| class="wikitable sortable sticky-header" id="terrorIncidents2015" |
| Date
!Type
!data-sort-type="number" | Dead
!data-sort-type="number" | Injured
!Location
!Article
!class="unsortable"|Details
!Perpetrator
!Part of
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|---|
| 3–7 Jan
|Massacre
| style="text-align:right;background:#FA8072" |Unknown
Est. 2000+
| style="text-align:right;background:#FA8072" |Unknown
|Baga, Borno State, Nigeria
|2015 Baga massacre | Boko Haram militants opened fire on villages.[{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/09/boko-haram-deadliest-massacre-baga-nigeria|title=Boko Haram killed between 100 and 2000 people in Nigeria|newspaper=The Guardian|date=10 January 2015|access-date=20 July 2015}}]
|Boko Haram
|Boko Haram insurgency |
| 5 Jan
|Suicide bombing
| style="text-align:right;background:#b6fcb6" |3 (+2)
| style="text-align:right;background:#b6fcb6" |2
|Arar, Saudi Arabia
|January 2015 Arar attack | Two gunmen, one strapped with a suicide vest, ambushed a border guard patrol along the border with Iraq, killing two guards and injuring one. The guards were able to return fire and kill one of the gunmen, and afterwards the other one detonated his vest.[{{cite news|last1=Almashabi |first1=Deema |title=Saudi General, Two Guards Killed in Attack Near Iraqi Border |url=http://www.businessweek.com/news/2015-01-05/saudi-general-two-guards-killed-in-attack-near-iraqi-border |access-date=5 January 2015 |agency=Bloomberg News |work=Businessweek |date=5 January 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150107181544/http://www.businessweek.com/news/2015-01-05/saudi-general-two-guards-killed-in-attack-near-iraqi-border |archive-date=7 January 2015 }}][{{cite news|title=Suicide Bomber Kills 3 Saudi Border Guards|url=https://www.voanews.com/a/suicide-bomber-kills-border-guards-saudi-arabia-iraq/2585805.html|access-date=7 January 2015|agency=Voice of America|publisher=Voice of America|date=5 January 2015}}]
|ISIL (suspected)
| |
| 6 Jan
|Suicide bombing
| style="text-align:right;background:#b6fcb6" |1 (+1)
| style="text-align:right;background:#b6fcb6" |1
|Istanbul, Turkey
|January 2015 Istanbul suicide bombing | A female suicide bomber detonated her explosives in front of a police station, killing one officer and wounding another.[{{cite news|last1=Jameison|first1=Alastair|title=Suicide Bomb Attack in Istanbul Tourist District Wounds Police|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/suicide-bomb-attack-istanbul-tourist-district-wounds-police-n280651|access-date=6 January 2015|agency=NBC|publisher=NBC|date=6 January 2014}}][{{cite news|last1=Akkoc|first1=Raziye|title='Female suicide bomber' attacks Istanbul tourist district police station|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/turkey/11328327/Female-suicide-bomber-attacks-Istanbul-tourist-district-police-station.html|access-date=6 January 2015|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=6 January 2014|location=London}}]
|DHKPC
|DHKP/C insurgency in Turkey |
| 7 Jan
|Car bomb
| style="text-align:right;background:#FFFF66" |37 / 38
| style="text-align:right;background:#FED8B1" |66
|Sana'a, Yemen
|January 2015 Sana'a bombing | A car bomb detonated in front of a police academy.[{{cite news|title=Yemen car bomb kills dozens near Sanaa police academy|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-30706208|access-date=20 July 2015|agency=BBC|publisher=BBC|date=7 January 2015}}]
|al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (suspected)
|Yemeni Civil War |
| 7 Jan
|Mass shooting
| style="text-align:right;background:#b6fcb6" |12
| style="text-align:right;background:#b6fcb6" |11
|Paris, France
|Charlie Hebdo shooting | Two heavily armed gunmen entered the offices of satirical news magazine Charlie Hebdo.[{{cite news|last1=Hjelmgaard|first1=Kim|title='Terror attack' at French satirical magazine leaves 12 dead|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/01/07/france-charlie-hebdo-satirical-publisher/21377861/|access-date=7 January 2015|work=USA Today|date=7 January 2015}}]
|al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula[{{cite magazine|last1=Vick|first1=Karl|title=Al-Qaeda Group Claims Responsibility for Paris Terror Attack|url=https://time.com/3661650/charlie-hebdo-paris-terror-attack-al-qaeda/|access-date=12 January 2015|magazine=Time|date=7 January 2015}}]
|Islamic terrorism in Europe |
| 9 Jan
|Hostage crisis
| style="text-align:right;background:#b6fcb6" |4 (+1)
| style="text-align:right;background:#b6fcb6" |9
|Porte de Vincennes, France
