July 23, 2005
At least 64 people – including 17 foreigners – die when explosions rip through the Egyptian resort at Sharm el-Sheikh.

July 7, 2005
Fifty-two people are killed and dozens more are injured when four suicide bombers blow themselves up on London subways and a bus.

Oct. 7, 2004
Three suicide car bombings kill 34 people at the Eqyptian resorts at Taba and Ras Shitan.

March 11, 2004
Bombs rip through four commuter trains in Madrid, killing 191 people. More than 1,600 are wounded.

Nov. 15, 2003
Car bombs explode outside two synagogues in Istanbul, killing 23 people as well as the two bombers.

Nov. 20, 2003
Again in Istanbul, trucks packed with explosives explode outside a London-based bank and the British Consulate, killing more than two dozen people and wounding nearly 450.

Aug. 5, 2003
In Jakarta, a suicide bomber kills 12 people and wounds 150 at the Marriott hotel.

May 16, 2003
Bomb attacks in Morocco kill at least 28 people.

May 12, 2003
Four explosions go off in compounds housing Americans, other Westerners and Saudis in Riyadh. The attack kills 35 people, including eight Americans.

Dec. 30, 2002
A gunman kills three American missionaries at a Southern Baptist Hospital in Yemen.

Nov. 28, 2002
Suicide bombers kill 12 people at an Israeli-owned beach hotel in Kenya. Two missiles are fired at an airliner carrying Israelis on holiday. The missiles miss their target.

Oct. 12, 2002
Bombs are detonated in a nightclub district on the Indonesian Island of Bali. Nearly 200 people are killed. Many of the dead are foreigners, mainly Australian.

Sept. 11, 2001
Hijackers fly two jetliners into the World Trade Center in New York. A third jet hits the Pentagon in Washington. A fourth hijacked jet is forced to crash land in a field in Pennsylvania after the hijackers are overpowered. Nearly 3,000 people die in the attacks.

Oct. 12, 2000
Suicide attackers ram a boat loaded with explosives into the American destroyer, USS Cole, off Yemen. Seventeen American sailors die.

Aug. 7, 1998
Car bombings at the U.S. embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, kill 231 people, including 12 Americans.