TERROR IN EUROPE
MAY 24, 2014
Four people are killed in a shooting at the Jewish Museum in central Brussels. The attacker was French national Mehdi Nemmouche, 29, who was subsequently arrested in Marseille, France. Extradited, he is awaiting trial in Belgium.
JAN. 7- 9, 2015
Two Islamist militants break into an editorial meeting of satirical weekly
Charlie Hebdo on January 7 and rake it with bullets, killing 17. Another militant kills a policewoman the next day and takes hostages at a supermarket on January 9, killing four.
OCT. 10, 2015
Two bombs explode at a rally of pro- Kurdish activists and civic groups near Ankara’s main train station, killing 102 people.
NOV. 13, 2015
Paris is rocked by multiple, near simultaneous gunandbomb attacks on entertainment sites around the city, in which 130 people die and 368 are wounded.
JAN. 12, 2016
An Islamic State suicide bomber who entered Turkey as a Syrian refugee blows himself up among groups of tourists in the historic centre of Istanbul, killing 12 Germans and seriously wounding several other foreigners.
MARCH 19, 2016
A suicide bomber blows himself up on Istiklal Street, Istanbul’s most popular shopping district, killing three Israeli tourists and an Iranian. The interior minister says the bomber was a Turkish member of Islamic State.