List of terrorist incidents in 2016
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This is a list of terrorist incidents which took place in 2016, including attacks by violent non-state actors for political motives. Note that terrorism related to drug wars and cartel violence is not included in these lists. Ongoing military conflicts are listed separately.
List guidelines
- To be included, entries must be notable (have a stand-alone article) and described by a consensus of reliable sources as "terrorism".
- List entries must comply with the guidelines outlined in the manual of style under MOS:TERRORIST.
- Casualties figures in this list are the total casualties of the incident including immediate casualties and later casualties (such as people who succumbed to their wounds long after the attacks occurred).
- Casualties listed are the victims. Perpetrator casualties are listed separately (e.g. x (+y) indicate that x victims and y perpetrators were killed/injured).
- Casualty totals may be underestimated or unavailable due to a lack of information. A figure with a plus (+) sign indicates that at least that many people have died (e.g. 10+ indicates that at least 10 people have died) – the actual toll could be considerably higher. A figure with a plus (+) sign may also indicate that over that number of people have died.
- If casualty figures are 20 or more, they will be shown in bold. In addition, figures for casualties more than 50 will also be underlined.
- In addition to the guidelines above, the table also includes the following categories:
- 0 people were killed/injured by the incident.
- 1–19 people were killed/injured by the incident.
- 20–49 people were killed/injured by the incident.
- 50–99 people were killed/injured by the incident.
- 100+ people were killed/injured by the incident.
List
Total Incidents:
Date | Type | Dead | Injured | Location | Article | Details | Perpetrator | Part of |
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Jan 1 | Mass shooting | 3 | 7 | Tel Aviv, Israel | January 2016 Tel Aviv shooting | A gunman fired into a crowded pub and several other businesses in Dizengoff Street. The attacker then took a cab and then shot the driver dead.[1][2] before he was found by counter-terrorism forces in his hometown of Ar'ara on 8 January and killed during a shootout. | Nasha'at Melhem | ISIL-inspired |
Jan 2 | Mass shooting | 8 (+6) | 20 | Pathankot, India | 2016 Pathankot attack | Militants disguised as soldiers attacked an Indian air base killing seven security force members, including Subedar Fateh Singh, who won gold and silver medals in the first Commonwealth Shooting Championships held in 1995, before being killed after a 15-hour gunfight. A civilian was also killed.[3] | Jaish-e-Mohammed | Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir |
Jan 7 | Car bombing | 60 | 200 | Zliten, Libya | Zliten truck bombing | A suicide truck bomb detonated at the al-Jahfal police training camp while around 400 young policemen were being trained.[4] | ISIL (suspected) | Libyan Civil War |
Jan 7 | Melee attack | 0 (+1) | 0 | Paris, France | January 2016 Paris police station attack | An asylum seeker shouted "Allahu Akbar!" outside a police station in Goutte d'Or, near Montmartre, where police shot and killed him while a by-passer was shot. Reports say he was wielding a knife and fake suicide vest.[5] | Tarek Belgacem (ISIL-inspired) | Islamic terrorism in Europe |
Jan 7 | Shooting | 0 | 1 (+1) | Philadelphia, United States | 2016 shooting of Philadelphia police officer | In West Philadelphia, a gunman shot police officer Jesse Hartnett, who was driving a marked police car. Hartnett survived and was able to shoot the attacker.[6] | Edward Archer | Islamic terrorism |
Jan 8 | Melee attack | 0 (+1) | 2 (+1) | Hurghada, Egypt | 2016 Hurghada attack | Two militants armed with a melee weapon and a signal flare, arrived by sea and stormed Bella Vista Hotel, stabbing three foreign tourists from Sweden and Austria. One of the assailants was shot dead and the other was wounded by security forces.[citation needed] ISIL claimed responsibility.[7] | ISIL | Insurgency in Egypt |
