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At 01:40 on 23 September 2023, there was a landslide at Stenungsund junction near Stenungsund, Sweden. This quick clay landslide damaged a section of about 400 x 600 metres, affecting European route E6. The landslide also damaged a fuel station, a Burger King restaurant, several cars, parked trucks and a bus. A helicop... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Stenungsund_landslide | natural_disaster | null |
The August 2023 Chilean winter storm was a winter storm affecting Central Chile. The regions spanning from Valparaíso in the north to Bío Bío in the south were impacted. Three people died as a consequence of the events. The total number of affected people was counted as 33,234 and 42,120 people were left temporarily is... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_2023_Chilean_winter_storm | natural_disaster | null |
On 3 August 2023 at approximately 16:00 local time, a landslide occurred in the mountain resort of Shovi in Georgia's Oni Municipality, at the southern foothills of the Greater Caucasus mountains. It resulted in at least 32 deaths and destroyed much of the resort's infrastructure.
== Reasons ==
The disaster occurred ... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Shovi_landslide | natural_disaster | null |
On 3 December 2023, Mount Marapi, a complex volcano on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, erupted, sending ash as high as 3,000 metres (10,000 ft) into the air, and depositing large amounts of volcanic ash in nearby districts. Twenty-four hikers were found dead near the crater of the volcano.
== Background ==
As the m... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_eruption_of_Mount_Marapi | natural_disaster | null |
In the evening hours of April 30, 2023, a rare and intense tornado struck portions of Virginia Beach, the largest city in the state of Virginia. The tornado inflicted heavy damage to dozens of homes, with wind speeds in the vortex reaching as high as 145 miles per hour (233 km/h). Despite heavy damage, no casualties we... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Virginia_Beach_tornado | natural_disaster | null |
The 2023–2024 South American drought refers to an ongoing drought across several states of Brazil in addition to Peru, Bolivia, and Colombia, which has led to several significant impacts including record low water levels, significant water shortages, sweeping crop failures, and widespread wildfires. The drought has pri... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023%E2%80%932024_South_American_drought | natural_disaster | null |
During the summer of 2022, parts of Europe experienced drought conditions exacerbated by heat waves. This was preceded by a warm and dry spring. On 9 August, a senior European Commission researcher said that it seemed to be Europe's worst year in 500 years. A report from the Global Drought Observatory has confirmed th... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_European_drought | natural_disaster | null |
During the afternoon hours of Thursday, January 12, 2023, a large, strong, and deadly EF3 tornado moved through parts of central Alabama, causing severe damage in and around numerous communities. The tornado, known as the Old Kingston-Lake Martin Tornado by the National Weather Service (NWS), tracked 82 miles (132 km) ... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Old_Kingston%E2%80%93Lake_Martin_tornado | natural_disaster | null |
During the late afternoon hours of June 15, 2023, an intense and fatal tornado devastated northern portions of Perryton, Texas, United States, killing three people, injuring over 100 others, and inflicting $1 million (2023 USD) in damages. The tornado destroyed around 200 homes, with many other structures and businesse... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Perryton_tornado | natural_disaster | null |
The 2022 eruption of Mauna Loa was an episode of eruptive volcanic activity at Mauna Loa, the world's largest active volcano, located on Hawaiʻi Island, Hawaiʻi. Mauna Loa began to erupt shortly before midnight HST on November 27, 2022, when lava flows emerged from fissure vents in Moku‘āweoweo (Mauna Loa's summit cald... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_eruption_of_Mauna_Loa | natural_disaster | null |
The drought or water crisis in Uruguay from 2022 to 2023 was an event of abnormally low rainfall attributed to the La Niña phenomenon, which had major effects in Uruguayan economy and water supply.
The peak of the crisis occurred during the winter of 2023, when the reservoirs that supplied drinking water to the Mont... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022%E2%80%932023_Uruguay_drought | natural_disaster | null |
On 17 August 2022, the Abu Bakr al Sadiq Mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan was bombed. Many were reported killed in the explosion. Residents nearby also heard gunshots after the explosion occurred. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, although it was almost surely perpetrated by ISIS–K, which had stepped up attac... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_2022_Kabul_mosque_bombing | terrorist_attack | null |
On 25 May 2022, at least 5 people were killed when the Hazrat Zakaria Mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan, was bombed. At least 17 others were injured. An improvised explosive device hidden inside the mosque detonated during the Maghrib prayers.
