On December 21, 1998 Pan Am flight 103 came down on Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 259 passengers and 11 residents on the ground.
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On this day in 1973, a massive bomb buried under a Madrid street exploded as a car carrying Prime Minister Carrero Blanco detonated.
On this day in 2015, four female suicide bombers were killed at a checkpoint in Nigeria’s northeast Borno state after one of them detonated her explosives.
On December 14, 1973, the ‘Charles Martel Group’ carried out a bomb attack against the Algerian Consulate in Marseilles, killing four and wounding 23.
The Clerkenwell explosion, also known as the Clerkenwell Outrage, was a bombing in London on 13 December 1867. The Irish Republican Brotherhood exploded a bomb to try to free one of their members being held at Clerkenwell Prison.
On this day in 2016, two explosions caused by a car bombing and suicide bombing in Istanbul killed 48 people and injured 166 others.
On this day in 2003, a female bomber detonated her explosive device in iconic Red Square in Moscow, killing six and wounding 44.
Terrorism is now associated primarily with either Islamist extremism or far right nationalism: it was once a tool of Communists.
On this day in 2016, unknown assailants carried out what is called “double-tap” bombings in Benghazi.
The conflict in Yemen is complicated: war and terrorism are killing thousands and no one seems to care.