|Porte de Vincennes hostage crisis | A man attacked a kosher market, taking hostages in a four-hour siege. The police raided the market, killing the gunman and freeing the hostages.[{{cite news|last1=Draper|first1=Lucy|title=Gunman 'Neutralized' At Kosher Supermarket Siege|url=http://www.newsweek.com/third-shooting-paris-hostage-taken-kosher-grocery-shop-298082|access-date=10 January 2015|work=Newsweek|date=9 January 2015}}]
|Amedy Coulibaly[{{cite news|last1=Landau|first1=Joel|title=French terrorist who killed cop, 4 hostages in kosher supermarket states allegiance to ISIS in video|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/terrorist-killed-pledged-allegiance-islamic-state-article-1.2073681|access-date=12 January 2015|work=New York Daily News|date=9 January 2015}}]
|Islamic terrorism in Europe |
| 13 Jan
|Artillery
|style="text-align:right;background:#b6fcb6" |12
|style="text-align:right;background:#b6fcb6" |18
|Volnovakha, Ukraine
|Volnovakha bus attack | MRLS attack on a highway checkpoint near the village of Buhas outside Volnovakha municipality in Donetsk Oblast that hit an intercity bus.[{{cite news|last1=Fern Tay |first1=Huey |title=Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 16 January 2015 |url=http://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/135211 |access-date=20 July 2015 |agency=OSCE |publisher=OSCE |date=17 January 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150118005628/http://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/135211 |archive-date=18 January 2015 }}] These territories were controlled by Donetsk People's Republic.
|Donetsk People's Republic
|War in Donbas |
| 21 Jan
|Melee attack
| style="text-align:right;background:#E0FFFF" |0
| style="text-align:right;background:#b6fcb6" |12
|Tel Aviv, Israel
|2015 Tel Aviv attacks | A Palestinian from the West Bank, illegally entered Israel and boarded a crowded bus during rush hour and stabbed passengers before being shot in the leg and arrested by police.[{{cite web|url=http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.638210|title=12 Israelis wounded in stabbing attack on Tel Aviv bus|author=Chaim Levinson and Gili Cohen and Ido Efrati and Barak Ravid|date=21 January 2015|work=Haaretz|access-date=20 June 2015}}]
| Hamza Mohammed Hasan Matrouk (lone wolf)
|Israeli–Palestinian conflict |
| 24 Jan
|Artillery
|style="text-align:right;background:#FFFF66" |30
|style="text-align:right;background:#FA8072" |108
|Mariupol, Ukraine
|January 2015 Mariupol rocket attack | MRLS attack.[{{cite news|title=Spot report by the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine (SMM), 24 January 2015: Shelling Incident on Olimpiiska Street in Mariupol|url=http://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/136061|access-date=24 January 2015|publisher=OSCE|date=24 January 2015}}]
|Donetsk People's Republic
|War in Donbas |
| 25 Jan
|Attack
| style="text-align:right;background:#FED8B1" |67+
| style="text-align:right;" |
|Mamasapano, Philippines
|Mamasapano clash | Special Action Force officers encountered fighters from the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters, Moro Islamic Liberation Front and private armed groups after a successful operation to kill wanted militant Zulkifli Abdhir, also known as Marwan. 44 SAF officers, 18 MILF members, 5 BIFF members, and some civilians were killed[{{cite web|url=http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/667844/at-least-27-elite-cops-killed-in-clash-with-biff-in-maguindanao-reports|title=30 elite cops killed in clash with MILF|date=26 January 2015 |access-date=20 June 2015}}]
|Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters
Moro Islamic Liberation Front
|Moro conflict |
| 4–5 Feb
|Mass shooting
| style="text-align:right;background:#FED8B1" |91+
| style="text-align:right;background:#FA8072" |500+
|Fotokol, Cameroon
|2015 Fotokol attack | Militants attacked villages and torched mosques and churches.[{{cite news|title=Boko Haram Shoot, Burn To Death Dozens Of Civilians In Cameroon|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/05/boko-haram-cameroon_n_6621180.html?ir=India|publisher=Huffington Post|access-date=7 February 2015|date=5 February 2015}}]
|Boko Haram
|Boko Haram insurgency in Cameroon |
| 14–15 Feb
|Shooting
| style="text-align:right;background:#b6fcb6" |2 (+1)
| style="text-align:right;background:#b6fcb6" |6
|Copenhagen, Denmark
