This is a timeline of incidents in 1995 that have been labelled as "terrorism" and are not believed to have been carried out by a government or its forces (see state terrorism and state-sponsored terrorism).
| Date | Type | Dead | Injured | Location | Details | Perpetrators | Part of | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 30 | Car bombing | 42 | 286 | Algiers, Algeria | January 1995 Algiers bombing A car bomb exploded near police headquarters, killing 42 and injuring another 286.[1] [2] | GIA | Algerian Civil War | |
| February 27 | Car bombing | 76 | 123 | Zakho, Iraq | 1995 Zakho bombing A car bomb exploded in a crowded marketplace, killing 77 and injuring 123 others. No one claimed responsibility but the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan was blamed.[3] [4] | PUK | Iraqi Kurdish Civil War | |
| March 20 | Gassing | 13 | 1,050+ | Tokyo, Japan | Tokyo subway sarin attack Members of Aum Shinrikyo released sarin gas onto five trains of the Tokyo subway | Aum Shinrikyo | ||
| April 19 | Truck bombing | 168 | 680+ | Oklahoma City, U.S. | The Oklahoma City bombing was a domestic terrorist bomb attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. Carried out by Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, the bombing killed 168 people and injured more than 680 others in retaliation for the U.S. federal government's handling of the Ruby Ridge and Waco sieges. The blast destroyed or damaged 324 buildings within a 16-block radius, destroyed or burned 86 cars, and shattered glass in 258 nearby buildings, causing at least an estimated $652 million worth of damage. | Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols | ||
| April 20 | Massacre | c. 300 | unknown | Atiak, Uganda | Atiak massacre | Lord's Resistance Army | Lord's Resistance Army insurgency | |
| April 28 | Shootdown | 45 | 0 | Jaffna, Sri Lanka | 1995 Sri Lanka Air Force Avro 748 (CR835) shootdown LTTE militants shot down a Sri Lankan Air Force plane with a missile shortly after the plane left Jaffna Airport. | LTTE | Sri Lankan Civil War | |
| April 29 | Shootdown | 52 | 0 | Jaffna, Sri Lanka | 1995 Sri Lanka Air Force Avro 748 (CR834) shootdown LTTE militants shot down a Sri Lankan Air Force plane that was sent to investigate the previous day's shootdown. | LTTE | Sri Lankan Civil War | |
| May 25 | Massacre | 42 | Kallarawa, Sri Lanka | Kallarawa massacre LTTE cadres attacked a fishing village, where they hacked and shot to death 42 civilians.[5] | LTTE | Sri Lankan Civil War | ||
| June 14–19 | Siege | 129-166 (+11) | 400+ | Budyonnovsk, Russia | Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis Dozens of Chechen rebels led by Shamil Basayev attacked the town before taking around 1,500-2,000 hostages at a hospital. After several days of failed negotiations, Russian police stormed the hospital and engaged in heavy gunfire with the militants. Estimates of the number of people killed range from 129 to 166. | CRI | First Chechen War | |
| June 17 | Arson | 0 | 0 | West Perth, Australia | 1995 bombing of the French Consulate in Perth, Western Australia The French consulate building was firebombed by two eco-terrorists who opposed French nuclear weapons testing . | Bosco Boscovich Maya Catts | ||
| July 4 | Kidnapping | 6 | 0 | Pahalgam, India | 1995 Kidnapping of western tourists in Kashmir Six western tourists (two British, two American, one German and one Norwegian) were kidnapped and held for ransom by Islamic radicals and murdered over the following several months. | Al-Faran | Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir | |
| July 24 | Suicide bombing | 6 (+1 perpetrator) | 30 | Tel Aviv, Israel | Ramat Gan bus bombing A Palestinian suicide bomber detonated on a bus, killing 6 and injuring 30.[6] | Hamas | Israeli–Palestinian conflict | |
| July 25 | Bombing | 8 | 80 | Paris, France | 1995 France bombings A gas bottle exploded at a train station | GIA | Algerian Civil War | |
| August 17 | Bombing | 0 | 17 | Paris, France | 1995 France bombings Bombing at the Arc de Triomphe | GIA | Algerian Civil War | |
| August 21 | Suicide bombing | 5 (+1 perpetrator) | 100 | Jerusalem, Israel | Ramat Eshkol bus bombing A Hamas suicide bomber detonated on a bus, killing 5 and injuring 100. | Hamas | Israeli–Palestinian conflict | |
| August 26 | Attempted bombing | 0 | 0 | Lyon, France | 1995 France bombings: Large bomb found and defused near railway tracks. | GIA | Algerian Civil War | |
| August 28 | Mortar | 43 | 75 | Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina | Markale massacres#Second massacre The Army of Republika Srpska launched a mortar targeting Bosniak civilians at a market, similar to an attack they launched the previous year. | VRS | Bosnian War | |
| September 3 | Bombing | 0 | 4 | Paris, France | 1995 France bombings Bombing at a square | GIA | Algerian Civil War | |
| September 7 | Car bombing | 0 | 14 | Lyon, France | 1995 France bombings: A car bomb exploded outside a Jewish school in Lyon, wounding 14 people.[7] | GIA | Algerian Civil War | |
| October | Massacres | ~120 | Eastern Province, Sri Lanka | October 1995 Eastern Sri Lanka massacres The LTTE carried out several massacres of Sinhalese civilians | LTTE | Sri Lankan Civil War | ||
| October 6 | Bombing | 0 | 13 | Paris, France | 1995 France bombings Bombing at a Paris Métro station | GIA | Algerian Civil War | |
| October 9 | Sabotage | 1 | 78 | Arizona, United States | 1995 Palo Verde, Arizona derailment Amtrak's Sunset Limited train was intentionally derailed by unknown perpetrators. Four typed notes criticizing the FBI and ATF for their handling of the Waco siege were found near the scene and signed with "Sons of the Gestapo". However no group called the "Sons of the Gestapo" has ever been uncovered. | Unknown | ||
| October 18 | Bombing | 0 | 29 | Paris, France | 1995 France bombings: A bomb was thrown at an underground commuter train. The train was derailed and damaged. No one was killed, but 29 people were injured.[8] | GIA | Algerian Civil War | |
| October 20 | Suicide car bombing | 0 (+1) | 29 | Rijeka, Croatia | 1995 Rijeka bombing A car bomb was detonated in front of a police station. The perpetrator driving the car was the sole fatality. Responsibility was claimed by al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya.[9] | al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya | Bosnian War | |
| November 4 | Assassination | 1 | 1 | Tel Aviv, Israel | Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated and his bodyguard wounded by ultranationalist Yigal Amir, who opposed Rabin's signing of the Oslo Accords. | Yigal Amir | Israeli–Palestinian conflict | |
| November 19 | Car bombing | 17 | ≈60 | Islamabad, Pakistan | Attack on the Egyptian Embassy in Pakistan Bombing of the Egyptian Embassy killed 17.[10] | Egyptian Islamic Jihad | ||
| December 11 | Car bombing | 6 | 19 | Madrid, Spain | 1995 Vallecas bombing Basque separatists bombed an army vehicle carrying civilian employees. | ETA | Basque conflict | |
| December 22 | Car bombing | 32+ | 117 | Peshawar, Pakistan | 1995 Peshawar bombing A car bomb exploded outside a department store, killing at least 32 and injuring 117 more.[11] | Unknown |