In 1971 , during The Troubles , after two years engaged in violence based on a defensive strategy in Irish communal districts of Northern Ireland , the Provisional IRA launched an offensive against the United Kingdom . At a meeting of the IRA Army Council in June 1972 the organization ' s Chief of Staff , Seán Mac Stíofáin , first proposed making bombing attacks in England . The Army Council did not at first agree to the suggestion , but in early 1973 after its negotiations with the British Government for a truce the previous year had failed to advance the political objective of the removal of Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom by the application of the threat of violence , it re - engaged its paramilitary campaign and sanctioned Mac Stíofáin ' s proposal . Mac Stíofáin had put the strategy forward on the basis that extending the urban paramilitary violence of the Northern Ireland state into England would help attacks Conflict.Attack.DetonateExplode relieve pressure being exerted by the British Army on the IRA ' s strongholds of Irish communal support in districts in the province , such as West Belfast and Derry , by diverting British security strength from them back into England , whilst at the same time increasing strategic pressure upon the British Government to resolve the conflict by political concessions to the IRA ' s demands . He also believed that a successful bombing campaign in London , as the capital city of the United Kingdom , would offer substantial propaganda value for paramilitary Irish Republicanism , and provide a morale boost to its supporters .

( Reuters ) - Bomb blasts Conflict.Attack.DetonateExplode ripped through churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday , killing Life.Die.Unspecified 207 and injuring Life.Injure.Unspecified 450 people , in the first major attack Conflict.Attack.Unspecified on the Indian Ocean island since the end of a civil war 10 years ago .

Scotland Yard is hunting a teenage suspect after two bombs at mainline stations injured 13 people and brought chaos to injured Life.Injure.Unspecified injured Conflict.Attack.DetonateExplode London .

The suspect in Saturday night ' s bombing in New York City that wounded 29 people bombing Conflict.Attack.DetonateExplode in a hospital recovering from wounded Life.Injure.Unspecified wounds after a shootout with police .

A Bangkok military court has indicted two men accused of carrying out the indicted Justice.ChargeIndict.Unspecified 17 bombing at a popular shrine that killed 20 bombing Conflict.Attack.DetonateExplode .

KABUL , Dec . 13 ( Xinhua ) -- Ten civilians were killed and six others wounded in a roadside bomb explosion in Afghanistan ' s killed Life.Die.Unspecified Ghazni province on wounded Life.Injure.Unspecified , an Interior Ministry explosion Conflict.Attack.DetonateExplode confirmed .

On 7 October 2019 , a suicide bomber detonated Conflict.Attack.DetonateExplode an improvised explosive device in a rickshaw in Jalalabad as a minibus carrying Afghan Army recruits passed it .

On 4 December 1971 , the Ulster Volunteer Force ( UVF ) , an Ulster loyalist paramilitary group , detonated Conflict.Attack.DetonateExplode a bomb at McGurk ' s Bar in Belfast , Northern Ireland . The pub was frequented by Irish Catholics / nationalists . The explosion Conflict.Attack.DetonateExplode caused the building to collapse ArtifactExistence.DamageDestroyDisableDismantle.Destroy , killing Life.Die.Unspecified fifteen Catholic civilians — including two children — and wounding Life.Injure.Unspecified seventeen more . It was the deadliest attack Conflict.Attack.Unspecified in Belfast during the Troubles .

DENVER - Bombing defendant Timothy McVeigh was identified Friday as the customer Bombing Conflict.Attack.DetonateExplode rented the Ryder truck identified Cognitive.IdentifyCategorize.Unspecified in the deadly attack against the Oklahoma City federal building .

All the explosions took place in first class compartments of trains at a time when a majority of Mumbaikars were returning home from office , railway control sources explosions Conflict.Attack.DetonateExplode .

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Madrid train bombings Conflict.Attack.DetonateExplode of 2004 , coordinated near - simultaneous attacks Conflict.Attack.Unspecified targeting commuter trains in Madrid on the morning of March 11 , 2004 . Beginning at 7 : 37 am and continuing for several minutes , 10 bombs exploded Conflict.Attack.DetonateExplode on four trains in and around Atocha Station in the city ’ s centre , leaving 191 dead Life.Die.Unspecified and more than 1 , 800 injured Life.Injure.Unspecified . Occurring just three days before Spain ’ s general elections , the attacks Conflict.Attack.Unspecified had major political consequences .

Scotland Yard are searching for a group of about five people , including a " baby faced " teenage youth , in the wake of two bomb explosions Conflict.Attack.DetonateExplode at King ' s Cross and Euston stations in London yesterday .

A suicide car bombing occurred Conflict.Attack.DetonateExplode in Ghazni , Afghanistan on 7 July 2019 .

