List of attacks on diplomatic missions
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The following is a list of attacks on diplomatic buildings (embassies, consulates) anywhere in the world. The list does not include attacks on individuals outside or inside an embassy, such as assassinations of ambassadors, or incidents such as letter bombs to individuals.
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Year
!Date !Diplomatic mission !Location country !Location city !Deaths !Injuries !Details | |
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1829
|February 11 |{{flagcountry|Russian Empire}} |{{flag|Qajar dynasty|name=Persia}} |4+ | | |
1900
|June 20 – August 14 |Legation Quarter (multinational)
| name=France}}
|{{flag|Qing dynasty|name=China}} |68 | |Siege of the International Legations during the Boxer Rebellion |
1918
|August 31 |{{flag|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|name=UK}} |{{flagcountry|Russian Empire}} |4+ | |Bolshevik raid on British embassy for sake of "Lockhart Plot" prevention leaves Francis Cromie and more dead.{{Cite book|title=Historical Dictionary of Naval Intelligence|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OyC69ij3AQIC|first=Nigel|last=West|publisher=Scarecrow Press, Inc|location=Lanham, Maryland, USA|year=2010|pages=73–74|isbn=9780810867604}} | |
1924
|July 18 | rowspan="3" |{{flag|United States|1912}} |{{flag|Qajar dynasty|name=Persia}} |1 |0 |Muslim clerics and soldiers of the Iranian military beat Robert Whitney Imbrie, United States consul in Tehran after it was incorrectly believed that he poisoned a well.{{cite news|title=IMBRIE MURDER LAID TO RELIGIOUS HATE|access-date=October 21, 2016|newspaper=The New York Times|date=July 24, 1924|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9F07E0DA163FE733A25757C2A9619C946595D6CF&legacy=true}} | |
rowspan="2" |1926
|May 16 |{{flag|Argentina}} |0 | rowspan="2" |Bombing following the trial and executions of Sacco and Vanzetti.{{cite news|title=American Legation Bombed in Uruguay|url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0D15F63D5F17738DDDAC0894DE405B868EF1D3|access-date=September 27, 2012|newspaper=The New York Times|date=June 4, 1926|agency=Associated Press}} | |
June 4
|{{flag|Uruguay}} |0 |0 | |
rowspan="4" |1927
| rowspan="3" |March 24 |{{Flag|United Kingdom|name=UK}} | rowspan="3" |{{flag|Republic of China (1912–1949)|1912|name=China}} | rowspan="3" |Nanking | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" | | rowspan="3" |Nanking Incident | |
{{flag|Empire of Japan|name=Japan}} | |
{{Flag|United States|1896|name=United States}} | |
April 6
|{{flag|Soviet Union|1936}} |{{flag|Republic of China (1912–1949)|1912|name=China}} | | |On April 6, with support from other foreign diplomatic missions, Zhang Zuolin ordered policemen and gendarmeries stormed and invaded the Soviet embassy in Peking to arrest Li Dazhao and his family, as Li was accused of overthrowing government backed by Soviet Union. Li Dazhao was sentenced to death later, and his family members were released shortly after Li was executed.{{cite book |editor=Yang Hu |title=中國近代思想家文庫·李大釗卷 |trans-title=Library for China's Modern Ideologists – Li Dazhao's Volume |chapter=李大釗年譜簡編 |trans-chapter=Summarized Chronicle of Li Dazhao |location=Beijing |publisher=China Renmin University Press |year=2014 }}{{Cite web|url=http://book.sina.com.cn/excerpt/sz/rw/2009-10-21/1414261549_2.shtml|title=张作霖杀害共产党创始人李大钊的复杂内幕(2)|website=Sina|date=21 October 2009|access-date=2 November 2024|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131230235222/http://book.sina.com.cn/excerpt/sz/rw/2009-10-21/1414261549_2.shtml|archive-date=30 December 2013|language=zh}} | |
rowspan="2" |1937
| rowspan="2" | |{{Flag|United Kingdom|name=UK}} | rowspan="2" |{{flag|Spanish Republic|name=Spain}} | rowspan="2" |Valencia | rowspan="2" | | rowspan="2" | | rowspan="2" |Aerial bombings by Nationalist forces during the Spanish Civil War damaged the British Embassy and destroyed the Paraguayan consulate.{{cite news|title=5 Planes Bomb Valencia|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1937/05/29/archives/5-planes-bomb-valencia-200-are-reported-killed-missiles-hit-british.html|access-date=September 27, 2012|newspaper=The New York Times|date=May 29, 1937|agency=Associated Press}} | |
{{flag|Paraguay|1842}} | |
1941
| | rowspan="2" |{{flag|United Kingdom}} |{{flag|Francoist Spain|1938|name=Spain}} | | |On June 24, in the days following Nazi Germany's declaration of war on the Soviet Union, members of the Falange stormed the British Embassy with a truck-load of stones at their disposal. Embassy staff as well as 16 escaped POWs prevented an attempted break in by the Falangists. The Spanish dictator Francisco Franco dismissed the incident as a "trivial matter concerning young hotheads" in response to a protest by the British ambassador Sir Samuel Hoare.{{cite web|title=WAIS – World Association for International Studies|url=http://www.waisworld.org/go.jsp?id=02a&objectType=post&o=67617&objectTypeId=61867&topicId=62}}{{cite book|last=Preston|first=Paul|title=Franco: A Biography|year=1994|publisher=Fontana Press|location=London|isbn=978-0006862109}}{{citation|title=The Times|date=June 26, 1941}}{{cite book|last=Hoare|first=Samuel|title=Ambassador on Special Mission|year=1946|pages=114–5}} | |
1946
| |{{flag|Italy}} |Rome | | |Irgun campaign; British Embassy bombing | |
1947
|September 27 |{{flag|Sweden}} |0 |0 |A bomb exploded at the gate of the Swedish consulate in Jerusalem. The explosion caused some minor damage to the building. No people were injured. The police suspected that the bomb was placed by a Jewish or Arab individual who was angered by the proposal for the partition of Palestine developed under the chairmanship of the Swede Emil Sandström by the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine.{{cite news |url=https://www.svd.se/arkiv/1947-09-28/3/SVD |newspaper=Svenska Dagbladet |title=Bombattentat i Jerusalem mot svenska konsulatet |trans-title=Bomb attack in Jerusalem against the Swedish consulate |location=Jerusalem |agency=AP |page=3 |date=1947-09-28 |access-date=13 May 2024 |language=sv |url-access=subscription}} | |
1951
|February 19 |{{flag|Soviet Union}} |{{flag|People's Socialist Republic of Albania|name=Albania}} | Tirana |0 | |Bombing led to the Massacre of 1951 in Albania | |
rowspan="2" |1952
|January 26 |{{flag|Sweden}} |{{flag|Egypt}} |0 |0 |In what became known as the Cairo fire on January 26, 1952, the two-story Swedish consulate general in Cairo was completely destroyed after being stormed, looted, and set on fire by rebellious crowds. Consul General Erik Ekberg and an Egyptian office assistant were in the building, but no one was harmed.{{cite news |url=https://www.svd.se/arkiv/1952-01-28/3/SVD |newspaper=Svenska Dagbladet |title=Plundrare i Cairo skövlade och brände svenska konsulatet |trans-title=Looters in Cairo ransacked and burned the Swedish consulate |agency=AP, TT-Reuter |location=Cairo |page=3 |date=1952-01-28 |access-date=10 September 2024 |language=sv |url-access=subscription}} | |
November 8 and December 5
|{{flag|Czechoslovakia}} |{{flag|Israel}} |0 | |Perpetrated by the Tzrifin Underground in response to the persecution of Jews in Czechoslovakia.{{cite book|title=Jewish Terrorism in Israel|year=2009|publisher=Columbia University Press|location=New York|isbn=978-0231154475|page=176|author=Ami Pedahzur|author2=Arie Perliger }} | |
1953
|February 9 |{{flag|Soviet Union|1936}} |{{flag|Israel}} |0 |3 |Perpetrated by the Tzrifin Underground in response to the Doctors' plot and other incidents of persecution in the Eastern Bloc.{{cite book|title=Jewish Terrorism in Israel|year=2009|publisher=Columbia University Press|location=New York|isbn=978-0231154475|pages=31–33|author=Ami Pedahzur|author2=Arie Perliger }} | |
1955
|February 14–16 |{{flag|Socialist Republic of Romania|1952|name=Romania}} |{{flag|Switzerland}} |Bern |0 | | |
1957
|May 24 |{{flag|United States|1912}} |{{flag|Republic of China}} |3 |38 | |
1958
|July 27 |{{flag|Republic of China}} |{{flag|Turkey}} |0 |0 |Bombs exploded at the Chinese Embassy compound and a Chinese school. The bombings caused minor damage to both places.{{cite news|title=Terror Bombings Mark Arrival Of Dulles In Turkey: Chinese Centers Targets Of Two Blasts|work=The Hartford Courant|agency=Associated Press|date=January 27, 1958|page=1}} | |
1961
|October 1 |{{flag|Peru}} |{{flag|Republic of Venezuela|name=Venezuela}} | | |Eight Venezuelans, five of whom escaped from a military hospital at gunpoint accompanied by three armed accomplices who joined them outside, sought asylum in the embassy, being forced out of the colonial building by the local police and army, ending in a shootout that continued inside the embassy. Amid the confusion, press attaché Guillermo O'Haggen was dragged out to the embassy's garden by various officers through a broken window, while Panamanian citizen Raúl Rodríguez was detained when leaving the embassy. Peruvian ambassador Pedro Ugarteche y Tizón protested the events the following day.{{Cite news |title=Embajador peruano protesta por ataque sin precedentes en la historia diplomática a Embajada |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FCkhAAAAIBAJ |date=1961-10-03 |pages=30 |work=La Nación |publisher=United Press International}} | |
rowspan="2" |1962
|January 22 |{{flag|United States|1912}} |{{flag|Republic of Venezuela|name=Venezuela}} |0 |0 |Several bombs were detonated in Caracas, including one in the United States embassy.{{Cite web|title=Cronología de historia de Venezuela y eventos mundiales • Fundación Empresas Polar|url=https://bibliofep.fundacionempresaspolar.org/_custom/static/cronologia_hv/index.html|access-date=2021-06-29}} | |
November 28
|{{flag|Yugoslavia}} |{{flag|West Germany}} |Bonn |1 |1 |Attack by Croatian Crusader Brotherhood.{{cite web |url=http://www.rtvslo.si/modload.php?&c_mod=blog&op=func&func=print&c_menu=60812 |publisher=rtvslo.si |title=Blog :: MMC RTV Slovenija |access-date=February 23, 2017 |archive-date=2016-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304203643/https://www.rtvslo.si/modload.php?&c_mod=blog&op=func&func=print&c_menu=60812}} | |
1963
|September 16 |{{flag|United Kingdom}} |{{flag|Indonesia}} |0 |0 |Mob attack burnt the embassy and smashed all its windows.{{cite web|title=1963 sacking of the Embassy|url=https://web.stanford.edu/group/tomzgroup/pmwiki/uploads/1070-1963-11-K-b-OEP.pdf|access-date=June 14, 2016}} | |
rowspan="3" |1964
|March 5 and 8 |{{flag|United States}} |{{flag|Gabon}} |0 |0 | |
March 18
|{{flag|Morocco}} |{{flag|Soviet Union}} |0 |0 | |
June 30
|{{flag|Philippines|1936}} | rowspan="2" |{{flag|South Vietnam}} | rowspan="2" |Saigon | | | |
1965