Jan 11 | Car bombing, hostage taking | 106 (+6) | 19+ | Baghdad, Iraq | January 2016 Iraq attacks | Attack on the al-Jawhara mall after a car bomb exploded outside. Hostages were taken by six gunmen.[8] | ISIL | Iraqi Civil War |
Jan 11 | Suicide bombing | 20 | Unknown | Miqdadiyah, Iraq | January 2016 Iraq attacks | Double blast at a cafe. A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle after people gathered at the scene.[9] | ISIL | Iraqi Civil War |
Jan 11 | Bombings | 100+ | Unknown | Sharaban, Iraq | January 2016 Iraq attacks | Two huge bomb blasts, one at a tea shop and the other at a mosque. | ISIL | Iraqi Civil War |
Jan 12 | Suicide bomber | 13 (+1) | 9 | Istanbul, Turkey | January 2016 Istanbul bombing | A suicide bomber blew himself up near Hippodrome of Constantinople near the Sultan Ahmed Mosque.[10] | ISIL | Turkey–ISIL conflict |
Jan 13 | Suicide bombing | 15 (+1) | 25 | Quetta, Pakistan | January 2016 Quetta suicide bombing | A suicide bomber detonated himself near security personal vehicles close to a polio centre.[11][12][13] | Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan or Jaishul Islam | Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkwa |
Jan 14 | Suicide bombings, shootout | 4 (+4) | 24 | Jakarta, Indonesia | 2016 Jakarta attacks | Several explosions followed by gunfire occurred with a Starbucks and a police station appearing to be the main targets. The attack involved seven participants.[14] | ISIL | Islamic terrorism |
Jan 15 | Siege | 63 | Unknown | Eel-Adde, Somalia | Battle of El Adde | Massive attack on a Kenyan-run African Union base in Gedo.[15] | Al-Shabaab | War in Somalia |
Jan 15–16 | Mass shooting, arson, hostage-taking, siege | 30 (+4) | 56+ | Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso | 2016 Ouagadougou attacks | Gunmen with heavy weapons attacked the Cappuccino restaurant and the Hotel Splendid in the city centre, where more than 100 hostages were taken.[16] al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb claimed responsibility for the attack.[17][18] | AQIM | Insurgency in the Maghreb |
Jan 16 | Massacre | 135–300+ | Unknown | Deir ez-Zor, Syria | Deir ez-Zor offensive (January 2016) | Militants attacked the neighbourhoods of Begayliya and Ayash, killing dozens in an execution-style mass murder. International sources reported that the attack was against Syrian Army personnel and killed 85 Syrian soldiers along with 50 civilians, while Syrian sources said over 300 people were killed, most of whom were children and women.[19][20][21] | ISIL | Syrian Civil War |
Jan 20 | Mass murder | 20 (+4) | 60 | Charsadda, Pakistan | Bacha Khan University attack | Several gunmen, some equipped with suicide vests, opened fire on Bacha Khan University. At least four of the attackers were also killed during the attack. More than 200 students were rescued from the building.[citation needed] | Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan | Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa |
Jan 22 | Suicide bombing, mass shooting | 20 (+4) | 17 | Mogadishu, Somalia | January 2016 Mogadishu attack | Al-Shabaab militants struck with a suicide car bomb at the gate of a seafood restaurant overlooking Lido Beach. Another blast struck about an hour later as government soldiers laid siege to the restaurant. After the blasts, militants entered the near crowded hotel, some of them by boat, and attacked civilians within.[22][23] | Al-Shabaab | War in Somalia |
Jan 25 | Suicide bombing | 28 (+4) | 65 | Bodo, Cameroon | 2016 Bodo bombings | Four suicide bombers attacked a busy market close to the Nigerian border.[24] | Boko Haram (suspected) | Boko Haram insurgency |
Jan 27 | Car bomb | 55 | Unknown | Ramadi, Iraq | 2016 Ramadi attack | Up to a dozen car bombs were set off attacking the tenth Iraqi Army division.[25] | ISIL | Iraqi Civil War |
Jan 30 | Bombing | 86 | Unknown | Dalori, Nigeria | 2016 Dalori attack | Boko Haram[26][27] | Boko Haram insurgency | |
Jan 31 | Bombing | 60+ | 110 | Damascus, Syria | 2016 Sayyidah Zaynab bombings | Twin blasts in the mainly Shi'ite neighbourhood of Sayeda Zeinab.[28] | ISIL | Syrian Civil War |