Despite evidence to the contrary , the British security forces asserted that a bomb had exploded prematurely while being handled by Irish Republican Army ( IRA ) members inside the pub , implying that the victims themselves were partly to blame . A report later found that the police ( Royal Ulster Constabulary ) were biased in favour of this view , and that this hindered their investigation . The victims ' relatives allege that the security forces deliberately spread disinformation to discredit the IRA . In 1977 , UVF member exploded Conflict.Attack.DetonateExplode Campbell was sentenced to life imprisonment for his part in the bombing and served fifteen years .

Had his homemade bomb gone off Conflict.Attack.DetonateExplode — one he had diabolically constructed ArtifactExistence.ManufactureAssemble.Unspecified using shrapnel coated with a substance meant to keep blood from clotting in wounds — Kevin Harpham would have undoubtedly caused the death Life.Die.Unspecified and injury Life.Injure.Unspecified of many people at last year ’ s Martin Luther King , Jr . Day Unity March in Spokane , Washington .

The investigations have revealed that 34 people are involved in the failed assassination attempt . Of those , 14 have already appeared in court , while 27 arrest warrants have been issued , some of which have been delivered to the Interpol . On August 13 , lawmaker Juan Requesens , Colonel Pedro Zambrano , the Bolivarian National Guard ( GNB ) Division General Alejandro Pérez , Brayan Oropeza , failed assassination attempt Conflict.Attack.DetonateExplode Yanin Pernía and José Blanco , were all indicted .

SALT LAKE CITY ( AP ) — A teenager who authorities accused Justice.ChargeIndict.Unspecified of trying to blow up Conflict.Attack.DetonateExplode a homemade backpack bomb at a southern Utah high school after watching Islamic State propaganda been sentenced to four years of probation .

Bologna , August 2 , 1980 . It was a hot Saturday morning , the first weekend of Italy ’ s traditional holiday month , and thousands of vacationers jostled their way to and from the trains in Bologna ’ s central railroad station . In the midst of that noisy crowd someone stopped midway between the second - class waiting room and the coffee bar , put down a heavy suitcase , and quickly left the station . The suitcase contained over forty pounds of explosives , perhaps stable nitroglycerine , connected to a timer . At exactly 10 : 25 AM it exploded Conflict.Attack.DetonateExplode , ripping through the crowd , tearing apart the reinforced concrete walls , and bringing the roof crashing down on hundreds of bodies and parts of bodies .

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DUESSELDORF , Germany ( Reuters ) - A court on Monday sentenced Justice.Sentence.Unspecified a German man to life in prison for an attempted bomb attack Conflict.Attack.DetonateExplode on a train station in 2012 , attempted murder of the leader of a far - right anti - Muslim party and for founding a terrorist organization .

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TORONTO — An ISIL supporter detonated a detonated Conflict.Attack.DetonateExplode in a taxi after he was cornered by police on Wednesday , a source familiar with the investigation said investigation Justice.InvestigateCrime.Unspecified adding investigators were still trying to determine where he was heading .

Here is a look at some of the critical pieces of evidence presented during the trial . Taken as a whole , the evidence suggests that the plan to bomb Conflict.Attack.DetonateExplode the Boston Marathon took shape over three months .

Accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev , who was found hiding in a boat days after the blasts , left a handwritten message describing the attack as retribution for U . S . wars in attack Conflict.Attack.DetonateExplode countries , CBS News reported on Thursday .

Boston law enforcement officials say Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told the U bombing Conflict.Attack.DetonateExplode S . Federal Bureau of Investigation that he and his brother Tamerlan originally considered suicide bombings , and planning attacks on July 4 - the United attacks Conflict.Attack.DetonateExplode ' Independence Day .

This was terror in the raw unleashed on a still unhardened population . As the bombs went off in sequence , now in one part of the city , now in another , rumour took over , naked fear and anxiety . Warnings were given , perhaps deliberately erroneous , maybe not went off Conflict.Attack.DetonateExplode hoax calls , perhaps not but the effect was the same .

Afghanistan : Roadside IED blast Conflict.Attack.DetonateExplode kills Life.Die.Unspecified multiple civilians in Ghazni province August 23

An IRA member who was part of the group behind the Birmingham pub bombings Conflict.Attack.DetonateExplode has apologised .

There have been many terrible events in the history of Northern Ireland ' s conflict Conflict.Attack.Unspecified , but few have seared the collective consciousness of its people as those Conflict.Attack.DetonateExplode on Friday , 21 July 1972 , a day that became known as Bloody Friday .

DENVER ( AP ) _ Jurors on Friday saw McDonald ’ s security pictures of Timothy McVeigh holding a fruit pie and checking his watch just before he allegedly walked to a body shop and rented the truck used in the Oklahoma City bombing Conflict.Attack.DetonateExplode .

