No casualties were reported in the ensuing clash with security forces. Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2017: Assailants attacked Syrian Army checkpoints in Salamiyah, Hamah, Syria. There were no reported casualties in the incident. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the attack. Sources also attributed the incident to Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham.
04/17/2017: Assailants attacked the Wafa oilfield in Nalut district, Libya. No casualties were reported, though gas pipelines were shut down in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2017: Assailants fired a chlorine-laced mortar, intended to target security forces, that struck Ash Shifa neighborhood, Mosul, Nineveh. At least five civilians were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/17/2017: Assailants fired ten mortars at Maawsil al-Jadidah neighborhood, Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq. At least seven civilians were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/17/2017: Assailants opened fire on a civilian vehicle in Karak district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. At least three people were killed and two other people were injured in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/17/2017: Assailants opened fire on a military checkpost in Sabon Gari, Borno, Nigeria. At least nine soldiers were killed, five soldiers were injured, and 14 soldiers were reported missing in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Boko Haram.
04/17/2017: Assailants opened fire on the vehicle of General Abdul Hai Atahai in Musazai, Kunduz, Afghanistan. Atahai, an Afghan National Army (ANA) commander, was killed and another officer was injured the attack. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2017: Assailants threw a hand grenade at a security checkpoint in Ali Bolay area, Mogadishu, Somalia. There were no reported casualties in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/17/2017: Security forces discovered and defused an explosives-rigged building in Al Faruq area, Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq. This was one of three related attacks in the area on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/17/2017: Security forces discovered and defused eight explosives-laden motorcycles in Faruq neighborhood, Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/1989: An arson damaged the home and injured one child of local restaurant owner, Lam Ton, in Chicago, Illinois.  Ton, a prominent Vietnamese businessman, was previously threatened in phone calls, in which he was called a communist, and the suspected motive for the arson was opposition towards his public call for the Vietnamese community in the United States to discuss social and political issues with the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
04/18/1998: Unknown militants shot and killed thirteen people in Thub village, Pakistan. The attackers fired indiscriminately causing a number of injuries and damage to the village.
04/18/1999: An unknown group, armed with grenades, tried to enter Bingol, Turkey, in order to disrupt the local elections. Two perpetrators were killed by security forces in the attempt.
04/18/1999: In Cambodia, an attempt to blow up Khmer Society of Import-Export’s (SOKIMEX) Prek Phneou oil depot was averted and the five people involved were arrested. The perpetrator group was identified as the CSS Movement in one of the sources.
04/18/2000: Assailants abducted three traders in Jampuijala area, Tripura state, India. The three traders were then taken to Bangladesh by the assailants. One trader, Ranjan Saha, was released around March 19, 2016; however, the fate of the remaining two hostages is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the abduction to the National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT).
04/18/2001: Chechen Rebels (non-specific) attacked a Russian Signal Corps. convoy near Argun in the Shalinsky district of the Chechen Republic. A Russian vehicle hit a land mine, after which the Chechens proceeded to fire on the convoy. At least one soldier was killed and two wounded in the attack.
04/18/2001: HAMAS launched a mortar attack on the Jewish Nisanit settlement, north of Gaza, Israel. No casualties resulted from the attack, which HAMAS claimed it launched in response to Israel's bombing of a Syrian radar site in Lebanon.
04/18/2001: Members of the anarchist group Revolutionary Violence Units torched Thai and Israeli diplomatic vehicles in Greece. The cars were destroyed, but no casualties resulted from the attacks.
04/18/2001: Militants detonated a car bomb outside of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) Committee for Kosovo and Metohija office in Pristina, Kosovo. The attack killed one and injured four others. Serbian authorities blamed Albanian militants for the incident.
04/18/2001: Militants suspected from the Muttahida Qami Movement (MQM) exploded two bombs in Clifton area of Karachi, Pakistan, killing two people.
04/18/2001: Unknown militants detonated a bomb outside a café in Benchicaou in the Dumez housing development in Berrouaghia, Algeria. The attacks killed four and wounded two others.
04/18/2002: A bomb was detonated near a transport vehicle carrying members of the Chechen special-purpose militant unit. 17 servicemen were killed and approximately 5 were injured. No group has claimed responsibility, but government leaders suspect Zelimkhan Akhmadov.
04/18/2003: A group of about ten persons and led by Amar Bounekib, a member of the Armed Islamic Group (GIA), attacked a cafe in Jijel, Algeria. The perpetrators destroyed the property in the cafe in front of the stunned customers. The owner of the cafe who lives across from the premises, fired shots in return. The perpetrators subsequently retreated, killing one child in the process. The exact number of injuries was unknown. The cafe had been attacked previously, and the owner of the cafe had frequently refused to pay a tithe.
04/18/2003: Forty members of the New People’s Army (NPA) killed five soldiers and injured nine others, all of whom belonged to the Alpha Company of the 22nd Infantry Battalion of the Philippine Army, were ambushed by the NPA. The rebels used an assortment of automatic weapons and grenade launchers in the attack, and the exact number of perpetrator casualties was unknown.
04/18/2003: Marimuttu Rasalingam, Eelam People's Democratic Party (EPDP) member and former chairman of Alayadivembu Pradeshiya Sabha, was gunned down and shot to death by two boys on bicycles, as he was walking to his office in Akkaraipattu in the eastern province of Sri Lanka.  The perpetrators are suspected to be members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).  The incident occurred in the midst of Sri Lankan troops attempting to control inter-communal rioting in another part of the province.
04/18/2003: Rebels belonging to the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC)killed two peasants and one soldier during a Good Friday procession in Dolores, Colombia. Two people were also wounded. The rebels targeted both civilians and Colombian soldiers from the Sixth Brigade who were protecting the procession. The soldiers chased the rebels into the countryside.
04/18/2003: Two policemen were shot to death by two members of the New People's Army (NPA) in Calubian, Leyte. The officers, Jesus Lonzaga and Rodrigo Sapilan, were doing intelligence work in the area at the time of the attack.
04/18/2004: Three men suspected of belonging to the New People’s Army (NPA) fired at the third floor of the Royal Dutch Shell Oil Company building in Manila, Philippines. The target of the attack appeared to be Shell President Rey Gamboa whose office was located on the third floor of the building. The perpetrators used an M-16 rifle, a 45-caliber pistol and an M203 grenade launcher in the drive-by attack. Although the building’s windows were shattered, no one was injured in the attack.
04/18/2005: An IDF Soldier and an Israeli civilian were injured when a sniper shot at them along the Egypt-Israel border in an area known as the Philadelphia Route. The Popular Resistance Committee (PRC) claimed responsibility for the shooting.
04/18/2005: Unidentified perpetrators killed Major General Adnan Thabit Al-Maryush, the Iraqi Interior Minister's advisor for Security Affairs, at his home in Al-Dawrah, Iraq. The chief of Al-Maryush's Guards was also killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the assassination.
04/18/2007: A bomb on a minibus exploded as the bus passed through the Shi i district of Rusafa in central Baghdad, Iraq. At least two people were killed and five were wounded. Due to the nature of the attack, authorities suspected Sunni militants were responsible.  No claim of responsibility was reported.
04/18/2007: A car bomb exploded on a busy shopping street in the predominantly Shi i neighborhood of Karada in Baghdad, Iraq. At least 10 people were killed 13 were wounded. The blast also damaged a nearby private hospital and several other buildings. Due to the nature of the attack, authorities suspected Sunni militants were responsible.  No claim of responsibility was reported.
04/18/2007: A suicide car bomber crashed into an Iraqi police checkpoint at an entrance to Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq; the capital's biggest Shi ite neighborhood. The explosion killed at least 41 people, including five Iraqi security officers, and wounded 76. Due to the nature of the attack, authorities suspected Sunni militants were responsible.  No claim of responsibility was reported.
04/18/2007: A suicide car bomber struck a police patrol in the Saydiyah neighborhood, a mixed Sunni-Shi i district in southwest Baghdad, Iraq. Four died, including two policemen, and eight were wounded, five of them police. There was no claim of responsibility.
04/18/2007: At least 127 people died and 148 were wounded when a car bomb exploded in Sadriyah market in Baghdad, Iraq where buses were picking up passengers. The U.S. military suspects that al-Qaida in Iraq was responsible for the attack that also damaged local shops and vehicles in the area.  No claim of responsibility was reported.
04/18/2007: Five bombs exploded near power lines in Narathiwat province, Thailand and severely damaged the electric and telecommunications grid. There was no claim of responsibility, but Muslim insurgents are suspected in the attacks that also severely wounded a deputy police chief.
04/18/2007: Three bombs exploded and caused minor property damage and no casualties in the Basque Aquitaine region of France in the three small villages of Ciboure, Guethary, and Saint-Jean-de-Luz. An anonymous call was made to emergency services one hour before the bombs simultaneously exploded, damaging two homes and a real estate office. There was no claim of responsibility.
04/18/2007: Two Buddhist laborers were shot and killed by suspected Muslim insurgents in Narathiwat province, Thailand. One of the victims was then beheaded; there was no claim of responsibility.
04/18/2008: On Friday morning, at about 0630, unidentified persons shot and killed Rudra Bahadur Singh, a Rastriya Prajatantra Party-Nepal (RPP-N) leader, in Nawalparasi, Lumbini, Nepal. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/18/2008: On Friday shortly before 06:00, a Molotov cocktail was thrown into the 2nd district Szépilona transportation depot in Budapest, Hungary province, Hungary. The arson attack took place during a 24 hour strike by the  Budapest Transport Company's (BKV) employees. The petrol bomb damaged the tram but did result in any casualties. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
04/18/2008: On Friday, a diplomatic car belonging to the Bosnia and Herzegovina Embassy was fire-bombed in Athens, Greece. The arson attack caused extensive damage to the vehicle but caused no injuries. An unidentified person called saying he was part of the Anti-Democratic Struggle and claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/18/2008: On Friday, a diplomatic car belonging to the Turkish embassy was fire-bombed in the Athens suburb of Halandri, Greece. The arson attack caused extensive damage to the vehicle but caused no injuries. An unidentified person called saying he was part of the Anti-Democratic Struggle and claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/18/2008: On Friday, in Sderot, Southern District, Israel; the Negev, Southern District, Israel; Eshkolot, Southern District, Israel; and Ashqelon, Southern District, Israel, assailants fired 10 rockets at communities, one of which landed near a school and caused a fire, damaging the school but causing no casualties. No group claimed responsibility.
04/18/2008: On Friday, in the Sadr City district of Baghdad, Iraq, assailants fired a mortar round at a fruit and vegetable market in the Jamilah neighborhood, damaging several market stalls and starting a fire but causing no casualties. There was no motive reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/18/2008: On Friday, National Liberation Forces (FNL) attacked the Burundian troops in the Gihanga area north of the capital city of Bujumbura, Bujumbura state, Burundi. Ten rebels and two soldiers were killed in the offensive attack between the FNL rebels and Burundian army troops. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
04/18/2009: On Friday evening at 2010, a roadside bomb detonated in the Dora neighborhood in southern Baghdad, Iraq, wounding four civilians. No claim of responsibility has been reported.
04/18/2009: On Saturday evening at 2030, unknown gunmen killed the Colonel of the Ministry of Interior Intelligence in front of his house in the Ur neighborhood in eastern Baghdad. No claim of responsibility has been reported.
04/18/2009: On Saturday morning, in the forest area of Pakkharkote Tanga, Doda, Jammu and Kashmir, India, assailants kidnapped a civilian.  No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LT) was responsible.
04/18/2009: On Saturday night at about 0300, in Neiva, Huila, Colombia, one vehicle-borne improvised explosive device and one improvised explosive device, both placed near supermarkets, exploded nearly simultaneously, damaging the supermarkets, several stores, and residences but causing no casualties.  No group claimed responsibility, although police suspected the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) was responsible.
04/18/2009: On Saturday, a civilian was kidnapped by unknown militants in Gomara, Sonitpur, Assam, India. No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed the National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) was responsible.
04/18/2009: On Saturday, armed assailants fired on a police post in Farah, Farah, Afghanistan, killing one officer and damaging the post.  The assailants kidnapped four other police officers and later fired on and killed the four police officers.   The Taliban claimed responsibility.
04/18/2009: On Saturday, assailants set fire to a primary school in Digan village, Mandozai, Khost, Afghanistan, destroying the school but causing no casualties. No group claimed responsibility.
04/18/2009: On Saturday, four landmines were discovered near the Koney school in Latehar, Jharkhand, India.  Three landmines were defused, but a fourth one exploded, injuring six (including three police). No group claimed responsibility.
04/18/2010: On Sunday morning at 0245, at the Myitsone Dam project near Myitkyina, Kachin, Myanmar, a series of four bomb blasts at the site of a controversial dam project destroyed cars and buildings and left one man injured. The bombs were said to have been hidden in the place where machinery equipment are stored. No group claimed responsibility.
04/18/2010: On Sunday night at 0400, in northwestern Moscow, Russian Republic, Russia, two Tajik migrant workers, aged 43 and 20, were injured in an explosion at a hostel on Fabrichius street. It was reported that unknown persons threw a grenade inside the hostel, but that information was not confirmed. It is unknown if the attack caused any property damage. No group claimed responsibility.
04/18/2010: On Sunday, in Anasfiyah neighborhood, central Ba'quba, Diyala, Iraq, a magnetic bomb that was stuck to a parked civilian car detonated in the main marketplace, killing one woman and seriously injuring one man. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/18/2010: On Sunday, in Mosul, Ninawa, Iraq, armed men wounded two retired senior army officers after they left a mosque. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/18/2010: On Sunday, in the al Qibla neighborhood of Basra, Al Basrah, Iraq, armed men threw an improvised explosive device at the home of Hatim Hussein Beden, head of the Tribal Support Council in Basra. The explosion killed Beden's wife, and seriously injured him and his son. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/18/2010: On Sunday, in the Dowlatabad district of Faryab, Afghanistan, a remote-controlled improvised explosive device attached to a bicycle was detonated targeting a tribal elder, damaging a bazaar, killing one civilian and injuring 14 others. No group claimed responsibility.
