| +Terrorist incidents by country in 2014[1] [2] | Country | Number of incidents | Deaths | Injuries |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iraq | 3,925 | 13,076 | 16,735 | |
| Pakistan | 2,147 | 2,412 | 3,395 | |
| Afghanistan | 1,820 | 5,413 | 5,111 | |
| Ukraine | 891 | 1,396 | 1,220 | |
| Somalia | 862 | 1,582 | 780 | |
| India | 860 | 490 | 776 | |
| Yemen | 761 | 1,348 | 1,305 | |
| Libya | 730 | 697 | 893 | |
| Nigeria | 713 | 7,773 | 2,283 | |
| Philippines | 597 | 472 | 723 | |
| Thailand | 423 | 192 | 651 | |
| Egypt | 346 | 338 | 547 | |
| Syria | 328 | 3,301 | 1,980 | |
| Israel | 293 | 49 | 152 | |
| Colombia | 230 | 143 | 314 | |
| Lebanon | 204 | 132 | 532 | |
| Sudan | 157 | 546 | 320 | |
| West Bank and Gaza Strip | 134 | 67 | 94 | |
| Bangladesh | 130 | 38 | 114 | |
| Kenya | 115 | 315 | 408 | |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | 109 | 366 | 170 | |
| United Kingdom | 103 | 0 | 4 | |
| Central African Republic | 94 | 751 | 298 | |
| Turkey | 90 | 38 | 81 | |
| Mali | 68 | 123 | 221 | |
| Cameroon | 67 | 788 | 18 | |
| Russia | 48 | 67 | 88 | |
| Bahrain | 41 | 9 | 39 | |
| South Sudan | 39 | 908 | 601 | |
| China | 37 | 322 | 478 | |
| Indonesia | 33 | 19 | 30 | |
| Ireland | 33 | 0 | 1 | |
| United States | 26 | 19 | 6 | |
| Greece | 26 | 0 | 4 | |
| Tunisia | 23 | 43 | 64 | |
| Mozambique | 22 | 22 | 60 | |
| South Africa | 20 | 9 | 8 | |
| Chile | 17 | 1 | 26 | |
| Sri Lanka | 16 | 3 | 65 | |
| Paraguay | 15 | 6 | 2 | |
| France | 14 | 1 | 15 | |
| Saudi Arabia | 14 | 20 | 23 | |
| Algeria | 13 | 37 | 30 | |
| Germany | 13 | 0 | 0 | |
| Malaysia | 12 | 1 | 4 | |
| Peru | 12 | 4 | 12 | |
| Tanzania | 11 | 4 | 43 | |
| Iran | 10 | 13 | 6 | |
| Myanmar | 10 | 15 | 35 | |
| Maldives | 9 | 0 | 0 | |
| Australia | 8 | 4 | 7 | |
| Nepal | 7 | 0 | 7 | |
| Italy | 7 | 0 | 3 | |
| Uganda | 6 | 98 | 16 | |
| Sweden | 5 | 0 | 1 | |
| Cyprus | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| Burundi | 5 | 4 | 1 | |
| Niger | 5 | 11 | 9 | |
| Mexico | 5 | 1 | 2 | |
| Czech Republic | 5 | 1 | 1 | |
| Japan | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| Venezuela | 4 | 1 | 1 | |
| Kosovo | 4 | 2 | 3 | |
| Jordan | 3 | 1 | 7 | |
| Azerbaijan | 3 | 0 | 1 | |
| Spain | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 3 | 0 | 4 | |
| Brazil | 3 | 2 | 0 | |
| Macedonia | 3 | 0 | 5 | |
| Canada | 3 | 7 | 6 | |
| Rwanda | 2 | 1 | 16 | |
| Kyrgyzstan | 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| Senegal | 2 | 7 | 3 | |
| Nicaragua | 2 | 5 | 28 | |
| Albania | 2 | 1 | 2 | |
| United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1 | 0 | |
| Belgium | 2 | 4 | 3 | |
| Ethiopia | 2 | 9 | 6 | |
| Georgia | 2 | 0 | 1 | |
| Dominican Republic | 1 | 0 | 35 | |
| Djibouti | 1 | 5 | 15 | |
| Jamaica | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Liberia | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Honduras | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Hungary | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ghana | 1 | 0 | 3 | |
| New Zealand | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Iceland | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Malta | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Bhutan | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Netherlands | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Tajikistan | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Madagascar | 1 | 1 | 31 | |
| Turkmenistan | 1 | 3 | 2 | |
| Chad | 1 | 6 | 0 | |
| Ivory Coast | 1 | 4 | 0 | |
| Zimbabwe | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Total | 16,840 | 43,550 | 40,989 |
This is a list of terrorist incidents which took place in 2014, including attacks by violent non-state actors for political motives. Note that terrorism related to drug wars and cartel violence is not included in these lists. Ongoing military conflicts are listed separately.
