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Revision as of 11:36, 21 January 2011
This is a timeline of violent attacks which took place in 2011 including attacks by state and non-state actors for political, criminal or unknown motives.
Ongoing conflicts are listed separately rather than including each individual incident.
Ongoing conflicts
Conflicts which are ongoing in 2011:
Irish conflict, 1916
Civil strife between the predominantly Catholic-Republicans and Protestant Loyalists continues despite Good Friday Agreement.
Basque conflict, 1959
Basque seperatists began a campaign for seperation during the authorian rule of General Francisco Franco. The insurgency faces its most lethal year after Franco's death. Currently ETA have declared an indefinate ceasefire.
Middle East conflict, 1948/1967
Ever since the founding of the state of Israel in 1948, the country has, at some point, been in conflict with neighbours pending resolution thereof. However, Egypt and Jordan have since signed peace deals, though conflicts with at least Syria and Lebanon remain, as well as more general non-recognition with other Arab states.
The current phase of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict began with the Blockade of the Gaza strip in June 2007. (See List of Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel, 2011 and List of Israeli attacks on Palestinians, 2011.)
Naxalite-Maoist insurgency, 1967
Communist Party of India (Maoist) continue to agitate against caste and other socio-economic equalities in a continuation of the old Naxal fight after 2002.[clarification needed]
Insurgency in the Philippines, 1969
An Islamist insurgency continues against the predominantly Catholic national government in part of the country. There is also a simulataneous Communist insurgency backed by affiliates of the Community Party of the Philippines, of which the Zlez Boncayao Brigade is largely defunct, though the New People's Army is still active.
Kashmir insurgency, 1989
Kashmiri seperatists started an movement for independence in 1989 following the jihad in Afghanistan where scores of Muslim fighters from over the world gathered.
Somali Civil War, 1991
Rebels continue to fight the Transitional Federal Government following the removal of a de jure government in 1991 and UN intervention. On numerous intermediate occasions have Islamist rebels continued battles either with the central government of foreign powers such as Ethiopia.
Piracy, April 10, 2004
Pirates, mostly in the de facto state of Puntland in Somalia, continue to hijack ships in the Gulf of Aden and wider, mostly north-western, Indian Ocean.
War in Afghanistan, October 2001
The current phase of the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan began with the US led invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001.
Iraq war, March 2003
This began with the US led invasion of Iraq in March 2003. See Timeline of the Iraq War
South Thailand insurgency, 7 November, 2004
Ethnic Malays in Thailand began an insurgency in demand of secession from Buddhist-dominated Thailand in support of either independence or unification with Malaysia.
2010–2011 Ivorian crisis, 3/4 December 2010
After the Presidential election in Ivory Coast two different candidates have been declared the winner by rival electoral authorities.
Tunisian protests, 18 December, 2010
These began amidst rural protests when Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in protest at the government. Protests grew after this and on Jan 14, 2011 President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and his government resigned. Elections have been announced for March 2011 but unrest continues.
January
Date | Type | Dead | Injured | Location | Details | Perpetrator[nb 1] | State | Non-state |
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1 | Car bomb | 21 | 97 | ![]() |
A bomb outside a Coptic Orthodox church, where worshippers gathered to celebrate mass on New Year's Eve. "This act of terrorism shook the country's conscience, shocked our feelings and hurt the hearts of Muslim and Coptic Egyptians," said President Mubarak of Egypt.[1] | Al Qaeda in Iraq | ![]() | |
1 | Drone bombing | 19 | ![]() |
Drone missiles targeted a vehicle and compound in Mandi Khel killing nine people. Two hours later, similar drones again struck the same area killing at least five more people as part of the recovery effort. Pakistani officials suggested they could have links to a Taliban commander, [[Hafiz Gul Bahadur]. A third raid occurred on the same day as a moving vehicle was targeted.[2] | United States Central Intelligence Agency | ![]() |
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4 | Assassination | 1 | 0 | ![]() |