|March 30 |{{Flag|United States|1896|name=United States}} |22 |188 | |
rowspan="4" |1966
|August 30 |{{flag|Yugoslavia}} |{{flag|West Germany}} |1 |0 |Attack by Croatian Revolutionary Brotherhood.{{cite web |date=2017-09-20 |first=S. |last=Omeragić |title=Ubice i svjedoci: Šta je istina o sukobu DB-a i jugoemigracije |url=https://nap.ba/post/749131/ubice-i-svjedoci-sta-je-istina-o-sukobu-db-a-i-jugoemigracije |website=Patria}} | |
September 22
|{{flag|Cuba}} |{{flag|Canada}} |0 |0 |(See: Embassy of Cuba, Ottawa) | |
September 24
|{{flag|Estado Novo (Portugal)|name=Portugal}} |{{flag |Democratic Republic of the Congo|1966}} |0 |3 |Rioters sack the embassy and assault three staff members in a 20-minute rampage.{{cite news |title = Portuguese Embassy in Congo Sacked |work = The Chicago Tribune |date = 25 September 1966 |page = 3}} | |
December 20
|{{flag|United States}} |{{flag|Yugoslavia}} | | | |
rowspan="14" |1967
|January 1 |{{flag|Yugoslavia}} |{{flag|Australia}} | | | |
January 28–30
|{{flag|Yugoslavia}} |{{flag|United States}} |0 |0 |Synchronized bombing. Explosion went off at 12:55 AM in walkway between the consulate and home of Richard Stockton Rush Jr. (father of Richard Stockton Rush III), blowing holes in the walls of both the consulate where caretaker Mihailo Simić and his wife were sleeping and the very room in which 6-year-old Catherine Rush was sleeping. | |
January 28–30
|{{flag|Yugoslavia}} |{{flag|United States}} |0 |0 |Synchronized bombing. The bomb was pushed under a locked iron grillwork fence to explode in a stairway. | |
January 28–30
|{{flag|Yugoslavia}} |{{flag|United States}} |0 |0 |Synchronized bombing. Perpetrated by Miomir Radovanović and Dragiša Kašiković. Left a crater in the backyard. In response, the FBI had Serbian flyers condemning the bombings distributed in Chicago.{{cite web |date=2021-12-15 |orig-date=1969-02-03 |first=R. D. |last=Cotter |title=This memorandum is to recommend mailing of flyers from the national organization "Temporary Committee for the Protection of Serbian Nationalism, Newark, New Jersey" (NARA Record Number 124-10273-10050) |url=https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=217414#relPageId=97 |website=Mary Ferrell Foundation}} | |
January 28–30
|{{flag|Yugoslavia}} |{{flag|United States}} |0 |0 |Synchronized bombing.{{cite web|url=http://www.itnsource.com/shotlist//RTV/1967/01/29/BGY506140751/?s=bombings|publisher=itnsource.com|title=USA: BOMB DAMAGE AT YUGOSLAVE CONSULATE|access-date=February 23, 2017}} Shattered 30 windows, blew a hole in the wall, left a three-foot crater in the ground. | |
January 28–30
|{{flag|Yugoslavia}} |{{flag|Canada}} |0 |0 |Synchronized bombing. The front door of the consulate was nearly blown off. | |
January 28–30
|{{flag|Yugoslavia}} |{{flag|Canada}} |0 |0 |Synchronized bombing.{{cite web |date=1967-01-30 |author=n.s. |title=CANADA AND U.S.A.: BOMB DAMAGE AT YUGOSLAV DIPLOMATIC MISSIONS IN OTTAWA, TORONTO AND WASHINGTON (1967) |url=https://www.britishpathe.com/asset/128728 |website=British Pathé}} | |
|{{flag|Soviet Union}}
| rowspan="2" |{{flag|China}} | rowspan="2" |Beijing | rowspan="2" | | rowspan="2" | | rowspan="2" |See: Chinese Cultural Revolution{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/peking-embassy-siege-veterans-recall-the-red-guards-summer-of-hate-1245933.html |title=Peking embassy siege veterans recall the Red Guards' summer of hate |work=The Independent |date=16 August 1997 |access-date=February 26, 2018}} | |
August
| rowspan="2" |{{flag|United Kingdom}} | |
rowspan="2" |June
| rowspan="2" |{{flag|Libya|1951}} | rowspan="2" |Benghazi | rowspan="2" | | rowspan="2" | | rowspan="2" |American and British embassies were attacked and burned by rioters after false rumors spread in the city that the United States had bombed Cairo. This incident occurred at the start of the Six-Day War.{{cite web|title=Recalling the Attack on the U.S. Compound in Benghazi – from June 1967|url=http://adst.org/2012/11/recalling-the-attack-on-embassy-benghazi-from-june-1967/|publisher=Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training|access-date=June 20, 2014}} | |
{{Flag|United States|1896|name=United States}} | |
September 19
|{{flag|Republic of China}} |{{flag|South Vietnam}} |0 |12 | |
October
|{{flag|China}} |{{flag|Indonesia}} |0 |0 |Aftermath of the Indonesian mass killings of 1965–1966. Diplomatic relations with People's Republic of China severed.[https://books.google.com/books?id=6dgmXWMgWcwC Indonesia: A Country Study] United States Government Publishing Office, 2011 | |
November 29
|{{flag|Yugoslavia}} |{{flag|Australia}} |0 |1 | |
rowspan="4" |1968
|January 31 |{{flag|United States}} |{{flag|South Vietnam}} |5 | | |
February 21
|{{flag|Soviet Union}} |{{flag|United States}} |0 |0 | |
October
|{{flag|Singapore}} |{{flag|Indonesia}} | | |Ransacked in reaction to Singapore's execution of two Indonesia marines responsible for the MacDonald House bombing.{{cite book|author=Philippe Régnier|title=Singapore: A City-state in South-East Asia|url=https://archive.org/details/singaporecitysta00regn|url-access=registration|year=1991|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|isbn=978-0-8248-1407-6|pages=[https://archive.org/details/singaporecitysta00regn/page/153 153]–}} | |
|{{flag|Philippines|1936}}
|{{flag|Malaysia}} | | | Due to the North Borneo dispute{{cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GrdWAAAAIBAJ&pg=5427%2C2437058|title=The Spokesman-Review – Google News Archive Search|access-date=February 23, 2017}} | |
rowspan="3" |1969
| |{{flag|Soviet Union}} |{{flag|China}} | | | Due to the Sino-Soviet border conflict | |
June
| rowspan="3" |{{flag|Yugoslavia}} | rowspan="3" |{{flag|Australia}} | | | |
November
| | | |
1970
|October 21 | | | |
rowspan="3" |1971
| |{{flag|United States}} |{{flag|Khmer Republic}} | | | |
February 10
|{{flag|Yugoslavia}} |{{flag|Sweden}} |0 |0 |Two Croatian emigres seized the Yugoslav consulate in demanding the release of prisoners held in Yugoslav jails, only to surrender to authorities after their demands were refused. | |
April 7
|{{flag|Yugoslavia}} |{{flag|Sweden}} |1 |0 |The 1971 Yugoslav Embassy shooting. Ambassador Vladimir Rolović was killed in the attack by Croatian National Resistance. | |
rowspan="5" |1972
|February 2 |{{flag|United Kingdom|name=UK}} |{{flag|Ireland}} |0 |20 |(See: Bloody Sunday (1972) and Burning of British Embassy, Dublin){{cite news|title=1972: British embassy in Dublin destroyed|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/2/newsid_2758000/2758163.stm|access-date=August 1, 2013|work=BBC News|date=February 2, 1972}} | |
February 17
|{{flag|Yugoslavia}} |{{flag|Australia}} | | |Armed assault.{{cite web|url=http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22library%2Fprspub%2F66B20%22|publisher=parlinfo.aph.gov.au|title=ParlInfo – Terrorism in the nineties: issues and problems. | SOME SIGNIFICANT INCIDENTS OF POLITICALLY MOTIVATED VIOLENCE IN AUSTRALIA |access-date=February 23, 2017}} | |
April 4
|{{flag|Cuba}} |{{flag|Canada}} |1 |7 |Bombing of Cuban trade offices in Montreal. | |
December 28
|{{flag|Czechoslovakia}} |{{flag|Thailand}} |0 | | | |
|{{flag|China}}
|{{flag|Philippines|1936}} |0 |1 |Attacked by suspected British soldiers. | |
rowspan="2" |1973
|March 1 |{{flag|Saudi Arabia|1938}} |{{flag|Sudan}} |3 | | |
December 14
|{{flag|Algeria}} |{{flag|France}} |4 |23 | |
rowspan="3" |1974
|February 7 |{{flag|Japan}} |{{flag|Kuwait}} |0 | | |
August 19
|{{Flag|United States|1896|name=United States}} |{{flag|Cyprus}} |2 |0 |TMT attack | |
September 13
|{{flag|France}} |{{flag|Netherlands}} |0 | | |
rowspan="6" |1975
|April 24 |{{flag|West Germany}} |{{flag|Sweden}} |4 | | |
April 29
|{{flag|Israel}} |{{flag|South Africa|1928}} |4 |82 |1975 Fox Street siege: David Protter, a South African Jew, seized about 20–30 hostages at the Israeli Consulate General where he worked as a security officer. The consulate was on the 5th-floor of an office building in downtown Johannesburg. After killing two consulate employees Protter – armed with two Uzi submachine guns, eleven pistols, a .22 pellet gun and about 2 000 rounds of ammunition – opened fire on pedestrians and motorists in Fox and Von Brandis Streets, killing 2 and wounding 82. He surrendered to police early the next morning (30 April), 19 hours after taking over the consulate. | |
|{{flag|Egypt|1972}}
|{{flag|Francoist Spain|name=Spain}} | | |Ambassador Mahmoud Abdul Ghaffer, as well as the consul and the press attaché of the embassy of Egypt in Madrid were held at gunpoint by unaffiliated Palestinian militants at the embassy. The group left via a plane headed to Algiers, alongside the ambassadors of Algeria (Jaled Jelladi) and Iraq (Hassan Al-Naklb), who requested to accompany Ghaffer. All hostages and perpetrators were released at Algiers–Dar El Beïda International Airport.{{Cite news |title=Los diplomáticos secuestrados en Madrid fueron libertados en el aeropuerto de Argel |url=https://bibliotecadigital.jcyl.es/i18n/catalogo_imagenes/imagen.cmd?path=10346712&posicion=1®istrardownload=1 |date=1975-09-17 |work=Diario de Burgos |pages=1, 10}} | |
August 4
|{{flag|United States}} |{{flag|Malaysia}} | | | |
September 27
|{{flag|Francoist Spain|name=Spain}} |{{flag|Portugal}} | | |Attacked by far left activists in response to the execution of far left activists by the Spanish state. | |
December 4–19
|{{flag|Indonesia}} |{{flag|Netherlands}} |1 | | |
rowspan="2" |1976
|17 February |{{flag|China}} |{{flag|Republic of Venezuela|name=Venezuela}} |0 |0 | | |
April 22
|{{flag|Cuba}} |{{flag|Portugal}} |2 | |Attack by far right terrorists. | |
rowspan="4" |1977
|April 16 |{{flag|West Germany}} |{{flag|Israel}} |0 |0 |Two Israelis occupied part of the West German Embassy in Tel Aviv to protest the slowness of a trial of former Nazis in Dusseldorf. | |
August 18
|{{flag|Sweden}} |{{flag|Tunisia}} |0 |0 |The Swedish embassy in Tunis was set on fire by a Tunisian man who had previously lived in Sweden and wanted to return there. When he was not allowed to do so, he decided to retaliate by setting the embassy on fire. A few days earlier, the man had vandalized a business and was then admitted to a mental hospital. He escaped from there. The man had a knife during the attack on the embassy. When the police apprehended him, he attempted to take his own life.{{cite news |url=https://www.svd.se/arkiv/1977-08-20/4/SVD |newspaper=Svenska Dagbladet |title=Ambassadbranden: Attentatet var hämnd |trans-title=The embassy fire: The attack was revenge |page=4 |date=1977-08-20 |access-date=14 May 2024 |language=sv |url-access=subscription}} | |
November 18