|2015 Copenhagen shootings | A man opened fire at the "Art, blasphemy and the freedom of expression", which was organized by Lars Vilks at Krudttønden cafe at Østerbro. Later in the night on 15 February, Dan Uzan, a 38-year-old Jewish community member who was on security duty, was shot in the head by the same person and later died outside the Great Synagogue. The attacker was killed.[{{cite news|title=Man dies in shooting at Danish meeting with artist who drew Mohammad|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-denmark-shooting-idUSKBN0LI0N720150215 | work=Reuters | date=15 February 2015}}]
|Omar Abdul Hamid El-Hussein
|Islamic terrorism in Europe |
| 22 Feb
|Bombing
| style="text-align:right;background:#b6fcb6" |4
| style="text-align:right;background:#b6fcb6" |10–12
|Kharkiv, Ukraine
|2015 Kharkiv bombing | Explosion at a pro-Ukraine march.[{{cite web|url=https://uk.news.yahoo.com/blast-kills-three-during-pro-govt-march-eastern-121725507.html#COk6a2|title=(AFP via Yahoo News UK)}}] Three suspects were arrested on 26 February.[{{cite web|title=Latest from OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM) to Ukraine based on information received as of 18:00 (Kyiv time), 26 February 2015|url=http://www.osce.org/ukraine-smm/143221|publisher=OSCE|access-date=27 February 2015}}]
|Anti-Maidan
|Russo-Ukrainian War |
| 7 Mar
|Suicide bombing
| style="text-align:right;background:#FED8B1" |58
| style="text-align:right;background:#FA8072" |139
|Maiduguri, Nigeria
|March 2015 Maiduguri suicide bombing | Suicide bombs roughly an hour after each other in markets and a car lot.[{{cite news|title=Boko Haram pledges allegiance to IS after carnage in Maiduguri|url=https://news.yahoo.com/least-33-dead-northeast-nigeria-bomb-attacks-witnesses-003225439.html|access-date=7 March 2015|publisher=AFP}}]
|Boko Haram
|Boko Haram insurgency |
| 18 Mar
|Shooting, hostage taking
| style="text-align:right;background:#FFFF66" |21
| style="text-align:right;background:#FFFF66" |40+
|Tunis, Tunisia
|Bardo National Museum attack | One or two gunmen attacked the Bardo Museum.
|ISIL
|Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present) |
| 20 Mar
|Suicide bombing
| style="text-align:right;background:#FA8072" |142
| style="text-align:right;background:#FA8072" |351
|Sana'a, Yemen
|2015 Sanaa mosque bombings | Militants carried out four suicide bombings at the Badr and al-Hashoosh Shia mosques during prayers.[{{cite news|title=3 suicide bombings target Shiite rebel mosques in Yemen|url=https://news.yahoo.com/2-suicide-bombings-target-shiite-rebels-mosque-yemen-103837912.html|access-date=20 March 2015|agency=Associated Press}}]
|ISIL-YP
|Yemeni Civil War (2015–present) |
| 26–27 Mar
|Suicide bombing, Shooting
| style="text-align:right;background:#FFFF66" |24
| style="text-align:right;background:#FFFF66" |28
|Mogadishu, Somalia
|Makka al-Mukarama hotel attack | Six gunmen stormed an upscale hotel for diplomats and government officials. Combat between the militants and Somali troops ended two days later after twelve hours of fighting. Somalia's ambassador to Switzerland, Yusuf Bari-Bari, was among the dead.[{{cite news|title=Official: Al-Shabab siege at Somali hotel ends, 24 dead|url=https://news.yahoo.com/officials-siege-gunmen-somali-hotel-enters-2nd-day-045104667.html|access-date=28 March 2015|agency=Associated Press}}]
|Al-Shabaab
|War in Somalia |
| 2 Apr
|Hostage taking, Shooting
| style="text-align:right;background:#FA8072" |147+ (+4)
| style="text-align:right;background:#FED8B1" |79
|Garissa, Kenya
|Garissa University College attack | Six to ten gunmen opened fire at the Garissa University. Christians were their main target of the attack, with the Islamic extremists separating the Muslims from Christians before executing them.[{{cite news|title=Gunmen storm Garissa University College in Kenya; 30 people hospitalized |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/02/africa/kenya-university-attack/index.html|access-date=1 April 2015|publisher=CNN}}][{{cite news|title=Gunmen kill more than 70 at university in Kenya|url=https://news.yahoo.com/police-gunmen-attack-university-eastern-kenya-050041789.html|access-date=2 April 2015|agency=Associated Press}}]
|Al-Shabaab
|War in Somalia |
| 18 Apr
|Suicide bombing
| style="text-align:right;background:#FFFF66" |33
| style="text-align:right;background:#FA8072" |115
|Jalalabad, Afghanistan
|April 2015 Jalalabad suicide bombing | A suicide bomber set off a bomb outside a state run bank.[{{cite news|title=IS claims deadly Afghan suicide attack: President Ghani|url=https://news.yahoo.com/claims-responsibility-deadly-afghan-bombing-110355551.html|access-date=18 April 2015|publisher=Reuters}}]
|ISIL
|War in Afghanistan |
| 27 Apr
| Shooting