04/18/2010: On Sunday, in the main commercial street in Saidiyah neighborhood, in Baghdad, Iraq, a magnetic bomb that was stuck to a civilian car detonated and injured five civilians. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/18/2010: On Sunday, near the Imo river in an unknown area of Abia, Nigeria, unknown gunmen kidnapped two German nationals, ages 45 and 55, from a local beach. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack. The status of the hostages is unknown.
04/18/2011: On Monday afternoon at 1500, in Rusoh, Narathiwat, Thailand, unknown militants attacked a member of the Philippines 46th Ranger's Regiment. Volunteer ranger Muhammad Yakee, was riding his motorcycle home when he was followed by two men on another motorcycle. The pillion rider fired three shots at Yakee, wounding him as bullets entered his neck and right hand. There were no damages reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/18/2011: On Monday afternoon, at a hotel in Orangi Town No. 15, Sector-B, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, two unidentified militants shot and killed one Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) activist and injured another in a small-arms attack. The slain activist was identified as Mohammad Asghar Bihari, while the wounded activist was identified as Ahmed Ali. No group claimed responsibility.
04/18/2011: On Monday at 1200 noon, at the Defense Ministry in Kabul, Afghanistan, a Taliban militant dressed in Afghan Army uniform wearing a vest rigged with explosives, entered the building and opened fire, killing two soldiers and wounding seven others. The militant was killed in the following shootout. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage and the Taliban claimed responsibility, saying multiple bombers were involved in the attack. The group added that the visiting French Defense Minister, Gerard Longuet, was the target; however, he was not present in the building at the time of the attack. Zabihullah Mujahid who claims to speak for the Taliban outfit in talks with media via telephone from an unknown location claimed that "a group of fighters equipped with suicide vests infiltrated Defense Ministry to disrupt Afghan defense minister's meeting with his French counterpart." It is unclear whether or not the attacker was an army officer or not.
04/18/2011: On Monday evening, near Jauhar Complex in the Sachal police limits of Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, two unidentified militants shot and killed an activist of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), identified as Mirza Imran Baig. A nine millimeter pistol was used in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for this incident.
04/18/2011: On Monday morning around 0730, in Wahthre village near Shillong in East Khasi Hills district, Meghalaya, India, suspected Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) militants, using small firearms shot at the tires of 15 empty trucks bound for coal quarries, damaging at least seven of the trucks. The militants demanded $446 (INR 20,000) from each truck driver, and also beat up some of the truckers for refusing to pay the demand. Six drivers were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility.
04/18/2011: On Monday morning, in Pusht-e-Rod, Farah, Afghanistan, unidentified armed militants kidnapped 10 Iranian engineers and five Afghan workers of the Nasar Jahad Tehran Organization by gunpoint and held them in the Anjir area. One Iranian escaped on 04/19/2011 and the remaining hostages were released on 04/20/2011. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility although the Taliban were suspected.
04/18/2011: On Monday, along the Bypass Road in Birgunj, Parsa, Nepal, suspected Madheshi Janadhikar Forum-Nepal (MJF-N) militants threw stones at the vehicle carrying their Chairman Upendra Yadav, and lawmaker Atmaram Prasad Sah and Treasurer Renu Yadav after the Parsa District Committee of the party was dissolved. Two senior leaders, Renu Yadav and Hari Narayan Yadav were injured in the attack and the windshield of the vehicle was damaged. The specific motive for the attack is unknown, but the MJF activists were protesting against favoritism in the party, and they were also dissatisfied with the leadership’s attempt to promote Pradip Yadav. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/18/2011: On Monday, in Block-10 of Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, unidentified militants carried out a small-arms attack on the private residence of an official of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), identified as Saif Abbas. No casualties were reported but cars parked outside the house were damaged. No group claimed responsibility.
04/18/2011: On Monday, in Dayaldih village in Jamui, Bihar, India, unidentified militants on motorcycles set fire to the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) and Reliance towers, causing an unknown amount of property damage. A villager, identified as Bhim Thakur, raised an alarm and was shot and killed by the militants. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
04/18/2011: On Monday, in El Limon sector of Toledo, Antioquia, Colombia, two soldiers were taken hostage by two men and one woman of the 36th Front of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). The soldiers, identified as Fernando Builes Mazo and José Esteban Coba Teatín, were in civilian attire and were unarmed when they were abducted. No casualties were reported. Troops from Colombia's National Army found the dead bodies of the two soldiers on 04/20/2011.
04/18/2011: On Monday, in Hewas village in Kurram, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan, unidentified militants shot and killed a tribesman, identified as Imdad Hussain. No group claimed responsibility for this incident.
04/18/2011: On Monday, in Nari village in Munger, Bihar, India, unidentified armed militants beat up the drivers of five passenger vehicles before setting the vehicles on fire. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage to the vehicles. No group claimed responsibility, but it was suspected that Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) militants were responsible.
04/18/2011: On Monday, in Sederot, Southern District, Israel, unknown assailants fired a rocket from the Gaza Strip. The rocket landed near a kibbutz in the Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council. No casualties were reported and the attack caused an unknown amount of property damage. No group claimed responsibility.
04/18/2011: On Monday, in the Adhamiyah neighborhood, Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq, unknown assailants detonated a roadside improvised explosive device targeting the convoy of Naseer Kamel al-Chaderchi, a member of the former Iraqi Governing Council. Naseer and two of his bodyguards were wounded in the blast, as well as three nearby civilians. The blast caused an unknown amount of property damage and no group claimed responsibility.
04/18/2011: On Monday, in the Baghdad Al Jadida area of Nissan neighborhood, Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq, unidentified assailants detonated an improvised explosive device targeting a liquor store. No casualties were reported but several nearby shops and cars were damaged. No group claimed responsibility.
04/18/2011: On Monday, in the Dada Shah Mahmood area of Barkhan, Balochistan, Pakistan, unidentified militants fired upon a construction site, killing two Punjabi workers. The deceased were identified as Muhammad Bux and Sajid while three others Hameed, Jan Khan and Rabnawaz sustained injuries. No damages were reported and no group claimed responsibility for this incident.
04/18/2011: On Monday, in the Qadisiya area of Mansour neighborhood, Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq, unidentified assailants detonated a vehicle borne improvised explosive device targeting the advisor to Iraqi Parliament Speaker, Amjad Abdul-Hamid, killing one of his bodyguards, and wounding three others. The blast caused an unknown amount of property damage and no group claimed responsibility.
04/18/2011: On Monday, on al-Nidhal Street, Rusafa neighborhood, Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq, unknown assailants detonated an improvised explosive device targeting a liquor store. No casualties were reported, but several nearby shops and cars were damaged in the blast. No group claimed responsibility.
04/18/2011: On Monday, on Mohammed al-Qassim Highway, Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq, unidentified gunmen opened fire on the motorcade of Ali Abu-Naila, the Finance Ministry's Director-General. No casualties were reported, but his vehicle was damaged. No group claimed responsibility.
04/18/2011: On Monday, on the main road in the Jadiriya neighborhood, Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq, unknown assailants detonated two improvised explosive devices near Baghdad University. Four civilians were wounded in the blast, and several nearby cars and shops were damaged. No group claimed responsibility.
04/18/2012: A roadside explosive device detonated in the Harithiyah district of Karkh area, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. Two civilians were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2012: A roadside explosive device detonated near a police patrol vehicle near Baquba city, Diyala governorate, Iraq. One person was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2012: A roadside explosive device detonated near a police vehicle near Samarra city, Saladin governorate, Iraq. One police officer was killed and four others wounded. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2012: A stun device detonated targeting the home of Yassin al-Kar'awi, the Islamic Da'wa Party office director, in Karbala city, Karbala governorate, Iraq. No casualties were reported in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2012: A suicide bomber on a motorbike detonated prematurely as he approached Yemeni army barracks in Buriga district, Adan governorate, Yemen. The assailant was the only casualty. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected Al-Qa'ida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
04/18/2012: An assailant detonated an explosive device near the Villa Baidoa base in Mogadishu city, Banaadir region, Somalia. At least two people were wounded in the blast. This was one of two coordinated attacks in Mogadishu on this day, neither of which were claimed by any group.
04/18/2012: An explosive device attached to an electricity pylon detonated near Dera Allah Yar city, Balochistan province, Pakistan. No casualties were reported, but the pylon was damaged. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2012: An explosive device detonated as police were attempting to defuse it in eastern Balad city, Saladin governorate, Iraq. One civilian was killed and three police officers wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2012: An explosive device detonated at Banco de Chile in Santiago city, Santiago Metropolitan province, Chile. There were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/18/2012: An explosive device detonated near a civilian vehicle near Balad city, Saladin governorate, Iraq. One person was killed and three others were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2012: An explosive device detonated near the Madina hospital in Mogadishu city, Banaadir region, Somalia. One person was killed and three others wounded in this attack. This was one of two coordinated attacks in Mogadishu on this day, neither of which were claimed by any group.
04/18/2012: Assailants attacked a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) base in Watapur district, Kunar province, Afghanistan. No casualties were reported. There was no claim of responsibility for this attack; however, sources attributed it to Hizb-I-Islami.
04/18/2012: Assailants detonated an explosive device at the home of the sister of Sheikh Abdulmahdi al-Karbala'ie, a cleric, in Karbala city, Karbala governorate, Iraq. No casualties were reported, and no group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2012: Assailants detonated an explosive device near police inspectors in Maruebo Ok area, Narathiwat province, Thailand. The inspectors were responding to an earlier arson incident at a local school. This was one of two coordinated attacks, for which no casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities attributed it to separatists.
04/18/2012: Assailants opened fire on a Sudanese forces headquarters in Am Dafok area, South Darfur state, Sudan. At least 11 troops were killed and nine others wounded in the assault. The Sudan Liberation Army-Minni Minawi (SLA-MM) claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/18/2012: Assailants set fire to a school in Maruebo Ok area, Narathiwat province, Thailand. This was one of two coordinated attacks, for which there were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities attributed it to separatists.
04/18/2012: Gunmen attacked a Frontier Corps checkpoint with rockets and gunfire near the Kolpur railway station in Kolpur town, Balochistan province, Pakistan. No injuries were reported, and no group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2012: Gunmen attacked a police post in Siagard district, Parwan province, Afghanistan. Four civilians were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2012: Gunmen opened fire on a group of police officers in Douma city, Rif Dimashq governorate, Syria. One officer was killed and another wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2012: Gunmen opened fire on a police vehicle in Peshawar city, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. No casualties were reported, and no group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2012: Gunmen opened fired on a Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) near Damanjodi town, Odisha state, India. Two CISF personnel were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to Maoists.
04/18/2012: Two explosive devices were thrown into the office of the water resources department in Chuttack district, Odisha state, India. One person was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2013: A Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) police officer, Sean Collier, was shot and killed by gunmen on the MIT campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. The suspected assailants of the attack were later identified as Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who are believed to also be responsible for the double bomb attack near the finish line of the Boston Marathon that took place on April 15, 2013. Shortly after the killing of Collier, the suspects were involved in a shootout with police as they attempted to flee the Boston area. Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in the firefight. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was arrested later that evening after he was discovered hiding in a boat that was parked in a Watertown, Massachusetts resident's backyard. Tsarnaev had written a claim of responsibility on the side of the boat. On July 10, 2013, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev pleaded not guilty to 30 federal counts related to the killing of Collier and the marathon attacks.
04/18/2013: A roadside bomb detonated prematurely on a main street in Mogadishu city, Banaadir region, Somalia. The bomber was killed in the explosion; however, there were no other reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, officials attribute the incident to Al-Shabaab.
04/18/2013: A suicide bomber detonated an explosive device in a crowded cafe in the Amiriyah neighborhood of Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. At least 27 people were killed and 50 were wounded in the incident. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, a media source noted that Al-Qai da in Iraq (AQI) was among the list of suspects.
04/18/2013: An explosive device detonated in front of a chapel in Lamitan City, Basilan province, Philippines. No injuries were reported from the blast. This was one of two attacks in Lamitan city on this day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources speculate the attack was perpetrated in order to divert Filipino security forces away from extremist positions in Ungkaya Pukan and Tipo-Tipo.
04/18/2013: An explosive device detonated in front of a marketplace in Spin Boldak city, Spin Boldak district, Kandahar province, Afghanistan. Two people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2013: An explosive device detonated in front of a passenger bus in Pungera village, Narayanpur district, Chhattisgarh state, India. There were no reported casualties from the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists, who detonated the device to discourage buses from catering to Indian soldiers.
04/18/2013: An explosive device detonated in front of the Vice Mayor's residence in Lamitan City, Basilan province, Philippines. No injuries were reported from the blast. This was one of two attacks in Lamitan City on this day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources speculate the attack was perpetrated in order to divert Filipino security forces away from extremist positions in Ungkaya Pukan and Tipo-Tipo.
04/18/2013: An explosive device detonated near a police station in Tumaco city, Narino department, Colombia. No one was injured in the blast. This was one of three explosions that occurred in this city on this day. No group claimed responsibility; however, authorities attributed the attack to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
04/18/2013: An explosive device detonated near a security checkpoint in Talahkapo village, Yaring district, Pattani province, Thailand. One civilian was injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/18/2013: An explosive device detonated near an airport in Tumaco city, Narino department, Colombia. No one was injured in the blast. This was one of three explosions that occurred in this city on this day. No group claimed responsibility; however, authorities attributed the attack to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
04/18/2013: An explosive device detonated near the anti-narcotics unit of the Colombian army in Tumaco city, Narino department, Colombia. No one was injured in the blast and the amount damage is unknown. This was one of three explosions that occurred in this city on this day. No group claimed responsibility; however, authorities attributed the attack to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
04/18/2013: An explosive device was discovered at the airport in McCook, Nebraska, United States. The device was safely defused without incident. No group claimed responsibility for the unsuccessful attack.
04/18/2013: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated in western Mosul city, Nineveh governorate, Iraq. Three soldiers were killed and five were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2013: Assailants attempted to kidnap one of the prosecutors of the Al-Nahdayn Mosque bombing in Yemen. No additional information was available.