| rowspan="2" |{{flag|Egypt}} |{{flag|Greece}} |1 | |A group of Arab students stormed the Egyptian embassy in Athens to protest Egyptian president Anwar Sadat's historic trip to Jerusalem. Embassy guards opened fire on the protesters.{{cite book|last1=Wright|first1=Lawrence|title=Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David.|date=2014|publisher=Alfred A Knopf|isbn=9780385352031|page=38}} | |
November 18
|{{flag|Lebanon}} |1 |8 |A rocket fired at the Egyptian Embassy killed one security guard and wounded two other guards and six soldiers from Saudi Arabia. This incident was in response to Egyptian president Anwar Sadat's historic trip to Jerusalem.{{cite news|last1=Gage|first1=Nicholas|title=Palestinians Storm Embassy In Athens|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1977/11/19/133120232.html?pageNumber=1|access-date=March 4, 2015|work=The New York Times|date=November 19, 1977|page=1}} | |
rowspan="2" |1978
|July 31 |{{flag|Iraqi Republic (1958–1968)|1963|name=Iraq}} |{{flag|France}} |2 |4 |Two gunmen attacked the Iraqi Embassy in Paris, but one of them fled during the attack. The lone gunman was persuaded to release his eight hostages and surrender after eight hours. As he was being led away, Iraqi guards opened fire, wounding the gunman and killing one policeman. Police returned fire, killing one of the Iraqis and wounding three others.{{Cite book |title=Embassies Under Siege: A Review of 48 Embassy Takeovers, 1971-1980 |last=Jenkins |first=Brian Michael |publisher=RAND Corporation |year=1981 |url=https://www.rand.org/pubs/reports/R2651.html}} | |
December 11
|{{flag|West Germany}} |{{flag|Israel}} |0 |0 |Three Israeli gunmen seized the West German Embassy and Culture Centre in Tel Aviv. They demanded the abolition of the West German statute of limitations whereby those accused of war crimes could not be tried after 1978. | |
rowspan="13" |1979
|February 14 |{{flag|United States}} |{{flag|Iran|1964}} |0 |1 |Kenneth Kraus was the first of the Iran hostages{{cite book|last=Houghton|first=David Patrick|title=US foreign policy and the Iran hostage crisis|year=2001|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge [u.a.]|isbn=978-0521805094|page=77|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cPf-vBzU46EC&q=Kraus|edition=[Online-Ausg.].}} | |
May 4
|{{flag|Costa Rica}} | rowspan="2" |{{flag|El Salvador}} | rowspan="2" |San Salvador |0 |0 |Four armed members of the Popular Revolutionary Bloc (BPR) seized the Costa Rican embassy, taking five persons hostage. The hostages escaped on May 9, but the group continued to hold the embassy until they were granted safe passage to Costa Rica. | |
May 4
|{{flag|France}} |0 |1 |Sixteen armed members of the Popular Revolutionary Bloc (BPR) seized the French embassy, taking six persons hostage. Granted political asylum in Mexico, the militants released the hostages on June 1. | |
May 11
|{{flag|Republic of Venezuela|name=Venezuela}} |{{flag|El Salvador}} |0 |0 |Nine armed members of the Popular Revolutionary Bloc (BPR) seized the Venezuelan embassy, taking eight persons hostage. On May 20, the ambassador and four staff members escaped. The group continued to hold the embassy until June 1, when they were granted safe passage to Mexico. | |
May 15
|{{flag|South Africa|1928}} |{{flag|El Salvador}} |2 |0 |Eight members of the Farabundo Marti Popular Liberation Forces attempted to seize the South African embassy. The attackers were repulsed after a gun battle with police which left two policemen dead. All of the attackers escaped. | |
May 18
|{{flag|Cuba}} |{{flag|United States}} | | |Bomb detonated by Omega 7{{cite book| title= Political Violence and Terrorism in Modern America: A Chronology |series=Praeger Security International Series |first=Christopher |last=Hewitt|publisher= Greenwood Publishing Group |year=2005 |isbn=9780313334184 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MgM1s1Kk0GwC&pg=PA121 |page=121}} | |
June 26
|{{flag|Mexico}} |{{flag|Guatemala}} |0 |0 |Guatemalan workers seized the Mexican embassy, taking the ambassador and 15-20 others hostage. | |
July 14
|{{flag|Egypt|1972}} |{{flag|Turkey}} |3 | |Four terrorists from the group Eagles of the Palestinian Revolution seized the Egyptian embassy in Ankara and held a number of diplomats, including the ambassador, hostage for two days.{{cite news|title=Palestinians surrender after siege in Ankaraa|access-date=June 20, 2014|work=Lodi News-Sentinel|agency=United Press International|date=July 16, 1979|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2245&dat=19790716&id=CX4zAAAAIBAJ&pg=7004,1574497}}{{cite news|title=Terrorists Turned Over to Turkish Court|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=July 17, 1979|page=A8}} | |
October 30
|{{flag|United States}} |{{flag|El Salvador}} |0 |2 |Approximately 300 armed leftists attempted to storm the American embassy. U.S Marine guards and local police forces drove back the attackers. | |
October 31
|{{flag|Guatemala}} |{{flag|El Salvador}} |0 |Unknown |A group of unknown attackers attempted to seize the Guatemalan embassy, but were driven back by security forces after a ten-minute battle. | |
November 4
| rowspan="1" |{{flag|United States}} |{{flag|Iran|1964}} |9 | | |
November 21
| rowspan="1" |{{flag|United States}} |{{flag|Pakistan}} |6 |70+ | |
December 2
| rowspan="1" |{{flag|United States}} |{{flag|Libya|1977}} |0 |0 | |
rowspan="9" |1980
|January 11 |{{flag|Panama}} |{{flag|El Salvador}} |0 |0 |Approximately 50 leftist militants of the 28 February Popular League seized the Panamanian embassy, taking seven hostages, including the Panamanian and Costa Rican ambassadors. | |
January 31
|{{flag|Spain|1977}} |{{flag|Guatemala}} |36 |2 | |
February 4
|{{flag|Spain|1977}} |{{flag|El Salvador}} |0 |0 |About 30 members of the 28 February Popular League seized the Spanish embassy, taking eleven hostages, including the Spanish ambassador. | |
February 13
|{{flag|Panama}} |{{flag|El Salvador}} |0 |0 |A group of leftist militants seized the Panamanian embassy for the second time in a month, taking three hostages, including the Panamanian ambassador. | |
February 27 – April 27
|{{flag|Dominican Republic}} |{{flag|Colombia}} |1 | | |
February 28
|{{flag|El Salvador}} |{{flag|Panama}} |0 |0 |A group of 17 Panamanian student militants briefly took over the Salvadoran embassy to demand the release of imprisoned comrades. | |
April 1
|{{flag|Peru}} |{{flag|Cuba}} |1 |2 | |
April 30 – May 5
|{{flag|Iran}} |{{flag|United Kingdom}} |7 | | |
May 20
|{{flag|Nicaragua}} |{{flag|Peru}} |Lima |0 |1 |A security guard was attacked and his submachine gun stolen, the first attack of its type in the country.{{Cite book |title=Violencia política en el Perú: 1980-1988 |publisher=DESCO Centro de Estudios y Promoción del Desarrollo |year=1989 |location=Lima |pages=65, 70–71, 85, 99, 106, 114, 121, 135, 144, 157, 180–181, 183, 185, 189, 192, 195, 197, 219, 236, 259, 269–270, 273, 281, 286 |language=es |url=https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/0DD72E3AC43606DC05257BE9006D9BAD/$FILE/1_pdfsam_desco00002.pdf |volume=1}} | |
rowspan="7" |1981
|March 26 |{{flag|United States}} |{{flag|El Salvador}} |0 |0 |Gunmen attacked the United States embassy with rocket-propelled grenades and submachine guns, extensively damaging the building. | |
July 10
|{{flag|China}} | rowspan="4" |{{flag|Peru}} | rowspan="4" |Lima |0 |0 |A bomb exploded at the Chinese embassy's garden as part of a series of attacks that also targeted a local headquarters of the Acción Popular political party and the Caja Municipal de Crédito bank at the corner of Piérola and Grau avenues. | |
rowspan="2" |August 31
|{{flag|United States}} |2{{Cite news |title=Baader-Meinhof Group Takes Credit For U.S. Base Attack |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WicxAAAAIBAJ |date=1981-09-03 |work=Toledo Blade |publisher=Reuters}} | | rowspan="2" |A bomb exploded in front of the U.S. embassy at Wilson Avenue and at the residence's main yard in Arequipa Avenue, located a few blocks away, as part of a series of attacks that also targeted factories of American companies, as well as a branch of the Bank of America.{{Cite news |title=Gunmen attack U.S. ambassador's residence |url=https://books.google.com/books?id= |date=1982-10-30 |pages=43 |work=Ottawa Citizen |publisher=United Press International}} The Argentine embassy was also attacked.{{Cite book |title=Violencia política en el Perú: 1980-1988 |publisher=DESCO Centro de Estudios y Promoción del Desarrollo |year=1989 |location=Lima |pages=824, 835, 853, 876, 881, 890, 905–906, 918, 929, 944, 945, 952, 957–959, 966, 968–969, 974, 976, 986, 997, 1010, 1013, 1017, 1069, 1072 |language=es |url=https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/30916C5DAA8A179105257BEB005CC5DE/%24FILE/254_pdfsam_desco00003.pdf |volume=1 |chapter=APENDICE: CUADROS CRONOLOGICOS SOBRE LA VIOLENCIA POLITICA}} | |
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September 4
|{{flag|Yugoslavia}} |0 |0 |An attempt was made to bomb the embassy. | |
September 24–25
|{{flag|Turkey}} |{{flag|France}} |1 | | |
December 15
|{{flag|Iraq|1963}} | rowspan="2" |{{flag|Lebanon}} |61 |100+ | |
rowspan="9" |1982
|May 24 |{{flag|France}} |14 |22 |Car bombing of the French embassy in Beirut. The Front for the Liberation of Lebanon from Foreigners claimed responsibility.{{cite web|title=Incident Detail|url=http://smapp.rand.org/rwtid/incident_detail.php?id=3220|work=Database of Worldwide Terrorism Incidents|publisher=RAND Corporation|access-date=August 3, 2013}} | |
July 24
|{{flag|United States}} | rowspan="2" |{{flag|Peru}} | rowspan="2" |Lima | | |The embassy was attacked with dynamite as part of a series of attacks that included company headquarters. | |
July 26
|{{flag|United Kingdom}} | | |The residence of the British ambassador was attacked with dynamite alongside the offices of newspaper La Prensa and Bayer, a mall, Hans Christian Andersen school and the Coliseo Amauta, which was then hosting Miss Universe 1982. | |
September 6
|{{flag|Poland}} |{{flag|Switzerland}} |Bern | | | |
October 28
|{{flag|India}} | rowspan="2" |{{flag|Peru}} | rowspan="2" |Lima |1 | | |
October 29
|{{flag|United States}} |0 |0 |Reports of the midday attack vary between a gunfight between six gunmen (four men in a small car and two on motorcycles) and six members of the Civil Guard, and one attacker without the exchange of gunfire. Ambassador Frank Ortiz was not at the residence at the time. | |
December 8
|{{flag|South Africa|1928}} |{{flag|Lesotho|1966}} |3 |Unknown |ANC guerillas attack the South African embassy. | |
December 23
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rowspan="8" |1983
|February 23 |{{flag|Nicaragua}} |{{flag|Peru}} |Lima |1 |0 |Civil Guard Evert Medrano was shot to death by three suspects while guarding the embassy, who took his submachine gun and escaped in a cream Volkswagen vehicle. | |
