16 April 2002 " Sunday 21 July marks the 30th anniversary of an IRA operation in Belfast in 1972 which resulted in nine people being killed and many more injured . While it was not our intention to injure or kill non - combatants , the reality is that on this and on a number of other occasions , that was the consequence of our actions . It is therefore appropriate on the anniversary of this tragic event , that we address all of the deaths and injuries of non - combatants caused by us . We offer our sincere apologies and killedLife.Die.Unspecifiedto their families injuredLife.Injure.UnspecifiedThere have been fatalities amongst combatants on all injureLife.Injure.Unspecified. killLife.Die.Unspecifiedalso acknowledge the grief and pain of their relatives . The future will not be found in denying collective failures and mistakes or closing minds and hearts to the plight of those who have been hurt . That includes all of the victims of deathsLife.Die.Unspecifiedconflict injuriesLife.Injure.Unspecifiedcombatants and non - combatants . It will not be achieved by creating a hierarchy of victims in which some are deemed more or less worthy than others . The process of conflict resolution requires the equal acknowledgement of the grief and loss of others . On this anniversary , we are endeavouring to fulfil this responsibility to those we have hurt . The IRA hurtLife.Injure.Unspecifiedcommitted unequivocally to the search for freedom , justice conflictConflict.Attack.Unspecifiedpeace in Ireland . We remain totally committed to the peace process and to dealing with the challenges and difficulties which this presents . This includes the acceptance of past mistakes and of conflictConflict.Attack.Unspecifiedhurt and pain we have caused to others . " P O ' Neill , Irish Republican Publicity Bureau , Dublin .
On the morning of 1 March 2019 , Taliban gunmen and suicide bombers attackedConflict.Attack.UnspecifiedCamp Shorabak in Helmand Province , Afghanistan .
In the early morning of December 11 , 2019 , the Taliban attackedConflict.Attack.UnspecifiedBagram Air Base in Afghanistan , which is controlled by the United States .
The Oklahoma City bombing bombingConflict.Attack.DetonateExplodeApril 19 , 1995 was a watershed moment in American history and indelibly changed the way Americans viewed terrorism and public safety . While the effects of the bombing are well - documented , not as much attention has been paid to the motivations of the bomber , Timothy McVeigh . He was spurred to action by the events of the Waco siege , where the FBI engaged in a 51 - day standoff standoffConflict.Attack.Unspecifiedthe Branch Davidians , a small religious group suspected of owning illegal weapons . However , this was not the first incident that inspired his later actions . In 1992 , the Weaver family entered into their own standoff standoffConflict.Attack.Unspecifiedfederal agents , after Randy Weaver failed to show up to court on illegal weapons charges . Over the course of the standoff , his wife , Vicki Weaver , and twelve - year - old son Samuel were killed killedLife.Die.UnspecifiedBoth Waco and Ruby Ridge galvanized the far right , who saw it as the government using deadly force against their own citizens , who merely wished to live their lives as they saw fit . McVeigh was further influenced by The Turner Diaries , a novel in which the protagonist blows blowsConflict.Attack.DetonateExplodea government building as a part of a revolution against the government . These three factors are analyzed in regards to the influence they had on McVeigh ’ s decision to attack attackConflict.Attack.DetonateExplodeMurrah building .
There were ten times more air strikesConflict.Attack.Unspecifiedin the covert war on terror during President Barack Obama ’ s presidency than under his predecessor , George W . Bush .
A report by the United Nations Human Rights Council has called for independent investigationsJustice.InvestigateCrime.Unspecifiedto be carried out into drone attacks after a series of strikesConflict.Attack.Unspecifiedthat result in unexpected civilian deaths in Afghanistan , Pakistan , Yemen and elsewhere . Most of the attacks involved US drones .
In January 2015 , the Corinthia Hotel in Tripoli was attackedConflict.Attack.Unspecifiedby men affiliated with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant ( ISIL ) .