Three bombings occurred Conflict.Attack.DetonateExplode in Kabul , Afghanistan , on 25 July 2019 , killing Life.Die.Unspecified at least 15 people .

BAGHDAD ( Reuters ) - A British diplomatic vehicle was hit by an explosive device on Tuesday on the airport road in Baghdad hit Conflict.Attack.DetonateExplode no one was injured , the British Embassy in the Iraqi capital Baghdad said .

Multiple outlets , law enforcement officials , and President Obama responded throughout a manic Monday with news that a horrific looking scene made clear in downtown Boston , even as a frenzied search for more potential explosive devices continued and hospitals rushed to help survivors : The crowd at the finish line of the Boston Marathon was bombed Conflict.Attack.DetonateExplode twice in what is being described as both a coordinated " event " and " an act of terror " with more than 140 people brutally injured Life.Injure.Unspecified at eight Boston hospitals and at least three dead , including a young child .

Security forces take security measures around the site after an explosion was heard while Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was attending explosion Conflict.Attack.DetonateExplode ceremony to celebrate the 81st anniversary of the National Guard in Caracas on August 4 , 2018 .

At least 29 people suffered minor injuries Life.Injure.Unspecified in an explosion Conflict.Attack.DetonateExplode in a busy part of New York that the city ’ s mayor said Contact.Contact.Unspecified appeared to be intentional , adding there was no evidence of a “ terror connection ” .

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On 17 January 2019 , a vehicle was driven Movement.Transportation.Unspecified into the General Santander National Police Academy in Bogotá , Colombia . The truck forced its way into the facility , hit Conflict.Attack.Unspecified a wall and detonated Conflict.Attack.Unspecified , killing Life.Die.Unspecified 22 people ( including the perpetrator ) and injuring Life.Injure.Unspecified 68 others . Suicide attacks Conflict.Attack.Unspecified are unusual in Colombia . The car contained about of pentolite . It was the deadliest attack Conflict.Attack.Unspecified on the Colombian capital since the 2003 El Nogal Club bombing Conflict.Attack.DetonateExplode and the first terrorist attack Conflict.Attack.Unspecified on the capital since the 2017 Centro Andino bombing Conflict.Attack.DetonateExplode . The National Liberation Army ( ELN ) accepted responsibility for the attack Conflict.Attack.Unspecified and justified it as a response to the bombings Conflict.Attack.DetonateExplode made by the Colombian government during the unilateral ceasefire .

Al Shabaab ’ s vehicle - borne improvised explosive attacks serve as a metric to evaluate the group ’ s ability to disrupt the Somali National Army ( SNA ) and African Union Mission in Somalia ( AMISOM attacks Conflict.Attack.DetonateExplode forces and threaten the Somali Federal Government ( SFG ) .

Bogotá car bomb : Colombia blames ELN rebels for deadly explosion Conflict.Attack.DetonateExplode Published duration 18 January 2019

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Police in Lyon on Monday arrested Justice.ArrestJailDetain.Unspecified four suspects over last week ' s explosion Conflict.Attack.DetonateExplode in the heart of the French city . Investigators are treating the blast Conflict.Attack.DetonateExplode as a possible terror attack .

On February 26 , 1993 , at 12 : 18 p . m . , a small cell of terrorists , with links to a local radical mosque and broader Islamist terror networks , detonated Conflict.Attack.DetonateExplode detonated Conflict.Attack.DetonateExplode approximately 1 , 200 pounds of explosives in a rental van in the underground parking garage at the World Trade Center . The explosion created a five - story , 150 - feet - wide crater , filled with 4 , 000 tons of rubble , in the sub - grade levels of the towers and undermined the floor of an adjoining hotel .

TORONTO ( Reuters ) - A homemade bomb set off Conflict.Attack.DetonateExplode last week by a Canadian man who was apparently inspired by Islamic State , failed to fully detonate Conflict.Attack.DetonateExplode , a senior police official told the National Post newspaper on Saturday .

A man accused Justice.ChargeIndict.Unspecified of trying to ignite Conflict.Attack.DetonateExplode explosives aboard an American Airlines jet could be one of many suicide Life.Die.Unspecified recruits from London , according to the chairman of a Brixton mosque where the suspect worshipped .

( CNN ) Colombia ' s National Liberation Army ( ELN ) is claiming to have carried out the car bomb attack Conflict.Attack.DetonateExplode at a police academy in Bogota last week that left at least 20 dead Life.Die.Unspecified .

July 29 , 2011 — -- When Army Pfc . Naser Jason Abdo , accused of plotting planning a deadly bombing Conflict.Attack.DetonateExplode and shooting attack on soldiers at Fort Hood , made his first appearance in court in Waco , Texas , today , he yelled the name of accused Fort Hood shooter Major Nidal Hasan .