2015: Jittery world bids adieu to terror-marred year
Baga massacre: Terrorist group Boko Haram carried out a series of attacks in the town of Baga in northern Nigeria from January 3 to 7. Statistics of the casualties vary as several western media reported that over 2,000 people must've died or had- Paris massacre: On 13 November 2015, a series of coordinated terrorist attacks occurred in Paris and its northern suburb, Saint-Denis. Three suicide bombers struck near the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, followed by suicide bombings and mass
- Russian passenger jet crash: A Russian charter flight ferrying 224 passengers and crew to St. Petersburg from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, crashed soon after taking off early Saturday, killing everyone onboard, officials in Egypt
- Ankara bombings: Two bombs detonated outside Ankara Central railway station in Turkey on October 10, killing at least 102 people and leaving over 400 injured. The attacks mostly took the lives of activists who had gathered outside the station for an
- Maiduguri, Nigeria bombings: 145 killed: On the evening of September 20, 2015, a series of bombings took place in Maiduguri and Monguno, Nigeria, killing at least 145 people and injuring at least 97 others. The majority of casualties occurred in
- Khan Bani Saad bombing: A suicide car bombing carried out by the ISIL on July 17 in a marketplace in Khan Bani Saad, Iraq, killed at least 130, leaving several others injured.
- Ramadan attacks: A series of terror attacks tore across France, Kuwait, Syria, Somalia, and Tunisia on June 25 and 26, killing over 400 people in total. The worst of it hit Kobani in Syria, as the ISIL killed at least 223 people.
- Garissa, Kenyan university attacks: The massacre that killed 147 people and wounded scores of others at a Kenyan university lasted for hours on April 1, 2015 before the terror was over. The death toll is the highest in a terror attack on Kenyan soil
- Sana'a mosque bombings: Four suicide bombings that took place in and around the al-Badr and al-Hashoosh mosques in Yemen killed at least 142 people and injured 351 on March 20. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claimed responsibility
- Charlie Hebdo attacks: On 7 January 2015, two brothers, Saïd and Chérif Kouachi, forced their way into the offices of the French satirical weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris. Armed with assault rifles and other weapons, they killed 11 people
Baga massacre: Terrorist group Boko Haram carried out a series of attacks in the town of Baga in northern Nigeria from January 3 to 7. Statistics of the casualties vary as several western media reported that over 2,000 people must've died or had
2015: Jittery world bids adieu to terror-marred year
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