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April 24, 2003: Teenage suicide bomber kills security guard in Israel

On April 24, 2003 a Palestinian blew himself up at a train station in Kfar Saba, killing an Israeli security guard and injuring 14 others.

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April 23, 2016: ISIS attack on Libyan oil plant

On April 23, 2016 an ISIS affiliate attacked a Libyan force guarding oil ports near the Brega terminal, killing one guard and wounding four.

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April 22, 2018: ISIS beheads brothers in Afghanistan

On April 22, 2018 Islamic State in Khorasan beheaded three brothers in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province.

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April 21, 2015: Separatists carry out siege in Macedonia

On April 21, 2015 40 Macedonian NLA terrorists took over a police station near the border with Kosovo, beat the officers and stole their weapons.

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Do ‘Prevent’ type CT programmes really work?

We have been ‘doing’ preventative work in the terrorism sphere for a few decades: is it time for a rethink?

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April 20, 2016: ISIS throws people off building in Iraq

On April 20, 2016 ISIS threw five people from the top of a high building to their deaths after accusing them of practicing sodomy in the city of Mosul

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April 19, 1995: Gas attack injures hundreds in Japan

On April 19, 1995 more than 600 Japanese commuters were injured when a gas was released at the main station in Yokohama.

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April 18, 1996: Terrorists shoot tourists and tour guide in Egypt

On April 18, 1996 AGAI killed 17 Greek tourists and an Egyptian tour guide outside a hotel in Cairo.

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April 17, 2016: Killing of peacekeeper in the CAR

On April 17, 2016 a peacekeeper with the UN’s MINUSCA was killed in an attack carried out by the Lord’s Resistance Army in the Central African Republic

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April 16, 2016: Bombing at Sikh temple in Germany

On April 16, 2016 two teenaged Islamist terrorists carried out an explosion in a Sikh temple in the German city of Essen that wounded three people.