April 18
|{{flag|United States}} |{{flag|Lebanon}} |64 | | |
July 27
|{{flag|Turkey}} |{{flag|Portugal}} |7 | | |
August 27
|{{flag|Philippines|1936}} |{{flag|United States}} |0 | |Three unidentified men hurled home made bombs into the lobby of the embassy.{{cite news|title=Trio Sought In Bombing Of Philippine Embassy|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1755&dat=19830829&id=jG4eAAAAIBAJ&pg=3546,7308769&hl=en|access-date=May 14, 2015|publisher=Sarasota Herald-Tribune|date=August 29, 1983}} | |
rowspan="2"|November 10
|{{flag|Honduras}} | rowspan="2"|{{flag|Peru}} | rowspan="2"|Lima |0 |0 | rowspan="2"|The Honduran and U.S. embassies were attacked with dynamite between 8:40 and 9:30 p.m. Honduran ambassador Leiva and his son Yuri were at the chancery's lobby in Dos de Mayo Avenue when the explosives were thrown. Other attacks took place on the same night.{{Cite web |url=https://lum.cultura.pe/cdi/periodico/serie-de-atentados-terroristas-hubo-anoche |title=Serie de atentados terroristas hubo anoche |website=Centro de documentación e investigación}} | |
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December 12
|{{flag|France}} | rowspan="2" |{{flag|Kuwait}} | rowspan="2" |Kuwait City |0 | | rowspan="2" |1983 Kuwait bombings | |
December 12
|{{flag|China}} |6 | | |
rowspan="7" |1984
|May 5 |{{flag|United States}} |{{flag|Peru}} |Lima | | |The residence of the U.S. ambassador was attacked alongside a water treatment plant and a power station. | |
July 11
| {{flag|Libya|1977}} | {{flag|Lebanon}} | 0 | 0 | Done in protest of a visit by Libya's foreign minister.{{cite news |title = Beirut Bomb Razes Libya Embassy |work = The Los Angeles Times |date = 11 July 1984 |page = 6}} | |
September 16
|{{flag|West Germany}} |{{flag|Peru}} |Lima |0 |0 |An assassination attempt was made on the Civil Guard that was guarding the embassy. | |
September 20
| rowspan="3" |{{flag|United States}} |{{flag|Lebanon}} |24 | | |
September 28
|{{flag|Peru}} |Lima | | |Three MRTA members located at the Parque Neptuno, 120 metres from the embassy, shot at its façade at night with FN FAL rifles in response to comments made by then President Fernando Belaúnde during the United Nations General Assembly. Four arrests were made on the same day, with Belaúnde referring to the events as "criminal and cowardly." | |
November 26
|{{flag|Colombia}} |1 |7 |A bomb exploded on the street adjacent to the embassy, killing one Colombian woman. Drug traffickers were believed to be responsible.{{cite news|title=Embassy Bombing in Colombia Spurs More Americans To Leave|work=The Hartford Courant|agency=Associated Press|date=November 28, 1984|page=A16}}{{cite web|title=Lethal Terrorist Actions Against Americans 1973–1985|url=http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/International_security_affairs/terrorism/122.pdf|publisher=Bureau of Diplomatic Security|access-date=June 20, 2014}} | |
December 26
|{{flag|China}} | rowspan="2" |{{flag|Peru}} | rowspan="2" |Lima | | | |
rowspan="10" |1985
|January 17 |{{flag|Chile}} |0 |0 |An assassination attempt was made on the Civil Guard that was guarding the embassy. | |
March 12
|{{flag|Turkey}} |{{flag|Canada}} |1 | | |
rowspan="3" |May 15
|{{flag|United States}} | rowspan="16" |{{flag|Peru}} | rowspan="16" |Lima | rowspan="3" |0 | rowspan="3" |0 | rowspan="3" |The terrorist group Shining Path bombed a number of targets in Lima, including the Soviet and Chinese embassies. Two sticks of dynamite were thrown over the wall of the U.S. ambassador's residence, causing no injuries.{{cite news|title=Police round up 3,500 after Lima bomb blitz|work=The Globe and Mail|agency=Associated Press|date=May 18, 1985|page=13}} Two police stations were also bombed. | |
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May 16
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May 20
| | |Molotov cocktails were thrown at the embassy. | |
July 14
| rowspan=2"|{{flag|United States}} |0 |0 |The U.S. consulate in Miraflores was shot at with submachine guns. | |
November 9
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November 13
|{{flag|Colombia}} |1 |0 |A Civil Guard that was guarding the embassy (also reported as the consulate) was fatally shot in the head by MRTA members. Afterwards, the offices the Banco de Desarrollo in Juan de Arona avenue and that of Avianca, both in San Isidro were attacked, with graffiti against Belisario Betancur being painted on the latter's walls, all in response to the killing of M-19 guerrilla members in Bogotá. | |
rowspan="24" |1986
| rowspan="7" |February 2 |{{flag|United States}} | | | rowspan="7" | A number of embassies were attacked with dynamite, as well as a number of government and private offices, including that of Xinhua News Agency. | |
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April 3
|{{flag|Colombia}} | | |The embassy was attacked with dynamite, alongside offices belonging to ICPNA, IBM, APRA and Citibank, two Sears bank agencies, the LaSalle School, and a store. | |
April 9-?
|{{flag|Nigeria}} |{{flag|Philippines|1986}} |0 | |100 Nigerian students seized and occupied the Nigerian embassy for days to protest alleged neglect of the diplomatic mission over their plight | |
rowspan="2" |April 11
|{{flag|United States}} | rowspan="2" |{{flag|Peru}} | rowspan="2" |Lima | rowspan="2" | | rowspan="2" | | rowspan="2" |Explosive devices were thrown at the U.S. and Venezuelan embassies at 10:45 p.m. as part of a series of nine attacks. | |
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April 15
|{{flag|France}} |{{flag|Libya|1977}} | | | |
April 21
|{{flag|United States}} | rowspan="7" |{{flag|Peru}} | rowspan="7" |Lima | | |A car bomb placed by MRTA operatives and armed with 40 kg of dynamite destroyed the vehicle and parts of the back wall of the ambassador's residence, exploding five minutes after the end of curfew, in response to U.S. actions in Libya and in Nicaragua. | |
June 22
|{{flag|Honduras|1949}} | | |MRTA bombing carried out in rejection of a "submissive government" and "complicit" with the Reagan administration. | |
rowspan="2" |July 4
|{{flag|China}} | | | rowspan="2" | The two embassies were attacked with dynamite, alongside the Soviet–Peruvian Cultural Centre and a monument to John F. Kennedy. | |
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July 7
|{{flag|Soviet Union}} |1 |0 | |
September 18
|{{flag|Chile}} |0 |0 |At 5:45 a.m., three members of the MRTA aboard a red Toyota threw dynamite at the main gate of the embassy, destroying it, with debris impacting the Los Ficus building, located nearby. The date was chosen due to it being the country's national holiday, with the fugitives throwing papers denouncing Augusto Pinochet's "fascist dictatorship."{{Cite web |url=https://lum.cultura.pe/cdi/periodico/mrta-lanza-bombas-la-embajada-chilena |title=MRTA lanza bombas a la embajada chilena |website=Centro de documentación e investigación}} The ambassador's residence was also attacked. | |
September 26
|{{flag|Bolivia}} | | |The embassy was attacked by the People's Revolutionary Command ({{langx|es|Comando revolucionario del pueblo}}). | |
October 2
|{{flag|Egypt}} |{{flag|Spain}} |0 |0 |A shooting took place at embassy, then located at 60 Velázquez Street, between security personnel and militants who entered through a window, with no injuries.{{Cite news |title=Asalto y tiroteo en la Embajada de Egipto en Madrid |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1986/10/03/espana/528678017_850215.html |date=1986-10-03 |work=El País}} | |
November
|{{flag|China}} |{{flag|Indonesia}} | | |Japanese Red Army attack | |
November
|{{flag|Canada}} |{{flag|Indonesia}} | | |Japanese Red Army attack | |
November
|{{flag|United States}} |{{flag|Portugal}} | | |Forças Populares 25 de Abril attack | |
November 23
|{{flag|Turkey}} |{{flag|Australia}} |1 | | |
rowspan="12" |1987
|January 26 |{{flag|India}} | rowspan="3" |{{flag|Peru}} | rowspan="3" |Lima |3 | |The embassy in Miraflores was attacked between 2 and 5 p.m. with grenades and submachine guns during an official visit of then president Alan García to the Asian country as part of a series of attacks in different parts of the city. Earlier on the same day, newspapers announced that the government had extended its state of emergency for another 30 days. Civil Guards Segundo Rufasto Alarcón, Luis Salas and alférez Francisco Flores were killed during the attack. | |
May 4
|{{flag|United States}} | | |A shootout took place near the U.S. ambassador's residence, at Petit Thouars Avenue. One of several shootings, some 15 explosions also took place, leaving nine departments in a blackout. | |
April 30
|{{flag|North Korea}} |0 |2 | |
rowspan="2" |June{{cite news |title=Red Army's reign of terror |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/1013172.stm |access-date=16 November 2021 |work=BBC News |publisher=BBC |date=8 November 2000}}
|{{flag|United States}} | rowspan="2" |{{flag|Italy}} | rowspan="2" |Rome | | | rowspan="2" |(See: Japanese Red Army) | |
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|{{flag|Kuwait}}
| rowspan="2" |{{flag|Iran}} | rowspan="2" |Tehran | | | rowspan="2" |In response to the 1987 Mecca Massacre | |
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September 11
|{{flag|Fifth Republic of Korea|name=South Korea}} | rowspan="9" |{{flag|Peru}} | rowspan="9" |Lima |0 |0 |The embassy was attacked alongside two police stations and two electrical centres. | |
rowspan="2" |October 8
|{{flag|Bolivia}} | rowspan="2" | | rowspan="2" | | rowspan="2" |High-potency explosives were used against diplomatic missions of the U.S. and Bolivia, the former being the consulate in Miraflores. | |
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October 10
|{{flag|Soviet Union}} |0 |0 |Two Civil Guards that were guarding the embassy were unsuccessfully targeted by terrorists. | |
November 18
| rowspan="4" |{{flag|United States}} |5 | |The embassy was attacked alongside a hotel, civil guards posted near the Ministry of Health, and a Nissan manufacturing plant, where one worker and four terrorists were killed. | |
rowspan="6" |1988 | |
June 9
|0 |0 |The residence of then ambassador Alexander Watson was shot at twice with homemade mortars mounted on vehicles by alleged MRTA members, who slightly damaged the building. | |
October 2
| | |Two men were arrested while two others ran away.{{Cite news |title=Peru police thwart U.S. Embassy attack |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_74sAAAAIBAJ |date=1988-10-03 |pages=7A |work=Star-News |publisher=Associated Press}} | |
November 23
|{{flag|South Korea}} | | | |
December 6
|{{flag|Peru}} |{{flag|Bolivia}} |1 | | |
| rowspan="2" |{{flag|Soviet Union}}