An anonymous Taliban official told reporters that at least fourteen were killed, ... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_2022_Kabul_mosque_bombing | terrorist_attack | null |
On 23 October 2022, al-Shabaab killed at least eight people in a bombing and shooting attack at a hotel in Kismayo, Somalia.
== Background ==
Somali Islamist group al-Shabaab began an insurgency in 2006, in an attempt to overthrow the Somali government and impose an extreme version of Sharia. Al-Shabaab often use bom... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Kismayo_hotel_attack | terrorist_attack | null |
On 5 June 2022, a mass shooting and bomb attack occurred at a Catholic church in the city of Owo in Ondo State, Nigeria. At least 40 people were killed, with the highest estimates being around 80. Some in the federal government of Nigeria suspect the Islamic State – West Africa Province of carrying out the massacre.
... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owo_church_attack | terrorist_attack | null |
On September 30, 2022, a suicide bomber blew himself up at the Kaaj education center in Dashte Barchi, a Hazara neighborhood in Kabul, Afghanistan, killing at least 53 people and injuring another 110. The majority of the victims were young Hazara female students.
== Background ==
After the fall of Kabul ended the War... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_2022_Kabul_school_bombing | terrorist_attack | null |
On 21 April 2022, a powerful bomb rocked the Shia Seh Dokan mosque in Mazar-i-Sharif, Balkh Province, Afghanistan, killing at least 31 people and injuring more than 87 others. The Islamic State – Khorasan Province claimed responsibility via Telegram.
Worshippers were offering the Zuhr prayer inside the mosque when the ... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Mazar-i-Sharif_mosque_bombing | terrorist_attack | null |
A terrorist attack occurred on İstiklal Avenue in the Beyoğlu district of Istanbul, Turkey, on 13 November 2022 (2022-11-13), killing 6 people and injuring 81 others.
No group has claimed responsibility, but Turkish authorities announced that Kurdish separatists were behind the attack, implicating the Kurdistan Workers... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Istanbul_bombing | terrorist_attack | null |
On 15 April 2022, a series of rocket strikes by the Russian Armed Forces killed 9 civilians and wounded 35 more during the battle of Kharkiv, part of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The Russian Army used 9N210/9N235 cluster munition in the attack. Due to the indiscriminate nature of these weapons when used in densely ... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_2022_Kharkiv_cluster_bombing | terrorist_attack | null |
On 29 April 2022, a bombing at a Sunni mosque in western Kabul, Afghanistan during the early afternoon killed at least 10 people.
== Background ==
The bombing was the latest in a series of attacks occurring in April 2022, during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Many of the attacks were claimed by the Islamic State a... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_2022_Kabul_mosque_bombing | terrorist_attack | null |
The 2022 Transnistria attacks were a series of five incidents reported in the Eastern European breakaway state of Transnistria, internationally recognized as part of Moldova, that occurred in 2022 between 25 and 27 April, on 6 May and on 5 June. No casualties were reported, but material damage did occur.
== Backgroun... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Transnistria_attacks | terrorist_attack | null |
On 6 March 2022, a militant threw a grenade at a marketplace in Srinagar, Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir, injuring twenty-four people and killing two.
The attack occurred at a market in Hari Singh High Street near the Amira Kadal bridge at around 4:20 P.M. The street was very busy and a large number of people we... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Srinagar_bombing | terrorist_attack | null |
The 2022 Crimean Bridge explosion occurred on 8 October 2022, at 6:07 a.m. A fire broke out on the Crimean Bridge as a result of an explosion of a bomb that had been loaded onto a truck. The explosion occurred on the road bridge, on the westbound vehicle lanes, from Russia to Kerch in Russian-occupied Crimea. The explo... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Crimean_Bridge_explosion | terrorist_attack | null |
On 29 October 2022, 121 people were killed and over 300 were injured by a double car bombing in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu. President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud accused Sunni jihadist group al-Shabaab of carrying out the attacks, which they admitted. The bombing marks the deadliest attack in Somalia since the 14 October 2... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Somali_Ministry_of_Education_bombings | terrorist_attack | null |
On 2 April 2023, a bombing occurred in the Street Food Bar No.1 café on Universitetskaya Embankment in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Russian military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky, real name Maxim Fomin, died as a result of the explosion and 42 people were injured, 24 of whom were hospitalized, including six in critical conditi... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Vladlen_Tatarsky | terrorist_attack | null |
On 12 October 2022, two people were killed (plus the perpetrator), and a third person was wounded in a shooting outside of the front entrance of Tepláreň, a gay bar in Bratislava, Slovakia, a well-known spot frequented by the local LGBTQ community. The shooting claimed two victims: Juraj Vankulič, a non-binary person, ... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Bratislava_shooting | terrorist_attack | null |
On 25 January 2023, a sexton was killed and four people, including a parish priest, were injured in a machete attack at two churches in Algeciras in the Spanish region of Andalusia. Police arrested Yassine Kanjaa, a 25-year-old Moroccan who had been living undocumented in Spain since 2019 and was under orders to leave.... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Algeciras_church_attacks | terrorist_attack | null |
On 8 June 2023, two adults and four young children were injured at Le Pâquier city park, Annecy, Haute-Savoie, France, in a mass stabbing attack. The suspected assailant was arrested by police minutes after the attack.