04/18/2013: Assailants fired guns and grenades at Datu Akmad Ampatuan's private residence in Datu Salibo, Maguindanao province, Philippines. There were no reported casualties resulting from the attack because Ampatuan, a former mayor running for re-election, no longer resided at the house. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2013: Assailants opened fire on a Baraq Air airplane landing at the airport in Tripoli city, Tripoli district, Libya. A bullet damaged the plane. No group has claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2013: Assailants opened fire on Usman Jan in the Dwa Saraka area of Mandozi district, Khost province, Afghanistan. Usman Jan, the Mandozi district National Directorate Of Security (NDS) chief, was killed in the attack. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2013: Assailants set fire to the vehicle of Mahmud Hussein, the secretary general of Fatah, in Rafah town, Gaza Strip, West Bank and Gaza Strip. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2013: Assailants threw a grenade at an office of the Balochistan National Party (BNP) in Sariab Killi Kamalo area, Quetta district, Balochistan province, Pakistan. No injuries or casualties were reported. Jainad Baloch, spokesperson for the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA), claimed responsibility for the incident, stating that they executed the attack because of the BNP's participation in the Pakistani general elections.
04/18/2013: Assailants using automatic weapons shot and killed a tractor driver in Tacuati town, San Pedro department, Paraguay. No group claimed responsibility for the attack; however sources suspected members of the Paraguayan People's Army (EPP).
04/18/2013: Fifteen assailants in at least three vehicles attacked a police convoy transporting prisoners in the Tajoura area of Tripoli city, Tripoli district, Libya. One person was killed and an unknown number were injured in the attack. The assailants took one prisoner with them as they fled; the whereabouts of the kidnap victim are unknown. No group has claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2013: Five assailants shot and killed killed the Chairman of the Nigeria Medical Dental Association, Doctor Adewunmi Ariyo, at his home in Ilorin village, Kwara state, Nigeria. No group has claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2013: Four assailants shot and killed Ali Balan, public relations official of the Social Affairs Ministry, at a restaurant in the al-Mezze neighborhood of Damascus city, Damascus governorate, Syria. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2013: Gunmen attacked a security checkpoint in the Baya area of western Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. One police officer was killed and three were wounded. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2013: Gunmen opened fire on construction workers building a security checkpoint in Nahri Saraj district, Helmand province, Afghanistan. Four workers were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities suspect the Taliban.
04/18/2013: Three assailants opened fire and threw grenades at the Kwa Chege restaurant and hotel in Garissa city, Garissa state, Kenya. Ten people were killed and eight others were wounded. No group has claimed responsibility; however, government officials attributed the attack to Al-Shabaab who may have executed the attack in response to a government operation against the group in Somalia.
04/18/2013: Three assailants were killed when the roadside bomb they were planting detonated near Tikrit city, Tikrit district, Saladin governorate, Iraq. No group has claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2013: Three bombs were discovered and defused on a highway in Qalamoun area, North governorate, Lebanon. Initial reports suggested the devices were intended for the Lebanese Prime Minister, Najib Miqati; however, this notion was later refuted. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2013: Two assailants planted an explosive device near the Press Club in Mardan district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. A bomb disposal squad safely defused the device. Police believe the target may have been a former National Assembly member's convoy. No group has claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2013: Two assailants threw grenades at a military vehicle in Lahij city, Lahij governorate, Yemen. Three people were injured and a vehicle was damaged in the blasts. No group claimed responsibility for the attack; however, officials suspected the attack was carried out by Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
04/18/2014: A hand grenade detonated in the courtyard of A. Doren in Keishamthong area, Manipur state, India. Doren, the Tribal Welfare Department Executive Engineer of the Indian Ministry of Tribal Affairs, was unharmed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2014: A land mine detonated near a military vehicle on Mount Chaambi in Kasserine governorate, Tunisia. One soldier was killed and one other was wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2014: A land mine, targeting Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel, detonated in Gomia area, Bokaro district, Jharkhand state, India. There were no reported casualties; however, the road was damaged in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
04/18/2014: An assailant attempted to attack a security checkpoint in Zuhur neighborhood, Mosul city, Nineveh governorate, Iraq. The assailant was killed by security forces. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2014: An explosive device detonated among civilians in Amin area, Habibiya neighborhood, Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. At least three people were killed and five others were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2014: An explosive device detonated at an under-construction residence belonging to a member of the Peshmerga in Askari neighborhood, Kirkuk city, Kirkuk, Iraq. A police official and a police officer were wounded in the blast. This was one of three coordinated attacks at this location on April 18, 2014. This second blast occurred as first responders were arriving to the scene of the first attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2014: An explosive device detonated at an under-construction residence belonging to a member of the Peshmerga in Askari neighborhood, Kirkuk city, Kirkuk, Iraq. Four police officers were wounded in the blast. This was one of three coordinated attacks at this location on April 18, 2014. This third blast occurred as first responders were arriving to the scene of the first two attacks. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2014: An explosive device detonated at an under-construction residence belonging to a member of the Peshmerga in Askari neighborhood, Kirkuk city, Kirkuk, Iraq. There were no reported casualties; however, the house was damaged in the blast. This was one of three coordinated attacks at this location on April 18, 2014. This first blast was designed to draw first responders to the scene. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2014: An explosive device detonated near a military patrol in Baiji district, Saladin governorate, Iraq. Four soldiers were wounded in the blast. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2014: An explosive device detonated near civilian residences in Aizawl city, Mizoram state, India. There were no reported casualties; however, two houses were damaged in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2014: An explosive device was discovered and safely defused near a shop in Ahwar city, Abyan governorate, Yemen. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2014: An explosive device was discovered and safely defused on Coastal Highway in Paleri area, Balochistan province, Pakistan. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2014: An explosive device was discovered on Bolpur Suri Road in Birbhum district, West Bengal state, India. The device, which intended to target Mamata Banerjee, the All India Trinamool Congress (AITMC) chief, was safely defused by authorities. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected that the Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) was involved in the attack.
04/18/2014: An explosive device, intended to target security forces, was discovered and safely defused in Sheikh Zuweid town, North Sinai governorate, Egypt. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2014: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated outside of Bilal al-Habshi mosque in Akrama neighborhood, Homs city, Homs governorate, Syria. At least nine people were killed and 21 others were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2014: Assailants abducted Rafiullah, a real estate agent, in Wah Sadar area, Wah town, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. The outcome of the abduction is unknown. Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2014: Assailants ambushed an Afghan Border Police (ABP) patrol in Sari Pul area, Jurm district, Badakhshan province, Afghanistan. Four police officers were wounded in the attack. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2014: Assailants attacked a joint Somali National Army (SNA) and African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) base in Huriwa neighborhood, Mogadishu city, Banaadir region, Somalia. The outcome of the attack is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the assault to Al-Shabaab.
04/18/2014: Assailants launched a rocket near Khalidiyah area, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. Three civilians were killed and one other was wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2014: Assailants launched mortars and opened fire on a Frontier Corps (FC) ammunition depot in Landi Kotal town, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. One person was wounded and the ammunition depot was damaged in the attack. The Abdullah Azzam Brigades claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2014: Assailants launched rockets and opened fire at a prison in Maimana city, Faryab province, Afghanistan. Three people, including two police officers and one assailant, were killed, and four prisoners escaped in the attack. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2014: Assailants launched three rockets near a civilian residence in Qurah Tiba area, Diyala governorate, Iraq. Two people were killed and one other was wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2014: Assailants opened fire on a joint police and Sahwa Council checkpoint in Ramadi city, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. Three police officers were killed and four others, including two police officers and two Sahwa Council members, were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2014: Assailants opened fire on a Libya Shield Force checkpoint in Sirte city, Sirte district, Libya. Two Libya Shield members were killed and seven others were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Ansar al-Sharia (Libya).
04/18/2014: Assailants opened fire on a military checkpoint in Al Salman village, Shirqat district, Saladin governorate, Iraq. One soldier was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2014: Assailants opened fire on a military convoy in Shaikhan area, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. One soldier was killed and three others were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected that Lashkar-e-Islam (Pakistan) was involved in the attack.
04/18/2014: Assailants opened fire on a train in Duzan area, Balochistan province, Pakistan. There were no reported casualties; however, the train was damaged in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2014: Assailants opened fire on Doctor Akram Sheikh in North Nazimabad area, Karachi city, Sindh province, Pakistan. Sheikh was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2014: Assailants opened fire on Father Christ Forman Wilibona in Paoua town, Ouham-Pende prefecture, Central African Republic. The priest was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Seleka.
04/18/2014: Assailants opened fire on Kanar oil field near Baleela area in West Kordofan state, Sudan. Five people, including two guards and three assailants, were killed and eight workers, including three foreign workers, were abducted in the attack. The three foreign workers were released on May 1, 2014; however, the fate of the remaining five workers is unknown. The Sudanese People's Front claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that it was carried out in retaliation to the government's alleged refusal to employ residents of West Kordofan state in the oil industry.
04/18/2014: Assailants opened fire on three seminary students in Karachi city, Sindh province, Pakistan. The three students were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2014: Assailants threw an explosive device at a traffic police kiosk in Lebanon Square area, Giza city, Giza governorate, Egypt. One police officer was killed and one other was wounded in the blast. Ajnad Misr claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that the attack was carried out in retaliation to the recent deaths and arrests of demonstrators.
04/18/2014: Four explosive devices, intended to target security forces, were discovered and safely defused at a polling station in Kasiabeda area, Jharkhand state, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
04/18/2014: Two explosive devices detonated near a civilian residence in Al Sajariyah neighborhood, Ramadi city, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. There were no reported casualties; however, the house was damaged in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2015: A suicide bomber detonated and assailants attacked the Majid security checkpoint in Al-Baghdadi subdistrict, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. In addition to an unknown number of wounded, 16 assailants were killed in the ensuing clash. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/18/2015: A suicide bomber detonated outside of a Kabul Bank branch as soldiers and government employees queued to collect their salaries in Jalalabad city, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan. At least 33 people were killed and 100 others were wounded in the blast. Security forces responding to the scene also discovered and defused an explosive device. The Khorasan Chapter of the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2015: An explosive device attached to a minibus detonated in Baghdad al-Jadeeda area, Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. Three people were killed and seven others were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2015: An explosive device attached to a vehicle detonated in Bihsud district, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan. One civilian was killed and at least two others were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2015: An explosive device detonated at the Khalidi building, near a police station, in Gaza city, Gaza strip, West Bank and Gaza Strip. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2015: An explosive device detonated in Kifah area, Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. Three people were killed and at least five others were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2015: An explosive device detonated in Muqdadiyah area, Diyala governorate, Iraq. Seven people were killed and nine others were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2015: An explosive device detonated near a security checkpoint in Al-Abarah area, Diyala governorate, Iraq. At least one volunteer fighter was killed and two others were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2015: An explosive device detonated near the Da Afghanistan Bank and a shrine in Jalalabad city, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2015: An explosive device detonated next to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) headquarters in Gaza city, Gaza Strip, West Bank and Gaza Strip. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2015: An explosive device detonated targeting a police patrol in Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. One civilian was killed and three others were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2015: An explosive device detonated targeting Khalil Ibrahim Mustafa's convoy in Atshana village, Kirkuk, Iraq. Mustafa, a Peshmerga commander, and two of his guards were killed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2015: An explosive device detonated while an assailant was attempting to plant it in Bayda city, Al Bayda governorate, Yemen. The assailant was killed in the explosion. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2015: An explosive device planted in a can was discovered and defused outside of a military detachment on Notre Dame Avenue in Cotabato City, Maguindanao province, Philippines. This was one of three related attacks by the same assailants on the same night. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Movement (BIFM).
04/18/2015: Assailants abducted Kishori Lal in Baghmara, Meghalaya state, India. Lal, a petrol pump manager, was released on April 19, 2015. No group claimed responsibility for the kidnapping; however, authorities suspected the involvement of the Garo National Liberation Army.
04/18/2015: Assailants attacked a Kenyan Defense Forces (KDF) patrol in Lower Juba region, Somalia. Three KDF soldiers were killed and eight others were injured in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Al-Shabaab.
04/18/2015: Assailants attacked a police compound in Bosaso city, Bari region, Somalia. The station commander was injured in the assault. Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2015: Assailants attacked a Ukrainian military checkpoint in Zolote, Luhansk oblast, Ukraine. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Luhansk People's Republic.
04/18/2015: Assailants attacked Huthis in Dali district, Ad Dali Governorate, Yemen. This was one of two related attacks in Dali on this date. Nine Huthis were killed across both attacks. Supporters of Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/18/2015: Assailants attacked Ukrainian soldiers with firearms, mortars, grenade launchers, and anti-aircraft weapons near Trekhizbenka town, Luhansk oblast, Ukraine. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2015: Assailants fired grenade launchers at the front gate of the Maguindanao Provincial Capitol building in Shariff Aguak town, Maguindanao province, Philippines. There were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, a source suspected the involvement of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Movement (BIFM).
04/18/2015: Assailants fired mortars at a Ukrainian military checkpoint in Maiorska town, Donetsk oblast, Ukraine. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the attack; however, sources attributed the incident to the Donetsk People's Republic.
04/18/2015: Assailants fired projectiles and opened fire on a Huthi headquarters in Hudaydah city, Al Hudaydah governorate, Yemen. No further information is available.
04/18/2015: Assailants fired projectiles that landed and detonated in residential areas in Crater district, Adan governorate, Yemen. An unknown number of civilians were killed and wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Huthis.
04/18/2015: Assailants kidnapped 18 aid workers from an unknown location in Lahij governorate, Yemen. The whereabouts of the victims are unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the abduction to Huthis.