" The bombing of the Alfred P . Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City , bombingConflict.Attack.DetonateExplode, on April 19 , 1995 , was , at the time , the most significant act of terrorism that had ever taken place in the United States . actConflict.Attack.Unspecifiedagencies , led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) , immediately began an extensive investigation to identify and prosecute the culprits . The investigation , known as investigationCognitive.Research.Unspecified, was run by a Task Force that investigationCognitive.Research.Unspecifiedprimarily of FBI investigators and support personnel and Department of Justice prosecutors . Within a few months , three individuals - Timothy McVeigh , Terry Nichols , and Michael Fortier - were indicted for crimes relating to the bombing . McVeigh and Nichols were convicted indictedJustice.ChargeIndict.Unspecifiedtrials , and Fortier pled guilty as part of a plea convictedJustice.Convict.Unspecifiedwith the government . McVeigh , guiltyJustice.Convict.Unspecifiedhad devised the plot to bomb the Murrah Building and had planted the bomb , was sentenced to bombConflict.Attack.DetonateExplode. On May 8 , 2001 , one week before sentencedJustice.Sentence.Unspecified' s scheduled execution date , the Department of Justice and the FBI revealed to McVeigh ' s and Nichols ' attorneys that over 700 investigative revealedJustice.InvestigateCrime.Unspecifiedhad not been disclosed to the defendants before their trials . The government acknowledged that it had violated a discovery order in the case , and the Attorney General stayed McVeigh ' discoveryJustice.InvestigateCrime.Unspecifiedexecution for one month in order to resolve the legal issues arising from the belated disclosure . Following the public revelation of the problem , and after finding and releasing more than 300 additional OKBOMB documents to the defense , findingJustice.InvestigateCrime.UnspecifiedFBI came under severe criticism for its handling of the OKBOMB documents . "
There have been many terrible events in the history of Northern Ireland ' s conflictConflict.Attack.Unspecified, but few have seared the collective consciousness of its people as thoseConflict.Attack.DetonateExplodeon Friday , 21 July 1972 , a day that became known as Bloody Friday .
Obama embraced the US drone programme , overseeing more strikes in his first year than Bush carried out during his entire presidency . A total of 563 strikes , largely by drones , targeted Pakistan , Somalia and Yemen strikesConflict.Attack.UnspecifiedObama ’ s two terms , compared to 57 strikes under Bush . Between 384 and 807 strikesConflict.Attack.Unspecifiedwere killed in those countries , according to reports logged by the Bureau .
A child ' s terror as the ruthless IRA bombers strike , crystalises the anguish of the day of murder Youngest of the nine who died in the IRA holocaust - 14 year old Glynn Stephen Parker , of Belfast . Timetable of terror Between 2 . 10 and 3 . 15 on the afternoon of July 21 a total of 19 bombs exploded in various parts of Belfast . Nine people died in the explosions - seven civilians and two soldiers . The injured were - 77 women and girls and 53 men and boys . It was at first thought that 11 had died . This is the timetable of terror on this day of murderous , ruthless bombing of the civilian population : - 2 . 10 - Smithfield bus station . Explosion in strikeConflict.Attack.DetonateExplodecar left in an enclosed yard . Extensive damage to houses in nearby Samuel diedLife.Die.Unspecified. Many houses damaged . 2 . 16 - Brookvale Hotel , Brookvale Ave . , Antrim Road . Three men armed with a sub - machine gun planted a bomb in the building in a suitcase explodedConflict.Attack.DetonateExplodehotel was wrecked and adjoining houses were damaged diedLife.Die.Unspecified2 . 23 - LMS Railway Station , York Road . injuredLife.Injure.Unspecifiedin a suitcase left on the platform . Extensive damage to the station interior and the roof was blown off diedLife.Die.Unspecified2 . 45 - Star Taxis , Crumlin Road . The explosion was in bombingConflict.Attack.DetonateExplodecar beside the houses of the warders from the nearby Crumlin Road prison . ExplosionConflict.Attack.Unspecifiedblast wrecked the taxi offices and caused damages to the damageArtifactExistence.DamageDestroyDisableDismantle.Damage. 2 . 48 - Oxford Street bus station damagedArtifactExistence.DamageDestroyDisableDismantle.DamageExplosion in a car which had been driven into the rear of the station . Extensive damage to the office block and superficial damage to adjoining property . Six people killed and nearly 40 injured .
Image caption Naser Jason Abdo planned the attackConflict.Attack.Unspecifiedoutside Fort Hood so he would not have to get past security
A wave of attacksConflict.Attack.Unspecifiedacross Iraq on Monday killedLife.Die.Unspecified107 people in the country ' s deadliest day in more than two years after al - Qaida warned it would mount new attacks and sought to retake territory .
Thirteen people were injured , three seriously , in the lunchtime explosions . The attacks are the latest in the Provisional IRA ' s three week old bombing campaign in England carried out by small active service units . At King ' s injuredLife.Injure.Unspecifieda 15 to 17 - year - old youth ran attacksConflict.Attack.Unspecifiedto Platform 8 and threw a brown paper parcel into the entrance of the old booking hall at 12 . 24 p . m .