Ansbach bomber 'pledged allegiance to Isil' in video found by German investigators Can't you just feel the love? More after the break. Note: American attacks are not included. January 7, 2015 | Charlie Hebdo, Paris
Saïd and Chérif Kouachi shoot dead 12 people at the offices of satirical magazine. Islamist terrorist group Al-Qaeda's branch in Yemen claimed responsibility for the attack. January 8, 2015 | Jewish supermarket, Paris Amedy Coulibaly killed a policewoman before entering a Jewish supermarket in Paris where he shot dead four others. Both Coulibaly and the Kouachi brothers were later shot dead by police. Coulibaly had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State and was a close friend of Charlie Hebdo gunmen Saïd Kouachi and Chérif Kouachi, whom he had met in jail in 2005 June 26, 2015 | Sousse, Tunisia Armed gunman Seifeddine Rezgui Yacoubi went on a shooting rampage at the tourist resort of Port El Kantaoui, killing 38 people – 30 of whom were British. Yacoubi, who had pledged allegiance to Islamic State, was killed by security forces during an exchange of fire. June 26, 2015 | Chemical factory, near Grenoble One man was beheaded and several others were injured. Yassine Salhi – who had links to Islamic State – was arrested and later committed suicide in prison. August 21, 2015 | Amsterdam to Paris train Three off-duty American marines overpowered an armed gunman on a high-speed train from Amsterdam to Paris. The suspect – Moroccan man Ayoub El Khazzani – was later arrested in Arras, northern France. No group officially claimed responsibility, but El Khazzani was thought to have been radicalised via online extremism. November 13, 2015 | Restaurants, Bataclan and Stade de France, Paris Scores were killed as men armed with Kalashnikovs and grenades carried out a series of attacks at restaurants, a concert hall and outside the Stade de France in Paris. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack January 7, 2016 | Istanbul suicide bombing This was the first major attack to hit Istanbul in its popular Sultanahmet district, close to the Hagia Sophia. The attacker was Nabil Fadli, a Syrian member of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). March 19, 2016 | Istanbul blast on popular street 5 dead, 36 injured. A suicide bomber hit İstiklal Avenue, one of the city's most popular shopping streets filled with cafes, restaurants and foreign consulates. Officials said Isil was to blame. March 22, 2016 | Brussels attacks Belgian capital is hit by attacks on Zaventem airport and the city's metro system, near a station close to European Union buildings. The perpetrators belonged to a terrorist cell which had been involved in the November 2015 Paris attacks, with links to Islamic State. June 7, 2016 | Car bomb in Istanbul 11 dead, dozens injured. A rush-hour car bomb ripped through central Istanbul, killing 11 people and wounding dozens more in one of the worst terror attacks on the city for nearly a decade. Kurdish militant group TAK claimed responsibility June 13, 2016 | Residential home, near Paris Police officer Jean-Baptiste Salvaing and his wife, police secretary Jessica Schneider, were stabbed to death inside their home near Paris by a man who said he had pledged allegiance to Islamic State. June 28, 2016 | Suicide bombing at Istanbul airport 41 dead, 239 injured. Three attackers detonated explosives after opening fire at Ataturk Airport. The attackers, who arrived by taxi, were reportedly trying to pass through the x-ray machines when stopped by security officials, which started a gun fight. The suicide bombs caused chaos and carnage, killing an estimated 41 people and injuring at least 239. Islamic State blamed. July 14, 2016 | Promenade des Anglais, Nice Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel killed 84 and injured scores more when he drove a lorry into a crowd of Bastille Day revellers in Nice. Thought to have links with Islamic State. July 22 | Munich Teenage gunman Ali Sonboly murders nine people and injures dozens more after luring children to a McDonald's restaurant in the city via Facebook. It appears the Iranian-German 18-year-old had been planning the attack for over a year and had literature about school attacks in America. July 24 | Ansbach A suicide bomber blew himself up after being turned away from a music festival in southern Germany. He was a Syrian man who had been denied asylum. The 27-year-old killed himself and injured 12 others when he detonated an explosive device after he was denied entry to the event in Ansbach, Bavaria, attended by around 2,500 people.
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