In October of 1991, LTTE terrorists massacred 285 people, mostly Muslims, in a village in Sri Lanka.
Tag: Today in terrorism
Nationalists tossed bombs and engaged in firefights with police in Trieste, northeastern Italy on October 14, 1920.
In 1977 PFLP terrorists hijacked Lufthansa flight 181, killing the pilot before German anti-terror commandos stormed the plane.
After a failed first attempt, in 2000 Al Qaeda carried out a successful bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen, killing 17 sailors and wounding 39.
Finnish police were unable to discover a motive behind a bombing at a Helsinki mall in 2002 perpetrated by a 19-year old chemistry buff.
One year already! Borealis reflects on 365 terrorist attacks over history, one for each calendar day.
On this day in 1983, Leftist revolutionaries in Chile torched buses during demonstrations that rocked the country.
On this week in 2016, Fulani herdsmen massacred 81 Dogon people in Nigeria’s Benue State.
On this day in 2016, the terrorist group ISIS beheaded four football players in Raqqa, Syria after having declared that sport are ‘un-Islamic’.
On this day in 2018, a young Tunisian shepherd who was tortured by AQIM terrorists survived his ordeal but later died from his injuries.