04/18/2015: Assailants kidnapped Chief Cassidy Ikegbudu, a local official, from Rivers state, Nigeria. The outcome of the kidnapping is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2015: Assailants opened fire on Aden Haji Hussein in Mogadishu city, Banaadir region, Somalia. Hussein, a Somali Member of Parliament (MP), was killed in the attack. Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2015: Assailants opened fire on health workers in Saranan area, Pishin district, Balochistan province, Pakistan. At least two assailants were wounded in the ensuing clash. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2015: Assailants opened fire on National Guard of Ukraine (NGU) soldiers in Shyrokyne town, Donetsk oblast, Ukraine. One assailant was killed and two soldiers were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2015: Assailants opened fire on the People's Democratic Party (HDP) headquarters in Ankara city, Ankara province, Turkey. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2015: Assailants threw a grenade at a house in Juba area, Central Equatoria state, South Sudan. Ten people were killed and at least 40 others were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2015: Assailants threw a grenade at a military vehicle on Sinsuat Avenue in Cotabato City, Maguindanao province, Philippines. One civilian was injured in the attack. This was one of three related attacks by the same assailants on the same night. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Movement (BIFM).
04/18/2015: Assailants threw a grenade at a Philippine National Police (PNP) station in Tamontaka 2 village, Datu Odin Sinsuat town, Maguindanao province, Philippines. No casualties were reported. This was one of three related attacks by the same assailants on the same night. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Movement (BIFM).
04/18/2015: Security forces discovered and defused 20 explosive devices and two explosives-laden vehicles in Baiji area, Saladin governorate, Iraq. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2015: Security forces discovered and defused a missile planted at a Levies Forces checkpost in Omari area, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2015: Two assailants attempted to plant an explosive device in Khushamand district, Paktika province, Afghanistan. An airstrike killed the assailants while they were planting the device. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2016: A sniper opened fire on Colonel Umar Thamir's convoy in Tikrit, Saladin, Iraq. Thamir, a volunteer fighter commander, was not harmed, although one of his guards was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/18/2016: A suicide bomber detonated on a bus in Jerusalem, Israel. The assailant was killed and at least 21 people were injured in the blast. Hamas (Islamic Resistance Movement) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2016: An assailant threw two hand grenades at Al-Rashidieh refugee camp in Rashidiya, South, Lebanon. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2016: An explosive device detonated in Amil, Baghdad, Iraq. At least two people were killed and four people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2016: An explosive device detonated inside the vehicle of Maxwell Montero in Mangaluru, Karnataka, India. Montero, a quarry owner, was unharmed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2016: An explosive device detonated near a market in Al-Furat, Baghdad, Iraq. At least one person was killed and seven people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2016: An explosive device detonated near a market in Arab Ebjur, Baghdad, Iraq. At least two people were killed and seven people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2016: An explosive device detonated targeting a police vehicle in Arish, North Sinai, Egypt. At least two civilians were killed and 11 people, including civilians and police officers, were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2016: An explosive device detonated targeting Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel near Chintagufa, Chhattisgarh, India. Three CRPF members were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
04/18/2016: Assailants abducted 11 Basmayah Project employees in Amin, Baghdad, Iraq. The outcome of the kidnapping is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2016: Assailants abducted and later killed Gajapati Majhi in Nuapada district, Odisha, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists and claimed that Majhi was targeted as a suspected police informant.
04/18/2016: Assailants abducted four civilians in Rachaya district, Beqaa, Lebanon. One civilian was released shortly after the kidnapping, and the fate of the remaining hostages is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the abduction to the Free Syrian Army.
04/18/2016: Assailants abducted two nurses near Benghazi, Libya. The nurses were executed in a video posted May 9, 2016. The Barqa Province of the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that the nurses were targeted for working with the military.
04/18/2016: Assailants ambushed a military convoy in Zigague, Extreme-North, Cameroon. At least three soldiers were killed and five soldiers were injured in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Boko Haram.
04/18/2016: Assailants attacked a security post in Fayzabad district, Jawzjan, Afghanistan. At least five assailants were killed in the assault. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to the Taliban.
04/18/2016: Assailants attacked an unknown number of police checkpoints in Darqad district, Takhar, Afghanistan. At least one police officer and 12 assailants were killed and five officers and 35 assailants were injured in the ensuing clash. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Taliban.
04/18/2016: Assailants attacked an unknown number of security posts in Chahar Dara district, Kunduz, Afghanistan. This was one of two related attacks in Kunduz on this date. At least four security personnel and 38 assailants were killed and 11 security personnel and 13 assailants were wounded across both attacks. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents; however, sources attributed the attacks to the Taliban.
04/18/2016: Assailants attacked an unspecified number of security posts in Tagab district, Badakhshan, Afghanistan. At least one assailant was killed and two assailants were injured in the ensuing clash, and there were an unknown number of casualties among police forces. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2016: Assailants attacked Charkh Ab, Kunduz, Afghanistan. This was one of two related attacks in Kunduz on this date. At least four security personnel and 38 assailants were killed and 11 security personnel and 13 assailants were wounded across both attacks. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents; however, sources attributed the attacks to the Taliban.
04/18/2016: Assailants attacked joint security forces in Mutaybijah, Saladin, Iraq. At least seven volunteer fighters and eight assailants were killed in the ensuing clash. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/18/2016: Assailants attacked military positions in Marib governorate, Yemen. At least five soldiers and eight assailants were killed in the ensuing clash. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to Huthi extremists.
04/18/2016: Assailants bombed military posts in Sirwah district, Marib, Yemen. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the incident to Huthi extremists.
04/18/2016: Assailants detonated chlorine-laced explosive devices targeting Peshmerga forces in Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq. At least 15 Peshmerga members were injured in the attack. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2016: Assailants equipped with explosives and firearms attacked military forces in Kareto, Borno, Nigeria. At least 30 assailants were killed and 24 military personnel were injured in the ensuing clash. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Boko Haram.
04/18/2016: Assailants fired a mortar that struck a military post near Metisli, Hatay, Turkey. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2016: Assailants fired a rocket that struck a refugee shelter in Kilis, Turkey. At least four people were killed and four people were injured. This was one of four related rocket attacks in Kilis on this date. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents; however, sources attributed the attacks to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/18/2016: Assailants fired a rocket that struck an olive grove in Kilis, Turkey. There were no reported casualties. This was one of four related rocket attacks in Kilis on this date. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents; however, sources attributed the attacks to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/18/2016: Assailants fired a rocket that struck an oxygen depot for a state hospital in Kilis, Turkey. There were no reported casualties. This was one of four related rocket attacks in Kilis on this date. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents; however, sources attributed the attacks to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/18/2016: Assailants fired a rocket that struck near a school in Kilis, Turkey. At least one person was killed and one person was injured. This was one of four related rocket attacks in Kilis on this date. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents; however, sources attributed the attacks to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/18/2016: Assailants fired projectiles and opened fire on a Syrian Armed Forces (SAF) base at Shalaf castle, south of Kinsibba, Lattakia, Syria. There were no reported casualties in the assault. This was one of seven attacks targeting army bases in Lattakia on the same day. The Free Syrian Army claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/18/2016: Assailants fired projectiles and opened fire on a Syrian Armed Forces (SAF) base in Haddadah, Lattakia, Syria. There were no reported casualties in the assault. This was one of seven attacks targeting army bases in Lattakia on the same day. The Free Syrian Army claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/18/2016: Assailants fired projectiles and opened fire on a Syrian Armed Forces (SAF) base in Kinsibba, Lattakia, Syria. There were no reported casualties in the assault. This was one of seven attacks targeting army bases in Lattakia on the same day. The Free Syrian Army claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/18/2016: Assailants fired projectiles and opened fire on a Syrian Armed Forces (SAF) base in Nahshaba, Lattakia, Syria. At least 13 people were killed and an unknown number of others were injured in the assault. This was one of seven attacks targeting army bases in Lattakia on the same day. The Free Syrian Army claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/18/2016: Assailants fired projectiles and opened fire on a Syrian Armed Forces (SAF) base in Tibat Abo Ali, Lattakia, Syria. There were no reported casualties in the assault. This was one of seven attacks targeting army bases in Lattakia on the same day. The Free Syrian Army claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/18/2016: Assailants fired projectiles and opened fire on a Syrian Armed Forces (SAF) base on Mount Ghazalah in Lattakia, Syria. There were no reported casualties in the assault. This was one of seven attacks targeting army bases in Lattakia on the same day. The Free Syrian Army claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/18/2016: Assailants fired projectiles and opened fire on a Syrian Armed Forces (SAF) base on Rash Hill in Al-Haffah district, Lattakia, Syria. There were no reported casualties in the assault. This was one of seven attacks targeting army bases in Lattakia on the same day. The Free Syrian Army claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/18/2016: Assailants opened fire inside a bar in Bujumbura, Bujumbura Mairie, Burundi. One person was killed and three people were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2016: Assailants opened fire on Narayananand Maharaj, a monk, near Madhai, Madhya Pradesh, India. Maharaj was unharmed, but one assailant was wounded in the ensuing clash. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2016: Assailants opened fire on the residence of state governor Anas Omar in Ed Daein, East Darfur, Sudan. At least three guards were killed in the assault. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Rizeigat tribesmen.
04/18/2016: Assailants raided Garba Fammar's residence in Kibiya, Kano, Nigeria. Fammar, a politician, was not harmed; however, two of his spouses were abducted and two militia members were killed in the attack. The outcome of the kidnapping is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2016: Assailants set fire to St. John of the Cross Roman Catholic Church in Aylsham, England, United Kingdom. There were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, a local government official suspected the possible involvement of anarchists in the attack.
04/18/2016: Assailants shot and injured a civilian in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to The New Irish Republican Army.
04/18/2016: Assailants, including suicide bombers in explosives-laden vehicles, attacked Syrian Armed Forces (SAF) soldiers in Khirbat al-Naqus, Hamah, Syria. There were an unknown number of casualties in the incident. Jund al-Aqsa claimed responsibility for the attack. Sources also attributed the incident to Al-Nusrah Front.
04/18/2016: Four assailants opened fire on an internally displaced persons (IDP) camp in Kabkabiya, North Darfur, Sudan. One civilian was killed and one civilian was wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2016: Police discovered and defused a grenade planted at a residential compound in Imphal, Manipur, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2016: Police discovered and defused an explosive device at a barangay hall in Cotabato City, Maguindanao, Philippines. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2016: Security forces discovered and defused two explosive devices in Ranapal, Chhattisgarh, India. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2016: Suicide bombers equipped with explosives-laden vehicles attacked volunteer fighters in Bashir, Kirkuk, Iraq. At least one volunteer fighter and 15 assailants were killed and 20 assailants were injured in the ensuing clash. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2016: Three assailants opened fire on the vehicle of the Bondhere district commissioner in Mogadishu, Banaadir, Somalia. The assailants then detonated an explosives-laden vehicle as security forces pursued them. At least one assailant and four civilians were killed and an unknown number of people were injured in the attack. Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2016: Two assailants opened fire on the vehicle of Jameel Kiyani in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. Kiyani, a retired Army officer, and his son were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2017: A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle in Hayy ath-Thawrah neighborhood, Mosul, Nineveh, Iraq. In addition to the assailant, at least 16 civilians were killed in the blast. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2017: A suicide bomber detonated targeting joint security forces in Dulab, Al Anbar, Iraq. In addition to the assailant, one police officer was killed and two officers were injured in the blast. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2017: An assailant opened fire on civilians in Fresno, California, United States. The assailant first fired on a Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) energy truck, killing Zackary David Randalls. He then fired on another vehicle but stopped after realizing the passengers were Hispanic and instead shot Mark James Gassett. Finally, the assailant fired on David Martin Jackson at a nearby bus stop. Three people were killed in the one-minute shooting spree before the assailant surrendered to police. Kori Ali Muhammad, an anti-white extremist, claimed responsibility for the attack and stated that he targeted the victims because he wanted to kill "as many white males as possible." Sources also noted that Muhammad had a history of anti-white and anti-government social media posts.
04/18/2017: An assailant was arrested while planting an explosive device near a slaughter house on Bypass Road in Hangu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The device was later defused at the scene. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2017: An explosive device detonated near a market in Shuala area, Baghdad, Iraq. At least one person was killed and four people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2017: An explosive device detonated near Takahwada, Chhattisgarh, India. One civilian was killed and another civilian was injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Maoists.
04/18/2017: An explosive device detonated targeting a National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) electrical tower in Pagangan, North Cotabato, Philippines. There were no reported casualties in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Movement (BIFM).
04/18/2017: An explosive device detonated targeting a United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) vehicle in Tessalit district, Kidal, Mali. At least three people, including two peacekeepers and one civilian, were injured in the blast. Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM) claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/18/2017: An explosive device detonated targeting Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) personnel in Wulle, Yobe, Nigeria. One CJTF member was killed and seven members were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Boko Haram.
04/18/2017: Assailants armed with sharp weapons attacked Tahia Abdullah at her residence in Professor's Colony neighborhood, Lahore, Pakistan. Abdullah, a University of Punjab professor and Ahmadi civilian, was killed in the assault. The Jamaat-ul-Ahrar faction of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2017: Assailants attacked civilians in Sayyad, Sari Pul, Afghanistan. At least eight assailants one civilian were killed and four civilians were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Taliban.
04/18/2017: Assailants attacked security forces posts in Miya Nishin, Kandahar, Afghanistan. At least 10 assailants were killed and 13 assailants and three security personnel were injured in the ensuing clash. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2017: Assailants attempted to hijack the MV Anabelle cargo vessel in the waters near Siocon, Zamboanga del Norte Sea, Philippines. Security forces intervened, causing the assailants to flee and there were no reported casualties. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources suspected that the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) was involved.
