Recent attacks
The deadly vehicle and knife attack on London Bridge and in nearby Borough Market is the latest attack in Europe in recent years. Here are some of recent major ones:
May 22, 2017: A suicide bomber killed 22 people and injured dozens during an Ariana Grande concert at Manchester Arena in northern England. April 7, 2017: A man driving a hijacked beer truck struck pedestrians at a Stockholm department store, killing 4 people. March 22, 2017: A man drove his rented SUV into pedestrians at London’s Westminster Bridge, killing four people. The attacker then stabbed a police officer to death. Dec. 19, 2016: A hijacked truck plowed through a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12. July 14, 2016: A truck driver targeted Bastille Day revelers in Nice, killing 86. March 22, 2016: Suicide attacks on the Brussels airport and subway killed 32 and injured hundreds. The perpetrators have been closely linked to the group that carried out earlier attacks in Paris.
Nov. 13, 2015: Islamic State-linked extremists attacked the Bataclan concert hall and other sites across Paris, killing 130 people. A key suspect in the attack, 26-year-old Salah Abdeslam, was arrested in Brussels on March 18, 2016.
Feb. 14, 2015: A gunman killed Danish filmmaker Finn Noergaard and wounded three police officers in Copenhagen. A day later the gunman, Omar El-Hussein, attacked a synagogue, killing a Jewish guard and wounding two police officers before being shot dead.
Jan. 7-9, 2015: A gun assault on the Paris offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and an attack on a kosher grocery store killed 17 people. Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was in revenge for Charlie Hebdo’s depictions of the Prophet Muhammad. May 24, 2014: Four people are killed at the Jewish Museum in Brussels by an intruder with a Kalashnikov. The accused is a former French fighter linked to the Islamic State group in Syria. May 22, 2013: Two al-Qaidainspired extremists ran down British soldier Lee Rigby in a London street, then stabbed and hacked him to death. March 2012: A gunman claiming links to al-Qaida killed three Jewish schoolchildren, a rabbi and three paratroopers in Toulouse, southern France.
July 22, 2011: Anti-Muslim extremist Anders Behring Breivik planted a bomb in Oslo then launched a shooting massacre on a youth camp on Norway’s Utoya island, killing 77 people, many of them teenagers.
Nov. 2, 2011: The offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris were firebombed after the satirical magazine ran a cover featuring a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad. No one was injured.
March 2, 2011: Islamic extremist Arid Uka shoot dead two U.S. airmen and injured two others at Frankfurt airport after apparently being inspired by a fake internet video purporting to show American atrocities in Afghanistan.
July 7, 2005: 52 commuters were killed in London when four alQaidainspired suicide bombers blew themselves up on three subway trains and a bus.
March 11, 2004: Bombs on four Madrid commuter trains in the morning rush hour killed 191 people.