List of terrorist incidents in 2015
Country | Number of incidents | Deaths | Injuries |
Iraq | 2,743 | 8,831 | 13,322 |
Afghanistan | 1,926 | 6,208 | 6,958 |
Pakistan | 1,235 | 1,606 | 1,847 |
India | 882 | 387 | 647 |
Philippines | 717 | 444 | 752 |
Yemen | 668 | 2,373 | 3,065 |
Ukraine | 637 | 765 | 1,401 |
Nigeria | 637 | 5,351 | 2,854 |
Egypt | 582 | 790 | 1,000 |
Libya | 542 | 689 | 840 |
Syria | 485 | 3,916 | 2,978 |
Bangladesh | 465 | 76 | 695 |
Turkey | 416 | 490 | 1,100 |
Somalia | 407 | 1,389 | 799 |
Thailand | 277 | 116 | 462 |
West Bank and Gaza Strip | 247 | 117 | 239 |
Sudan | 158 | 210 | 329 |
Democratic Republic of the Congo | 141 | 367 | 244 |
Colombia | 135 | 104 | 137 |
Mali | 120 | 268 | 250 |
United Kingdom | 115 | 1 | 23 |
Saudi Arabia | 103 | 213 | 281 |
Burundi | 97 | 220 | 218 |
Cameroon | 82 | 928 | 461 |
Kenya | 68 | 276 | 205 |
Israel | 58 | 20 | 118 |
South Sudan | 54 | 218 | 137 |
Germany | 50 | 6 | 51 |
Central African Republic | 48 | 172 | 91 |
Nepal | 47 | 0 | 11 |
Lebanon | 44 | 111 | 347 |
Niger | 41 | 666 | 116 |
United States | 38 | 44 | 52 |
France | 36 | 161 | 159 |
Sweden | 36 | 4 | 4 |
Myanmar | 33 | 58 | 151 |
Greece | 31 | 1 | 2 |
Ireland | 29 | 0 | 0 |
Indonesia | 28 | 19 | 17 |
Chad | 27 | 306 | 427 |
Russia | 21 | 21 | 24 |
Mexico | 19 | 9 | 10 |
Paraguay | 19 | 13 | 0 |
Bahrain | 18 | 5 | 22 |
Tunisia | 17 | 103 | 121 |
Algeria | 16 | 21 | 19 |
China | 16 | 123 | 83 |
Tanzania | 14 | 10 | 14 |
Sri Lanka | 11 | 3 | 14 |
Japan | 10 | 0 | 0 |
Peru | 10 | 6 | 7 |
Uganda | 10 | 4 | 1 |
Iran | 9 | 38 | 11 |
Finland | 9 | 0 | 1 |
Mozambique | 7 | 12 | 3 |
Australia | 7 | 2 | 0 |
Ethiopia | 7 | 48 | 43 |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | 6 | 4 | 6 |
Italy | 5 | 0 | 1 |
Canada | 5 | 0 | 2 |
Brazil | 5 | 3 | 0 |
Malaysia | 5 | 1 | 1 |
Burkina Faso | 5 | 6 | 9 |
Macedonia | 4 | 0 | 2 |
Albania | 4 | 0 | 0 |
Ivory Coast | 4 | 14 | 10 |
Denmark | 4 | 2 | 5 |
Czech Republic | 4 | 0 | 0 |
Jordan | 4 | 7 | 11 |
Tajikistan | 3 | 12 | 10 |
Cyprus | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Venezuela | 3 | 1 | 0 |
Kosovo | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Netherlands | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Laos | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Senegal | 2 | 0 | 4 |
Maldives | 2 | 0 | 3 |
Estonia | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Kyrgyzstan | 2 | 1 | 0 |
Guinea | 2 | 1 | 4 |
South Africa | 2 | 2 | 32 |
Armenia | 2 | 0 | 1 |
Bulgaria | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Malta | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Ecuador | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Kuwait | 1 | 28 | 227 |
Lesotho | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Georgia | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Hungary | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Djibouti | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Trinidad and Tobago | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Morocco | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Chile | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Argentina | 1 | 0 | 0 |
South Korea | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Montenegro | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Uzbekistan | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Qatar | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Total | 14,806 | 38,422 | 43,495 |
This is a list of terrorist incidents which took place in 2015, including attacks by violent non-state actors for political motives. Note that terrorism related to drug wars and cartel violence is not included in these lists. Ongoing military conflicts are listed separately.
