Terrorism after 9/11 Since the 9/11 attacks, no foreign terrorist organization has successfully mounted a deadly attack against the United States, but jihadists and other extremists have launched multiple deadly attacks around the globe 1. Sep 11, 2001: U.S Al Qaeda terrorists hijack four airliners, crashing two into World Trade Centre and third plane into Pentagon. Fourth plane crashes in Pennsylvania. Attacks kill 2,977 people 2. Oct 12, 2002: Indonesia Triple bombings by Jemaah Islamiyah kill 202 people and injure further 209 on island of Bali 3. Oct 22-26, 2002: Russia Chechen separatists seize 850 hostages in Moscow’s Dubrovka Theatre. At least 170 people are killed when special forces storm theatre 4. Mar 11, 2004: Spain Al Qaeda-inspired bombings against Madrid commuter trains kill 192 people and injure around 2,000 5. Sep 1-3, 2004: Russia Beslan school siege ends with at least 385 dead, mostly children 6. Jul 7, 2005: UK Four Islamist suicide bomb attacks in central London kill 52 civilians, 700 injured 7. Jul 11, 2005: India Seven coordinated bomb blasts on Mumbai railway kill 209 people, 700 injured 8. Nov 26-29, 2008: India Shooting and bomb attacks in Mumbai, kill 164 people, wound more than 300 9. Jul 11, 2011: Norway Two sequential attacks – car bomb in Oslo and shooting on Utøya island – kill 77 people and injure 319 10. Sep 21, 2013: Kenya Al Qaeda-linked Al Shabaab gunmen attack Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, killing 67 people and wounding more than 175 11. Dec 16, 2014: Pakistan Taliban gunmen kill 132 children and nine adults at army-run school in Peshawar 12. Jan 7, 2015: France Two gunmen attack offices of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris, killing 12 people. Shooters then kill five others in Île-de-France region 13. Nov 13, 2015: France Gunmen and suicide bombers kill 130 people and injure 368 in Paris 14. Mar 22, 2016: Belgium Coordinated attacks in Brussels by Islamic State kill 32 people and injure over 300 others 15. Jul 14, 2016: France Truck ploughs into crowd in Nice. Attack kills 86 people, injures 434 16. May 22, 2017: UK Suicide bombing at Manchester Arena kills 22 people, injures 119 17. Aug 17, 2017: Spain Van and knife attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils claim lives of 15 people, injure 130 18. Mar 15, 2019: New Zealand White supremacist gunman kills 51 people, injures 19 49 at two mosques in Christchurch 19. Dec 6, 2019: U.S. Jihadist attack at Naval Air Station Pensacola. Three people shot dead – Al Qaeda in Arabian Peninsula claims responsibility ------------------------------------------------------ DEADLY ATTACKS IN U.S. SINCE 9/11 107 Fatalities by homegrown Jihadists 114 Right-wing extremists 30 Other* *Ideological, separatist, nationalist, supremacist, anti-Semitic, far left-wing ------------------------------------------------------ VICTIMS OF GLOBAL TERRORISM (2000-2020) 2000 01 02 03 042005 06 07 08 092010 11 12 13 142015 16 17 18 192020 3,329 7,730 3,317 12,824 7,500 May 2, 2011, Pakistan: U.S. Navy SEALs kill Osama bin Laden 17,958 33,555 25,673 18,814 13,826 17,122 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 ------------------------------------------- Sources: Global Terrorism Database, Institute for Economics and Peace, Janes Pictures: Associated Press, Getty Images © GRAPHIC NEWS