| Date | Type | data-sort-type="number" | Dead | data-sort-type="number" | Injured | Location | Article | Details | Perpetrator | Part of |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 15 | Car bombings | 40 | 88 | Baghdad, Iraq | January 15, 2014 Baghdad bombings | Six car bombs targeting open-stall markets and commercial areas exploded.[3] [4] [5] | Unknown | Iraqi Civil War | ||
| Jan 19 | Bombing | 20 | 24 | Bannu, Pakistan | 2014 Bannu bombing | An explosion targeted a military convoy as it began to leave Bannu going to Razmak. 20 soldiers were killed.[6] | Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan | War in North-West Pakistan | ||
| Jan 24 | Truck bombing, other explosions | 6 | 100 | Cairo, Egypt | January 2014 Cairo bombings | A truck bomb exploded next to Police Headquarters, killing four people and damaging the police building and the Islamic Museum severely. Three more explosions occurred targeting police stations or vehicles, killing an additional two people.[7] | Ansar Beit al-Maqdis | Sinai insurgency | ||
| Jan 26 | Massacre | 85 | 50 | Kawuri, Borno State, Nigeria | Kawuri massacre | An attack occurred some 37 kilometers southeast of Maiduguri.[8] [9] | Unknown | Boko Haram insurgency | ||
| Mar 1 | Knife assault on train station | 28 | 113 | Kunming, China | 2014 Kunming attack | A terrorist squad of suspected Uyghur separatists attacked the city's largest metro train station with knives, stabbing civilians waiting for trains or disembarking from trains. Police arrived and shot dead five attackers and arrested three other suspects the next day. It was the worst separatist terrorist attack in China.[10] | East Turkestan Islamic Movement (suspected) | Xinjiang conflict | ||
| Mar 18 | Suicide car bombing | 27+ | Unknown | Buloburde, Somalia | 2014 Hotel Amalo attack | Car loaded with explosives detonated outside the Hotel Amalo.[11] The hotel was used by African and Somali troops who had taken the city from Al-Shabaab a week earlier. The suicide bomber was identified as an emigrant to Norway.[12] [13] | Burhan Ahmed Abdule | Somali Civil War | ||
| Mar 20 | Gun attack | 9 (+4 attackers) | 2 | Kabul, Afghanistan | 2014 Kabul Serena Hotel attack | Gunmen stormed the Kabul Serena Hotel, frequented by foreign nationals. In the ensuing gun battle with security forces, four attackers were killed. Among the dead was an Agence France-Presse reporter, his family, and two Canadian citizens.[14] | Taliban | War in Afghanistan | ||
| Apr 14 | Bombing | 71 | 124 | Abuja, Nigeria | April 2014 Nyanya bombing | Two bombs detonated at a bus station.[15] | Boko Haram (Suspected) | Boko Haram insurgency | ||
| Apr 14 | Kidnapping | Unknown | Unknown | Chibok, Nigeria | Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping | Approximately 276 female students were kidnapped from a school.[16] | Boko Haram | |||
| May 1 | Bombing | >19 | >60 | New Nyanya, Nigeria | May 2014 Nyanya bombing | A car bomb exploded in a suburb of Abuja.[17] | Boko Haram | Boko Haram insurgency | ||
| May 1–3 | Attack | 32 (+3 suspects) | n/a | Baksa and Kokrajhar, Assam, India | May 2014 Assam violence | On May 1, Insurgents on bicycles raided the Narsingbari village of Baksa district opening fire on a house, killing three women and injuring two others. On 2 May, another group of insurgents opened fire at three houses in Balapara village of Kokrajhar district, killing seven people. On the evening of the same day, another group killed 12 people and burnt down 30 thatched houses near Baksa's Manas National Park.[18] On 3 May, four insurgents attacked police in the forest near Tejpur. Police fired in retaliation, killing two, while two others escaped. Police also killed one more suspect in Udalguri district.[19] | National Democratic Front of Bodoland | |||