04/18/2017: Assailants detonated explosives targeting an unknown number of houses in Albu Janan, Saladin, Iraq. There were no reported casualties in the blasts. This was one of three similar attacks in the area on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents; however, sources attributed the attacks to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/18/2017: Assailants detonated explosives targeting an unknown number of houses in Albu Jumah, Saladin, Iraq. There were no reported casualties in the blasts. This was one of three similar attacks in the area on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents; however, sources attributed the attacks to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/18/2017: Assailants detonated explosives targeting an unknown number of houses in Hathal al-Mutlaq, Saladin, Iraq. There were no reported casualties in the blasts. This was one of three similar attacks in the area on the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents; however, sources attributed the attacks to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/18/2017: Assailants fired mortars at residences in Warta Nabada neighborhood, Mogadishu, Somalia. There were no reported casualties. This was one of two related attacks in Mogadishu on this date. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/18/2017: Assailants fired mortars that struck a school in Hawl Wadag neighborhood, Mogadishu, Somalia. Five people were killed and seven people were injured in the attack. This was one of two related attacks in Mogadishu on this date. No group claimed responsibility for the incidents.
04/18/2017: Assailants fired projectiles into Najran, Saudi Arabia. At least five civilians were injured in the attack. Houthi extremists claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2017: Assailants held hostage 16 United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) staff members at a refugee camp near Goma, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. The hostages were released unharmed after a few hours. South Sudanese extremists claimed responsibility for the incident and demanded that they be transported to another country and given asylum.
04/18/2017: Assailants kidnapped five tourists who were kayaking along the Apaporis River in Vaupes, Colombia. The hostages, three United states citizens, one French citizen, and one Spanish citizen, were released unharmed on April 22, 2017. No group claimed responsibility; however, sources attributed the attack to Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) dissidents.
04/18/2017: Assailants opened fire on a convoy of oil tankers along National Highway No. 37 in Kangpokpi district, Manipur, India. There were no reported casualties in the attack. The Kangleipak Communist Party (KCP) claimed responsibility for the incident and stated that the Indian Oil Corporation was marketing fuel illegally and that the fuel was poor in quality. In addition, sources suspected the involvement of the Kuki Revolutionary Army (KRA).
04/18/2017: Assailants opened fire on a police checkpoint in St. Catherine, South Sinai, Egypt. In addition to an unknown number of assailant casualties, at least one police officer was killed and three officers were injured in the attack. The Sinai Province of the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2017: Assailants opened fire on Archie Hicban at the corner of Road 10 and Capulong Street in Tondo, Manila, Metropolitan Manila, Philippines. Hicban, a Philippine Coast Guard official, and his wife were killed. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2017: Assailants raided a military camp in Gourma Rharous, Timbuktu, Mali. At least ten assailants and four soldiers were killed and seven soldiers were injured in the attack and ensuing clash. Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2017: Assailants set fire to the Assumption Church in Lalitpur, Province 3, Nepal. There were no reported casualties in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2017: Assailants shot and killed Mustaf Mohamed Dhiisow, a peacemaker and electoral delegate, in Beledweyne, Hiiraan, Somalia. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Al-Shabaab.
04/18/2017: Assailants shot down a military helicopter in Marib, Yemen. At least 12 soldiers were killed in the attack. Houthi extremists claimed responsibility for the incident; however, military officials questioned the veracity of this claim.
04/18/2017: Security forces intercepted and killed an assailant driving an explosives-laden vehicle in Anah, Al Anbar, Iraq. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/18/2017: Security forces intercepted and killed an assailant driving an explosives-laden vehicle in Rawah, Al Anbar, Iraq. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/1980: Three Ku Klux Klansmen, shot four black women, who were standing in crowd on a downtown street corner in predominantly black community in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States.  The Klansmen, William Church (imperial wizard of the Justice Knights of the Ku Klux Klan), Larry Payne, and Marshall Thrash, fired the shots from a shotgun, while driving by in a car shortly after setting two wooden crosses on fire just a few blocks away.  The women were wounded, but all treated for their injuries and survived.  This incident occurred during a time of racial tensions in the community.  All three Klansmen were brought to trial on four counts of assault with intent to commit murder; Church and Payne were acquitted by an all-white jury, and Thrash was convicted of the shooting and sentenced to 20 months in prison and a fine.
04/19/1980: Two white men fired shots from a shotgun into a mobile home while driving by, in Wrightsville, Georgia, United States, wounding nine-year-old black girl, Constance Folsom, in the forehead, neck, and chin.  The girl was in satisfactory condition and treated for her wounds.  It is unknown whether any property damage occurred. This incident occurred a few hours after a demonstration protesting the treatment of blacks in the racially divided community.  For several weeks prior to the incident, there had been unrest in the community between whites and blacks, with blacks protesting against racial, economic, and political injustices against them, asking for better jobs and representation in local government.  The perpetrators, Herschel Hall and Danny Foskey, were arrested and charged with aggravated assault. It is uncertain whether the two are members of the Ku Klux Klan.
04/19/1987: A bomb explosion destroyed a 1984 unmarked, unoccupied police car, which was parked outside Missoula City Hall in Missoula, Montana, United States.  The blast also shattered windows in City Hall and other nearby buildings, but no injuries resulted from the incident.  About five minutes after the explosion, a male caller, claiming to be a member of the Aryan Nation white supremacist group, phoned an emergency number and claimed responsibility for the incident, stating that the group was tired of harassment from law enforcement agencies.
04/19/1998: A Coca Cola factory was bombed in Cali, Colombia. The factory was damaged, however there were no casualties. The perpetrator was unknown.
04/19/1999: In Indonesia, an explosive device injured two people at Jakarta's Istiqlal Mosque. The perpetrators of this incident were unknown.
04/19/2000: A bomb exploded at a McDonald’s fast food restaurant in Quevert, Brittany, France. One person was killed, and caused major damage to the building. Police have linked the bombing to the Breton Revolutionary Army (ARB).
04/19/2000: A suicide car bomber exploded his vehicle just outside of the Indian Army’s 15 Corps headquarters in Badami Bagh, India. Four army personnel and three civilians were injured, and the bomber was killed instantly. It was later discovered that the suicide bomber belonged to Jaysh-e Muhammad (Army of Muhammad).
04/19/2000: Two people were killed and 20 injured in a grenade attack at the Iqbal market in Sopore, India. The target was a convoy of army personnel passing through the market at the time. An additional eight people were injured by automatic weapons fire when the army personnel reacted to the attack. The perpetrators were unknown.
04/19/2001: Three bombs exploded, killing the three people carrying them through the village of Madhopur, Muzffarpur district, India.  One person was injured.  No group claimed responsibility for the incident, although this was thought to be continuing violence to disrupt the polling process in the area.
04/19/2001: Two mortars were fired by unknown militants at the Jewish settlement in Kibbutz Nir Oz, Gaza Strip. No casualties were reported in the incident. Two squads of mortar-crewmen were arrested in connection to this incident by the Palestinian Authority on instructions by Yasir Arafat.
04/19/2002: A car bomb was detonated near the traffic junction at the Qatif Bloc on the Gaza Strip. The attacker was killed, and two Israeli Defense Forces soldiers were injured. There were no arrests. Islamic Jihad later claimed responsibility via their website.
04/19/2002: Gunmen opened fire on French soldiers in Kabul. One French soldier was injured. None of the attackers were captured.
04/19/2003: Authorities suspected Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in an attack on Muslim farmers at Dado village in Alamada, Philippines. Six people were killed by rifle gunfire and at least three were wounded. The exact motive was unknown.
04/19/2004: Saudi Arabian security forces found two cars filled with explosives in the Rumah Region, north of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The vehicles were discovered while Saudi security personnel were searching for suspected Islamic militants in the area. No group claimed responsibility for the car bombs.
04/19/2004: Suspected members of HAMAS fired five homemade Qassam-type rockets at the Israeli Nissanit settlement in the Gaza Strip. One of the rockets struck a house and set it on fire, injuring three Israeli settlers. The rocket barrage injured one other Israeli settler as well. Although no group claimed responsibility for the rockets, HAMAS had vowed to get revenge for the Israeli assassination of the organization’s leader in Gaza, Abdelaziz Rantissi earlier in April 2004.
04/19/2004: Unknown perpetrators bombed a privately owned villa in Corsica, France. The house, which belonged to a Parisian family, was completely destroyed by a high-powered explosive device. Although the house was destroyed, no one was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the bombing.
04/19/2004: Unknown perpetrators targeted a local branch of the Credit Agricole Bank in Corsica, France. The attackers detonated a bomb that consisted of a high-powered explosive charge that caused significant damage to the facility. Although the bank sustained significant damage, no casualties resulted from the bombing. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/19/2005: A suicide car-bomber targeted an Iraqi National Guard building in Al-A'zamiyah, Iraq. Five people were killed in the bombing including two Iraqi National Guard members. The blast resulted in the injury of 20 others as well including several guardsmen. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/19/2005: Suspected tribal militants bombed a pylon supporting electricity cables in Pakistan’s Balochistan Province. Power was cut in nearby Kalat, but no one was harmed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the bombing.
04/19/2005: Three suspected members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) fired upon and threw grenades at the Army Observation Post around 10:30am in Mahindapura, Trincomalee, Sri Lanka.  No one was injured.
04/19/2006: Five Pakistani paramilitary soldiers were injured when a remote-controlled roadside bomb struck their vehicle in a village northeast of Minsarah, North Waziristan. Pakistani Taliban are suspected but they made no comment on this attack.
04/19/2006: In Nigeria, a car bomb charged with 30 kg (66 lb) dynamite was remotely detonated by a cellular telephone at a military barracks, the second Amphibious Brigade, in the Niger Delta. Two persons were killed and seven others injured. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta [MEND] claimed responsibility for the blast via email. The MEND wanted that all oil workers leave the Niger Delta and added that this attack was more a symbolic one as they only aimed at showing the military’s incapacity to protect the oilfields. They threatened that more attacks were to come.
04/19/2006: Unidentified assailants blew up a pickup truck with a claymore mine in Vavuniya, Sri Lanka, around 12:00pm, injuring a Korean man and his Sri Lankan driver.  No group claimed responsibility.
04/19/2007: A suicide car bomber struck a pedestrian area in the Shi’ite district of Jadriyah in Baghdad, Iraq. Twelve were killed and 28 were wounded in an explosion that occurred near a Hassan take-away eatery and damaged several surrounding vehicles; there was no claim of responsibility.
04/19/2007: Four gunmen in a vehicle carrying automatic weapons attacked a police checkpoint in Grozny, Chechnya. Six police officers were injured in the attack by unknown perpetrators.  No claim of responsibility was reported.
04/19/2007: Seven policemen were injured when a landmine exploded in Khogiani district of Ghazni province, Afghanistan. There was no claim of responsibility.  No claim of responsibility was reported.
04/19/2007: Three employees of the Christian Bible publishing company Zirve were killed when attackers bound their arms and legs and slit their throats with knives in Malatya, Turkey. Police arrested five suspects believed to be responsible for the incident, one of which sustained injuries. Two of the slain Zirve employees were Turkish, while the third was German.  No claim of responsibility was reported.
04/19/2008: On Saturday night at 21:10, two civilians were killed when 15 Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants opened fire on moving trucks on the Tata-Ranchi highway at Karamdih in the Saraikela-Kharswan district near the city of Ranchi, Jharkhand province, India.  Another truck fell into a roadside ditch after its driver, in an attempt to escape the gunfire, lost control over the vehicle. The Maoists subsequently set the truck on fire. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
04/19/2008: On Saturday night, in Sinjar, Ninawa, Iraq, armed assailants kidnapped a local councilor and his brother from their home. The following day, Iraqi security forces found their bodies but no cause of death was provided. There was no motive reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/19/2008: On Saturday, at Kachhi canal project in Lund Nullah near Sui, Balochistan Province, Pakistan, unknown assailants detonated an explosive device destroying a tube well. No casualties or motive were reported. No group claimed responsibility.
04/19/2008: On Saturday, in eastern Baghdad, Iraq, assailants fired upon and wounded an Interior Ministry officer. There was no damage or motive reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/19/2008: On Saturday, in the Khad'ra' district of central Kirkuk, At Ta'mim, Iraq, assailants remotely detonated a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device, killing one civilian and wounding four others. There was no damage or motive reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/19/2008: On Saturday, suspected Communist Party of India - Maoists killed the village head of Urubali, Raba Suba, in Malkangiri, Orissa, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/19/2008: On Saturday, the Imphal West district commander of the Kuki Liberation Army (KLA), identified as Seilienthang, was shot dead by unidentified militants at the residence of his fiancée, Chingboi, in the Khuga Dam area of Churachandpur, Manipur, India. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/19/2008: On Saturday, two cousins, Paominthang Guite and Thangkhenlal Guite, were abducted by suspected valley based militants from Nongsum village in Manipur's Imphal East district, India, and later shot and killed in Keibi Khunou village in Manipur's Imphal East district, India. No claim of responsibility was made for the incident.
04/19/2009: On or about Sunday, assailants kidnapped and later killed a civilian in Gurboz, Khost, Afghanistan on 04/20/2009, whom they accused of spying for the United States.  The Taliban claimed responsibility.
04/19/2009: On Sunday afternoon at 1400, two mortar rounds slammed into a private power generator in the Zayuna area of eastern Baghdad, wounding two civilians and destroying the generator. No claim of responsibility has been reported.
04/19/2009: On Sunday evening around 2130, a roadside bomb detonated in the Zafraniyah neighborhood of southeast Baghdad, injuring five people including three policemen.  There has been no claim of responsibility.
04/19/2009: On Sunday evening at 2100, gunmen assassinated Lieutenant Colonel Abdul Rahman Ibrahim in Baghdad as he was driving in his personal car in Nu’airiyah neighborhood in eastern Baghdad.  No other casualties were reported and no group has claimed responsibility for this incident.
04/19/2009: On Sunday evening at 2130, in Nazran, Ingushetia, Russia, the house of well know Mullah, Musa Yesmurziyev, was attacked by unknown assailants with automatic weapons. Musa was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility.
04/19/2009: On Sunday evening at 2130, in Ordzhonikidzevskaya, Ingushetia, Russia, the house of Alikhan Geroyev, head of criminal investigation of the Sunzha District Police, was targeted with firearms and grenade launchers injuring him. His brother and sister were hospitalized with injuries, the sister later died. No group claimed responsibility.