== Attack ==
At around 9:45 am CEST, a man dressed in black clothing and a keffiyeh, carrying a kni... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Annecy_stabbing | terrorist_attack | null |
On 23 November 2022, two bomb attacks were carried out at bus stops on the outskirts of Jerusalem. Two civilians were killed and 46 were injured. They were the first bombings carried out on Israeli civilians since the 2016 Jerusalem bus bombing, in which a suicide bomber injured at least 22 people.
== Background ==
T... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Jerusalem_bombings | terrorist_attack | null |
On 30 January 2023, at around 1:30 p.m. Pakistan Standard Time (UTC+5), a suicide bomber set off an explosion within the Police Lines mosque of Peshawar in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, killing 84 people and injuring 217. The mosque, located within a high-security compound containing several government offices, includi... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Peshawar_mosque_bombing | terrorist_attack | null |
On 7 December 2022, at around 8:20 AM Western Indonesia Time (UTC+7), a suicide bombing incident occurred at an Indonesian National Police station in Astana Anyar District, Bandung, West Java. The attacker and one police officer were killed by the explosion, while 11 people were injured including 3 police officers.
Pol... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astana_Anyar_bombing | terrorist_attack | null |
On 15 April 2023, a pipe bomb exploded near Fumio Kishida, the then-prime minister of Japan, who came to the fishing port of Saikazaki, Wakayama, Wakayama Prefecture, in the Kansai region to give a campaign stump speech for the 2023 Wakayama 1st district by-election. Just before Kishida was to give a stump speech, a ma... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_assassination_of_Fumio_Kishida | terrorist_attack | null |
On May 23, 2023, an individual attacked the LGBT center in Tours, France, with an explosive device containing acid and aluminum. The attack resulted in no casualties as the people inside the center managed to move away from the device. An investigation for attempted murder has been opened.
On June 1, 2023, the prime su... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Tours_bombing | terrorist_attack | null |
On 29 October 2023, a series of improvised explosive device (IED) blasts took place during a convention of Jehovah's Witnesses in Kalamassery, a suburb of Kochi, India. Five women, two men, and a child were killed and more than fifty other people were injured when the group was holding a Sunday morning session of their... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Kerala_bombing | terrorist_attack | null |
On 12 December 2022, insurgents attacked the Kabul Longan Hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan. At least 3 civilians were killed and 18 others, including foreigners, were reported to be injured. Islamic State – Khorasan Province claimed responsibility for the attack.
== Background ==
The Islamic State–Taliban conflict began i... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Kabul_hotel_attack | terrorist_attack | null |
On 6 December 2022 a roadside bomb blast killed at least 7 and injured 6 people in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan.
Seven petroleum company employees aboard a bus were killed police said. “The bomb was placed in a cart by the roadside. It was detonated as the bus arrived,” according to the police.
== See also ==
List ... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/December_2022_Mazar-i-Sharif_bombing | terrorist_attack | null |
On 25 April 2022, four people were stabbed to death in Bermondsey, London, United Kingdom.
In the early hours of 25 April, neighbours heard screams from a three-bedroomed terraced house in Delaford Road, Bermondsey, in south London, England. Police attended at 1:40 am, discovering the bodies of three women and a man in... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Bermondsey_stabbing | terrorist_attack | null |
On 3 October 2022 in Beledweyne, Somalia, al-Shabaab used three car bombs to kill at least 20 people.