| style="text-align:right;background:#b6fcb6" |1 (+1)
| style="text-align:right;background:#b6fcb6" |2
|Zvornik, Bosnia and Herzegovina
|Zvornik police station terrorist attack | At a police station in Republika Srpska, an armed member of a wahhabist movement opened fire on the police. An officer was killed, two others were injured, and the attacker was killed by police.[[https://web.archive.org/web/20160106123342/http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-bosnia-police-attack-idUKKBN0NI25J20150427 Reuters-Gunman kills Bosnian policeman in apparent Islamist attack], Reuters, retrieved 27 April 2015.] | Wahhabist movement
|Islamic terrorism in Europe |
| 3 May
|Shooting
| style="text-align:right;background:#E0FFFF" |0 (+2)
| style="text-align:right;background:#b6fcb6" |1
|Garland, Texas, United States
|Garland terror attack | At Curtis Culwell Center, a school district owned events center, two assailants opened fire outside a Mohammed art exhibit. A policeman providing security for the event, returned fire, killing both suspects. One security guard was injured.[{{cite news|title=City: 2 gunmen killed outside Muhammad cartoon contest |url=https://news.yahoo.com/officer-shooting-muhammad-cartoon-contest-texas-005227724.html|access-date=3 May 2015|agency=Associated Press}}]
|ISIL |
| 13 May
|Attack
| style="text-align:right;background:#FFFF66" |45
| style="text-align:right;background:#b6f6b6" |13
|Karachi, Pakistan
|2015 Karachi bus shooting | A bus carrying Shia Muslims was attacked by six armed gunmen who rode up in motorcycles.[{{cite news|title=Pakistan gunmen kill 45 on Karachi Ismaili Shia bus|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32717321|publisher=BBC News|access-date=2016-11-27}}]
|Jundallah (claimed), ISIL (claimed), Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (claimed)
|Sectarianism in Pakistan |
| 14 May
|Suicide bombing, hostage taking
| style="text-align:right;background:#b6f6b6" |14
| style="text-align:right;background:#b6f6b6" |6
|Kabul, Afghanistan
|Park Palace guesthouse attack | A hotel that was hosting a cultural event was attacked.[{{cite news|title=Death toll in Kabul hotel attack rises to 14; Taliban claim responsibility |url=http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/14/asia/afghanistan-kabul-hotel-attack/ |publisher=CNN |access-date=2016-11-27}}]
|Taliban
|War in Afghanistan |
| 22 May
|Suicide bombing
|style="background:#FFFF66"|22
|style="background:#FA8072"|102
|Qatif, Saudi Arabia
|2015 Qatif bombings
|A suicide bomber detonated himself inside a Shia mosque during Friday prayers.
|ISIS
| |
| 25 May
|Shooting
| style="text-align:right;background:#b6f6b6" |7 (+1)
| style="text-align:right;background:#b6f6b6" |9
|Tunis, Tunisia
|Tunis barracks shooting | A soldier killed 8 comrades and injured 9 others in a shooting rampage before killing himself.[{{cite web|url=http://m.news24.com/news24/Africa/News/Soldier-kills-7-comrades-at-Tunis-barracks-ministry-20150525|title=Soldier kills 7 comrades at Tunis barracks – ministry|date=25 May 2015|access-date=20 June 2015}}]
|Unknown
| |
| 29 May
|Attack
| style="text-align:right;background:#FFFF66" |21
| style="text-align:right;background:#E0FFFF" |0
|Mastung, Pakistan
|2015 Mastung bus attack | Unknown militants attacked and burned two Karachi-bound buses.[{{cite web|title=Pakistan: Militants storm Karachi-bound buses killing 21|url=http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/pakistan-militants-storm-karachi-bound-buses-killing-21-1503609|work=International Business Times UK|date=30 May 2015 |access-date=28 June 2015}}]
|Unknown
|Baluchistan conflict |
| 4 Jun
|Ambush
|style="text-align:right;background:#FFFF66" |20
|style="text-align:right;background:#b6f6b6" |11
|Manipur, India
|2015 Manipur ambush | The attack, in the Chandel district close to the border with Myanmar, was carried out against a small convoy of army vehicles traveling from one army camp to another in the hilly and forested area about 60 miles south of the state capital, Imphal.[{{cite news|title=20 Indian Soldiers Killed in Ambush in Manipur|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/05/world/asia/20-indian-soldiers-killed-in-ambush-in-manipur.html|work=The New York Times|access-date=1 August 2015 |first=Hari |last=Kumar|date=4 June 2015}}] | Unknown
|Insurgency in Northeast India |
| 17 Jun
|Shooting
|style="background:#b6fcb6"|9
|style="background:#b6fcb6"|1
|Charleston, South Carolina, United States
|Charleston church shooting | Mass shooting and hate crime at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church.