|{{flag|Iran}} | | | Due to alleged Soviet support for Iraq during the Iran–Iraq war | |
rowspan="4" |1989
| |{{flag|Afghanistan|1987}} | | | | |
September 17
| rowspan="2" |{{flag|China}} |{{flag|Colombia}} | | |Suspected FARC attack | |
rowspan="2" |October 25
| rowspan="2" |{{flag|Peru}} | rowspan="2" |Lima |0 |0 | rowspan="2" |A coordinated attack by the Shining Path was carried out with explosives at 8:15 p.m. in Miraflores and San Isidro districts, against the embassies of the PRC and the USSR and a building where U.S. marines resided, causing material damages.{{Cite news |title=Los maoístas de Sendero Luminoso atacan la Embajada china en Lima |url=https://elpais.com/diario/1989/10/27/internacional/625446007_850215.html |last=Murillo |first=Ana |date=1989-10-27 |work=El País}} | |
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rowspan="4" |1990
| |{{flag|China}} |{{flag|Iran}} | | | |
February 14
|{{flag|United States}} |{{flag|Peru}} |Lima |0 |0 |A bomb exploded outside the General Services Officer's warehouse door.{{Cite web |url=https://lum.cultura.pe/cdi/documento/united-states-embassy-bombing-atentado-con-bomba-en-la-embajada-de-los-estados-unidos |title=United States embassy bombing / Atentado con bomba en la embajada de los Estados Unidos |website=Centro de documentación e investigación}} | |
March 31
|{{flagcountry|ZAF|1928}} |{{flag|United Kingdom}} |0 |0 | During the Poll Tax Riots | |
November 4
| rowspan="2" |{{flag|United States}} | rowspan="4" |{{flag|Peru}} | rowspan="4" |Lima |0 |0 |An RPG-2 was fired towards the empty consulate at night.{{Cite web |url=https://lum.cultura.pe/cdi/documento/united-states-embassy-lima-attacked-embajada-de-estados-unidos-atacada-en-lima |title=United States embassy in Lima attacked / Embajada de Estados Unidos atacada en Lima |website=Centro de documentación e investigación}} | |
rowspan="4" |1991
|January 25 | |1+ |An hour after a car bomb exploded at Lima Airport, an RPG-7 was fired towards the embassy at 1:51 p.m. The six perpetrators travelled aboard a stolen four-door white Nissan pickup truck, firing the projectile and immediately continuing with small arms fire. MRTA literature and materials related to the Gulf War were found inside the vehicle. The attack indicated a departure from previous MRTA attacks, as it was possibly intended to cause harm rather than cause damage. | |
rowspan="2" |December 20
|{{flag|Spain}} | rowspan="2" |0 | rowspan="2" |0 | rowspan="2" |The Spanish ambassador's residence was attacked with an explosive that only damaged the building's windows and surroundings, and did not manage to go over its two-metre-tall outer wall when thrown. Meanwhile, another device destroyed two cars parked behind the security fence at the French embassy. A woman who had appeared moments earlier claiming to have been raped nearby was detained.{{Cite news |title=Atacan embajada de Francia y casa de diplomático español en Perú |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fFNbAAAAIBAJ |date=1981-12-22 |pages=5A |work=La Opinión}} | |
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|{{flag|Iraq|2004}}
| {{flag|Finland}} | | |Iraqi Kurdish refugee protest on Kurdish massacre in Northern Iraq | |
rowspan="28" |1992
|February 11 |{{flag|United States}} |{{flag|Peru}} |Lima |2 |A red car exploded in the posterior wall of the ambassador's residence, similar to the April 1986 attack, leaving a 20 foot-long section of the 10-foot-high wall and dealing considerable damage to the interior. Ambassador Anthony Quainton was not home at the time of the attack, which continued with the bombings of at least five banks and a movie theatre.{{Cite news |title=Peru explosion kills two officers |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=umZAAAAAIBAJ |last=Galvin |first=Kevin |date=1992-02-12 |pages=8 |work=Daily Union |publisher=Associated Press}} | |
March 17
|{{flag|Israel}} |{{flag|Argentina}} |29 | | |
April 5
| rowspan="9" |{{flag|Iran}} |{{flag|Canada}} | | |(See: Embassy of Iran, Ottawa){{Cite web|url=https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/compo-fight-revealed-over-92-iran-embassy-raid-20170101-gtkcv3|title=Compo fight revealed over '92 Iran embassy raid|date=January 2017}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1994/02/18/Four-jailed-over-attack-on-Iranian-embassy/1662761547600/|title = Four jailed over attack on Iranian embassy}} | |
April 6
|{{flag|Australia}} |0 |1 | rowspan="8" | | |
April
|{{flag|Germany}} |0 |4 | |
April
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April
|{{flag|Ireland}} |0 |1 | |
April
|{{flag|Poland}} |0 |3 | |
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22 July
|{{flag|Bolivia}} |{{flag|Peru}} |Lima |0 |5-16 | |
rowspan="10" |August
| rowspan="10"| {{flag|Peru}} |{{flag|Sweden}} |0 |0 | rowspan="10"|1992 Peruvian embassy attack in Stockholm: A series of attacks against diplomatic missions of the country began with rebels painting red pro-Shining Path slogans on the building's façade and making an attempt on the life of the ambassador in Sweden that was thwarted by local police. The embassy in London was next, being shot at and also painted with slogans in early August. Similar attacks were made on a number of European embassies, while the mission in Mexico had dead dogs hung around it.{{Cite news |title=Shining Path Activities in Europe Reviewed |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QVo2NcJiPZAC |last=Mattos |first=Francisco |date=1992-08-16 |pages=16–19 |work=La República |type=Article from the Investigative Unit translated to English and republished at the "Daily Report: Latin America" news bulletin, No. PY0509210092, p. 39.}} | |
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rowspan="4"|December 26
|{{flag|China}} | rowspan="6"| {{flag|Peru}} | rowspan="6"| Lima |0 |0 | rowspan="6"|Simultaneous attacks: On December 26, the anniversary of Mao Zedong's birth, Shining Path members detonated a number of car bombs next to diplomatic missions in Lima. At 5:45 a.m., the one at the Chinese embassy partially detonated with no casualties or major damage. Around the same time, the Costa Rican embassy and the Austrian consulate in Miraflores followed, causing material damage, followed by another one at the German embassy. On the 28th, at approximately 9:40 a.m., the Japanese embassy and an adjacent house were bombed after being shot at, with the Chinese embassy following suit 20 minutes later with material damage.{{Cite web |url=https://lum.cultura.pe/cdi/documento/sendero-luminoso-attacks-embassies-sendero-luminoso-ataque-embajadas |title=Sendero Luminoso attacks embassies / Sendero Luminoso ataque embajadas |website=Centro de documentación e investigación}} | |
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rowspan="2"|December 28
|{{flag|China}} |0 |0 | |
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rowspan="3" |1993
|March 8 |{{flag|Nicaragua}} |{{flag|Costa Rica}} | | |Contra rebels seized the embassy along with eight hostages. | |
rowspan="2" |July 27
|{{flag|China}} |rowspan="2" |{{flag|Peru}} |rowspan="2" |Lima | | |rowspan="2" |Shining Path attack.{{Cite news |title=Car bomb detonated outside U.S. Embassy in Peru |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qW0xAAAAIBAJ |date=1993-07-28 |work=The Spokesman-Review |publisher=Associated Press|quote=It was the first major attack on a U.S. installation in Peru since a car bomb killed three Peruvian guards at the American ambassador's residence in February 1992.}} | |
{{flag|United States}}
|0 |2 | |
1994
|26 July |{{flag|Israel}} |{{flag|United Kingdom}} |0 | | |
rowspan="5" |1995
| |{{flag|China}} |{{flag|Nicaragua}} |0 | | | |
17 June
|{{flag|France}} |{{flag|Australia}} |0 | | |
November 19
|{{flag|Egypt}} |{{flag|Pakistan}} |19 | | |
6 September
|{{flag|Pakistan}} |{{flag|Afghanistan|1992}} |1 | | |
September 13
|{{flag|United States}} |{{flag|Russia}} | | |Suspected Chechen attack | |
rowspan="2" |1996
|June 22 |{{flag|Honduras|1949}} | rowspan="2" |{{flag|Peru}} | rowspan="2" |Lima | | |Dynamite was thrown at the embassy, damaging its front door, in a series of attacks that also targeted popular restaurant La Rosa Náutica, and a number of APRA offices, alongside other places. | |
December 17 – April 22 (1997)
|{{flag|Japan}} |3 | | |
rowspan="5" |1998
| |{{flag|Russia}} |{{flag|Latvia}} |Riga |0 | | |
|{{flag|Iran}}
|{{flag|Afghanistan|Taliban}} |11 | | |
June 21
| rowspan="3" |{{flag|United States}} |{{flag|Lebanon}} | | |Hezbollah attack | |
rowspan="2" |August 7
|{{flag|Kenya}} |212 | | rowspan="2" |1998 United States embassy bombings | |
{{flag|Tanzania}}
|11 | | |
rowspan="4" |1999
|May 7 |{{flag|China}} |{{flag|Serbia and Montenegro}} |3 | | |
rowspan="2" |May 15
|{{flag|United States}} | rowspan="2" |{{flag|China}} | rowspan="2" |Beijing | rowspan="2" |0 | rowspan="2" | | rowspan="2" |In response to the U.S. bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade | |
{{flag|Serbia and Montenegro}} | |
|{{flag|Myanmar|1974}}
|{{flag|Thailand}} |0 | | |
2000
|August 1 |{{flag|Philippines}} |{{flag|Indonesia}} |2 |21 | |
rowspan=6|2002
|January 22 |rowspan=2|{{flag|United States}} |{{flag|India}} |5 | |Attack by gunmen on the American Centre in Kolkata.{{cite news|title=Gunmen attack US centre in Calcutta|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1774483.stm|accessdate=July 31, 2013|publisher=BBC News|date=January 22, 2002}} | |
March 20
|{{flag|Peru}} |Lima |9 |32 | |
April 12
|{{flag|Cuba}} |{{flag|Venezuela|1930}} |0 | |Part of the 2002 Venezuelan coup d'état attempt | |
June 14
|{{flag|United States}} |{{flag|Pakistan}} |12 | | |
rowspan=2|October 12
|{{flag|Philippines}} |rowspan=2|{{flag|Indonesia}} | | | |
{{flag|United States}}
| | |A bomb detonated outside the US Consular Office as part of the 2002 Bali bombings | |
rowspan="7" |2003
| January 29 |{{flag|Thailand}} |{{Flag|Cambodia}} |0 |0 | |
rowspan="2" |February 25
|{{flag|Colombia}} | rowspan="2" |{{Flag|Venezuela|1930}} | rowspan="2" |Caracas |0 |0 | |
{{flag|Spain}}
|0 |0 | |
February 28
|{{flag|Czech Republic}} |{{flag|Pakistan}} |2 |0 |Suspected Al-Qaeda attack | |
July 9
|{{flag|Pakistan}} |{{flag|Afghanistan|2002}} |0 |0 | |
August 7
|{{flag|Jordan}} |{{flag|Iraq|1991}} |17 | | |
October 14
|{{flag|Turkey}} |{{flag|Iraq|1991}} |1 | |Turkish embassy bombing in Baghdad{{Broken anchor|date=2025-01-31|bot=User:Cewbot/log/20201008/configuration|target_link=Terrorist incidents in Iraq in 2003#October to December|reason= The anchor (October to December) has been deleted.}}{{cite news|title=Blast at Turkish embassy in Iraq|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3190794.stm|access-date=September 27, 2012|work=BBC News|date=October 14, 2003}} | |
November 20