At Lama-Galaay military base in Beledweyne, a city in Hiran, central Somalia, two car bombs were detonated at around 10:30 am. During the afternoon, another car bomb exploded during its journey to the base. The attacks... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_2022_Beledweyne_bombings | terrorist_attack | null |
On 4 March 2022, the Islamic State – Khorasan Province attacked a Shia mosque at Qissa Khwani Bazaar in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The suicide attack, carried out by an Afghan man who was a long-term resident of Pakistan, killed at least 63 people and injured another 196. The Islamist terror group Islamic... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Peshawar_mosque_attack | terrorist_attack | null |
On May 14, 2022, a mass shooting occurred in Buffalo, New York, United States, at a Tops Friendly Markets supermarket in the East Side neighborhood. Ten people, all of whom were black, were murdered, and three people were injured. The shooter, 18-year-old Payton Gendron, livestreamed part of the attack on Twitch until ... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Buffalo_shooting | terrorist_attack | null |
On 10 April 2022, a gang of bandits killed more than 150 people in a series of attacks in Plateau State, Nigeria. The attacks are linked to the ongoing Nigerian bandit conflict. About 70 people were also kidnapped in the attacks.
== Background ==
Nigeria is badly affected by several low-intensity conflicts. These in... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Plateau_State_massacres | terrorist_attack | null |
On 23 March 2022 in Somalia, a series of coordinated attacks by al-Shabaab jihadists in the two cities of Mogadishu and Beledweyne killed over 60 people.
== Background ==
Al-Shabaab are a Somali Islamist group whose insurgency began during the late 2000s. Their attacks have included many in the country's capital Mog... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_2022_Somalia_attacks | terrorist_attack | null |
The 2022 Oslo shooting, commonly known in Norway as the Pride Shooting in Oslo (Pride-skyting i Oslo), occurred on 25 June 2022, when two people were killed and twenty-one people were wounded in a mass shooting in Oslo, Norway. Police declared the incident as an "act of Islamist terrorism". The target may have been the... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Oslo_shooting | terrorist_attack | null |
On 27 March 2022, two Islamic State gunmen opened fire at a bus stop in Hadera, Israel, killing two people and injuring twelve.
The attack came as Israel held the Negev Summit, a conference between Israeli authorities and representatives of Egypt, Bahrain, Morocco, and the United Arab Emirates (the latter three had sig... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Hadera_shooting | terrorist_attack | null |
On 8 February 2022, two African Parks patrol vehicles in Benin's W National Park were badly damaged by land mines, killing eight people. The incident, believed to have been perpetrated by Islamists, was one of the largest terrorist attacks in the country's history.
== Background ==
Benin is more stable than most othe... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W_National_Park_massacre | terrorist_attack | null |
On 8 March 2022, bandit gangs carried out two mass shootings in Kebbi State, northwest Nigeria, killing over 80 people.
== Background ==
The Nigerian bandit conflict began in 2011. It takes place in northwest Nigeria, between armed gangs and the government, who, after a decade, designated the gangs terrorist groups.... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_2022_Kebbi_massacres | terrorist_attack | null |
At about 7pm on 2 March 2022, a bomb exploded near a police mobile on Fatima Jinnah Road in Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan. It killed three people and injured 25 others, leaving six of them in critical condition.
== References == | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_2022_Quetta_bombing | terrorist_attack | null |
On 29 March 2022, a series of shootings took place in Bnei Brak, Israel. Diaa Hamarsheh, a 26-year-old Palestinian from Ya'bad, killed five people.
== Events ==
The attacker infiltrated into Israel by using an agricultural crossing of the Israeli barrier meant for Palestinian farmers to access fields on the other sid... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Bnei_Brak_shootings | terrorist_attack | null |
On 7 April 2022, a mass shooting took place on Dizengoff Street in Tel Aviv, Israel. Three Israeli civilians were killed and six were injured.
Raad (or Ra'ad) Fathi Khazem, a 28-year-old Palestinian from Jenin, killed three civilians and injured six.
== Background ==
Three terror attacks occurred in late March, two ... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Tel_Aviv_shooting | terrorist_attack | null |
On 25 January 2022, militants stormed an army security post in a remote area of Dasht, Kech District, Balochistan, Pakistan, killing at least ten security personnel and injuring three others. The clash lasted for a few hours in which militants also suffered several casualties. Additionally, the militants also seized we... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Kech_District_attack | terrorist_attack | null |
On March 22, 2022, four people were killed and two more were injured during a stabbing and vehicle-ramming attack by an Islamic State supporter in Beersheba, Israel.