04/19/2009: On Sunday in Bakol, Somalia, unknown gunmen attacked a three vehicle convoy, carrying to international aid workers, while it was traveling between Rabbure and Hudur.  According to reports, about 25 gunmen attacked the vehicles and abducted the foreign personnel and their Somali bodyguards.  The Somalis were later released.  An unknown ransom was demanded, by an unidentified group, for the aid workers release.
04/19/2009: On Sunday morning around 0700, in Purulia, West Bengal State, India, two civilians were wounded and a liquor shop was damaged when a improvised explosive device detonated near a liquor shop. No group has claimed responsibility, but the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) is thought to be responsible.
04/19/2009: On Sunday night, Taliban militants blew up a house  to punish a girl and a boy in an honor-related case, killing two women and injuring another, in the Kalaya area of Orakzai, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. The boy had fled the area leaving behind the girl with his parents after the Taliban got involved in the case.
04/19/2009: On Sunday night, unidentified militants attacked the residence of the Biren Yambem, general secretary of the All Manipur Working Journalist Union in the Bashikhong Kongba Irong area of Imphal East, Manipur, India. No casualties were reported and no group has claimed responsibility.
04/19/2009: On Sunday night, unidentified militants blew up a power pylon in Swabi, North West Frontier, Pakistan. Four bombs were planted under the pylon, but one of the bombs failed to detonate. No casualties were reported and no group has claimed responsibility.
04/19/2009: On Sunday, a group of Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist)  rebels attacked construction workers and set fire to several road construction vehicles, damaging the vehicles but causing no casualties in Gaya, Bihar, India.  No group claimed responsibility, but it was widely believed CPI-Maoists were responsible.
04/19/2009: On Sunday, a passenger vehicle was hijacked and set aflame by unidentified militants along Uya road, Kakching Naoripat,Thoubal, Manipur, India. No casualties were reported but the vehicle was damaged. No group claimed responsibility.
04/19/2009: On Sunday, an assailant threw several incendiary devices at a community in Beit El, West Bank, causing no casualties or damage.  No group claimed responsibility, but authorities fired upon and killed a sixteen-year-old suspected of being the assailant.
04/19/2009: On Sunday, assailants kidnapped 18 teachers in Shah Joy, Zabol, Afghanistan, and released them one day later.  No group claimed responsibility, although it was widely believed the Taliban was responsible, and the hostages are all alive.
04/19/2009: On Sunday, in Sekies, Bir el Ater, Tebessa, Algeria, an improvised exploded device exploded near a gas pipeline, killing one civilian, injuring three others and the mayor of Bir el Ater. No group claimed responsibility.
04/19/2009: On Sunday, unidentified militants attacked a railway station in Harangajao, North Cachar Hills, Assam, India, wounding two police officers. No group claimed responsibility.
04/19/2010: On Monday afternoon around 1645, in Benin, Edo, Nigeria, four unidentified gunmen kidnapped Dere Okiy, the director of the Nigerian Institute for Oil Palm Research, from his car and took him into a nearby forest. He escaped later that night at 2300 when his kidnappers went searching for food. Police found him when he was walking on a road. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/19/2010: On Monday morning at 0900, in Nazran, Ingushetia, Russia, a bomb explosion targeted the car of the Deputy Interior Minister of Ingushetia, Beslan Shadiyev, in the parking lot outside of the Ingush Interior Ministry in Nazran, but he was not there. His driver Adam Aushev was injured in the blast however. The bomb was planted underneath the official's car. An interior official and two security guards near the car were injured along with the driver in the blast. It is unknown if the attack caused any property damage. No group claimed responsibility.
04/19/2010: On Monday morning, in the Qissa Khawani area of Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, a suicide bomber struck an area where a protest organized by the radical Islamist party Jamaat-i-Islami was held. The attack killed 25, including several officials from the Jamaat-i-Islami party, and injured 30 people. The explosion was caused by a bomber wearing a vest packed with six to eight kilograms (13 to 17 pounds) of explosives, pellets and ball-bearings. The attack caused destroyed several cars and no group claimed responsibility.
04/19/2010: On Monday night, in Kandahar, Kandahar province, Afghanistan, unidentified gunmen entered a mosque and killed the deputy mayor of Kandahar while he was taking part in evening prayer. No group claimed responsibility although the Taliban is suspected.
04/19/2010: On Monday night, in the Pahijuri area of Sonitpur district, Assam, India, a former National Democratic Front of Bodoland (NDFB) militant, identified by security officials as Thirangtha Basumatary, 25, was shot and killed by active members of the group. Police officials said that Basumatary was called out of his house by a group of NDFB (Ranjan Daimary) militants and shot at point blank range. Superintendent of Police Jitmil Doley said altogether five persons, including the wife of the slain ultra, Phulen Basumatary, were rounded up for interrogation. A 7.68 pistol with ten live cartridges and two mobile phone sets were recovered from the spot. No group claimed responsibility.
04/19/2010: On Monday, at Batkanta village in the Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh province, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) rebels vandalized a section of railroad tracks by removing 32 pendel clips, which caused a freight train that was carrying 4,000 tons of iron ore from the state-run National Mineral Development Coorporation (NMDC) to derail when it passed over the vandalized section. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility.
04/19/2010: On Monday, in Kandahar, Kandahar province, Afghanistan, a cart full of alfalfa and pulled by a donkey exploded targeting a civilian house and a nearby police checkpost, killing three and injuring two children, and injuring one adult and two police personnel. No group claimed responsibility.
04/19/2010: On Monday, in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, unidentified militants detonated a remote-controlled improvised explosive device targeting school children, killing a boy and injuring 10 others. Two vehicles were destroyed and one nearby shop was partially damaged in the attack. The school was for children of police officers. No group claimed responsibility.
04/19/2010: On Monday, in the al-Azeem area near Ba'quba, Diayal, Iraq, two civilians were killed and two others were wounded when unidentified militants detonated an improvised explosive device near a civilian vehicle. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/19/2010: On Monday, in the Karrampada area of West Singbhum, Jharkhand, India, suspected Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-Maoist) militants blew up two pump houses, one belonging to the Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) and the other to the railways. Water supply was affected in the area as a result of the attack. No casualties were reported. Maoists left behind a pamphlet at the explosion site describing the attack as an offensive against operation greenhunt. The ultras had warned of disrupting water and electricity supply with such attacks after special operation of security forces was initiated against Maoists in the forests of Saranda.
04/19/2010: On Monday, in the Khyber Agency of Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas, unidentified militants fired five mortar shells at the Landi Kotal Degree College. No casualties or damage were reported in the attack and no group claimed responsibility.
04/19/2010: On Monday, in the Koza Bandai area of Swat district in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, two members of a pro-government village defense committee were shot dead and three others were wounded during an attack by two unidentified gunmen. Bahr-i-Karam and Aqil Shah, were sitting outside a shop in the Koza Bandai area, along with others, when unidenfied assailants opened fire at them, killing them instantly. No group claimed responsibility.
04/19/2010: On Monday, in the Landi Kotal area of Khyber Agency in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas, unidentified militants fired a mortar round at on the living quarters of government employees, killing a government high school principal's daughter-in-law and injuring his granddaughter and a Khasadar official. The civilians were in a house adjacent to the school. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/19/2010: On Monday, in the Zakha Khel Bazaar area of Khyber Agency in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas, a member of the Khasadar tribal militia on leave was abducted by pro-Taliban militants at gunpoint from his residence. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility. The status of the hostage is unknown.
04/19/2011 (Default date): On Tuesday, at Sunanagar Ghati, in Malkangiri, Odisha, India, suspected Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) slit the throat of a Balimela Forest Guard, Sisir Khosla, killing him. Sources indicate that the attack may have taken place on the night of 04/18/2011, but this claim was not supported. No group claimed responsibility; however, police inspector of Balimela refuted the claim that Maoists were responsible. It is possible Khosla was killed by timber mafia and smugglers rather than Maoists.
04/19/2011: On Tuesday afternoon, in the al-Maash market, Mosul, Ninawa, Iraq, unknown gunmen kidnapped a Kurd, and two Shabaks. The bodies of the two Shabaks were found later that day. The status of the Kurd is unknown. No group claimed responsibility.
04/19/2011: On Tuesday around 1200 noon, in Fallujah, Al Anbar, Iraq, unknown assailants detonated a sticky improvised explosive device attached to a civilian car as it entered a government office. One civilian was killed, one civilian was wounded, and an unknown amount of property damage was caused in the blast. No group claimed responsibility.
04/19/2011: On Tuesday morning at 0720, at New Al Gilani Road in Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan, a remote-controlled car bomb detonated near the office of a non-government organization, Tehreek’s. Three civilians were injured while vehicles and houses near the blast were also damaged. The victims were identified as Mst Bakht Bibi, Syed Masood and Rafiuddin. No group claimed responsibility for this incident.
04/19/2011: On Tuesday morning, at Nagram, Imphal, Manipur, India, unidentified militants threw two Chinese hand grenades at the residence of an independent member of the Chingai Assembly constituency, Khasim Ruivah. The grenades failed to explode, and were later defused by police, causing no casualties or damages. No group claimed responsibility.
04/19/2011: On Tuesday morning, in Mera Kachoray in the jurisdiction of Chamkani Police Station, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, unidentified militants blew up two power pylons. No casualties were reported, but the explosion resulted in the suspension of the power supply from the 220KV power lines. No group claimed responsibility for this incident.
04/19/2011: On Tuesday night around 0300, in Corfu, Ionian Islands, Greece, a Jewish synagogue was set on fire after an unknown number of individuals broke in and spread gasoline throughout the building, while setting holy books on fire. An unknown amount of property damage was done to the building, but at least 30 books were destroyed. No casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the act.
04/19/2011: On Tuesday night, in Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq, unknown assailants detonated an improvised explosive device near Mustansiriya University. Two civilians and a soldier were wounded, and an unknown amount of property damage was caused in the blast. No group claimed responsibility.
04/19/2011: On Tuesday night, in the village of Averyanovka, Kizlyarsky District, Dagestan, Russia, former Imam, Nuri Ramazanov, was shot and killed by an unidentified gunman. Ramazanov was fired upon while standing outside of his home. No other casualties were reported and no group claimed responsibility for the attack. A criminal investigation has been launched as a result of the attack.
04/19/2011: On Tuesday, in Al Musayyib, Babil, Iraq, unknown assailants detonated a roadside improvised explosive device targeting the motorcade of Jawa al-Jiboury, an Iraqi congressman from al-Ahrar bloc. The blast did not cause any casualties, but Jibour's car was damaged. Assailants planted a second improvised explosive device that was targeting the convoy. A bomb squad discovered the bomb and while they attempted to defuse the bomb, it detonated. One officer, two of his assistants, and a civilian were wounded. No group claimed responsibility.
04/19/2011: On Tuesday, in Ferozkhel, Orakzai, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan, unidentified militants blew up a commercial market owned by a senior member of the Levies Force. The attack completely destroyed the building of the market and the estimated damage incurred $93,284 USD (8 million rupees) but no casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility.
04/19/2011: On Tuesday, in Nagpur, Maharashtra, India, a Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M) leader, Mangal Singh Korchami (Diwakar), was allegedly killed by unknown means by suspected Maoists. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, and police are verifying the incident but have not confirmed the attack.
04/19/2011: On Tuesday, in Sheen Drang, Bara, Khyber, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan, unidentified militants publicly execute a tribesman, Malang Meerak, by slitting his throat in front of hundreds of local residents. The victim was reportedly targeted for aiding security forces in the region. No group claimed responsibility.
04/19/2011: On Tuesday, in the Doura neighborhood, Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq, a sticky bomb attached to the Director of Iraq's Education Ministry, Abdul-Amir Hussein’s car, detonated. The director was killed in the blast, and two civilians were also wounded. The attack caused an unknown amount of property damage and no group claimed responsibility.
04/19/2011: On Tuesday, in the village of La Vereda Campo Alegre, Convención, Norte de Santander, Colombia, militants from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) detonated an improvised explosive device targeting the Ecopetrol-owned Caño Limón – Coveñas oil pipeline. No casualties were reported, but a section of the pipeline sustained an unknown amount of property damage and 1,200 barrels of crude oil spilled into the Catatumbo River, further resulting in an unknown amount of environmental damage. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/19/2012: A gunman attacked a water vendor and a customs official in Maiduguri city, Borno state, Nigeria. Two people were killed in this attack, which was one of two coordinated attacks in Maiduguri on this day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed it to Boko Haram.
04/19/2012: A remote-controlled explosive device detonated at the Government School for Boys in Nawagai town, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. No casualties were reported; however, the building was destroyed. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2012: A roadside explosive device detonated near soldiers in Musayib area, Babil governorate, Iraq. Five soldiers were wounded in the blast. This was one of 43 coordinated attacks in Iraq on this day, all of which were claimed by Al-Qa'ida in Iraq.
04/19/2012: A suicide bomber detonated at the entrance of a police officer's house in Baquba city, Diyala governorate, Iraq. One person was killed, and 11 others, including five family members of the officer, were wounded in the attack. This was one of 43 coordinated attacks in Iraq on this day, all of which were claimed by Al-Qa'ida in Iraq.
04/19/2012: A suicide bomber detonated in Taji town, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. Five civilians were killed and nine injured. This was one of 43 coordinated attacks in Iraq on this day, all of which were claimed by Al-Qa'ida in Iraq.
04/19/2012: A would-be suicide bomber was identified and arrested outside of a restaurant in Mosul city, Nineveh governorate, Iraq. Sources indicated that the assailant intended to target first responders as they approached the scene of an earlier explosion at that same restaurant. This was one of 43 coordinated attacks in Iraq on this day, all of which were claimed by Al-Qa'ida in Iraq.
04/19/2012: An assailant detonated an explosives-laden vehicle at a police checkpoint in the Al-Katoun neighborhood of Baquba city, Diyala governorate, Iraq. Two officers were killed and two others wounded. This was one of 43 coordinated attacks in Iraq on this day, all of which were claimed by Al-Qa'ida in Iraq.