|Dylann Roof
|Terrorism in the United States |
| 17 Jun
|Bombing
|style="text-align:right;background:#FED8B1" |63
|style="text-align:right;" |
|Monguno, Nigeria
|Monguno bombing | A large sack containing homemade bombs exploded.[{{cite web|title=Bombs found in abandoned Boko Haram camp kill 63 in Nigeria|url=http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/6/17/bombs-found-in-abandoned-boko-haram-camp-kill-63-in-nigeria.html|publisher=Al Jazeera|access-date=30 June 2015}}]
|Boko Haram
|Boko Haram insurgency |
| 22 Jun
|Car bomb, Shooting
|style="text-align:right;background:#b6fcb6" |9
|style="text-align:right;background:#FFFF66" |40
|Kabul, Afghanistan
|Kabul Parliament attack | Car bomb outside the National Assembly as fighters attempted to storm the building during a parliamentary speech of defense minister Mohammed Masoom Stanekzai.
|Taliban
|War in Afghanistan |
| 25–29 Jun
|Massacre, Suicide bombing, Hostage-taking
|style="text-align:right;background:#FA8072" |223–233
|style="text-align:right;background:#FA8072" |300+
|Barkh Butan, Kobani, Syria
|Kobanî massacre | Bombers detonated three car bombs in Kobanî, close to the Turkish border crossing.
|ISIL
|Syrian Civil War |
| 26 Jun
|Bombing, Beheading
|style="text-align:right;background:#b6fcb6" |1
|style="text-align:right;background:#b6fcb6" |2
|Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, France
|Saint-Quentin-Fallavier attack | One attacker decapitated one person and blew up a gas canister in a factory near Lyon. One person was killed and two were injured. The attacker wrote unknown Arabic writings on the severed head of the victim and placed it near the entrance of the factory. One attacker was killed and the other arrested.[{{cite news|title=Man Decapitated And Several Hurt In Suspected Islamist Attack On French Factory|url=https://uk.news.yahoo.com/man-decapitated-and-several-hurt-in-suspected-islamist-attack-in-grenoble-factory-092920187.html|access-date=26 June 2015|agency=Associated Press}}]
|ISIL
|Islamic terrorism in Europe |
| 26 Jun
|Suicide bombing
|style="text-align:right;background:#FFFF66" |27 (+1)
|style="text-align:right;background:#FA8072" |227
|Kuwait City, Kuwait
|2015 Kuwait mosque bombing | Suicide bombing at the Imam Sadiq mosque.[{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/06/26/is-claims-blast-at-shiite-mosque-in-kuwaits-capital/29322539/|title=Suicide bombing killed 27 people in Kuwait City|work=USA Today|date=26 June 2015|access-date=29 August 2015}}]
|ISIL
| |
| Jun 26
|Mass shooting
|style="text-align:right;background:#FFFF66" |38 (+1)
|style="text-align:right;background:#FFFF66" |40
|Sousse, Tunisia
|Sousse attacks | Tourists killed by armed gunmen.[{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33297440 |title=Tunisia attack: Britain must prepare for high death toll, PM warns|publisher=BBC News|access-date=29 June 2015|date=27 June 2015}}] The main gunman was killed in an exchange of gunfire with the army and armed police.