|{{flag|United Kingdom}} |{{flag|Turkey}} |71 | | |
rowspan="5" |2004
| July 27 |{{flag|Chile}} |{{flag|Costa Rica}} |4 | |Costa Rican police officer assigned to the embassy took 9 employees hostages, killing 3 Chilean diplomats and himself after a 7-hour standoff{{Cite web |date=2004-07-27 |title=Four dead in Costa Rica standoff |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna5530440 |access-date=2023-10-21 |website=NBC News |language=en}} | |
|{{flag|Israel}}
| rowspan="2" |{{flag|Uzbekistan}} | rowspan="2" |Tashkent |2 | | rowspan="2" |Tashkent embassy bombings | |
|{{flag|United States}}
|2 | | |
|{{flag|Australia}}
|{{flag|Indonesia}} |9 | | |
|{{flag|Greece}}
|{{flag|Saudi Arabia}} | | | | |
rowspan="7" |2006
|February 7 |{{flag|Denmark}} |{{flag|Iran}} | | | |
March 2
| rowspan="2" |{{flag|China}} |{{flag|Pakistan}} |4 | |Suspected Al-Qaeda attack | |
September 12
|{{flag|Syria}} |4 | | | |
| rowspan="2" |{{flag|Denmark}}
|{{flag|Lebanon}} | | | rowspan="2" |Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy | |
|{{flag|Syria}}
| | | |
|{{flag|Italy}}
|{{flag|Libya|1977}} | | | | |
|{{flag|Pakistan}}
|{{flag|Sri Lanka}} | | | |
rowspan="4" |2007
| |{{flag|United States}} |{{flag|Greece}} |0 | | |
|{{flag|Spain}}
|{{flag|Democratic Republic of the Congo}} | | | | |
|{{flag|Russia}}
|{{flag|Costa Rica}} | | |Hostage situation. | |
|{{flag|China}}
|{{flag|India}} | | | | |
rowspan="21" |2008
| rowspan="4" | |{{Flag|United States}} | rowspan="4" |{{flag|Serbia|2006}} | rowspan="4" |Belgrade | rowspan="4" |1{{cite web |url=http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/02/27/europe/EU-GEN-Serbia-Kosovo-Independence.php |title=Serbs mourn youth who died in riots targeting US embassy |work=International Herald Tribune |date=February 27, 2008}}{{cite web|url=http://www.b92.net/eng/news/politics.php?yyyy=2008&mm=02&dd=17&nav_id=47783|publisher=b92.net|title=Over 60 injured, Slovenian embassy ransacked - Politics - on B92.net|date=February 17, 2008 |access-date=February 23, 2017}} | rowspan="4" | | rowspan="4" |2008 Serbia protests | |
{{Flag|China}} | |
{{Flag|Croatia}} | |
{{Flag|Slovenia}} | |
March 10
| rowspan="9" |{{Flag|China}} |{{flag|Canada}} | | | rowspan="10" |2008 Tibetan unrest | |
March 11
|{{flag|United States}} | | | |
March 14
|{{flag|Canada}} | | | |
March 15
|{{flag|Australia}} | |1 | |
March 16
|{{flag|France}} | | | |
March 20
|{{flag|Austria}} | | | |
|{{flag|Hungary}}
| | | |
|{{flag|Netherlands}}
| | | |
|{{flag|Switzerland}}
| | | |
|{{flag|Japan}}
|{{flag|Mauritania}} | | | |
|{{flag|Denmark}}
|{{flag|Pakistan}} | | | |
|{{flag|India}}
|{{flag|Afghanistan|2004}} | | | |
October
|{{flag|Turkey}} |{{flag|Finland}} | | |part of Kurdish–Turkish conflict | |
| rowspan="2" |{{flag|China}}
|{{flag|Turkey}} |6 | | | |
|{{flag|Romania}}
|19 | | |
|{{flag|Ethiopia|1996}}
|{{flag|Somalia}} |30 | | |
|{{flag|Greece}}
|{{flag|Germany}} | | |{{citation needed|date=September 2012}} | |
rowspan="12" |2009
| |{{flag|France}} |{{flag|Mauritania}} |3 | | |
|{{flag|Denmark}}
|{{flag|Sweden}} | | |Deportation of Iraqi refugees{{citation needed|date=September 2012}} | |
February 4
|{{flag|Holy See}} |{{flag|Venezuela}} | | | |
February 18
|{{flag|Pakistan}} |{{flag|Iran}} | | | |
|{{flag|Slovakia}}
|{{flag|Hungary}} | | | |
July 5
| rowspan="5" |{{flag|China}} |{{flag|United States}} | | | rowspan="5" |July 2009 Ürümqi riots{{cite web|url=http://www.china.org.cn/china/xinjiang_unrest/2009-07/13/content_18127285.htm |title=Attacks on China's diplomatic missions well-orchestrated |publisher=china.org.cn |date=July 13, 2009 |access-date=November 22, 2013}} | |
rowspan="2" |July 6
|{{flag|Germany}} | | | |
{{flag|Netherlands}}
| | | |
July 7
|{{flag|Norway}} |Oslo | | | |
July 13
|{{flag|Turkey}} | | | |
August 25
|{{flag|Greece}} |{{flag|Serbia}} | | |Molotov cocktails attack by anarchists in support of Greek riots.{{cite web|url=http://www.b92.net/info/vesti/index.php?yyyy=2009&mm=08&dd=25&nav_id=377990|publisher=b92.net|title="Molotovljevi" na grčku ambasadu|date=August 25, 2009 |access-date=February 23, 2017}} | |
October 8
|{{flag|India}} |{{flag|Afghanistan|2004}} |17 | | |
rowspan="16" |2010
| |{{flag|Bulgaria}} | rowspan="9" |{{flag|Greece}} | rowspan="9" |Athens | | | rowspan="9" |by Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei | |
|{{flag|Japan}}
| | | |
|{{flag|Chile}}
| | | |
|{{flag|Nigeria}}
| | | |
|{{flag|South Korea}}
| | | |
|{{flag|Mexico}}
| | | |
|{{flag|Russia}}
| | | |
|{{flag|Hungary}}
| | | |
|{{flag|Morocco}}
| | | |
rowspan="2" |
|{{flag|Hungary}} | rowspan="3" |{{flag|Italy}} | rowspan="3" |Rome | rowspan="2" | | rowspan="2" | | rowspan="2" |The Informal Anarchist Federation claimed credit for these mail bombs.{{cite news|last=Donadio|first=Rachel|title=Revenge Cited in Rome Embassy Attacks|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/25/world/europe/25italy.html|access-date=July 30, 2013|newspaper=The New York Times|date=December 24, 2010}} | |
{{flag|Chile}} | |
|{{flag|Greece}}
| | |Alleged explosive device defused by Italian police{{citation needed|date=September 2012}} | |
|{{flag|France}}
|{{flag|Mali}} | | | |
11 May
|{{flag|Pakistan}} |{{flag|Iran}} | | | |
April 5
|{{flag|United States}} |{{flag|Pakistan}} |6 | | |
26 February
|{{flag|India}} |{{flag|Afghanistan|2004}} |18 (9 Indians) | | |
rowspan="10" |2011
|26 May |{{flag|Serbia}} |{{flag|Russia}} | | |Attacked by National Bolshevik Party activists as a response to arrest of Ratko Mladić. | |
|{{flag|France}}
| rowspan="2" |{{Flag|Syria}} | rowspan="2" |Damascus | | | rowspan="2" |part of the Syrian civil war{{cite web|url=http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2011/07/2011711133656248811.html |title=Assad loyalists storm US and French embassies – Middle East |publisher=Al Jazeera |access-date=September 15, 2012}} | |
|{{flag|United States}}
| | | |
9–10 September
|{{flag|Israel}} |{{flag|Egypt}} | | | |
| rowspan="2" |{{flag|United States}}
|{{flag|Afghanistan|2004}} | | |2011 Kabul Attacks{{cite web|author=Tim Schwarz and Joe Sterling|url=http://us.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/09/13/afghanistan.kabul.attack/index.html |title=In central Kabul, tension ripples amid Taliban assault |publisher=CNN |date=September 13, 2011 |access-date=September 15, 2012}} | |
|{{flag|Bosnia and Herzegovina}}
| | | |
|{{flag|France}}
| rowspan="3" |{{Flag|Syria}} | rowspan="3" |Damascus | | | rowspan="3" |part of the Syrian civil war{{cite web|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2011/11/12/world/meast/syria-unrest/index.html?hpt=hp_t2 |title=Regime backers express anger at other nations after Arab League suspends Syria |date=November 12, 2011 |publisher=CNN |access-date=September 15, 2012}} | |
|{{flag|Turkey}}
| | | |
|{{flag|Saudi Arabia}}
| | | |
29 November
|{{flag|United Kingdom}} |{{flag|Iran}} | | | |
rowspan="10" |2012
|January 8 |{{flag|Japan}} |{{flag|South Korea}} | | |A Chinese man hurled four petrol bombs at the Japanese mission in protest of Japan's war crimes during the World War II.{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-korea-chinese-japan-idUSTRE80706920120108 |title=Chinese held for firebomb attack at Japan embassy in Seoul |work=Reuters |date=January 8, 2012 |access-date=November 22, 2013}} | |
|{{flag|Belarus}}
|{{flag|Kyrgyzstan}} | | | |
|{{flag|China}}
|{{flag|Libya}} | | | |
|{{flag|United States}}
|{{flag|Egypt}} | | |2012 attack on the American Embassy in Egypt{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-19562688|title=Egypt protesters breach US embassy over 'insulting' film|publisher=BBC|date=September 11, 2012|access-date=September 18, 2012}} | |
July 9
|{{flag|Japan}} |{{flag|South Korea}} | | | |
September 11
| rowspan="3" |{{flag|United States}} |{{flag|Libya}} |4 |4 (possibly as many as 30) |U.S. Consulate attack in Benghazi. Official and unofficial accounts vary on the number of Americans injured, from 4 to as many as 30.Pickering, Mullen, et al., [https://2009-2017.state.gov/documents/organization/202446.pdf Accountability Review Board report on Benghazi (Unclassified)] U.S. Department of State. December 18, 2012.{{cite web |url=http://wolf.house.gov/uploads/Kerry_Benghazi_March1.pdf |title=Letter to Secretary of State John Kerry|date= March 1, 2013|access-date=September 12, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130323014259/http://wolf.house.gov/uploads/Kerry_Benghazi_March1.pdf|archive-date= March 23, 2013 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all}}{{cite news |title=State: Only four people wounded at Benghazi|url=https://thehill.com/policy/international/144917-state-only-four-people-wounded-at-benghazi/|work=The Hill|date=March 15, 2013|access-date=September 12, 2013}}{{cite news|title=Exclusive: Dozens of CIA operatives on the ground during Benghazi attack|url=http://thelead.blogs.cnn.com/2013/08/01/exclusive-dozens-of-cia-operatives-on-the-ground-during-benghazi-attack/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130802021649/http://thelead.blogs.cnn.com/2013/08/01/exclusive-dozens-of-cia-operatives-on-the-ground-during-benghazi-attack/|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 2, 2013|publisher=CNN|date=August 1, 2013|access-date=September 12, 2013}} | |
|{{flag|Yemen}}
| | |2012 attack on the American Embassy in Yemen{{cite web|url=http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120913/NATION/209130453/1361/Libya-says-attacks-a-2-part-militant-assault|title=Libya says attacks a 2-part militant assault|work=Detroit News|date=September 13, 2012|access-date=September 18, 2012|quote=In Yemen, hundreds of protesters chanting 'Death to America!' stormed the U.S. Embassy compound in the capital, Sanaa, and burned the American flag.}} {{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}} | |
|{{flag|Tunisia}}
| | | | |
|{{flag|Germany}}
|{{flag|Sudan}} | | | |
|{{flag|Japan}}
|{{flag|China}} |0 | | |
rowspan="14" |2013
|February 1 |{{flag|China}} |{{flag|Turkey}} |2 | | | |
April 23
|{{flag|France}} | rowspan="3" |{{flag|Libya}} | rowspan="3" |Tripoli |0 | |AQIM car-bombing attack{{Cite web|url=https://www.france24.com/en/20130423-french-embassy-tripoli-attacked-car-bomb|title=Car bomb destroys French embassy in Libya|date=2013-04-23|website=France 24|language=en|access-date=2019-12-31}} | |
July 25
|{{flag|United Arab Emirates}} |0 | |Rocket-propelled grenade attack.{{cite news|title=UAE embassy compound attacked in Libyan capital|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-libya-uae-attack-idUSBRE96O04J20130725|access-date=July 30, 2013|work=Reuters|date=July 25, 2013|author=Ghaith Shennib|author2=Marie-Louise Gumuchian}} | |
June 29
|{{flag|Pakistan}} | | | |
August 3
|{{flag|India}} |{{flag|Afghanistan|2004}} |9 |21 | |