List guidelines
- To be included, entries must be notable and described by a consensus of as "terrorism".
- List entries must comply with the guidelines outlined in the manual of style under.
- Casualties figures in this list are the total casualties of the incident including immediate casualties and later casualties.
- The casualties listed are the victims, perpetrator casualties are listed separately.
- Casualty totals may be underestimated or unavailable due to a lack of information. A figure with a plus sign indicates that at least that many people have died – the actual toll could be considerably higher.
- If casualty figures are 20 or more, they will be shown in bold. In addition, figures for casualties more than 50 will also be underlined.
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Total incidents:Date | Type | Dead | Injured | Location | Details | Perpetrator | Part of |
4 | Stabbing | 0 | 4 | California, United States | University of California, Merced stabbing attack: Faisal Mohammad, armed with a hunting knife, stabbed four people at the University of California before being shot and killed by police. | Faisal Mohammad | Terrorism in the United States |
12 | Suicide bombing | 89 | 200+ | Beirut, Lebanon | 2015 Beirut bombings: Islamic State suicide bomber detonated a bike loaded with explosives and when onlookers gathered, another suicide bomber detonated himself on them bringing the casualties to 43 dead and 240 wounded. | Islamic State | Syrian Civil War spillover in Lebanon |
13 | Attack | 130 | 368 | Paris, France | November 2015 Paris attacks: A series of co-ordinated attacks began over about 35 minutes at six locations in central Paris. The first shooting attack occurred in a restaurant and a bar in the 10th arrondissement of Paris. There was shooting and a bomb detonated at Bataclan theatre in the 11th arrondissement during a rock concert. Approximately 100 hostages were then taken and overall 90 were killed there. Other bombings took place outside the Stade de France stadium in the suburb of Saint-Denis during a football match between France and Germany. | Islamic State | Islamic terrorism in Europe |
19 | Melee attack | 2 | 1 | Tel Aviv, Israel | 2015 Tel Aviv synagogue stabbing: A thirty-six-year-old Palestinian man killed two and injured one at a makeshift synagogue in Tel Aviv. He was captured just after the attack and brought into custody. | lone wolf | Israeli–Palestinian conflict |
19 | Shooting | 3 | 5 | Gush Etzion Junction, West Bank | 2015 Gush Etzion Junction attack: A Palestinian man opened fire on a line of traffic in Gush Etzion, in the West Bank region. The attacker then fled the scene, only to shoot at and intentionally ram into a group of pedestrians at a nearby junction. | lone wolf | Israeli–Palestinian conflict |
20 | Hostage taking, Shooting | 20 | 7 | Bamako, Mali | 2015 Bamako hotel attack: A group of gunmen, who were believed to be Islamic, took several hostages at the Radisson Hotel in Bamako, Mali—among them are 140 visitors and 30 employees. Al-Mourabitoun and Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb claimed responsibility for the attack. | Al-Mourabitoun AQIM | Northern Mali conflict |
24 | Suicide bombing, car bombing, shooting | 7 | 12 | al-Arish, Egypt | 2015 Arish attack: A day after the second round of parliamentary elections closes, militants attack a hotel housing election judges in the provincial capital of al-Arish in Egypt's North Sinai. At least seven people are killed and 12 others injured, including two judges. Islamic State's Wilayat Sinai branch claims responsibility. | Islamic State | Sinai Insurgency |
27 | Shooting Hostage-taking | 3 | 9 | Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States | Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooting: A shooting and five-hour standoff with police occurred at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado. A police officer and two civilians were killed. Five officers and four civilians were injured. The suspected shooter, identified as Robert Lewis Dear, was captured alive after police convinced him to surrender. His motives appear to be political in nature. | Robert Lewis Dear |