Salman Taseer, a high ranking member of the Pakistani Prime Minister's party and governor of the Punjab province was shot and killed by his bodyguard as he stepped out of his car in Islamabad. It is believed he was assassinated for his opposition to Pakistan's blasphamy law.[3][4] | Lone wolf | ![]() | |
7, 8 | Kidnapping | 9 | ![]() |
Two Frenchmen were kidnapped in Niamey. When the Niger army caught up with the kidnappers next day 4 suspected kidnappers and 3 Niger soldiers died in the shootout and the 2 Frenchmen were found dead. Al Qaida in Niger claimed responsibility. 5 other foreigners, kidnapped earlier, remain in the hands of kidnappers in Niger.[5] | Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb/Government of Niger/Government of France | ![]() |
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8 | Attempted Assassination | 6 | 14 | ![]() |
Jared Lee Loughner attempted to assassinate Democratic United States Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords at a constituent event in Tucson, Arizona. Giffords received a critical gunshot wound to the head but survived the attempt. After shooting Giffords, Loughner went on to kill 6 bystanders and wound 13 more. He was taken into custody immediately at the scene. | ![]() | ||
8 | Ambush | 16 | 14 | ![]() |
Members of al-Qaida in Yemen killed 12 soldiers and wounded eight in an ambush in the town of Lawdar. The same day militants attacked a checkpoint in the city of Lahj killing four soldiers, six militants were also wounded.[6] | Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula | ![]() | |
11 | Ambush | 10 | 18 | ![]() |
Misseriya Arab tribesmen in several vehicles ambushed and attacked a convoy of civilian returnees coming from the north to the south of the country within South Kordofan, which is located between the border regions of northern and southern Sudan, during the Southern Sudan independence referendum, 2011.[7] | ![]() | ||
11 | Shooting, riot | 1 | 4 | ![]() |
An off duty policeman opened fire on a train, killing one and injuring four. Teargas was used later to disperse hundreds of Coptic protesters gathered outside the hospital where the injured were being treated.[8] | ![]() | ||
12 | Bombing | 2 | 7 | ![]() |
Two roadside bombings struck a private school van, which was travelling upon a road on the suburbs of the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar.[9] | ![]() | ||
12 | Car bomb | 17 | 20+ | ![]() |
A suicide car-bomber rammed his explosive-laden vehicle into a heavily fortified police station, which is located within the Bannu district, of north-western Pakistan.[10] | ![]() | ||
13 | Bombing | 4 | 9 | ![]() |
Two bomb attacks struck both a military police vehicle and a Pakistani security forces checkpoint in the north-western Pakistani districts of both Bannu and Bara, which are located in north-western Pakistan.[11] | ![]() | ||
14 | Shooting | 6 | 3 | ![]() |
Suspected Taliban insurgents armed with various weapons attacked the home of a female police constable, killing her whilst also killing and injuring several of her own family members in the town of Tootkas, which is located within the Hangu district, of north-western Pakistan.[12] | ![]() | ||
14 | Car bomb | 4 | 8+ | ![]() |
A car bomb explosion ripped through a cafe, with the blast killing and injuring both cafe workers and customers within the city of Khasavyurt, which is located within the volatile, southern Russian republic of Dagestan.[13] | ![]() | ||
14 | Shooting | 14 | ![]() |
12 suspected gang members and 2 soldiers died in a shootout which began after the Mexican army and police surrounded a suspected gang safe house in Veracruz, Mexico. | Gangs, as part of the Mexican drug war | ![]() | ||
15 | Shooting/Targeted killing | 39 | 40+ | ![]() |
A series of targeted killings have swept across Karachi, with numerous people reportedly killed and injured, as a result of political, ethnic and sectarian violence across the past week in several different locations of Pakistan's biggest, southern city of Karachi, which is located in southern Pakistan.[15] | ![]() | ||
17 | Bombing | 18 | 11 | ![]() |
A planted-bomb detonated inside a passenger van, as the vehicle was travelling between the districts of both Hangu and neighbouring Kohat, which are located in north-western Pakistan.[16] | ![]() | ||
18 | Shooting/Execution | 4 | 0 | ![]() |
Suspected Taliban insurgents shot dead alledged robbers who had supposedly confessed to their crimes, as their bodies were discovered along a road in the Hangu district, of north-western Pakistan.[17] | ![]() | ||
18 | Suicide bombing | 66 | 100+ | ![]() |