August 7
|{{flag|Pakistan}} |{{flag|India}} | | | |
September 13
|{{flag|United States}} |{{flag|Afghanistan|2004}} |2 |20 | |
October 3
|{{flag|Russia}} |{{flag|Libya}} |1 | | |
October 11
|{{flag|Sweden}} |{{flag|Libya}} |0 |0 |A car bomb exploded outside Sweden's honorary consulate in Benghazi, Libya, causing significant damage to the building but no reported injuries. The explosion shattered windows and destroyed the entrance, but consulate staff remained unharmed.{{cite news |url=https://www.svd.se/a/07c5b4e9-fe17-3fa7-a922-e14789994882/bilbomb-vid-svenskt-konsulat |newspaper=Svenska Dagbladet |title=Bilbomb vid svenskt konsulat |trans-title=Car bomb at the Swedish consulate |agency=TT |date=11 October 2013 |access-date=17 October 2024 |language=sv}} | |
November 5
|{{flag|Sweden}} |{{flag|Syria}} | | | | |
November 8
|{{flag|Serbia}} |{{flag|Croatia}} | | | |
November 11
|{{flag|Russia}} |{{flag|Poland}} | | | |
November 19
|{{flag|Iran}} |{{flag|Lebanon}} |20+ |50+ | |
December 19
|{{flag|Pakistan}} |{{flag|Bangladesh}} | | | |
rowspan="4" |2014
|22 May |{{flag|India}} |{{flag|Afghanistan|2004}} | | |2014 attack on Indian consulate in Herat, Afghanistan{{cite news|title=Indian consulate in Afghanistan attacked by gunmen|url=http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/222273053/scat/701ee96610c884a6/ht/Indian-consulate-in-Afghanistan-attacked-by-gunmen|access-date=May 22, 2014|work=India Gazette|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140524044348/http://www.indiagazette.com/index.php/sid/222273053/scat/701ee96610c884a6/ht/Indian-consulate-in-Afghanistan-attacked-by-gunmen|archive-date=May 24, 2014|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}} | |
June 14
|{{flag|Russia}} |{{flag|Ukraine}} |Kyiv |0 |0 |Attack following{{cite web|url=https://www.kyivpost.com/multimedia/photo/protesters-outside-russian-embassy-in-kyiv-overturn-cars-throw-eggs-351902.html|publisher=kyivpost.com|title=Protesters outside Russian Embassy in Kyiv overturn cars, throw eggs, tear down Russian flag |access-date=February 23, 2017}} the downing of a plane with 49 Ukrainian troops near Luhansk carried out by pro-Russian militants using weapon probably from Russia.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-27845313|title=Ukraine crisis: Military plane shot down in Luhansk – BBC News|work=BBC News|date=June 14, 2014|access-date=February 23, 2017}}{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/10899657/Ukraine-rebels-shoot-down-plane-carrying-49.html|publisher=telegraph.co.uk|title=Ukraine: rebels shoot down plane carrying 49 – Telegraph|access-date=February 23, 2017|date=June 14, 2014|last1=Blair|first1=David}} | |
rowspan="2" |November 13
|{{flag|Egypt}} | rowspan="8" |{{flag|Libya}} | rowspan="8" |Tripoli |0 |0 | | |
{{flag|United Arab Emirates}}
|0 |0 | | |
rowspan="18" |2015
|January 17 |{{flag|Algeria}} |0 |3 | | |
February 22
|{{flag|Iran}} |0 |0 | | |
April 12
|{{flag|South Korea}} |2 |1 | | |
April 13
|{{flag|Morocco}} |0 |0 | | |
April 21
|{{flag|Spain}} |0 |0 | | |
June 12
|{{flag|Tunisia}} |0 |0 | | |
June 24
|{{flag|United Arab Emirates}} |{{flag|Somalia}} |3 |7 | | |
July 8
|{{flag|Thailand}} | rowspan="2" |{{flag|Turkey}} | | | rowspan="2" |6th anniversary of the Ürümqi riots | |
July 9
|{{flag|China}} | | | |
July 11
|{{flag|Italy}} |{{flag|Egypt}} |1 |4 |Suspected ISIS attack | |
July 24
| rowspan="2" |{{flag|China}} |{{flag|Australia}} |0 |1 |7th anniversary of the 2008 Tibetan unrest | |
July 26
|{{flag|Somalia}} |12 |0 |Suspected Al-Shabaab attack | |
July 29
|{{flag|Niger}} |{{flag|Egypt}} |1 |2 |Suspected Al Qaeda attack | |
August 10
|{{flag|Portugal}} |{{flag|Turkey}} |0 |1 |Suspected DHKP-C attack | |
September 20
|{{flag|Russia}} |{{Flag|Syria}} |0 |0 | | |
September 28
|{{flag|United States}} |{{flag|Uzbekistan}} |0 |1 |Firebomb attack possibly by IMU or IS Terrorist Group{{cite news|title=Uzbekistan: US Embassy Targeted by Firebombs|url=https://eurasianet.org/uzbekistan-us-embassy-targeted-by-firebombs}} | |
November 25
|{{flag|Turkey}} |{{flag|Russia}} |0 |0 |Attack following the downing a bomber aircraft by Turkey near the border between Syria and Turkey{{cite news|title=Protesters throw stones eggs at Turkish Embassy in Moscow|url=http://mobile.todayszaman.com/latest-news_protesters-throw-stones-eggs-at-turkish-embassy-in-moscow_405250.html|access-date=November 25, 2015|newspaper=Zaman|date=November 25, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151125145123/http://mobile.todayszaman.com/latest-news_protesters-throw-stones-eggs-at-turkish-embassy-in-moscow_405250.html|archive-date=November 25, 2015|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}} | |
December 11
|{{flag|Spain}} |{{flag|Afghanistan|2004}} |2 |9 | |
rowspan="4" |2016
|January 3 |{{flag|Saudi Arabia}} |{{flag|Iran}} | | | |
May 11
|{{flag|Australia}} |{{flag|Iraq}} |1 | |Security contractor shot dead. investigation underway. | |
August 30
|{{flag|China}} |{{flag|Kyrgyzstan}} |1 |3 | |
November 10
|{{flag|Germany}} |{{flag|Afghanistan|2004}} |6 |120 |German consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif attack: Taliban truck bombing | |
2017
|March 29 |{{flag|Poland}} |{{flag|Ukraine}} |0 |0 |Polish consulate in Lutsk was attacked with grenade launcher{{Cite web | url=http://www.politico.eu/article/polish-consulate-in-ukraine-attacked-with-grenade-launcher/ | title=Polish consulate in Ukraine attacked with grenade launcher| date=March 29, 2017}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/sbu-investigates-blast-polish-consulate-lutsk-terror-attack-case.html|title=SBU investigates blast at Polish consulate in Lutsk as a terror attack case - Mar. 29, 2017|date=March 29, 2017}} | |
rowspan="3" |2018
|March 11 | rowspan="2" |{{flag|Iran}} |{{flag|Austria}} |1 (perpetrator) |1 |Soldier posted outside Iranian Embassy in Vienna was attacked by a knife-wielding Egyptian national with Islamist sympathies. Attacker was shot and killed.[https://www.thetimes.com/world/article/knifeman-shot-dead-outside-home-of-iran-ambassador-in-vienna-g338cxfpl Knifeman shot dead outside home of Iran ambassador in Vienna], The Times | |
September 7
|{{flag|Iraq}} | | |Protesters torched the Iranian consulate.{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-45453215|title = Basra protests: Rioters attack Iran consulate|work = BBC News|date = September 7, 2018}} | |
November 23
|{{flag|China}} |{{flag|Pakistan}} |4 |1 |Karachi Chinese consulate attack by the Balochistan Liberation Army | |
rowspan="7" |2019
|February 22 |{{flag|North Korea}} |{{flag|Spain}} | | |North Korean Embassy in Madrid incident: 10 men forcibly entered the North Korean embassy in Madrid and beat and tied up eight diplomats within, before stealing computers and files.{{Cite news | url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-47553804 |title = Who attacked North Korea's Madrid embassy?|work = BBC News|date = March 13, 2019}} | |
September 5
|{{flag|South Africa}} |{{flag|Democratic Republic of the Congo}} |0 |0 |Protestors attack the South African consulate to protest against xenophobic attacks in South Africa. | |
November 3
|{{flag|Iran}} |{{flag|Iraq}} |3 |0 |During the 2019 Iraqi protests{{Cite web|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/11/iraqi-protesters-attack-iran-consulate-karbala-191103232545555.html|title = Three killed as Iraq protesters attack Iran consulate in Karbala}} | |
November 10
|{{flag|Venezuela}} |{{flag|Bolivia}} | | |During the 2019 Bolivian protests, a group attacked and took control of the Venezuelan embassy building.{{Cite news | url=https://www.bluradio.com/mundo/encapuchados-tomaron-embajada-de-venezuela-en-bolivia-232377-ie430 |title = Encapuchados "tomaron" embajada de Venezuela en Bolivia|work = Blu Radio|language = spanish|date = November 10, 2019}} | |
November 27
| rowspan="2" |{{flag|Iran}} |{{flag|Iraq}} | | |Amid antigovernment protests in Iraq focusing on government dysfunction, corruption, and Iranian influence over the Iraqi government, a crowd of Iraqi demonstrators (almost all Shia Muslim) burned down the Iranian consulate in Najaf in southern Iraq. Najaf police said that 35 protesters and 32 members of Iraqi security forces were injuries. No Iranian personnel were in the consulate during the attack,Alissa J. Rubin & Falih Hassan, [https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/27/world/middleeast/iraqi-protest-najaf-iran-burn.html Iraq Protesters Burn Down Iran Consulate in Night of Anger], New York Times (November 27, 2019, updated November 29, 2019). as consulate staff fled just beforehand.[https://www.rferl.org/a/iraqi-protesters-torch-iranian-consulate-for-second-time-within-week/30301841.html Iraqi Protesters Torch Iranian Consulate For Second Time Within Week], Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (December 1, 2019). | |
December 1
|{{flag|Iraq}} | | |The Iranian consulate in Najaf was torched by an angry crowd of Iraqis a second time. | |
December 31
|{{flag|China}} |{{flag|Iraq}} | | |Anti-Chinese and anti-communist protesters torched the Chinese embassy after a rumor that China killed four Kata'ib Hezbollah members who were hiding in Xinjiang. | |
2020
|February 10 |{{flag|Iran}} |{{flag|Nigeria}} | | |During a protest against the Shiite Islamic Movement of Nigeria and the anniversary of the Iranian Revolution, angry crowds of Nigerians stormed the embassy.{{cite web | url=https://saharareporters.com/2020/02/10/protesters-storm-iranian-embassy-abuja-ask-country’s-nationals-leave-nigeria-over-plot | title=Protesters Storm Iranian Embassy in Abuja, Ask Country's Nationals to Leave Nigeria over Plot to Cause Unrest | Sahara Reporters }} | |
rowspan="3" |2021
|July 7 |{{flag|Taiwan}} |{{flag|Haiti}} | | |During the Assassination of Jovenel Moïse{{cite web |date=9 July 2021 |title=Haiti's president assassination suspects arrested inside Taiwanese embassy |url=https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3140437/haiti-assassination-suspects-arrested-inside-taiwanese-embassy |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210710012826/https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3140437/haiti-assassination-suspects-arrested-inside-taiwanese-embassy |archive-date=10 July 2021 |website=South China Morning Post}} | |
July 13
| rowspan="2" |{{flag|Cuba}} |{{PER}} |Lima |0 |0 |The embassy was vandalised by unknown attackers who escaped in a car.{{Cite news |title=La Embajada de Cuba en Perú fue vandalizada por desconocidos |url=https://rpp.pe/lima/actualidad/embajada-de-cuba-en-peru-fue-vandalizada-por-desconocidos-noticia-1347194 |date=2021-07-13 |work=RPP Noticias}} | |
July 27
|{{flag|France}} | | |The embassy was firebombed by molotovs to protest against the Communist Party of Cuba | |