|ISIL
|ISIL insurgency in Tunisia |
| Jun 26
|Attack
|style="text-align:right;background:#FED8B1" |70
|style="text-align:right;background:#FFFF66" |27
|Leego, Somalia
|Battle of Leego (2015) | Militants attacked an African Union base.[{{cite web |url=https://www.voanews.com/a/suicide-bomber-attacks-african-union-base-somalia/2837996.html|title=Al-Shabab Attack Kills Scores of AU Soldiers|date=26 June 2015 |publisher=VOA|access-date=29 June 2015}}]
|Al Shabaab
|Somali Civil War |
| Jun 29
|Shooting
|style="text-align:right;background:#b6fcb6" |1
|style="text-align:right;background:#b6fcb6" |3
|Shilo, West Bank
|2015 Shvut Rachel shooting | Four Israelis were shot and injured in a drive-by shooting. One of them died in hospital the following day.[{{cite web |url=http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.663621|title=Four wounded, one seriously, in West Bank shooting attack|author=Chaim Levinson and Gili Cohen|date=30 June 2015|work=Haaretz|access-date=15 July 2015}}][{{cite web|url=http://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Israeli-man-wounded-in-West-Bank-terror-shooting-dies-in-Jerusalem-hospital-407597|title=Israeli man wounded in West Bank terror shooting dies in Jerusalem hospital|work=The Jerusalem Post|date=30 June 2015 |access-date=8 July 2015}}]
|PFLP
|Israeli–Palestinian conflict |
| 29 Jun
|Car bomb
| style="text-align:right;background:#b6fcb6" |1
| style="text-align:right;background:#b6fcb6" |4
|Cairo, Egypt
|Assassination of Hisham Barakat | State prosecutor Hisham Barakat was killed by a remotely detonated car bomb. Two civilians and two police officers were injured.[{{cite web|title=Egypt's state prosecutor killed in Cairo bomb attack|url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/06/egypt-state-prosecutor-motorcade-hit-bomb-attack-cairo-150629083650272.html|publisher=Al Jazeera|access-date=2 July 2015}}]
|Unknown
| |
| 1 Jul
|Attack
|style="background:#FFFF66"|21
|style="background:#b6fcb6"|9
|North Sinai, Egypt
|July 2015 Sinai clashes | Militants simultaneously attacked 21 security positions in an attempt to establish territorial control. Militants detonated two suicide car bombs in Sheikh Zuweid targeting two military barriers and then besieged a police station in Sheikh Zuweid and clashed with government forces in Sheikh Zuweid and Rafah. Militants also attacked and shelled minor security positions across North Sinai and said it detonated a suicide car bomb in Arish but no media or official reports confirmed that.[{{cite web|title=ISIS's Wilayat Sinai Launches Largest Offensive in Sheikh Zuweid |url=http://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/isis%E2%80%99s-wilayat-sinai-launches-largest-offensive-sheikh-zuweid|publisher=Institute for the Study of War |access-date=6 December 2015}}] The attacks left 21 Egpytians dead and 9 wounded.
|Wilayat Sayna
(Islamic State)
|Sinai Insurgency |
| 1–2 Jul
|Massacre
|style="background:#FA8072"|145
|style="background:#b6fcb6"|17
|Kukawa, Nigeria
|July 2015 Kukawa massacre | Insurgents attacked mosques. 84 men and boys were killed on the 1st at one mosque. 17 others were wounded in the attack. 97 others, mostly men, were killed in mosques on the 2nd and a number of women and young girls were killed in their homes.[{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-33369713|title=Nigeria Boko Haram crisis: Militants 'kill 150'|date=2 July 2015 |publisher=BBC News|access-date=6 December 2015}}]
|Boko Haram
|Boko Haram insurgency |
| 5 Jul
|Bombings and arson
|style="background:#FED8B1"|69
|style="background:#FED8B1"|67+
|Jos, Potiskum and Borno, Nigeria
|5 July 2015 Nigeria attacks | In Potiskum, Yobe State, six people were killed in a suicide bombing at a church, followed by a bomb at a restaurant and a suicide bomb at a mosque in Jos, Plateau State. 51 were killed along with 67 injured. Militants killed nine people and burned 32 churches and 300 houses in cities in Borno State.[{{cite news|title=Bombs at mosque, restaurant in central Nigerian city kill 51|url=https://news.yahoo.com/bombs-mosque-restaurant-central-nigerian-city-kill-15-060608379.html|agency=Associated Press |access-date=6 July 2015}}]
|Boko Haram
|Boko Haram insurgency |
| 16 Jul
|Spree shooting
|style="background:#b6fcb6"|5 (+1)
|style="background:#b6fcb6"|2
|Chattanooga, United States
|2015 Chattanooga shootings | A Kuwaiti-born national opened fire on a U.S. military recruitment center and a U.S. Navy Reserve center, killing 4 U.S. Marines and a sailor, and wounding a Marine and a Chattanooga police officer. An investigation revealed he had been radicalized online by a foreign Islamic terror group.