Feb 2 | Bombing | 0 (+1) | 2 | Somalia | Daallo Airlines Flight 159 | 20 minutes after take-off, a passenger in Daallo Airlines Flight 159, detonated an explosive device in the Airbus A321, opening a hole in the fuselage behind the R2 door. The crew turned the plane around and successfully performed an emergency landing at Mogadishu's Aden Adde International Airport. Two injuries were reported and a body, believed to be that of the perpetrator was found on the ground. | al-Shabaab | War in Somalia |
Feb 8 | Execution | 300 | 0 | Mosul, Iraq | 2016 Mosul attack | Islamic State executed over 300 police and army personnel, as well as civil activists by firing squad.[29] | Islamic State | Iraqi Civil War |
Feb 11 | Shooting | 0 (+1) | 4 | Columbus, Ohio, United States | 2016 Ohio restaurant machete attack | Machete attack at a restaurant; the attacker was shot and killed by police at the end of a car chase. | Islamic terrorist (suspected) | |
Feb 17 | Suicide car bombing | 30 | 61 | Ankara, Turkey | February 2016 Ankara bombing | Attack on army buses near the central square of Kizilay, home to many ministries, army headquarters and the Turkish parliament.[30] | Kurdistan Freedom Falcons | Kurdish–Turkish conflict |
Feb 18 | Bombing | 6 | 1 | Diyarbakır, Turkey | 2016 Diyarbakır bombing | A bomb killed at least 6 soldiers and another was injured.[31] | Kurdistan Freedom Falcons | Kurdish–Turkish conflict |
Feb 21 | Bombing | 57 | 100+ | Homs, Syria | February 2016 Homs bombings | Two bombings occurred in pro-Government, mainly Shia inhabited, Zahraa neighbourhood. The first blast was caused by a car bomb and the second one was a result of a car bomb or a suicide bombing.[32][33] | Islamic State | Syrian Civil War |
Feb 21 | Bombing | 134 (+2) | 180 | Sayyidah Zaynab, Syria | February 2016 Sayyidah Zaynab bombings | Militants detonated a car bomb and later launched two suicide bombings about 400 meters from Sayyidah Zaynab Mosque, a Shia shrine, believed to contain the grave of Prophet Muhammad's granddaughter. The attack occurred when pupils were leaving school in the area. At least 60 shops were damaged as well as cars in the area.[34][35] | Islamic State | Syrian Civil War |
Feb 26 | Suicide bombing, shooting | 14 (+5) | Unknown | Mogadishu, Somalia | February 2016 Mogadishu attack | A suicide bomber blew the entrance of the SYL hotel allowing gunmen to storm the hotel and clash with the hotel guards. Government forces arrived and ended the attack.[36] | Al-Shabaab | War in Somalia |
Feb 28 | Bomb | 78 (+2) | 100+ | Sadr City Baghdad, Iraq | February 2016 Baghdad bombings | Two bombs went off at a crowded market selling mobile phones in the mainly Shiite Muslim district.[37] | Islamic State | Iraqi Civil War |
Mar 7 | Clashes, raid | 17 (+36) | Unknown (+6) | Ben Guerdane, Tunisia | Battle of Ben Guerdane | Attackers from Libya attacked a barracks. 36 attackers were killed by the army.[38] | Islamic State | Second Libyan Civil War |
Mar 8 | Melee attack | 1 (+1) | 11 | Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Israel | 2016 Tel Aviv knife attack | A Palestinian man from Qalqilya stabbed three people at the Jaffa Port and then stabbed others near a restaurant in Charles Clore Park. One American tourist was killed and nine others were wounded. The assailant was shot dead by police.[39] US Vice President Joe Biden was at a visit, one mile (1.6 km) from the incident. | Bashar Massalha (Palestinian lone wolf) |
Israeli–Palestinian conflict |
Mar 13 | Shooting | 19 (+3) | 33 | Grand-Bassam, Ivory Coast | 2016 Grand-Bassam shootings | Gunmen attacked two hotels at a beach resort popular with Western tourists. Witnesses say the gunmen were shouting "Allahu akbar" during the gunfire.[40][41] | AQIM | Insurgency in the Maghreb |
Mar 13 | Car bombing, shooting | 37 (+1) | 125 | Ankara, Turkey | March 2016 Ankara bombing | Car bombing in the Kizilay area. Gunfire was heard after the blast.[42] | Kurdistan Freedom Falcons | Kurdish–Turkish conflict |
Mar 16 | Bombing | 15 | 25 | Peshawar, Pakistan | 2016 Peshawar bus bombing | A bomb detonated in a bus carrying government employees.[43] | Unknown | War in North-West Pakistan |