rowspan="5" |2022
|March 1 |{{flag|Slovenia}} |{{flag|Ukraine}} |0 |0 |The consulate was destroyed during the air strikes against the city with no injuries reported by the country's foreign ministry.{{Cite news |title=Slovenia's consulate in Ukraine destroyed in attack on Kharkiv -ministry |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/slovenias-consulate-ukraine-destroyed-attack-kharkiv-ministry-2022-03-01/ |date=2022-03-01 |work=Reuters}} | |
April 20
|{{flag|Peru}} |{{flag|United States}} |1 |0 |A man broke into the ambassador's residence in Forest Hills at around 8 a.m. and started breaking doors and windows while the building was occupied by the diplomat and his family, causing the arrival of local Secret Service and Police units, who fatally shot the intruder when he attempted to charge at them.{{Cite news |title=Embajador De Rivero relata detalles de incidente ocurrido en residencia en Washington |url=https://elperuano.pe/noticia/145809-embajador-oswaldo-de-rivero-relata-detalles-de-incidente-ocurrido-en-residencia-en-washington |date=2022-04-20 |work=El Peruano}}{{Cite news |title=Murió el intruso que ingresó a la residencia de embajador de Perú en EE.UU. |url=https://gestion.pe/mundo/washington-murio-el-intruso-que-ingreso-a-la-residencia-de-embajador-de-peru-en-eeuu-embajador-de-peru-en-usa-noticia/ |date=2022-04-20 |work=Gestión}} | |
September 5
|{{flag|Russia}} |{{flag|Afghanistan}} |8 |15 | |
October 6
|{{flag|Germany}} |{{flag|Ukraine}} |Kyiv | | |A Russian missile struck a building in the German embassy complex during the offensive against the city.{{Cite news |title=Strikes hit building that houses empty German consulate in Kyiv, Berlin says |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/strikes-hit-building-that-houses-german-consulate-kyiv-germany-says-2022-10-10/ |date=2022-10-10 |work=Reuters}} | |
December 20
|{{flag|Finland}} |{{flag|Russia}} | | |Attack possibly by the Wagner Group | |
rowspan="12" |2023
|January 27 |{{flag|Azerbaijan}} |{{flag|Iran}} |1 |2 | |
May 20
|{{flag|Qatar}} |{{flag|Sudan}} | | | |
June 28
|{{flag|United States}} |{{flag|Saudi Arabia}} |2 (including attacker) | | |
July 19
|{{flag|Sweden}} |{{flag|Iraq}} | | |Demonstrators stormed and torched the embassy in protest over the burning of the Koran in Stockholm on 28 June | |
July 20
|{{flag|China}} |{{flag|Ukraine}} |0 |0 |The Chinese consulate-general was damaged by air strikes against the city, with at least one window broken. No casualties were reported at the site, although three people were killed on the same night.{{Cite news |title=Three killed, Chinese consulate damaged in Russian attack on Ukraine's port cities |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/least-nine-wounded-russian-strike-mykolaiv-governor-2023-07-20/ |last=Lakezina |first=Viktoria |date=2023-07-20 |work=Reuters}} | |
July 30
|{{flag|France}} |{{flag|Niger}} | | |Pro-coup and pro-Russian protestors surrounded and attempted to set fire to the embassy, prompting partial evacuations of both the French and US embassies.{{cite news|last=Cooney|first=Christy|date=3 August 2023|title=Niger: US announces partial evacuation of embassy|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-66390918|work=BBC News|location=Niamey, Niger|access-date=3 August 2023}} | |
|{{flag|China}}
|{{flag|Russia}} |0 |0 |A rocket was fired at the Chinese consulate in Saint Petersburg. There was superficial damage to the building but no one was injured.{{citation needed|date=March 2024}} | |
August 9
|{{flag|United States}} |{{flag|Canada}} |0 |0 |A smoke bomb was thrown at the US consulate in Toronto, at 8:15am the suspect remains at large.{{cite news|last=Aguilar|first=Bryann|date=9 August 2023|title=Suspect sought after smoke bomb thrown at U.S. Consulate in downtown Toronto|url=https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/mobile/suspect-sought-after-smoke-bomb-thrown-at-u-s-consulate-in-downtown-toronto-1.6512414|work=CTV News|location=Toronto, Canada|access-date=22 October 2023}} | |
August 10
|{{flag|Sweden}} |{{flag|Lebanon}} |0 |0 |On the night of August 10, 2023, an attempted attack on the Swedish embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, occurred. Police suspect that someone threw a bomb at the embassy, but it was removed before it exploded. No one was injured in the incident. Lebanese police believe the attack was motivated by the Quran burnings in Sweden.{{cite news |url=https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/misslyckad-attack-mot-sveriges-ambassad-i-beirut |newspaper=Sveriges Radio |title=Misslyckad attack mot Sveriges ambassad i Beirut |trans-title=Failed attack on the Swedish embassy in Beirut |date=August 10, 2023 |access-date=10 September 2024 |language=sv}} | |
October 12
|{{flag|China}} |{{flag|United States}} |1 |0 |A Chinese citizen crashed a car into the lobby of the Chinese consulate. The police struggled to restrain him and shot him after seeing that he had a knife.{{Cite news |date=2023-10-20 |title=Driver who crashed into Chinese consulate carried knife, crossbow |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/us/driver-who-crashed-into-chinese-consulate-carried-knife-crossbow-2023-10-20/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20231021071258/https://www.reuters.com/world/us/driver-who-crashed-into-chinese-consulate-carried-knife-crossbow-2023-10-20/ |archive-date=2023-10-21 |work=Reuters}}{{Cite web |last=Elamroussi |first=Veronica Miracle,Aya |date=2023-10-20 |title=Driver who crashed into Chinese consulate in San Francisco tried to stab a responding officer before being fatally shot, police say |url=https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/20/us/san-francisco-chinese-consulate-armed-driver-crash/index.html |access-date=2025-01-10 |website=CNN |language=en}} | |
September 24
|{{flag|Cuba}} |{{flag|United States}} |0 |0 |Two Molotov cocktails were thrown at the Cuban embassy.{{Cite web |date=2023-09-25 |title=A Molotov cocktail was thrown at Cuban Embassy in DC; no major damage |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/molotov-cocktail-thrown-cuban-embassy-dc-no-significant-damage-rcna117164 |access-date=2025-01-10 |website=NBC News |language=en}} | |
December 8
|{{flag|United States}} |{{flag|Iraq}} |0 |0 |Rockets were fired toward the embassy causing material damage.{{Cite news |title=Rockets fired towards US embassy in Iraqi capital's Green Zone |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/8/alarm-sirens-explosions-heard-near-us-embassy-in-baghdad |date=2023-12-08 |work=Al Jazeera}} | |
rowspan="5" |2024
|April 1 |{{flag|Iran}} |{{Flag|Syria}} |16 | |The Israeli airstrike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus destroyed the building housing its consular section and killed sixteen people. Iran launched 300 drones and missiles at Israel in retaliation.{{Cite news |last1=Bergman |first1=Ronen |last2=Fassihi |first2=Farnaz |last3=Schmitt |first3=Eric |last4=Entous |first4=Adam |last5=Pérez-Peña |first5=Richard |date=17 April 2024 |title=Miscalculation Led to Escalation in Clash Between Israel and Iran |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/17/world/middleeast/iran-israel-attack.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240418001336/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/17/world/middleeast/iran-israel-attack.html |archive-date=18 April 2024 |access-date=23 April 2024 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite web |date=2024-04-03 |title=Death toll rises to 16 in Israeli strike on Iran's consulate in Syria's Damascus |url=https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2024/04/03/death-toll-rises-to-16-in-israeli-strike-on-iran-s-consulate-in-syria-s-damascus |access-date=2025-01-10 |website=Al Arabiya English |language=en}} | |
April 5
|{{flag|Mexico}} |{{Flag|Ecuador}} |0 |1+ |2024 attack on the Mexican embassy in Ecuador: Officers of the Ecuadorian police stormed and invaded the Mexican embassy in Quito to capture former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas, who is accused of corruption. The operation prompted Mexico to sever diplomatic relations with Ecuador.{{cite news |title=Mexico suspends diplomatic ties with Ecuador after police raid embassy |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/06/mexico-suspends-diplomatic-ties-with-ecuador-after-police-raid-embassy |access-date=6 April 2024 |work=The Guardian |agency=Reuters/Associated Press |date=6 April 2024}}{{cite news |last1=Valencia |first1=Alexandra |last2=O'Boyle |first2=Brendan |title=Mexico suspends relations with Ecuador after arrest of ex-VP |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexico-will-not-retaliate-after-ecuador-expels-ambassador-president-says-2024-04-05/ |access-date=6 April 2024 |work=Reuters |date=6 April 2024}} | |
June 29
|{{flag|Israel}} |{{flag|Serbia}} |1 |1 | |
September 29
|{{flag|United Arab Emirates}} |{{flag|Sudan}} |0 |0 |The UAE alleged that the Sudanese air force bombed the UAE ambassador's residence in Khartoum. Sudan denied attacking the residence and blamed the Rapid Support Forces.{{cite web|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/9/30/sudan-military-denies-targeting-uae-diplomatic-post-in-khartoum|title=Sudan military denies targeting UAE diplomatic post in Khartoum|date=30 September 2024|access-date=28 January 2025|publisher=Al Jazeera}} | |
December 2
|{{flag|Bangladesh}} |{{flag|India}} |0 |0 |2024 attack on the Bangladesh Assistant High Commission in India | |
rowspan="1" |2025
|January 11 |{{flag|Venezuela}} |{{flag|Portugal}} |0 |0 |Cocktail molotov was thrown at the Venezuelan consulate.{{Cite web |date=2025-01-12 |title=Venezuela consulate in Lisbon firebombed |url=https://english.alarabiya.net/News/world/2025/01/12/venezuela-consulate-in-lisbon-firebombed- |access-date=2025-01-12 |website=Al Arabiya English |publisher=AFP |language=en}} |
See also
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- Havana syndrome – mysterious disease affecting US and Canadian staff, starting in Havana, Cuba
References
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External links
- [http://www.infoplease.com/spot/newsfacts-sudanstrikes.html Infoplease.com]
- Pyotr A. Litvishko, "[http://www.mid.ru/documents/10180/2141156/BELAYa_KNIGA_eng.pdf/c6c2bfb2-8d15-4419-bcef-6e6aab0effb5 International Law Aspects of the Criminal Proceedings concerning the Attack on the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Kiev]", in The Tragedy of Southeastern Ukraine. The White Book of Crimes, ed. by Alexander I. Bastrykin (Moscow: The RF Investigative Committee, 2015), 2nd ed., pp. 329–39.{{ISBN|978-5-9906835-2-5}}.
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