A suicide bomber detonated his explosive-laden vest in the middle of hundreds of potential volunteer army recruits who were waiting outside to be interviewed outside a police recruitment centre in the Iraqi town of Tikrit, which is located in northern Iraq.[18] | ![]() | ||
19 | Bombing | 2 | 15 | ![]() |
A bomb planted inside a parked horse cart was detonated near to a school within the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, which is located in north-western Pakistan.[19] | ![]() | ||
19 | Car bombing | 15 | 60+ | ![]() |
A suicide bomber rammed an explosive-laden ambulance into a police recruitment centre, which is located in the Iraqi city of Baquba, of central-eastern Iraq.[20] | ![]() | ||
19 | Shooting/Raid | 4 | 6 | ![]() |
Muslim seperatists were suspected to be behind an attack on an army camp after at least 40 armed men assaulted the Ror 15121 outpost in Ban Marue Botok at 20:00 during the camp’s evening meal.[21][22] | Pattani United Liberation Organization (suspected)[failed verification] | ![]() | |
20 | Car bombing/Suicide bombing | 50 | 150+ | ![]() |
Twin bomb attacks, one of which reportedly involved a car bomb, struck two police checkpoints at two routes being used by Shia pilgrims taking part in the Arbaeen festival in the central Iraqi city of Karbala, which is located in central Iraq.[23] | Al Qaeda in Iraq | ![]() | |
20 | Hijacking | - | 24 | ![]() ![]() |
Somali pirates hijacked a Mongolian-flagged MV Hoang Son Sun off the Omani coast. An EU Navfor statement read: "The 22,835-tonne bulk carrier, which is Mongolian flagged and Vietnamese-owned, has a crew of 24 Vietnamese nationals. No further details of the attack are known at this stage." Navfor said the ship had not been registered with the Maritime Security Centre for the Horn of Africa. Two rescue support ships were then in contact with a "flotilla of warships" that were patrolling the Indian Ocean waters in the area.[24] | Somali pirates | ![]() | |
20 | Bombs | - | - | ![]() |
Two bombs went off at 6:00 at a local coal company and the city market. An unknown group threatened to carry out several more attacks in the town unless they received "a large amount of money," according to the deputy interior minister Vasyl Farynnyk. The blasts shattered several windows in one of the buildings, with police calling the incident an act of hooliganism.[25] | ![]() | ||
15, 21 | Raid | 8 | 21 (hostages), 5 (arrests) | ![]() ![]() |
South Korean Naval Special Forces rescued the Maltese-flagged and Norwegian-owned Samho Jewelry that had been hijacked by pirates and held for 6 days. The vessel, a "product tanker," was en route to Sri Lanka from the United Arab Emirates with crew members from Myanmar, Korea and Indonesia.[26] | Navy of South Korea/Somali pirates | ![]() |
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Notes
- ^ *Non-state attacks in Afghanistan are most likely perpetrated by the Taliban.
*Non-state attacks in India are most likely perpetrated by the Communist Party of India (Maoist) or Kashmiri insurgents, as claimed, dependent largely on the location of the attack; there are also numerous other insurgents in India that operate to lesser degree, as otherwise stated.
*Non-state attacks in Colombia are most likely perpetrated by FARC, and to a lesser degree ELN (although the two agreed to work together in 2010).
*Non-state attacks in Iraq are most likely perpetrated by Al Qaeda in Iraq, unless otherwise stated.
*Non-state attacks in Indonesia are most likely perpetrated by Jemaah Islamiya, unless otherwise stated.
*Non-state attacks in Iran are most likely perpetrated by either Jundullah or PJAK, dependent largely on the location of the attack, with lesser recurrent attacks by MKO, unless otherwise stated.
*Non-state attacks in Pakistan are most likely perpetrated by the Pakistani Taliban or a faction thereof; while state attacks are either the responsibility of the United States' Central Intelligence Agency's drone bombings or the Pakistan Army.
*Attacks as part of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are most likely perpetrated by the Al-Qassam Brigades or Palestinian Islamic Jihad in support of the Palestinian cause, unless otherwise stated; and the Israel Defense Forces or Jewish settlers in support of some variation of Israel.
*Non-state attacks in the Philippines are most likely perpetrated by either Abu Sayyaf, the Moro National Liberation Front or the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (currently undergoing talks with the national government) for mostly Islamist attacks; communist-inspired attacks are the responsibility primarily of the New People's Army or a breakaway faction of the now defunct Alex Boncayao Brigade.
*Non-state attacks in Russia are most likely perpetrated by the Caucasian Mujahadeen, unless otherwise stated.