== Background ==
In early 2022, a string of clashes between Israeli security forces and Palestinians occurred, but mostly confined to the West Bank and ... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Beersheba_attack | terrorist_attack | null |
On 22 April 2022, at least six people were killed and seven injured in a suicide bombing at a restaurant in Mogadishu, Somalia. The Pescatore Seafood Restaurant had recently opened in the seaside area of Lido Beach. The explosion was detonated by an Al-Shabaab suicide bomber who had been denied access inside the restau... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_2022_Mogadishu_bombing | terrorist_attack | null |
On 19 February, 2022, an al-Shabaab suicide bomber killed 14 people at a restaurant in Beledweyne, Somalia.
== Background ==
The Islamist militant group al-Shabaab – the Somali branch of al-Qaeda – began their insurgency during the 2006–2009 phase of the Somali Civil War. They took part in battles in Beledweyne, Hir... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_2022_Beledweyne_bombing | terrorist_attack | null |
On May 15, 2022, three Pakistan Army soldiers and three children were killed after a suicide attack occurred near Miranshah, North Waziristan, according to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR). The Pakistani military's media affairs wing identified the murdered soldiers as 33-year-old Lance Havaldar Zubair Qadir ... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_2022_Miranshah_suicide_bombing | terrorist_attack | null |
The 2022 Huehuetenango attack was an alleged assassination attempt against the president of Guatemala, Alejandro Giammattei, during a visit to a village of the Huehuetenango Department, less than half a kilometer from the border with Mexico on July 30, 2022.
On Saturday, July 30, 2022, a group of armed civilians opened... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Huehuetenango_attack | terrorist_attack | null |
On 5 August 2022, Islamic State – Khorasan Province bombed a Muharram mourning procession in a Shi'ite neighborhood in western Kabul, Afghanistan. The attack killed at least 8 people and injured 18 others. A senior Taliban official said that explosives were placed in a vegetable cart and that the blast wounded and kil... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_August_2022_Kabul_bombing | terrorist_attack | null |
During the evening of 19 August 2022, al-Shabaab gunmen and militants attacked the Hayat Hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia. Initially, two car bombs exploded. Gunmen then stormed the hotel, shooting people and taking hostages. At least 22 people were killed, and 30 others were wounded. The number of gunmen involved in the at... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayat_Hotel_attack | terrorist_attack | null |
On 23 November 2022, a 17-year old Israeli Druze student named Tiran Fero, from Daliyat al-Karmel, was severely injured in a car crash near the Palestinian city of Jenin, where he was going to a car mechanic. He was brought to a local hospital for treatment. According to his family members, he died after being removed ... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Tiran_Fero | terrorist_attack | null |
On 15 January 2023, a bomb exploded during a Sunday service in a Pentecostal church in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The attack occurred in Kasindi in the northeastern province of North Kivu, close to the Ugandan border. The attack killed at least 17 people and left 39 more were injured. The Islamic State... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasindi_church_bombing | terrorist_attack | null |
On 30 October 2022, a petrol bomb attack was perpetrated against a Border Force centre for processing migrants in Dover, England. Two people suffered minor injuries.
After the attack, the suspect, a 66-year-old man from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, drove to a nearby petrol station where he killed himself.
== Attack... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover_firebomb_attack | terrorist_attack | null |
The Shah Cheragh attack (Persian: حمله به حرم شاهچراغ) was a terrorist attack that occurred on 26 October 2022 at Shah Cheragh mosque, a Shia pilgrimage site in Shiraz in southern Iran, in which at least 13 people were killed.
The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack. Iranian authorities condemned the a... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Shah_Cheragh_attack | terrorist_attack | null |
On 23 December 2022, at least one policeman was killed and several others injured in a suicide attack in Islamabad's sector I-10. The reason for the attack is still unclear.
After the explosion, the law enforcement agency cordoned off the area.