04/19/2012: An explosive device attached to a police vehicle detonated in Fallujah city, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. One officer was killed and two other people injured. This was one of 43 coordinated attacks in Iraq on this day, all of which were claimed by Al-Qa'ida in Iraq.
04/19/2012: An explosive device detonated as laborers gathered in the Shia Amil area of Al-Rashid district, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. Two people were killed and eight injured in the attack. This was one of 43 coordinated attacks in Iraq on this day, all of which were claimed by Al-Qa'ida in Iraq.
04/19/2012: An explosive device detonated at a power transformer in Jorhat city, Assam state, India. No casualties were reported, and no group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2012: An explosive device detonated in Baquba city, Diyala governorate, Iraq. One police officer was killed. This was one of 43 coordinated attacks in Iraq on this day, all of which were claimed by Al-Qa'ida in Iraq.
04/19/2012: An explosive device detonated in Dibis town, Kirkuk, Iraq. Five people were killed and six others injured in the blast. This was one of 43 coordinated attacks in Iraq on this day, all of which were claimed by Al-Qa'ida in Iraq.
04/19/2012: An explosive device detonated in the Zafaraniyah neighborhood of Karada district, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. One person was killed and two others injured. This was one of 43 coordinated attacks in Iraq on this day, all of which were claimed by Al-Qa'ida in Iraq.
04/19/2012: An explosive device detonated near a military patrol in Khanaquin area, Diyala governorate, Iraq. Four soldiers were injured in the incident. This was one of 43 coordinated attacks in Iraq on this day, all of which were claimed by Al-Qa'ida in Iraq.
04/19/2012: An explosive device detonated near a police patrol in Taji town, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. One civilian was killed and five others injured. This was one of 43 coordinated attacks in Iraq on this day, all of which were claimed by Al-Qa'ida in Iraq.
04/19/2012: An explosive device detonated near a police patrol vehicle in Kirkuk city, Kirkuk, Iraq. Two police officers were injured. This was one of 43 coordinated attacks in Iraq on this day, all of which were claimed by Al-Qa'ida in Iraq.
04/19/2012: An explosive device detonated near a police vehicle in Samarra city, Saladin governorate, Iraq. Three police officers were killed in the attack. This was one of 43 coordinated attacks in Iraq on this day, all of which were claimed by Al-Qa'ida in Iraq.
04/19/2012: An explosive device detonated near a van in Shahu Khel area, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. Four people were injured in the attack. A second device was defused at the scene. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2012: An explosive device detonated near an army checkpoint in Ishaqi town, Saladin governorate, Iraq. One soldier was killed in the blast. This was one of 43 coordinated attacks in Iraq on this day, all of which were claimed by Al-Qa'ida in Iraq.
04/19/2012: An explosive device detonated on a railroad track in Bhojo area, Assam state, India. No casualties were reported in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspect that the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) was responsible.
04/19/2012: An explosive device detonated outside of a private residence in Al Mansuriyah area, Diyala governorate, Iraq. Three people were injured in the incident. This was one of 43 coordinated attacks in Iraq on this day, all of which were claimed by Al-Qa'ida in Iraq.
04/19/2012: An explosive device detonated outside of a private residence in Ghudayb area, Diyala governorate, Iraq. Three people were wounded in the attack. This was one of 43 coordinated attacks in Iraq on this day, all of which were claimed by Al-Qa'ida in Iraq.
04/19/2012: An explosive device detonated outside of a restaurant in Mosul city, Nineveh governorate, Iraq. Three people were injured in the blast. This was one of 43 coordinated attacks in Iraq on this day, all of which were claimed by Al-Qa'ida in Iraq.
04/19/2012: An explosive device detonated outside of the home of a police officer in Fallujah city, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. Two people were wounded in the attack. This was one of 43 coordinated attacks in Iraq on this day, all of which were claimed by Al-Qa'ida in Iraq.
04/19/2012: An explosive device detonated prematurely as assailants were planting it in Mansour district, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. Two assailants were killed. This was one of 43 coordinated attacks in Iraq on this day, all of which were claimed by Al-Qa'ida in Iraq.
04/19/2012: An explosive device detonated prematurely in Dejail area, Saladin governorate, Iraq. A single assailant was killed in the incident, and the intended target of the attack is unknown. This was one of 43 coordinated attacks in Iraq on this day, all of which were claimed by Al-Qa'ida in Iraq.
04/19/2012: An explosive device or mortar detonated in Malha village in Dibis city, Kirkuk, Iraq. Approximately five people were killed and six injured across this and four other similar attacks in the village. This was one of 43 coordinated attacks in Iraq on this day, all of which were claimed by Al-Qa'ida in Iraq.
04/19/2012: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated at a police checkpoint in Rusafa area, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. Two people were killed and four injured. This was one of 43 coordinated attacks in Iraq on this day, all of which were claimed by Al-Qa'ida in Iraq.
04/19/2012: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated in Dibis city, Kirkuk, Iraq. Six civilians were killed and four more wounded in the attack. This was one of 43 coordinated attacks in Iraq on this day, all of which were claimed by Al-Qa'ida in Iraq.
04/19/2012: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated in Kirkuk city, Kirkuk, Iraq. Two police officers were killed and three others injured. This was one of 43 coordinated attacks in Iraq on this day, all of which were claimed by Al-Qa'ida in Iraq.
04/19/2012: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated near a hotel in Kadhimiyah area, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. Three people were killed and 11 others injured. This was one of 43 coordinated attacks in Iraq on this day, all of which were claimed by Al-Qa'ida in Iraq.
04/19/2012: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated near a military checkpoint in Tarmiyah town, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. One assailant and one soldier were killed, and five other soldiers were wounded. This was one of 43 coordinated attacks in Iraq on this day, all of which were claimed by Al-Qa'ida in Iraq.
04/19/2012: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated near a police patrol in Ramadi city, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. Two police officers were killed and four other people injured. This was one of 43 coordinated attacks in Iraq on this day, all of which were claimed by Al-Qa'ida in Iraq.
04/19/2012: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated near a police vehicle in Ramadi city, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. One police officer was killed and three more wounded. This was one of 43 coordinated attacks in Iraq on this day, all of which were claimed by Al-Qa'ida in Iraq.
04/19/2012: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated near a Sahwa Council checkpoint in Samarra city, Saladin governorate, Iraq. Two civilians were killed and one Council member was injured. This was one of 43 coordinated attacks in Iraq on this day and one of two on Sahwa Council checkpoints in Samarra. Al-Qa'ida in Iraq claimed all 43 of the coordinated attacks.
04/19/2012: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated near the convoy of the Iraqi Health Minister, Majid Jamad Amin Jamil, in Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. Two people were killed and four others injured. This was one of 43 coordinated attacks in Iraq on this day, all of which were claimed by Al-Qa'ida in Iraq.
04/19/2012: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated near the general of the Al-Maqdad police station in Kirkuk city, Kirkuk, Iraq. Four people were killed and 23 others wounded in the blast. This was one of 43 coordinated attacks in Iraq on this day, all of which were claimed by Al-Qa'ida in Iraq.
04/19/2012: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated near the home of the head of the Investment Commission in Kirkuk city, Kirkuk, Iraq. Two bodyguards were killed and six other people wounded in the attack. This was one of 43 coordinated attacks in Iraq on this day, all of which were claimed by Al-Qa'ida in Iraq.
04/19/2012: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated targeting a Turkmen social club in Karkh district, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. Two people were killed and six wounded. This was one of 43 coordinated attacks in Iraq on this day, all of which were claimed by Al-Qa'ida in Iraq.
04/19/2012: Assailants ambushed police officers in Swabi district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. Three police officers were wounded. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/19/2012: Assailants ambushed the district commissioner as he was distributing food in Ceel Cadde town, Gedo region, Somalia. The commissioner was beheaded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities attributed it to Al-Shabaab.
04/19/2012: Assailants fired rocket-propelled grenades at an oil refinery in Baiji city, Saladin governorate, Iraq. One worker was injured in the attack. This was one of 43 coordinated attacks in Iraq on this day, all of which were claimed by Al-Qa'ida in Iraq.
04/19/2012: Assailants threw an incendiary device at the home of a Catholic woman in Londonderry city, Derry district, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. No casualties were reported, but the home sustained damages. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspect that loyalists may have been behind the attack.
04/19/2012: Assailants torched tractors taking part in a poppy eradication operation in Nad Ali district, Helmand province, Afghanistan. No casualties were reported in the attack. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2012: Five armed assailants attacked a journalist outside his home in Uralsk city, West Kazakhstan province, Kazakhstan. The journalist, Lukpan Akmedyarov, was severely injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected Akhmedyarov was targeted because of his political views.
04/19/2012: Gunmen ambushed an Ethiopian military convoy between Gabho and Daac in Galguduud region, Somalia. Three Ethiopian soldiers were killed in the attack. Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for this incident.
04/19/2012: Gunmen attacked a police check point in Al Hadid area, Diyala governorate, Iraq. One police officer was killed and three more injured. This was one of 43 coordinated attacks in Iraq on this day, all of which were claimed by Al-Qa'ida in Iraq.
04/19/2012: Gunmen fired upon an army convoy vehicle in Davao del Sur, Davao del Sur province, Philippines. Two soldiers were wounded. No group claimed responsibility for the attack; however, sources attributed it to the New People's Army (NPA).
04/19/2012: Gunmen on a motorbike fired at a painting shop in Orangi Town, Sindh province, Pakistan. One Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) activist was killed and one other person injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2012: Gunmen stormed a bakery in Maiduguri city, Borno state, Nigeria. Five people were killed in this attack, which was one of two coordinated attacks in Maiduguri on this day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed it to Boko Haram.
04/19/2012: Gunmen stormed the home of a Sahwa Council member in Mansuriyat al Jabal area, Diyala governorate, Iraq. The Sahwa member was killed. This was one of 43 coordinated attacks in Iraq on this day, all of which were claimed by Al-Qa'ida in Iraq.
04/19/2012: Three explosive devices detonated outside of a private residence near Baquba city, Diyala governorate, Iraq. The outcome of the attack is unknown. This was one of 43 coordinated attacks in Iraq on this day, all of which were claimed by Al-Qa'ida in Iraq.
04/19/2013: A rocket fired from the Wacha Khora area of Wana landed in Wana Bazaar, Wana town, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. This was one of three rocket attacks in this area on this day. One person was killed and 14 others were injured across the three attacks. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2013: A rocket fired from the Wacha Khora area of Wana landed near an election rally in Wana town, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. This was one of three rocket attacks in this area on this day. One person was killed and 14 others were wounded across the three attacks. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2013: A rocket fired from the Wacha Khora area of Wana landed outside the home of independent election candidate, Malik Naseerullah Khan, in Wana town, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. This was one of three rocket attacks in this area on this day. One person was killed and 14 others were wounded across the three attacks. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2013: A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle targeting a security convoy in Sanging district, Helmand province, Afghanistan. Seven people were injured in the blast, including five police officers and two civilians. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2013: A toy bomb exploded in Chamla village, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. The explosion killed three people, including two minor girls. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/19/2013: An explosive device detonated in a field in Buner district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. Three people were killed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2013: An explosive device detonated in a Shia mosque during Friday prayers in Kirkuk city, Kirkuk, Iraq. At least one person was killed and 12 more were injured in the blast.. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2013: An explosive device detonated in Adezai village, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. Three people, including an Amn Committee member, were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2013: Assailants abducted a Philippine National Police (PNP) officer in Datu Sundungan village, Tinayong crossing, Anakan municipality, Cotabato province, Philippines. The victim was returning home with other people when their vehicle was flagged down and the officer was abducted. The officer was released on May 8, 2013. The New People's Army (NPA) claimed responsibility for the incident, stating that they had abducted the officer because he obstructed justice in a previous murder case.
04/19/2013: Assailants abducted Gopi Pujari from Kasiguda village, Mathili block, Orissa state, India. He was executed along with another villager in Kiang panchayat on April 24, 2013. The Communist Party of India - Maoist (CPI-M) Daharba division left posters with the bodies, stating they were police informants and that the group had warned the victims they would be punished.
04/19/2013: Assailants ambushed the convoy of an Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) chieftain in Esan West area, Ekpoma town, Edo state, Nigeria. The chieftain, Idiake Akhimien, and three other ACN officials were wounded in the attack. No group has claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2013: Assailants attacked a military patrol in the Dabori area of Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan. Four assailants were killed and three soldiers were wounded in the ensuing firefight. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2013: Assailants attacked Abid Qadri in the Hyder Chowk area, Punjab province, Pakistan. Qadri, a Tehreek election candidate, was not harmed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2013: Assailants attacked an Afghan Border Police (ABP) checkpoint in Wardoj district, Badakhshan province, Afghanistan. One police officer and two assailants were killed in the exchange of fire. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2013: Assailants attacked an Afghan Local Police (ALP) checkpoint in Andar district, Ghazni province, Afghanistan. At least 13 police officers were killed in the attack. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2013: Assailants bombed a Sui Northern Gas Company pipeline near Shah Wali area, Rajanpur district, Punjab province, Pakistan. The attack caused a gas explosion and disrupted gas supplies for the area. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/19/2013: Assailants mailed an explosive device hidden in a sex toy to a private Legionnaires of Christ Movement school in Madrid city, Madrid province, Spain. This was one of at least two such devices, one of which detonated in transit. A postal worker was injured in the blast. The attacks were claimed by a group that called itself the Anticlerical Pro Sex Toys Group.
04/19/2013: Assailants mailed an explosive device hidden in a sex toy to Archbishop Francisco Perez in Pamplona, Navarre province, Spain. This was one of at least two such devices, one of which detonated in transit. No one was injured in this attack. The attacks were claimed by a group that called itself the Anticlerical Pro Sex Toys Group.
04/19/2013: Assailants opened fire on Levies officers escorting an anti-polio team in the Gomal area near Tank city, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. Two police officers were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2013: Assailants opened fire on Mehar Irshad Sial in the Rang Pur area of Muzaffargarh district, Punjab state, Pakistan. One person was killed in the gunfire while Sial, a Pakistan People's Party (PPP) candidate, and two other people were injured. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/19/2013: Assailants opened fire on Neramit Chuchote in Yarang district, Pattani province, Thailand. Chuchote, a deputy police chief, died in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, officials attribute the attack to separatists.