Mar 16 | Suicide bombings | 22 | 18 | Maiduguri, Nigeria | 2016 Maiduguri suicide bombings | Two female suicide bombers detonate their explosives at a mosque during morning prayers.[44] | Boko Haram | Boko Haram insurgency |
Mar 19 | Suicide bombing | 4+ (+1) | 36 | Istanbul, Turkey | March 2016 Istanbul bombing | A suicide bomber hit a busy tourist area.[45] | Islamic State | Turkey–ISIL conflict |
Mar 19 | Mortar attack, shooting | 13 (+5) | 0 | Arish, Egypt | 2016 Arish attack | Mortar attack on a checkpoint in the Sinai Peninsula. Security officials said five attackers were killed in clashes near the checkpoint after the attack.[46] | Wilayat Sayna | Sinai Insurgency |
Mar 22 | suicide bombing | 32 (+3) | 340 | Brussels and Zaventem, Belgium | 2016 Brussels bombings | Four coordinated nail bombings: two at Brussels Airport in Zaventem, and one at Maalbeek metro station in Brussels. The fourth bomb did not go off.[47] | Islamic State | Islamic terrorism in Europe |
Mar 25 | Suicide bombing | 41 (+1) | 65 | Iskandariya, Iraq | Iskandariya suicide bombing | A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd after a football game in a mixed Sunni-Shiite area. The mayor of the town was among those killed.[48][49] | Islamic State | Iraqi Civil War |
Mar 25 | Car bombing | 26 | Unknown | Aden, Yemen | 2016 Aden car bombing | Triple suicide car bomb that hit roadblocks manned by loyalist forces. Two car bombs exploded in the al-Shaab area in the west of Aden and an ambulance exploded against a checkpoint near Mansoura in the center of the city.[50] | Islamic State | Yemeni Civil War |
Mar 27 | Suicide bombing | 72 | 200 | Lahore, Pakistan | 2016 Lahore suicide bombing | Suicide bombing that hit the main entrance of Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park.[51] | Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan | War in North-West Pakistan |
Mar 31 | Car bomb | 7 | 27 | Diyarbakir, Turkey | March 2016 Diyarbakır bombing | Seven police officers were killed and twenty seven wounded when the minibus they were travelling in was hit by a car bomb.[52][53] | PKK | Kurdish–Turkish conflict |
Apr 10 | Ambush | 11 | 6 | Santo Domingo de Acobamba District, Peru | Hatun Asha ambush | The ambush began at approximately 5:00 (a.m.), when guerrillas targeted a military convoy along a rural road transporting election ballots and related materials and also serving as guards for polling stations. The ambush left a total of nine government soldiers and two civilian contractors dead.[54] Two hours after the attack, a second attack occurred in Mayapo, on the Llochegua District in Ayacucho, where one police officer was injured and taken to a hospital in Pichari. | Shining Path | Internal conflict in Peru |
Apr 18 | Bombing | 0 (+1) | 21 | Jerusalem, Israel | 2016 Jerusalem bombing | Explosion on board a bus.[55][56] | Hamas | Israeli–Palestinian conflict |
Apr 19 | Suicide car bombing, shooting | 64 (+1) | 347 | Kabul, Afghanistan | 2016 Kabul attack | Suicide bomb and gun assault on a government security building during morning rush hour.[57][58] | Taliban | War in Afghanistan |
Apr 27 | Suicide bombing | 0 (+1) | 13 | Bursa, Turkey | 2016 Bursa bombing | A suicide bomber blew herself up in the 14th century Grand Mosque.[59][60] | Kurdistan Freedom Falcons | Kurdish–Turkish conflict |
Apr 30 | Suicide car bombing, bombing | 38 (+1) | 86 | Baghdad, Iraq | April 2016 Baghdad bombing | A suicide bomber driving a car attacked a group of Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims in a southeastern suburb of Baghdad. A second explosion struck near a Shi'ite militia checkpoint in the Dora district.[61][62] | Islamic State and Unknown | Iraqi Civil War |
May 1 | Car bomb | 2 | 23 | Gaziantep, Turkey | May 2016 Gaziantep bombing | Two policemen were killed and 22 others (four being civilians) were wounded after a car bomb exploded outside police headquarters.[63] | Islamic State | Turkey–ISIL conflict |
May 1 | Suicide bombing | 33+ (+2) | 75 | Samawa, Iraq | 2016 Samawa bombing | [64] | Islamic State | Iraqi Civil War |
May 10 | Car bombing | 3 | Diyarbakir, Turkey | May 2016 Diyarbakır bombing | Car bomb targeting a police vehicle.[65] | PKK | Kurdish–Turkish conflict (2015–present) | |