== References == | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Islamabad_suicide_attack | terrorist_attack | null |
On 18 December 2022, at least nine police officers were killed when a convoy hit a roadside bomb near Kirkuk, Iraq. The bombing was followed by a gun fight. One Islamic State militant was reported killed. The incident happened near the village of Chalal al-Matar. The Islamic State (IS) have reportedly claimed that they... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Kirkuk_bombing | terrorist_attack | null |
On 27 January 2023, a Palestinian gunman killed at least seven civilians in the Israeli settlement of Neve Yaakov, in East Jerusalem, the occupied West Bank. The suspect is also reported as having shot at worshippers exiting a synagogue, and, according to the police, was shot and killed after he opened fire on the atte... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Neve_Yaakov_shooting | terrorist_attack | null |
The Wieambilla shootings occurred on 12 December 2022 with the killings of two Queensland Police constables, Matthew Arnold and Rachel McCrow, and civilian Alan Dare, at a rural property in Wieambilla, Queensland, Australia. The property's three residents, brothers Gareth and Nathaniel Train, and Gareth's wife, Stacey ... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wieambilla_shootings | terrorist_attack | null |
On 5 May 2022, a terror attack took place in El'ad, Central District, Israel, during Israel's Independence Day (Yom Ha'atzmaut). Four civilians were murdered and several others were injured.
Israeli Police identified the perpetrators as two Palestinians from Rummanah, West Bank. They were captured on 8 May.
== Backg... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_El%27ad_stabbing | terrorist_attack | null |
On 6 March 2023, a terrorist attack occurred in Bolan, Balochistan province, Pakistan. The attack targeted a van carrying police officers from Sibi back to Quetta, killing at least nine and injuring 13. The attacker, believed to be a suicide bomber riding a motorcycle, rammed into the police van on the Kambri bridge in... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolan_suicide_bombing | terrorist_attack | null |
The 2023 Karachi Police Station Attack occurred on 17 February 2023, when Islamist insurgents stormed the heavily guarded Karachi Police Office (KPO) located at the heart of the provincial metropolis of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. The attackers used guns and grenades to kill four people (two policemen, a ranger, and a ci... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Karachi_police_station_attack | terrorist_attack | null |
On 17 February 2023, a group of Islamic State insurgents attacked a large group of truffle farmers and their Syrian Army escort in the desert, southwest of the town of Al-Sukhnah in Homs Governorate, Syria. At least 61 civilians and seven Syrian soldiers were killed in the attack. It was one of the deadliest attacks si... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Al-Sukhnah_attack | terrorist_attack | null |
On 1 January 2023, a bombing at a checkpoint outside the military airport in Kabul, located about 200 metres from the civilian Kabul International Airport in Afghanistan killed and injured several people. The following day, the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the bombing on Telegram, claiming to have killed 20... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Kabul_airport_bombing | terrorist_attack | null |
On August 12, 2022, Indian-born British novelist Salman Rushdie was stabbed multiple times by 24-year-old Hadi Matar as he was about to give a public lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York, United States. Matar was immediately arrested and charged the following day with assault and attempted murd... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stabbing_of_Salman_Rushdie | terrorist_attack | null |
The Imam Reza shrine stabbings refers to a stabbing attack that took place on 5 April 2022 at the Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad, Iran, killing two Shia clerics and wounding a third. The perpetrator, identified as foreign national Abdullatif Moradi, was immediately arrested along with six others accused of assisting him. ... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imam_Reza_shrine_stabbings | terrorist_attack | null |
On 10 February 2023, three Israelis were killed and four more were injured when a Palestinian man rammed his car into a bus stop in Ramot, an Israeli settlement in East Jerusalem. The assailant was shot dead at the scene by a police officer. The fatalities included two children aged 6 and 8 and a 20-year-old man. Polic... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Ramot_Junction_attack | terrorist_attack | null |
On 11 January 2023, the driver of a black BMW X3 deliberately rammed his vehicle into a crowd of pedestrians and motorists on Tianhe Road in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. The incident resulted in the deaths of six people and injuries to 29 others. The perpetrator, identified as 22-year-old Wen Qingyun, was arrested, sen... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Guangzhou_car_attack | terrorist_attack | null |
On 7 April 2023, a car-ramming incident suspected to be an intentional attack occurred off Kaufmann Street in Tel Aviv, Israel, killed a person and injured six others.
== Incident ==
The suspected car-ramming attack took place near Kaufmann Street. The driver's car veered onto an occupied sidewalk and continued for ... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Tel_Aviv_car-ramming | terrorist_attack | null |
On November 27, 2022, militants from Al-Shabaab stormed the Villa Rossa Hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia, holing themselves up in the facility until Somali forces recaptured it.