|Muhammad Abdulazeez (lone wolf)
| |
| 17 Jul
| Suicide bombing, car bomb
|style="background:#FA8072"|130
|style="background:#FA8072"|130
|Khan Bani Saad, Iraq
|2015 Khan Bani Saad bombing | A car bomb was sent to a crowded market during the Eid al-Fitr celebrations. The explosion brought down several buildings.[{{cite web|url=http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/07/17/Car-bomb-kills-21-celebrating-Eid-in-Iraq.html|title=en/News/middle-east/2015/07/17/Car-bomb-kills-21-celebrating-Eid-in-Iraq|date=17 July 2015 |publisher=Al Arabiya |access-date=15 August 2016}}][{{cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/iraq-car-bombing_55a95f01e4b0d2ded39f03d0 |title=ISIS Car Bombing Kills Dozens In Iraq|agency=Associated Press|date=17 July 2015|work=The Huffington Post|access-date=21 July 2015}}][{{cite magazine|url=http://time.com/3963492/isis-attack-iraq-marketplace/ |title=ISIS Suicide Attack at Iraq Marketplace Kills 115 |author=Qassim Abdul-Zahra |agency=AP |magazine=Time |access-date=21 July 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150719161433/http://time.com/3963492/isis-attack-iraq-marketplace/ |archive-date=19 July 2015}}]
|Islamic State
|Iraqi Civil War |
| 20 Jul
|Suicide bombing
|style="background:#FFFF66"|34
|style="background:#FA8072"|104
|Suruç, Turkey
|2015 Suruç bombing | A suicide bomber attacked a Peoples' Democratic Party protest in Şanlıurfa Province.[{{cite web|title=Dozens die in Turkey attack blamed on IS|url=https://news.yahoo.com/blast-hits-turkish-town-near-syria-border-injuries-095150668.html|publisher=Yahoo! News|access-date=20 July 2015}}]
|Islamic State
|Turkey–ISIL conflict |
| 26 Jul
|Suicide bombing
|style="background:#b6fcb6"|10–15
|unknown
|Mogadishu, Somalia
|Jazeera Palace Hotel bombing | A suicide bomber detonated a vehicle loaded with explosives at a hotel.
|Al-Shabaab
|Somali Civil War |
| 27 Jul
|Mass shooting
|style="background:#b6fcb6"|10
|style="background:#b6fcb6"|16
|Punjab, India
|2015 Gurdaspur attack | Gunmen dressed in Indian Army uniforms opened fire on a civilian bus and then took over a police station.[{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/28/world/asia/gunmen-in-punjab-india-attack-bus-and-police-station.html?ref=topics|title=Gunmen in Indian Army Uniforms Attack Bus and Police Station, Killing 5|access-date=21 July 2015 |work=The New York Times|first=Ellen|last=Barry}}]
|Unknown
| |
| 31 Jul
|Arson
|style="background:#b6fcb6"|3
|style="background:#b6fcb6"|1
|Duma, West Bank
|Duma arson attack | Two masked men arrived at two houses and threw two Molotov cocktails into the houses. One of the houses was empty; in the other, the Daobasa family slept and the explosive burned the house, killing 18-month-old Ali Saad and severely wounding his parents and his 4-year-old brother.[{{cite web|url=http://www.haaretz.com/beta/1.668871|title=Palestinian Infant Burned to Death in West Bank Arson Attack; IDF Blames Jewish Terror|work=Haaretz|author=Jack Khoury, Chaim Levinson and Gili Cohen|date=31 July 2015}}] The parents succumbed to their wounds in the ensuing weeks.[{{cite news|url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4688675,00.html|title=Father of slain Palestinian baby dies of his wounds|author=Ilana Curiel, Rotem Elizera and Elior Levy|date=8 August 2015|work=Ynet}}]
|Jewish gang
|Israeli–Palestinian conflict |
| 6 Aug
|Suicide bombing
|style="background:#b6fcb6"|15
|style="background:#b6fcb6"|9
|Abha, Saudi Arabia
|2015 Abha mosque bombing | A suicide bomb attack at a mosque.[{{cite news|url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-saudi-security-bomb-idUKKCN0QB17Q20150806|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208202000/http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-saudi-security-bomb-idUKKCN0QB17Q20150806|url-status=dead|archive-date=8 December 2015|title=Suicide bomber kills 15 in Saudi security site mosque|publisher=Reuters UK|access-date=19 August 2017|date=6 August 2015}}]
|Islamic State affiliate[{{cite news|title=Saudi Arabia mosque bombing that killed 15 claimed by 'new' Islamic State group|url=http://www.smh.com.au/world/suicide-bombing-on-saudi-arabia-mosque-kills-15-20150806-giti8p.html|author=Abdullah al-Shihri|access-date=19 August 2017|work=Sydney Morning Herald|date=7 August 2015}}]
| |
| 7 Aug
|Suicide bombing, car bomb
|style="background:#FED8B1"|50+ (+1)
|style="background:#FA8072"|500+
