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With at least 82 Islamist attacks and 332 deaths, France remains the country most affected by Islamist terrorism within the European Union. The majority of Islamist attacks (89.5%) were in Muslim countries and the victims were mainly Muslims, in the same proportions. [ 1] The following is an incomplete list of Islamist terrorist attacks.
Police have interviewed two potential suspects, but she officially remains missing. [ 20][ 21] 15 August 1990. Eugene John Hebert. 66. Sri Lanka. American-born Jesuit missionary Hebert went missing on 15 August 1990, on his way to the eastern city of Batticaloa from a nearby town of Valaichchenai.
Murder of Tina Isa. Palestina Zein "Tina" Isa ( Arabic: فلسطين زين عيسى, December 3, 1972 – November 6, 1989) was an American teenage girl murdered in an honor killing in St. Louis, Missouri, by her parents, Zein and Maria Isa. [ 1] Her death was recorded on audiotape during Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) surveillance on ...
Francisco de Mesa, Spanish priest based in Iloilo. Killed in a revolt led by Tapar . 11 October 1719. Fernando Manuel de Bustamante, Spanish Governor-General of the Philippines. Dragged and killed along with his son by a mob instigated by friars. 1744. Giuseppe Lamberti, Italian-born Jesuit curate of Jagna, Bohol.
U.S. incarceration of Pakistani Muslim woman Aafia Siddiqui; [8] the U.S. and its government having "no motivation to deal with the Muslims except with the language of force." [9] According to Professor Ibrahim al-Marashi, IS is using beheadings of locals to intimidate people, including their own soldiers, into obeying the dictates of a weak state.
[a] A 2007 study of Palestinian suicide bombings during the Second Intifada (September 2000 through August 2005) found that 39.9% of the suicide attacks were carried out by Hamas, 26.4% by Fatah, 25.7% by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), 5.4% by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and 2.7% by other organizations. The ...
Attacks by Islamic State of Iraq: 2006 – 2012. The following is a list of alleged and confirmed attacks carried out by the Islamic State of Iraq organization between 2006 and 2012: The 18 April 2007 Baghdad bombings were a series of attacks that occurred when five car bombs exploded across Baghdad, the capital city of Iraq, on 18 April 2007 ...
Luxor massacre. The Luxor massacre was a terrorist attack that occurred on 17 November 1997 in Egypt. It was perpetrated by al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya and resulted in the deaths of 62 people, most of whom were tourists. It took place at Dayr al-Bahri, an archaeological site located across the Nile from the city of Luxor .