== Background ==
In 2006, about 15 years after the Somali Civil War began, jihadist group al-Shabaab began an insurgency in an attempt to overthr... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_the_Villa_Rossa_Hotel | terrorist_attack | null |
In the early morning of 13 June 2023, three people were fatally stabbed and three others were injured when a van was driven into them in three connected attacks in Nottingham in the East Midlands of the United Kingdom. At around 04:00 BST, Valdo Calocane fatally stabbed two university students in the street and subsequ... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Nottingham_attacks | terrorist_attack | null |
On 1 October 2023, a suicide bombing occurred in front of the General Directorate of Security building in the Turkish capital Ankara, injuring two police officers. The bomber's companion, who was also planning to blow himself up, was shot and killed by police before he could detonate his explosive. Prior to the attack,... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Ankara_bombing | terrorist_attack | null |
On the evening of 4 May 2023, a shooting spree occurred in the villages of Dubona and Malo Orašje, between Mladenovac and Smederevo, Serbia. Armed with an automatic assault rifle, the shooter opened fire from a car, resulting in the deaths of nine individuals, including an off-duty police officer, and leaving thirteen ... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mladenovac_and_Smederevo_shootings | terrorist_attack | null |
On 8 June 2023, a bombing took place during a mourning service at a mosque in Fayzabad, Badakhshan Province, northern Afghanistan. At least 19 people were killed in the blast, while 38 more were injured. The deputy governor of the province, Nisar Ahmad Ahmadi, who was killed that week in a car bombing, was being rememb... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Fayzabad_mosque_bombing | terrorist_attack | null |
On 30 July 2023, the Islamic State – Khorasan Province carried out a suicide bombing at a Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) rally in Khar, Bajaur District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, killing at least 63 people and injuring nearly 200 others.
== Background ==
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (F) (JUI-F) is a conservative political and ... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Khar_bombing | terrorist_attack | null |
On 4 July 2023, a Palestinian resident of the West Bank carried out a vehicle-ramming and stabbing attack in Tel Aviv, Israel. Hamas later claimed that the individual was a member and the attack in response to the July 2023 Jenin incursion.
== Background ==
During 2023, Israel carried out incursions into Jenin, West ... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_2023_Tel_Aviv_attack | terrorist_attack | null |
On 16 June 2023 rebels of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a jihadist group linked to the Islamic State, attacked a secondary school in Mpondwe, a town in western Uganda's Kasese District on the border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 42 people were killed, including 38 students; 8 were injured.
== Backg... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpondwe_school_massacre | terrorist_attack | null |
On 10 June 2023, al-Shabaab militants attacked a hotel in Lido Beach, Mogadishu, Somalia, resulting in the killing of six civilians, three soldiers and seven attackers.
== Background ==
Jihadist group al-Shabaab began an insurgency in 2006, trying to overthrow the internationally backed Somali government and impose ... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Mogadishu_hotel_attack | terrorist_attack | null |
On 29 September 2023, a suicide bombing occurred in the Mastung District of Balochistan, Pakistan during the Eid Milad-ul-Nabi procession, which commemorates the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad. The explosion took place near the Madina Mosque, causing at least 60 deaths and between 50 and 70 injuries. Among the deceas... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Mastung_bombing | terrorist_attack | null |
On 29 September 2023, a bomb exploded inside a mosque during Friday prayers in Doaba, Hangu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The blast killed five people and injured six others. The attack occurred hours after a similar attack on a religious procession in Mastung in neighboring Balochistan Province that killed at least 5... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangu_mosque_bombing | terrorist_attack | null |
On 15 December 2023, Serhiy Batryn, 54, a Ukrainian councilman, detonated three grenades at a meeting in the village of Keretsky, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine. The resulting explosions killed one person and injured 26 others, six of them gravely. A second person died one month later as a result of the injuries.
== Aft... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keretsky_grenade_incident | terrorist_attack | null |
On 7 October 2023, the Hamas Nuseirat Battalion attacked Nir Yitzhak, a kibbutz close to the border fence with the Gaza Strip, as part of a surprise attack on Israel.