| May 22 | Bombing | 31 | >90 | Ürümqi, China | May 2014 Ürümqi attack | Attackers crashed two vehicles into a shoppers market. The assailants also threw explosives.[20] | East Turkestan Islamic Movement | Xinjiang conflict | ||
| May 24 | Shooting | 4 | 0 | Brussels, Belgium | Jewish Museum of Belgium shooting | A man opened fire in the Jewish Museum. On May 30, a former volunteer fighter for Islamist rebels in the Syrian Civil War was arrested at a bus station in Marseille.[21] | Mehdi Nemmouche | Islamic Terrorism in Europe | ||
| Jun 4 | Shooting | 3 | 2 | Moncton, Canada | 2014 Moncton shootings | An assailant opened fire on Royal Canadian Mounted Police constables. Three constables were killed and two others were wounded. The attacker stated that the attack was carried out in order to urge others to fight against military personnel, who protect government institutions, as well as the rich.[22] | Justin Bourque | Terrorism in Canada | ||
| Jun 8 | Shooting | 3 (+2 terrorists) | 0 | Las Vegas, Nevada, United States | 2014 Las Vegas shootings | Two lone wolf attackers killed two police officers as they were eating lunch, then went to a nearby Walmart and killed a shopper before both killing themselves.[23] | Lone wolf Sovereign Citizen Movement | |||
| Jun 10 | Massacre | 670 | Badush, Iraq | Badush prison massacre | Attack on a prison.[24] | Islamic State | Iraqi Civil War | |||
| Jun 12 | Massacre | 1,095-1,700 | Tikrit, Iraq | Camp Speicher massacre | ISIS militants massacre at least 1,000 unarmed Iraqi cadets. | Islamic State | Northern Iraq offensive | |||
| Jun 15 | Attack | 48–59 | n/a | Mpeketoni, Kenya | Mpeketoni attacks | Gunmen entered the town and took people hostage.[25] | Al-Shabaab | |||
| Aug 4 | Vehicular assault | 1 (+1 terrorist) | 6 | Jerusalem, Israel | 2014 Jerusalem tractor attack | A Palestinian attacker rammed the front end of a massive construction excavator into an Israeli bus, overturning the vehicle and killing a pedestrian before he was shot and killed by a police officer.[26] | Palestinian assailant | Israeli–Palestinian conflict | ||
| Sep 23 | Melee attack | attacker | 2 | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia | 2014 Endeavour Hills stabbings | An 18-year-old stabbed two counter-terrorism officers in Endeavour Hills, a suburb of Melbourne. He was then shot dead.[27] | Numan Haider (Numan Haider) | Terrorism in Australia | ||
| Oct 20 | Vehicular assault | 1 (+1 attacker) | 1 | Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, Canada | 2014 Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu ramming attack | A radicalized Islamic convert attacked 2 soldiers with his car, killing Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent.[28] Couture-Rouleau died after being shot by the police.[29] | Martin Couture-Rouleau | |||
| Oct 22 | Shooting | 1 (+1 attacker) | 3 | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | 2014 shootings at Parliament Hill, Ottawa | An Islamic convert attacked the National War Memorial with a rifle, killing military reservist Cpl. Nathan Cirillo. The attacker then ran into Parliament Hill and was shot and killed by House of Commons sergeants-at-arms, and the RCMP.[30] Event found unrelated to prior terrorist attack[31] | Michael Zehaf-Bibeau (lone wolf) | |||
| Oct 22 | Vehicular assault | 2 (+1 attacker) | 7 | East Jerusalem | October 2014 Jerusalem vehicular attack | A driver rammed his vehicle into a group of people waiting on the platform for the Jerusalem Light Rail, killing a three-month-old female infant.[32] Four days later an Ecuadorean tourist died from her injuries.[33] | Hamas operative | Israeli–Palestinian conflict | ||
