MOSCOW, October 28 (RIA Novosti) — The gunman who attacked Canada's Parliament last week has been described by the Canadian Prime Minister's Office as a "self-radicalized" terrorist, once again reminding the world about the forms that extremism can take and the crippling effect this menace can have on the society.
Terror Attacks in 2014
On October 22, an unknown man opened fire in downtown Ottawa, Canada, killing a guard at a war memorial, and then continued shooting in the Parliament building next door. Prime Minister Stephen Harper was rushed to safety. The attacker was blocked inside the Parliament building and shot and killed in the library. According to the police, there could be several suspects.
On October 22, a home-made explosive device went off near the Engineering Department of Cairo University, injuring nine people, including five Interior Ministry officers.
On October 21, a series of explosions outside restaurants and cafes in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad left at least 21 killed and dozens injured. Two car bombs went off in front of a restaurant in Talibia, a Shiite neighborhood. Two other blasts were registered in the vicinity of Sheikh Omar Mosque and in southern Baghdad, respectively. The day before that, 17 people died in a terrorist attack near a Shiite mosque.
On October 19, a suspected suicide bomber killed 15 outside a Shiite mosque in Baghdad.
On October 17, there were four bomb explosions in different parts of Baghdad. A suicide bomber detonated a car bomb in the central Karada area, killing 12 and wounding 24. Another suicide attacker did the same in Shiite Madinat as-Sadr area in eastern Baghdad, killing 10 and wounding 20.
On October 5, a terrorist activated his explosive belt in Grozny, Chechnya, where a concert devoted to City Day was scheduled. Spotting a suspicious young man near door-frame metal detectors installed in front of the concert hall, the police asked him to show his ID. At that moment the bomber pushed the button, killing five officers and injuring another 12 people.
On October 4, a suicide bomber killed 5 and wounded 25 at a marketplace in Quetta, western Pakistan. On the same day, a bomb went off at a bus stop in Kohat, northwestern Pakistan, killing 6 and wounding 17.
On October 1, a double terrorist attack in the western Syrian city of Homs took the lives of 39 victims, including 30 schoolchildren. First, a car bomb was detonated outside a school in an Alawite district, Akrama, when children and their parents were leaving the building. Several minutes later, a suicide bomber blew himself up at the nearby Zayim Hospital. Akrama is mostly populated by Alawite supporters of President Bashar Assad.
On September 26, at least 50 people died and 54 were wounded in a series of explosions in Bugur County, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China. The victims included four police officers, six passers-by and 40 suicide bombers, who exploded bombs at a food market, two police stations and a store. Some attackers were killed by the blasts, others by the police. Two terrorists were arrested.
On September 22, three bombs went off in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Two people died and several were injured.
On September 4, a car bomb and a suicide bomber in Baghdad, Iraq killed at least 20 and wounded dozens of people.
On July 28, a bomb exploded near a military base in Sai Buri, Pattani Province of Thailand, when a group of soldiers was returning from a patrol. The victims were two soldiers and five civilians, including two children.
On July 25, a car bomb exploded near a hotel in Betong, Yala Province, southern Thailand, killing three and injuring over 40.
On July 23, a suicide bombing at a major Shiite shrine in Kadhimiya, in the northern neighborhood of Baghdad, killed 33 people. The Islamic State (IS) movement claimed responsibility for the attack.
On June 9, a twin blast at the offices of Iraq"s Kurdish political party killed at least 30 people.
On May 22, three bombings in Baghdad, Iraq targeted Shiite pilgrims, killing 24.
On May 20, a home-made explosive device went off near No.30 Mursalov Street, in Makhachkala, in the Russian republic of Dagestan, injuring a 40-year-old man.
On March 9, at least 32 people died in a suspected suicide bombing that hit a security checkpoint in Hilia, in central Iraq.
On January 15, a series of bombing attacks in the Iraqi cities of Baghdad and Baquba killed 75 people. The deadliest incident took the lives of 18 people when a bomb blew up in a funeral tent set up to mark the death of a Sunni militiaman. At least eight coordinated bombs struck Baghdad, mostly Shiite districts, killing 40.
Terror Attacks in 2013
On December 30, a bomb exploded in a trolleybus in Dzerzhinsky District of Volgograd, Russia, killing 10.
On December 29, a suicide bomber – either a woman or a man – detonated a bomb equivalent to 10 kg of TNT at the central railway station in Volgograd, killing 17 and wounding 45 people.
On December 25, two bombs exploded in a Baghdad market in Iraq, killing at least 35 people and wounding some 56. The twin blast targeted a Christian district of the city as believers prepared to mark Christmas.
On October 21, Naida Asiyalova of Dagestan detonated a shrapnel-filled explosive device on a bus in Volgograd, killing seven passengers. Thirty-seven were taken to the hospital.
On October 20, a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into a busy café in Baghdad's primarily Shiite Amil neighborhood, killing 35 people and wounding 45 guests.
On September 21, a series of car and suicide bombing attacks killed 72 people and wounded 120 at a funeral in Sadr City, a Shiite-majority neighborhood in Baghdad, Iraq.
On August 6, 36 people lost their lives when several car bombs went off in and around Baghdad, Iraq.
On July 18, a bus with 40 Israeli tourists was blown up at Sarafovo Airport, Burgas, Bulgaria, with 7 dead and 30 seriously injured. According to Bulgarian investigators, the bomb was planted before the passengers went aboard, or was put in the luggage compartment together with the bags by two suspected Hezbollah terrorists, nationals of Canada and Australia.
On July 6, Islamist gunmen attacked a secondary school in Mamudo, Yobe State, Nigeria, killing 49, including 29 students and a teacher, and setting the school on fire. The authorities blamed Boko Haram for the attack.
On June 10, a total of five car bombs were detonated in Mosul, in northern Iraq, killing 29 people and wounding 80 others.
On May 20, two bombs went off one after another near the Federal Bailiff Service for Dagestan. One was planted under a car; the other was in a car parked within walking distance and hit an investigating team that had arrived at the site. Two bailiffs and two police officers died; 52 people needed medical aid, including 9 with grave injuries and 30 with moderate injuries.
On the same day, a dozen of car bombs killed at least 84 across Iraq and wounded more than 200.
On April 15, a series of explosions killed 3 and wounded 176 people on the final leg of the Boston Marathon. The Tsarnayev brothers, Tamerlan and Johar, were found guilty of staging the terrorist attack. Johar was detained on April 20. Tamerlan died of wounds received in a skirmish with police on April 20.
On March 31, three motorbike or car bombs went off in the business district of Yala, southern Thailand, killing 8 and injuring 70.
On the same day, a bomb was detonated in a food store in Thailand's Pattani Province and another at the Lee Garden Plaza Hotel in Hat Yai, Songkhla Province, with five people dying and 216 taken to hospital with injuries, burns and smoke poisonings. The police blamed separatist groups for the attacks.
On March 19, a series of coordinated bombings and shootings took place across Baghdad and several other major cities in northern and central Iraq. The wave of violence killed 98 people and wounded more than 240.
On March 3, a remote-controlled bomb hidden in a motorbike went off in Abbas Town, Karachi, Pakistan, followed by a car-bomb explosion: 45 killed and 149 injured.
On February 17, car bombs in Iraq's Baghdad killed 37 people and injured 130 others.
On January 22, a series of car bombs erupted in Baghdad, Iraq. The explosions killed 17 people and injured dozens.
On January 3, a suicide bomber killed at least 15 people and wounded 70 in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk.