Two civilian members of the kibbutz's security team including its leader, and one IDF soldier, were known to have been killed on the day of the attack. F... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nir_Yitzhak_attack | terrorist_attack | null |
On 30 November 2023, two Palestinian gunmen killed three and wounded 16 Israeli civilians at a bus stop on the Givat Shaul Interchange in Jerusalem during the ceasefire of the Gaza war. A fourth individual, Yuval Kestelman (an armed bystander who shot at the gunmen), was shot and killed by responding IDF soldiers who m... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Givat_Shaul_shooting | terrorist_attack | null |
On December 3, 2023, an Islamist bombing occurred during a Catholic Mass at the gymnasium of Mindanao State University in Marawi, Philippines, killing four people.
== Background ==
Marawi is a Muslim-majority city in Lanao del Sur in Bangsamoro, an autonomous region in Mindanao in the southern Philippines, a country... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindanao_State_University_bombing | terrorist_attack | null |
On 14 December 2022, Hezbollah militants attacked a UN convoy heading towards Beirut Airport, resulted in the death of Private Seán Rooney and severely injuring Trooper Shane Kearney, while two other soldiers sustained minor injuries. On 29 July 2025, Lebanon's military tribunal found six Hezbollah members guilty. The ... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Se%C3%A1n_Rooney | terrorist_attack | null |
On 2 December 2023, a French man carried out a machete and hammer attack against 3 people near the Pont de Bir-Hakeim in Paris, France, killing 1 of them. The suspect was allegedly motivated by Islamic extremism.
== Attack ==
On Quai de Grenelle in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, just before 21:00 CET (20:00 GMT) o... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Paris_attack | terrorist_attack | null |
On January 14, 2023, al-Shabaab attacked two African Union bases in the cities of Buloburde and Jalalaqsi, both in Hirshabelle State, Somalia. Thirty-five people were killed, and dozens more were injured.
== Background ==
The Somali government, in late 2022, launched a campaign against al-Shabaab in Hirshabelle State... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buloburde_and_Jalalaqsi_bombings | terrorist_attack | null |
On 7 October 2023, a surprise assault was launched on Israel by Hamas militants coming from the Gaza Strip. One of their targets was Nirim, a kibbutz located in the southern part of Israel, about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) from the border with Gaza. Five kibbutz civilians were killed, many were injured and five civilians we... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirim_attack | terrorist_attack | null |
On April 12, 2023, unknown bandits attacked the village of Sabon Layi, Birnin Gwari LGA, Kaduna State, Nigeria, killing nine civilians. The perpetrators were found by Nigerian forces later that day and killed.
== Background ==
Birnin Gwari LGA of Kaduna State has been a hotspot of banditry, most often from Ansaru, si... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabon_Layi_attack | terrorist_attack | null |
On 7 October 2023, the Hamas Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades (Al-Qassam Brigades) attacked Holit, a kibbutz close to the border fence with the Gaza Strip, as part of a surprise attack on Israel.
Twelve residents including one member of the security team were killed. Three foreign kibbutz employees, two from Nepal and one... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holit_attack | terrorist_attack | null |
During the October 7 attacks on Israel, Hamas militants carried out a massacre at Be'eri, a kibbutz near the Gaza Strip. Hundreds of Gazan militants and civilian looters attacked the kibbutz, killing and abducting civilians while facing resistance from armed residents. Israeli security forces regained control by the ev... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be%27eri_massacre | terrorist_attack | null |
On 7 October 2023, the al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian nationalist Islamist political organization Hamas, initiated a sudden attack on Israel from the Gaza Strip. As part of the attack, 378 people (344 civilians and 34 security personnel) were killed and many more wounded at the Supernova Sukko... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_music_festival_massacre | terrorist_attack | null |
The Netiv HaAsara massacre occurred during the October 7 attacks. Three Hamas fighters on paragliders attacked Netiv HaAsara, an Israeli moshav close to the border fence. The militants killed at least 17 people. Before the massacre, the moshav was home to approximately 900 residents. The lengthy response time of the Is... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netiv_HaAsara_massacre | terrorist_attack | null |
On 7 October 2023, around 250 Hamas and other Palestinian militants attacked Kfar Aza, an Israeli kibbutz (cooperative community) about 3 kilometers (1.9 mi) from the border with the Gaza Strip, massacring residents and abducting hostages. It took two days for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to regain full control of t... | pre_cutoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kfar_Aza_massacre | terrorist_attack | null |
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