List of terrorist actions against the Mourning of Muharram contain actions like kill, bodily harm or bombing or attack with a target of holding Mourning of Muharram.
The following is a list of terrorist incidents and arrests.
Country | Date | Article | Description | Dead | Injured | Status |
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Iraq | March 2007 | on 6 March 2007, nearly 200 people were killed and 115 were wounded in suicide bomb attacks on Shia pilgrims who headed to the city of Kerbala to commemorate a religious event in Hilla, Iraq.[1] | 200 | 115 | ||
Iran | April 2008 | 2008 Shiraz explosion | On 12 April 2008, Fourteen people were killed and 202 were injured by bombing an explosion that happened during prayers at the Hussainiya Seyed al-Shohada Mosque in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz.[2] | 14 | 202 | |
Iran | December 2010 | 2010 Chabahar suicide bombing | on 14 December 2010, 41 people were killed and 100 were wounded[3] in suicide bomb attacks on crowded Shia Muslim mourning procession in the southeastern Iranian coastal city of Chabahar, outside Imam Hussain Mosque.[4] | 41 | 100 | |
Iraq | January 2011 | January 2011 Iraq suicide attacks | On 19 January 2011, during a suicide bombing Ghalbiyah, two people killed and injured 15 out of a crowd marching from Baghdad to Karbala.[5] | 2 | 15 | |
Iraq | January 2011 | January 2011 Iraq suicide attacks | On 20 January 2011, at least 56 people were killed by two car bombs detonation near Karbala and 3 people were killed in Baquba during the holy commemorates of Arbaeen.[6] [7] | 59 | ||
Iraq | January 2011 | 24 January 2011 Iraq bombings | On 24 January 2011 in car bombs detonation incident a few hours apart, along the path of the Arbaeen Pilgrimage and a bus terminal to the east of Karbala, 25 people were killed and nearly 14 wounded.[8] | 25 | 14 | |
Iraq | June 2014 | Camp Speicher massacre | On 12 June 2014, ISIL killed at least 1,566 Shia Iraqi Air Force cadets in an attack on Camp Speicher in Tikrit. At the time of the attack there were between 4,000 and 11,000 unarmed cadets in the camp. This is the second deadliest terrorist attack in history and the deadliest attack conducted by ISIL. | 1,566–1,700 | Unknown | In retaliation Iraqi government launched counter offences against ISIL. New mass graves of ISIL victims were also discovered in Tikrit.[9] |
Afghanistan | August 2018 | August 2018 Kabul suicide bombing | A suicide bombing occurred on Wednesday 15 August 2018 in the Shia region of Kabul took place.[10] Afghanistan's Ministry of Public Health reported that 48 people including 34 students were killed and 67 were injured.[11] The responsibility was claimed by ISIS.[12] | 48 | 67 | ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack. |