| Oct 23 | Melee attack | 1 (attacker) | 3 | Queens, New York | 2014 NYC hatchet attack | A radicalized Islamic convert charged at four NYPD officers with a hatchet. He injured two of them, and was shot and killed by the other two. A bystander was shot by police.[34] | Zale F. Thompson | |||
| Nov 5 | Vehicular assault | 3 (+1 attacker) | 14 | Jerusalem, Israel | November 2014 Jerusalem vehicular attack | A Palestinian plowed his vehicle into a crowd of people at a light rail station.[35] | Ibrahim al-Akri (lone wolf) | Israeli–Palestinian conflict | ||
| Nov 10 | Melee assault | 1 | 0 | Tel Aviv, Israel | Killing of Sergeant Almog Shiloni | An IDF soldier died after being stabbed multiple times in an attack at Hahagana train station.[36] | Lone wolf | Israeli–Palestinian conflict | ||
| Nov 11 | Melee attack | 1 (+1 perpetrator | 2 | Alon Shvut, West Bank | 2014 Alon Shvut stabbing attack | A Palestinian tried to run people over with his car at a bus stop and hit a concrete barrier. He then jumped out of the car and stabbed a woman and two men who were standing there. The woman died and the men were injured.[37] | Maher al-Hashlamun lone wolf) | |||
| Nov 18 | Shooting, Melee attack | 6 (+2 attackers) | 6 | Jerusalem, Israel | 2014 Jerusalem synagogue attack | Two activists entered a synagogue with knives, axes and at least one gun. The terrorists opened fire and began swinging their axes indiscriminately. Police nearby rushed in and killed them. Four worshippers were killed and at least eight wounded, one seriously.[38] [39] He later succumbed to his injuries.[40] | Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine | Israeli–Palestinian conflict | ||
| Nov 23 | Suicide bombing | 61 | Yahyakhel District, Afghanistan | 2014 Yahyakhel suicide bombing | Suicide bomber detonated his explosives at a volleyball match. Many children were among the dead and wounded.[41] | Haqqani network | War in Afghanistan | |||
| Dec 13 | Kidnapping | 32 | 185 kidnapped[42] | Gumsuri, Borno State, Nigeria | 2014 Gumsuri kidnappings | Boko Haram | Boko Haram insurgency | |||
| Dec 15 | Shooting, Hostage taking | 2 (+1 attacker) | 4 | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | 2014 Sydney hostage crisis | An Iranian-Australian self-proclaimed sheikh and ISIS sympathizer took 17 people hostage inside the Lindt Chocolat Cafe at Martin Place for 16 hours before a shootout with police, resulting in the death of 2 hostages.[43] | Mon Haron Monis | |||
| Dec 16 | Suicide Bombing | 25+[44] [45] [46] | Rada' District, Yemen | 2014 Rada' bombings | Attacks on Houthi militants with two bombs. The first struck a gathering point where a group of Houthis were located; the second did not make it far enough and blew up next to a bus carrying children from school.[47] [48] [49] | AQAP | Houthi insurgency in Yemen | |||
| Dec 16 | Suicide bombing, Mass shooting, | 144 | 114 | Peshawar, Pakistan | 2014 Peshawar school massacre | Seven gunmen dressed in military uniforms scaled the walls to the Army Public School opening fire on students and teachers and planting bombs in classrooms. 132 children were among the dead.[50] | Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan | War in North-West Pakistan | ||
| Dec 22 | Bombing | 27 | 60 | Gombe, Gombe State, Nigeria | 2014 Gombe bus station bombing | A bomb exploded in a bus station.[51] | Unknown | |||
| Dec 28–29 | Shooting | 84 | 3 | Mozogo district, Far North Region, Cameroon | December 2014 Cameroon clashes | Militants burned down a village.[52] [53] | Boko Haram (suspected) | Boko Haram insurgency |
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