July 11, 2006, India: Muslim terrorist attacks on rail system in Mumbai kills 182 people, injures 770.
November 9, 2005, Jordan: Coordinated bombings at three Western hotels in central Amman kill at least 67 people and leave another 150 wounded in early reports.
October 29, 2005, India: Three blasts in New Delhi ahead of Hindu Diwali festival kill 59 people and wound 210 more.
October 13, 2005, Russia: A large unit of suspected Islamic militants attacks Russia's North Caucasus city of Nalchik, with a reported 130 people reported killed before security forces repulse the group in fierce street fighting.
October 1, 2005, Indonesia: Three suicide bombers kill 22 in triple blasts on Indonesia's resort island of Bali. Al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah, a Southeast Asian militant group, is suspected.
July 23, 2005, Egypt: At least 64 people including foreign tourists are killed in a series of bombings in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el Sheikh.
July 7, 2005, Britain: In Western Europe's first suicide bombings, four Moslems blow themselves up on London's transport system. The attacks on three underground trains and a bus kill 56 people and injure 700.
October 10, 2004, Egypt: Twin attacks on resorts in Sinai leave 32 dead, injure 120.
September 1, 2004, Russia: A group of 30 armed men and women seize a school on the first day of autumn classes at Beslan in the southern Russian region of North Ossetia, taking 1,100 hostages. More than 300 children and adults are killed in a bloody end to the siege.
August 24, 2004, Russia: Two Russian airliners crash within an hour of each other in the south of the country after explosives are detonated on board. A total of 90 people confirmed dead.
May 29, 2004, Saudi Arabia: Twenty-two people, mainly foreigners, die in attacks on an office and an apartment block used by Westerners in al-Khobar.
March 11, 2004, Spain: Ten bombs explode on four commuter trains in Madrid killing 191 people. The attack is blamed on Moroccan Islamists. Suspects escape, but several later are killed in explosions.
November 20, 2003, Turkey: Bombs explode outside British-run buildings in Istanbul killing at least 33 people. Five days earlier, more than 20 passersby were killed in attacks on two synagogues.
May 16, 2003, Morocco: Forty-five people die in five attacks by Islamists on Western and Jewish targets in the port city of Casablanca.
May 12, 2003, Saudi Arabia: Thirty-five people are killed in a series of bomb attacks on residential compounds housing mainly foreigners in the Saudi capital of Riyadh.
November 28, 2002, Kenya: Three suicide-bombers blow up a car outside an Israeli tourist hotel in the resort of Mombasa, killing 18 people.
October 12, 2002, Indonesia: Double bomb attack on discotheques on the island of Bali claim 202 lives.
April 11, 2002, Tunisia: A suicide-bomber blows himself up in an attack on a synagogue on the island of Djerba, killing 21 people.
September 11, 2001, United States: Islamic terrorists hijack four U.S. passenger planes. Two are crashed into the twin towers of New York's World Trade Centre, one targets the Pentagon in Washington while the fourth crashes in a field in Pennsylvania. Around 3,000 people die.
