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Church attack in Central African Republic (May 30, 2014)

Gunmen associated with the Muslim Seleka in Central African Republic massacred at least 11 people who were taking shelter in a church from street fighting.

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Failed NATO airstrike kills 14 civilians in Afghanistan (May 29, 2011)

On this day in 2011, a NATO airstrike aimed at Taliban terrorists struck two houses and killed 14 civilians, including women and children.

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Incel violence is not terrorism… at least not yet

It is simply too early to label incel violence ‘terrorism’ and we have other legal tools to deal with this hateful, misogynist phenomenon.

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Solingen Arson Attack: Neo-Nazi attack immigrants in Germany (May 28, 1993)

On this day in 1993, far right ‘skinheads’ in the West German town of Solingen torched a house leading to the deaths of five Turkish women and girls.

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10 beheaded by ISIS in Mozambique attack (May 27, 2018)

On this day in 2018, the ISIS Central African Province claimed an attack in a Mozambican village in which 10 people were beheaded, including children.

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25 dead in Maoist ambush in India (May 26, 2013)

On this day in 2013, Maoist Naxalite terrorists in India killed 27 members of the Congress Party in an ambush in the eastern part of the country.

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The Unabomber carries out his first parcel bomb attack (May 25, 1979)

In May 1979, the ‘Unabomber’ sent his first parcel bomb to a university professor: a security guard was slightly injured when it exploded.

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Assassinations of Jeffrey Brent Ball and Todd Ray Wilson (May 24, 1989)

On this day in 1989, two Mormon missionaries were killed by the Bolivian Marxist group Zarate Willka Armed Forces to protest US influence in Bolivia.

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2 Killed in Church Blast in Kathmandu, Nepal (May 23, 2009)

A Hindu extremist organisation calling for a Hindu state in Nepal was probably behind a bombing at a Christian church in which 2 were killed and 15 injured.

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Manchester Arena Bombing (May 22, 2017)

An ISIS suicide bomber killed himself outside an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester in 2017, killing 22 people, many of them children.