04/19/2013: Assailants shot and killed Benancio Taquinas, a member of the indigenous guard, in Jambalo municipality, Cauca department, Colombia. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, authorities attributed the attack to the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
04/19/2013: Assailants threw two explosive devices at a Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leader in Sonapur village, Barisal division, Bangladesh. The leader, Shamsher Alam Malitha, was killed in the attack. No group has claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2013: Gunmen on motorcycles shot and killed Rahman Ramdi, the top aide to Councilor Lilia Nuno, in San Roque village, Zamboanga del Sur province, Philippines. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2013: Gunmen opened fire on a former village head outside of a mosque in Thung Yang Daeng district, Pattani province, Thailand. The target, Rosa Tayeh, was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2013: Gunmen opened fire on a group of African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) peacekeepers in Muhajiriyah area, East Darfur state, Sudan. One peacekeeper was killed and two others were injured in the attack. One perpetrator was also killed when the peacekeepers returned fire. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2013: Gunmen opened fire on a van carrying members of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) and police officers in Mule town, 25 kilometers from Maiduguri city, Borno state, Nigeria. Two WAEC members and one police officer was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility; however, officials suspect members of Boko Haram.
04/19/2013: Gunmen shot and killed Aqa Muhammad, the chief of the National Solidarity Council, in his home in Chakosh area, Aqcha district, Jawzjan province, Afghanistan. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/19/2013: Mortar rounds were launched at a Shia mosque in Khalis city, Diyala governorate, Iraq. At least 7 people were killed and 12 more were wounded injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2013: Police thwarted a potential bomb attack when they engaged in a firefight with the alleged assailants of the Boston Marathon bombings, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, in Watertown, Massachusetts, United States. Shortly after hijacking a civilian vehicle, the suspects were confronted by police, leading to a firefight that resulted in the death of Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and 16 police officers were injured in the exchange. One of the injured officers, Dennis Simmonds, succumbed to his injuries on April 10, 2014. During the encounter, the suspects hurled explosives at the officers. It was later revealed that the Tsarnaev brothers were plotting to use the explosives to carry out an attack in an unconfirmed location. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was arrested later that evening after he was discovered hiding in a boat that was parked in a Watertown, Massachusetts, resident's backyard. Tsarnaev had written a claim of responsibility on the side of the boat. On July 10, 2013, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev pleaded not guilty to 30 federal counts related to the Boston attacks, including one for the use of a weapon of mass destruction.
04/19/2013: Three explosive devices detonated near a drinking establishment in the Badawa area of Kano city, Kano governorate, Nigeria. Two people were injured in the blasts. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2014: A land mine detonated near a civilian in Pelough area, Dera Bugti city, Balochistan province, Pakistan. The civilian was killed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2014: A land mine detonated near a police vehicle in Khair Khana neighborhood, Badghis province, Afghanistan. One police officer was killed and two others were wounded in the blast. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2014: A suicide bomber attempted to detonate an explosives-laden belt at a security checkpoint in Al Hawz neighborhood, Ramadi city, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. The assailant was killed by authorities. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2014: A suicide bomber attempted to detonate explosives at a military checkpoint in Abu Saida area, Diyala governorate, Iraq. The assailant was killed by soldiers. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2014: A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle near a Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) aid convoy in Salamiyah city, Hama governorate, Syria. In addition to the suicide bomber, at least four people were killed and nine others were wounded in the blast. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2014: A suicide bomber detonated explosives at a military checkpoint in Mishada area, Diyala governorate, Iraq. In addition to the suicide bomber, at least five soldiers were killed and eight others were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2014: An explosive device detonated among civilians in Kamaliya neighborhood, Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. Two civilians were killed and four others were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2014: An explosive device detonated inside a vehicle in Maqsha village, Capital governorate Bahrain. At least two assailants were killed and another was wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2014: An explosive device detonated near a gas pipeline in Bakhtiar Abad Domki area, Balochistan province, Pakistan. There were no reported casualties; however, the pipeline was damaged in the blast. The Baloch Republican Army (BRA) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2014: An explosive device detonated near a military patrol in Abu Ghraib city, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. One soldier was killed and one other was wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2014: An explosive device detonated near a military patrol in Udheim village, Diyala governorate, Iraq. One soldier was killed and one other was wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2014: An explosive device, targeting a military patrol, detonated in Tarmiyah area, Saladin governorate, Iraq. At least two soldiers were killed and five people were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2014: An explosive device, targeting Civil Defense personnel, detonated in Qurayah village, Northern governorate, Bahrain. Three Civil Defense personnel were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2014: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated in Jeb al-Jandali neighborhood, Homs city, Homs governorate, Syria. Four people were killed and several others were wounded in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2014: Assailants abducted Hussein Al Hazzimawi, a police captain, and his two children from their residence in Ankur area, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. The outcome of the abduction is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2014: Assailants abducted Lieutenant Colonel Oleg Prokhorov, the Slovyansk Chief of Police, in Slovyansk city, Donetsk oblast, Ukraine. The outcome of the abduction is unknown. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Donetsk People's Republic.
04/19/2014: Assailants abducted two employees of an oil company in Saravena city, Arauca department, Colombia. Both employees were released a few hours later. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the abduction to the National Liberation Army of Colombia (ELN).
04/19/2014: Assailants attacked a civilian in Tala Wa Barfak district, Baghlan province, Afghanistan. The civilian was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Taliban.
04/19/2014: Assailants attacked joint Somali National Army (SNA) and African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) bases in Bulobarde city, Hiiraan region, Somalia. One soldier was killed in the attack. Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2014: Assailants attempted to abduct a young girl in Nowpora village, Sopore city, Jammu and Kashmir state, India. At least one assailant was wounded after local residents intervened in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the abduction attempt to Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).
04/19/2014: Assailants launched a mortar shell near Al-Ahli Hospital in Al-Zahra neighborhood, Homs city, Homs governorate, Syria. A civilian was killed and ten others were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2014: Assailants launched three rockets and opened fire on a Frontier Corps (FC) checkpoint in Rakhshan Nadi neighborhood, Panjgur city, Balochistan province, Pakistan. Three assailants were killed in the attack. The Baloch Liberation Front (BLF) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2014: Assailants opened fire on a military checkpoint in Jabhah district, Lahij governorate, Yemen. One soldier was wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2014: Assailants opened fire on a military checkpoint in Ramadi city, Al Anbar governorate, Iraq. Three soldiers were killed and five others were wounded in the attack. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2014: Assailants opened fire on a military convoy in Iboudraren town, Tizi Ouzou province, Algeria. At least 11 soldiers were killed and 5 others were wounded in the attack. Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2014: Assailants opened fire on a police vehicle near Baiji city in Saladin governorate, Iraq. Two police officers were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2014: Assailants opened fire on an unknown number of security checkpoints in Qaisar district, Faryab province, Afghanistan. Three assailants were killed and seven others, including two security officials, three civilians, and two assailants, were wounded in the attack. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2014: Assailants opened fire on the vehicle of Hamid Mir in Karachi city, Sindh province, Pakistan. Mir, an anchorperson for Geo News, was wounded in the attack. Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed joint responsibility with Lashkar-e-Jhangvi for the incident through a message on Twitter; however, the TTP later denied the claim and stated that the Twitter account was fake.
04/19/2014: Assailants opened fire on the vehicle of Qudratullah Kakar near the Barma Hotel in Quetta city, Balochistan province, Pakistan. Kakar, an Assistant Sub-Inspector, was killed and his son was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected that Baloch nationalists were involved in the attack.
04/19/2014: Assailants set the Araq al-Shabab Mosque on fire in Abu Baker neighborhood, Umm al-Fahm city, Haifa district, Israel. There were no reported casualties; however, the mosque was damaged in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Israeli extremists.
04/19/2014: Assailants threw explosive devices at the residence of Akib in Peringome town, Kerala state, India. Akib, a Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) polling booth worker, was unharmed in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2014: Three explosive devices detonated successively in Dora neighborhood, Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. Five people were killed and 10 others were wounded in the attack. This was one of two attacks in Dora neighborhood on April 19, 2014. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2014: Two explosive devices detonated among civilians in a commercial area in Dora neighborhood, Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. Four civilians were killed and five others were wounded in the blast. This was one of two attacks in Dora neighborhood on April 19, 2014. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2015: A suicide bomber detonated at the entrance of a police compound and assailants entered and opened fire on officers in Lashkar Gah area, Helmand province, Afghanistan. Four people were killed and 11 officers were injured in the attack. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.
04/19/2015: A suicide bomber in an explosives-laden vehicle detonated targeting a Huthi checkpoint between Ahwar and Shoqrah, Abyan governorate, Yemen. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources suspected the involvement of Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).
04/19/2015: A vehicle transporting security forces struck an explosive device in Baga village, Borno state, Nigeria. At least six soldiers and one civilian fighter were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to Boko Haram.
04/19/2015: An assailant shot and killed a civilian, Aurelie Chatelain, in Villejuif area, Paris, Ile-de-France region, France. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, police arrested the assailant identified as Sid Ahmed Ghlam who was also on his way to attack several churches throughout Paris.
04/19/2015: An explosive device detonated at a market in Hamamiyat area, Saladin governorate, Iraq. At least two people were killed and eight others were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2015: An explosive device detonated in Husseiniyah area, Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. Two people were killed and five others were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2015: An explosive device detonated near an electricity transformer in Al Sharqia governorate, Egypt. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2015: An explosive device detonated near an optical shop at a mall in Surigao City, Surigao del Norte province, Philippines. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2015: An explosive device detonated targeting a military patrol in Yusufiyah area, Iraq. At least one soldier was killed and four others were injured in the blast. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2015: An explosives-laden vehicle detonated near shops in Arasat area, Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. Six people were killed and 13 others were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2015: Assailants abducted Abdullah Sassi, the leader of the pro-Haftar 101 Brigade, from an unknown location in Libya. The outcome of the kidnapping is unknown; some reports indicated that Sassi was killed, while others stated he is still alive. Muslim fundamentalists claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2015: Assailants armed with rocket-propelled grenades (RPG) attacked an outpost in Sheikh Zuweid, North Sinai governorate, Egypt. Four assailants were killed in the ensuing clash. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2015: Assailants attacked a convoy of Wolesi Jirga members along the a highway in Kabul city, Kabul province, Afghanistan. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2015: Assailants attacked a military detachment in Ulandang village, Midsayap town, North Cotabato province, Philippines. No casualties were reported. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, a source attributed the attack to the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Movement (BIFM).
04/19/2015: Assailants attempted to fire a shell targeting military vehicles in North Sinai governorate, Egypt. There were no reported casualties as security forces thwarted the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2015: Assailants fired grenades at a military detachment in Datu Salibo town, Maguindanao province, Philippines. No casualties were reported. The Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Movement (BIFM) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2015: Assailants fired grenades at a Philippine National Police (PNP) Special Action Company post near a hospital in Datu Hoffer town, Maguindanao province, Philippines. No casualties were reported. The Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Movement (BIFM) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2015: Assailants fired mortars that struck a private residence in Saba al-Bor area, Baghdad city, Baghdad governorate, Iraq. Two people were killed and seven others were injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2015: Assailants in Yemen fired mortars and opened fire on border guards in Najran province, Saudi Arabia. One border guard was killed and two others were wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2015: Assailants kidnapped 19 de-mining personnel from Sury area, Paktika province, Afghanistan. The workers were released on April 21, 2015. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the abduction to both the Taliban and the Haqqani Network.
04/19/2015: Assailants kidnapped 24 people, including local council members, in Zab area, Kirkuk, Iraq. The captives were executed later the same day. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
04/19/2015: Assailants launched two grenades at a Philippine National Police (PNP) detachment at Camp Datu Akilan Ampatuan in Shariff Aguak district, Maguindanao province, Philippines. No casualties were reported. The Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Movement (BIFM) claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2015: Assailants opened fire on a police checkpoint near Gamasa city, Dakahlia province, Egypt. Two assailants were killed and one assailant was wounded in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2015: Assailants opened fire on an African Union (AU) military convoy in Leego town, Bay region, Somalia. At least 17 people, including both soldiers and assailants, were killed and an unknown number of others were injured in the ensuing clash. Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2015: Assailants opened fire on Huthis in Radaa area, Al Bayda governorate, Yemen. Five Huthis were killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident; however, sources attributed the attack to tribesmen.
04/19/2015: Assailants raided an oil facility in Ukah town, Delta state, Nigeria. No casualties were reported. Tribesmen claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2015: Explosive devices detonated in Bejpara area, Jessore district, Khulna division, Bangladesh. An Awami League leader and two others were injured in the blasts. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2015: Security forces discovered and defused an explosives-laden vehicle parked in front of a school near the Moroccan embassy in Tripoli city, Tripoli district, Libya. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2015: Security forces discovered and defused four explosive devices in southern Sheikh Zuweid, North Sinai, Egypt. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2015: Two rockets struck Taza Khurmatu area, Kirkuk, Iraq. One civilian was injured in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2016: A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle targeting a National Directorate for Security (NDS) building in Kabul, Afghanistan. Assailants then opened fire on civilians, security members, and government employees following the blast. In addition to the deaths of three assailants, at least 68 people were killed and 347 people were injured in the assault. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack. However, sources also attributed the incident to the Haqqani Network.
04/19/2016: A suicide bomber detonated at an Excise, Taxation, and Narcotics Control Department office in Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. In addition to the bomber, one person was killed and 17 people were injured in the blast. Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, a subgroup of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2016: An assailant opened fire on Mario Rivera in Santo Tomas, Batangas, Philippines. Rivera, the campaign manager for mayoral candidate Manding Maligaya, was killed in the attack. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.
04/19/2016: An explosive device detonated in Bismayah, Baghdad, Iraq. At least one person was killed and six people were injured in the blast. No group claimed responsibility for the incident.