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(12,132 posts)1980s
Austria August 29, 1981 1981 Vienna synagogue attack. 2 dead 30 injured.
Italy October 2, 1982 1982 Great Synagogue of Rome attack. 1 dead 37 injured.
Lebanon November 11, 1982 Tyre headquarters bombings. 91 dead. 55 injured.
Lebanon/United States April 18, 1983 The April 1983 U.S. Embassy bombing, in Beirut, Lebanon by the Islamic Jihad Organization. 63 dead, 120 injured.
Lebanon/United States/France October 23, 1983 The 1983 Beirut barracks bombing by the Islamic Jihad Organization. 307 dead 75 injured.
Kuwait December 12, 1983 1983 Kuwait bombings. The 90-minute coordinated attack of six key foreign and Kuwaiti installations including two embassies, the airport, and the country's main petro-chemical plant, was more notable for the damage it might have caused than what was actually destroyed. What might have been "the worst terrorist episode of the twentieth century in the Middle East," succeeding in killing only 6 people because of the bombs' faulty rigging.[2]
Lebanon/United States September 20, 1984 The 1984 United States embassy annex bombing in Beirut, Lebanon. 24 dead.
Spain April 12, 1985 1985 El Descanso bombing. 18 dead 82 injured.
Egypt/Italy/United States October 7, 1985 Achille Lauro hijacking. 1 dead.
Italy/Austria December 27, 1985 Rome and Vienna airport attacks. 23 dead 139 injured.
Greece June 14, 1985 TWA Flight 847 hijacking. 1 dead.
Greece April 2, 1986 TWA Flight 840 bombing (1986). 4 dead. 7 injured.
Turkey September 6, 1986 Neve Shalom Synagogue Attack. 22 dead.
United Kingdom December 21, 1988 - 1988 Lockerbie bombing 270 dead, also includes 11 on the ground
Israel July 7, 1989 Tel Aviv Jerusalem bus 405 suicide attack, near Kiryat Yearim. 16 dead.
1990s
The 1998 United States embassy bombing in Nairobi where 214 people were killed including 12 Americans, 4000 others were wounded.
Egypt February 4, 1990 A bus carrying Israeli tourists in Egypt was attacked by Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine. 11 people, including 9 Israelis died and 17 others were injured.
China February 2, 1992 - 1992 Ürümqi bombings 3 dead 23 injured
Argentina/Israel March 17, 1992 The 1992 attack on Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires. 29 killed 242 injured.
United States January 25, 1993 - 1993 shootings at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia. 2 killed, 3 injured.
United States February 26, 1993 World Trade Center bombing, in New York City. 6 killed, 1,042 injured
India March 12, 1993 Serial blasts in Mumbai kill 257 people.
Turkey July 2, 1993 Sivas Massacre, Arson attack at a gathering in Sivas killing 35 intellectuals from Turkey, most of whom were Alevis.
Israel April 6, 1994 Afula Bus suicide bombing killing 8 wounding 55.
Israel April 13, 1994 Hadera bus station suicide bombing. killing 5 wounding 30.
Argentina July 18, 1994 Buenos Aires Jewish Center AMIA bombing. killing 85 wounding 300.
United Kingdom/Israel July 26, 1994 The 1994 London Israeli Embassy attack. 20 injured.
Israel October 19, 1994 The Dizengoff Street bus bombing was a Hamas suicide attack on a passenger bus driving down Dizengoff Street in Tel Aviv. 22 killed 50 injured.
Israel November 11, 1994 Netzarim Junction bicycle bombing killing 3 and wounding 12.
Algeria/France December 24, 1994 Air France Flight 8969 hijacking in Algiers by 3 members of Armed Islamic Group of Algeria and another terrorist. 7 killed including 4 hijackers, 25 injured.
Israel January 22, 1995 The Beit Lid suicide bombing was a suicide attack by Palestinian Islamic Jihad. 20 dead 69 injured.
Algeria January 30, 1995 A car bomb exploded outside of a police station. 42 dead and 286 injured.[7][8]
India July 20, 1995 A bomb on a motor scooter exploded at a marketplace in Jammu. Harkat-ul-Ansar claimed responsibility for the bombing. at least 17 killed 100+ injured.
Israel July 24, 1995 The Ramat Gan bus bombing was a suicide attack by Hamas. 6 dead 33 injured.
France July 25-October 17, 1995 The 1995 Paris Métro and RER bombings were a series of attacks by the Armed Islamic Group of Algeria in France. 8 killed 100+ wounded.
Croatia October 20, 1995 In the 1995 Rijeka bombing a suicide bomber attempted to destroy a police station by driving a car with a bomb into the wall of the building. killing 1 (assailant) injured 29.
Israel February 25 & March 3, 1996 The Jaffa Road bus bombings Two attacks on Jerusalem route 18 buses by Hamas. 45 killed 52 injured.
Israel March 4, 1996 The Dizengoff Center suicide bombing was a terror attack by Hamas on the eve of the Jewish holiday of Purim. 13 killed 130 injured.
Egypt April 18, 1996 Islamist gunmen fire on the Europa hotel in Cairo. 18 killed 17 wounded.
Saudi Arabia/United States June 25, 1996 Khobar Towers bombing, 20 killed, 372 wounded.
China February 25, 1997 - Three bombs explode on three buses in the Xinjiang capital of Ürümqi. 9 dead 74 injured
Israel March 21, 1997 The Café Apropo bombing was a Hamas suicide bomber who detonated at a Tel Aviv sidewalk café. killing 3 wounding 46.
Israel July 30, 1997 The 1997 Mahane Yehuda Market bombings were two consecutive suicide bombings carried out by Hamas militants at the Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem. killing 16 wounding 178.
Bosnia and Herzegovina September 18, 1997 The 1997 Mostar car bombings. 29 people injured.
Egypt November 17, 1997 Luxor massacre, 6 armed Islamic terrorists attacked tourists at the Luxor ruins. 62 killed, 26 injured.
India February 14, 1998 A total of 58 people were killed and over 200 injured in 12 bomb attacks in 11 places, in the city of Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.
Tanzania Kenya United States August 7, 1998 1998 United States embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya. 224 dead, 4000+ injured.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Islamist_terrorist_attacks