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    three attacks in the town of Carcassonne and the nearby village of Trèbes in the Aude department in southwestern France, killing four people and injuring...
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    Rigby of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, was attacked and killed by Islamist terrorists Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale near the Royal Artillery...
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    The Manchester Arena bombing, or Manchester Arena attack, was an Islamic terrorist suicide bombing of Manchester Arena in Manchester, England, on 22 May...
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    terrorist attack against civilians occurred at the Crocus City Hall music venue in Crocus City, Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast, Russia. The attack began at...
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    is around 7 km east of the centre of Carcassonne. Located on an important river crossing[citation needed], Trèbes was originally known as Tresmals (Three...
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    the deaths of 86 people and injuring 450 others. The driver was Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, a Tunisian living in France. The attack ended following an exchange...
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    November 2015 Paris attacks, the 2024 Kerman bombings in Iran, and the 2024 Crocus City Hall attack in Russia. Lone wolf attacks inspired by the group...
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    series of coordinated Islamist terrorist attacks took place on Friday, 13 November 2015 in Paris, France, and the city's northern suburb, Saint-Denis....
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    first Islamist suicide attack. The explosions were caused by improvised explosive devices made from concentrated hydrogen peroxide and pepper, packed into...
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  • (100 ft) of corridor and advance up a well-defended staircase before they could reach the hall in which the hostages were held. The attackers had numerous explosives...
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    shooting attack by two French-born Algerian Muslim brothers, Saïd Kouachi [ar; de; fa; fr] and Chérif Kouachi [ar; de; fa; fr]. Armed with rifles and other...
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    Neolithic Period, Carcassonne is located in the plain of the Aude between historic trade routes, linking the Atlantic to the Mediterranean Sea and the Massif...
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    public" and insecurity at his own home. MPs are protected by armed police within Parliament, with security tightened after the 2017 Westminster attack. They...
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    injured, including the assailant. French, American and British passengers confronted the attacker and subdued him. For their heroism, they received France's...
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    Bauernmarkt [de], and Graben. The attacker was armed with a rifle, a handgun, and a machete and was wearing a fake explosive belt. The attack ended when the...
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    2003 Istanbul bombings (category Attacks on religious buildings and structures in Turkey)
    a series of suicide attacks carried out with trucks fitted with bombs detonated at four locations in Istanbul, Turkey, on 15 and 20 November 2003. On...
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  • Beslan massacre, was an Islamic terrorist attack that started on 1 September 2004. It lasted three days, and involved the imprisonment of more than 1,100...
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  • Toulouse and Montauban shootings were a series of Islamist terrorist attacks committed by Mohammed Merah in March 2012 in the cities of Montauban and Toulouse...
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    On 23 June 2024, coordinated attacks were launched in the cities of Derbent and Makhachkala in the Russian republic of Dagestan in the North Caucasus....
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    Spain killing 13 people and injuring at least 130 others, one of whom died 10 days later on 27 August. Abouyaaqoub fled the attack on foot, then killed another...
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    deadliest attacks of this period were the 2004 Madrid train bombings, which killed 193 civilians (the deadliest Islamist attack in Europe), and the 7 July...
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    carried out a knife and hammer attack against three people near the Pont de Bir-Hakeim in Paris, France, killing one of them. The attack was ruled an act...
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  • Murder of Samuel Paty (category Stabbing attacks in 2020)
    pronunciation: [samɥɛl pati]), a French secondary school teacher, was attacked and killed in Éragny, Val-d'Oise, Île-de-France, France, by an Islamic terrorist...
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    of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), claimed the attacker was an ISIS fighter. French police and prosecutors are investigating the attack as terrorism, and have launched...
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    Islamist terrorist attacks. According to Fondapol, a French think tank, between 1979 and May 2021, at least 48,035 Islamist terrorist attacks took place worldwide...
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    organisation and believe Masood acted alone. Prior to the attack, the UK Threat Level for terrorism in the country was listed at "severe", meaning an attack was...
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  • women were killed in the attack and eight people sustained injuries. Police were informed at 16:02. Three minutes later the attacker, Abderrahman Bouanane...
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    the Carcassonne and Trèbes attack was conducted by a lone attacker who pledged allegiance to ISIL. Four persons and the attacker were killed and 25 injured...
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    The Atatürk Airport attack, consisting of shootings and suicide bombings, occurred on 28 June 2016 at Atatürk Airport in Istanbul, Turkey. Gunmen armed...
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    GIGN (category Units and formations of the French Gendarmerie)
    for the Carcassonne and Trèbes attack in March 2018 (a former EPIGN officer, Arnaud Beltrame, voluntarily swapped places with a hostage and was killed...
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