May 11 | Suicide and car bombings | 103 | 165+ | Baghdad, Iraq | 11 May 2016 Baghdad bombings | [66] | ISIL | Iraqi Civil War |
May 12 | Massacre | 49+ | Unknown | Zara'a, Syria | Zara'a massacre | Militant attack on an Alawite village in Hama Governorate.[67] Around 70 other civilians, including women and children were kidnapped and taken to Al-Rastan.[67] | Al-Nusra Front and Ahrar ash-Sham | Syrian civil war |
May 13 | Shooting | 16+ | 30+ | Balad, Iraq | Real Madrid Fan Club massacre | Real Madrid fans were killed in an attack on their clubhouse.[68] | Islamic State | Iraqi Civil War |
May 15 | Suicide bombing | 14+ (+9, maybe more) | 20+ | Taji, Iraq | 2016 Iraq Gas Plant attack | Suicide bomb attacks in a state owned cooking gas plant.[69] | ISIL | Iraqi Civil War |
May 15 | Suicide bombing | 47+ (+1)[70][71] | 60+ | Mukalla, Yemen | May 2016 Yemen police bombings | Islamic State | Yemeni Civil War | |
May 17 | Suicide and car bombings, shooting | 101+ | 194+ | Baghdad, Iraq | 17 May 2016 Baghdad bombings | Series of eight attacks.[72][73][74][75][76] | Islamic State | Iraqi Civil War |
May 23 | Suicide bombing | 45+ | 60+ | Aden, Yemen | 23 May 2016 Yemen bombings | Army recruits are killed and 60 others injured in a suicide car bomb attack.[77] | Islamic State | Yemeni Civil War |
May 23 | Suicide bombing | 184 (5)[78] | 200 | Jableh and Tartus, Syria | 23 May 2016 Syrian bombings | Series of car bomb and suicide attacks in government-controlled territory that hosts Russian military bases.[79] | Islamic State | Syrian Civil War |
May 29 | Suicide bombing | 12+ (+1) | ~15 | Balad, Iraq | Real Madrid Fan Club massacre | Real Madrid fans were killed and more injured when watching the 2016 UEFA Champions League Final. | Islamic State | Iraqi Civil War |
May 31 | Kidnapping and execution | 17+ (+6) | Around 220 kidnapped | Kunduz-Takhar highway, Afghanistan | Kunduz-Takhar highway hostage crisis | The Taliban executed at least 17 people after kidnapping around 220 people on buses and in cars at a fake checkpoint. 6 people were killed by Afghan forces when they attempted to flee the scene. Around 20 hostages were moved to Char Dara District.[80] | Taliban | War in Afghanistan (2001–present) |
Jun 1 | Suicide car bombing, hostage-taking | 16 (+3)[81] | 55 | Mogadishu, Somalia | June 2016 Mogadishu attack | A suicide bomber detonated a car bomb outside the Ambassador Hotel after which two gunmen opened fire on the hotel and took hostages before being killed by police. | Al-Shabaab | War in Somalia |
Jun 5–6 | Spree shooting, shootouts | 10 (+13) | 37+ | Aktobe, Kazakhstan | 2016 Aktobe shootings | Over 20 militants attacked a military facility and two firearm stores. The attacks killed a clerk, a military officer and a serviceman at a national guard facility. Another nine servicemen were wounded. The police launched a counter-terrorism operation in which it managed to kill four militants and detain seven but others escaped.[82][83] | Islamic State | Islamic terrorism |
Jun 7 | Bombing | 11 | 36 | Istanbul, Turkey | June 2016 Istanbul bombing | A bomb exploded on a police bus in the Vezneciler district | TAK | Kurdish-Turkish conflict |
Jun 8 | Car bombing | 5 | 30 | Midyat, Turkey | June 2016 Midyat car bombing | PKK (Suspected) | Kurdish-Turkish conflict | |
Jun 8 | Shooting | 4 | 18 (+1) | Tel Aviv, Israel | June 2016 Tel Aviv shooting | Two Palestinian gunmen opened fire in a Max Brenner restaurant killing diners.[84] Both perpetrators were arrested.[85][86] | Khalid al-Mahmara and Muhammad Ahmad Moussa Mahmara (inspired by the Islamic State) | Israeli–Palestinian conflict |
Jun 8 | Kidnapping, shooting, and execution | 16+ | 42+ more kidnapped | Kunduz, Afghanistan | Kunduz-Takhar highway hostage crisis | In a continuation of a prior event, 12 hostages were executed, and 42 more people were kidnapped. Four more people were also killed during the new kidnappings.[87][88][89] | Taliban | War in Afghanistan |
Jun 12 | Shooting | 49 (+1) | 53 | Orlando, Florida, United States
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