*Non-state attacks in Somalia are most likely perpetrated by Al Shabaab, and to a lesser extent Hizbul Islam, as claimed, and unless otherwise stated.
*Non-state attacks in Spain are most likely perpetrated by ETA (although they have currently issued an indefinate ceasefire).
*Non-state attacks in Turkey are most likely perpetrated by PKK, or another Kurdish nationalistfaction such as the newer Kurdistan Freedom Falcons.
*Non-state attacks in Yemen are most likely perpetrated by Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, supporters of an independent South Yemen seeking secession or the Houthis as part of the Sa'dah War, as duly claimed.
*All other incidents are expressly as per claimants or pending claims.
See also
- List of ongoing military conflicts
- List of terrorist incidents by death toll
- List of active rebel groups
References
- ^ "Egypt bomb kills 21 at Alexandria Coptic church". BBC News Online. January 1, 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2011.
- ^ "Pakistan drone raids 'claim lives'". Al Jazeera English. January 1, 2011. Retrieved 6 January 2011.
- ^ "Guard kills governor of Pakistan's Punjab province". Yahoo News. January 4, 2011. Retrieved 4 January 2011.
- ^ "Chaos at hearing of defiant Qadri". Retrieved 7 January 2011.
- ^ "Niger seizes suspects in French hostage 'killings'". BBC. Retrieved 16 Jan 2011.
- ^ "Four Yemeni soldiers killed in southern attack". Reuters. January 8, 2011. Retrieved 8 January 2011.
- ^ "South Sudanese civilians killed in ambush". BBC News Online. January 11, 2011. Retrieved 11 January 2011.
- ^ "Egypt train attack: Man shot dead by off-duty policeman". Retrieved 2011-01-16.
- ^ "Two women killed in Peshawar roadside blasts". Dawn News Agency. January 12, 2011. Retrieved January 12, 2011.
- ^ "Pakistani bomber kills 17 in attack on police". BBC News Online. January 12, 2011. Retrieved January 12, 2011.
- ^ "Bomb attacks kill four police officers in Bannu, Bara". Dawn News Agency. January 13, 2011. Retrieved January 13, 2011.
- ^ "Six killed in attack on woman constable in Hangu". Dawn News Agency. January 14, 2011. Retrieved January 14, 2011.
- ^ "At least four dead in Dagestan blast". RIA NOVOSTI. January 14, 2011. Retrieved January 14, 2011.
- ^ "Gang shootout kills 14 in Veracruz, Mexico". BBC. Retrieved 2011-01-16.
- ^ "Karachi unrest kills 27; PML-Q wants army operation". Dawn News Agency. January 15, 2011. Retrieved January 15, 2011.
- ^ "Police: 18 van passengers killed after blast in northwest Pakistan". CNN. January 17, 2011. Retrieved January 17, 2011.
- ^ "Taliban kill four alleged robbers in Hangu". Dawn News Agency. January 18, 2011. Retrieved January 18, 2011.
- ^ "Suicide bomb kills 50 at Iraqi police centre in Tikrit". BBC News Online. January 18, 2011. Retrieved January 18, 2011.
- ^ "Pakistan bomb: one killed in blast near Peshawar". BBC News Online. January 19, 2011. Retrieved January 19, 2011.
- ^ "Baquba ambulance suicide bomber targets Iraq police". BBC News Online. January 19, 2011. Retrieved January 19, 2011.
- ^ "Four soldiers dead, six wounded in surprise attack on Narathiwat army base; army in pursuit". Mcot. January 20, 2011. Retrieved January 21, 2011.
- ^ "Rebel attack in southern Thailand kills four soldiers". BBC News Online. January 20, 2011. Retrieved January 20, 2011.
- ^ "Karbala bombs kill dozens during Shia festival". BBC News Online. January 20, 2011. Retrieved January 20, 2011.
- ^ "Somali pirates seize Mongolian-flagged bulk carrier". Reuters. January 20, 2011. Retrieved January 21, 2011.
- ^ "Two bomb blasts rip through eastern Ukraine". Sofia Echo. January 20, 2011. Retrieved January 21, 2011.
- ^ "S Korean navy rescues hijacked vessel: East Africa agency". Xinhua. January 21, 2011. Retrieved January 21, 2011.