|Kabul, Afghanistan
|7 August 2015 Kabul attacks | A suicide bomber attacked recruits outside a police academy while a truck bomb was set off in a residential area, leveling a block and leaving a thirty foot deep crater.[{{cite news|url=https://www.yahoo.com/news/kabul-blasts-kill-35-test-afghan-presidents-peace-213552836.html|title=Kabul blasts kill 35, test Afghan president's peace plan|agency=Associated Press|date=7 August 2015|access-date=19 August 2017}}]
|Taliban (suspected)
|War in Afghanistan |
| 10 Aug
|Suicide bombing
|style="background:#b6fcb6"|5[{{cite web |url=http://www.breakingnews.com/topic/kabul-kabul-af/|title=Breaking news on Kabul, Kabul, Afghanistan |date=31 May 2017 |publisher=breakingnews.com |access-date=19 August 2017}}][{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-33845326 |title=Afghanistan: Taliban suicide bomb attack near Kabul airport|publisher=BBC News|access-date=19 August 2017}}]
|style="background:#b6fcb6"|16
|Kabul, Afghanistan
|10 August 2015 Kabul suicide attack | |Taliban (suspected)
|War in Afghanistan |
| 13 Aug
|car bomb
|style="background:#FED8B1"|76+
|style="background:#FA8072"|212
|Baghdad, Iraq
|2015 Baghdad market truck bombing | A refrigeration truck loaded with explosives was blown up in the center of a market in Sadr City. Followers of Shia Islam were targeted.[{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-iraq-violence-idUSKCN0QI0DE20150813|title=Islamic State claims huge truck bomb attack in Baghdad's Sadr City|work=Reuters|access-date=19 August 2017|date=13 August 2015}}][{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-iraq-violence-idUSKCN0QI0DE20150813|author=Ahmed Rasheed|title=Islamic State claims huge truck bomb attack in Baghdad's Sadr City|work=Reuters|access-date=19 August 2017}}]
|Islamic State
|Iraq War |
| 16 Aug
|Suicide bombing
|style="background:#FFFF66"|22
|style="background:#FFFF66"|20
|Attock District, Pakistan
|2015 Attock bombing | Two suspected suicide bombers detonated explosives in the home of Punjab Interior Minister Shuja Khanzada in the village of Shadikhan, killing the minister and at least 21 other people.
|Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
|War in North-West Pakistan |
| 17 Aug
|Bombing
|style="background:#FFFF66"|21
|style="background:#FA8072"|123
|Ratchaprasong Intersection, Bangkok
|2015 Ratchaprasong bombing | Bomb attack outside the Erawan Shrine at the Ratchaprasong Intersection in Pathum Wan District.[{{cite news|title=Deadly bomb blast rocks central Bangkok |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-33963280|publisher=BBC News|access-date=19 August 2017|date=17 August 2015}}][{{cite news|title=Bomb Blast In Central Bangkok Kills At Least 12|url=http://news.sky.com/story/1537096/bomb-blast-in-central-bangkok-kills-at-least-12|access-date=19 August 2017|agency=Sky News}}]
|Grey Wolves (suspected)
| |
| 21 Aug
|Shooting Melee attack
|style="background:#E0FFFF"|0
|style="background:#b6fcb6"|3 (+1)
|Oignies, Pas-de-Calais
|2015 Thalys train attack | A man opened fire with an AKM assault rifle on a Thalys high speed train between Amsterdam and Paris. One person was shot in the neck. Two United States military personnel and their civilian friend intervened and stopped the attack continuing. One of them was cut in the struggle. Another passenger received glass cuts.[{{cite news |title=France train shooting: Hollande thanks 'heroes' who foiled gunman|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34023361|access-date=22 August 2015|publisher=BBC|date=22 August 2015}}]
|Ayoub El Kahzani[{{cite news|title=Tirs dans un Thalys : ce que l'on sait du suspect|trans-title=Shooting in Thalys: What is known about the suspect|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/police-justice/article/2015/08/21/tirs-dans-un-thalys-ce-que-l-on-sait-du-suspect_4733017_1653578.html|access-date=19 August 2017|work=Le Monde|date=21 August 2015|language=fr}}]
|Islamic terrorism in Europe |
| 22 Aug
|Car bomb
|style="background:#b6fcb6"|10+[{{cite news|url=http://www.breakingnews.com/topic/kabul-kabul-af/|title=Breaking news on Kabul, Kabul, Afghanistan|publisher=breakingnews.com |access-date=19 August 2017}}][{{cite web|url=http://www.tolonews.com/fa/afghanistan/21023-death-toll-at-10-in-kabul-suicide-car-bombing|title=Death toll in Kabul suicide attack|work=TOLOnews|access-date=19 August 2017}}]
|style="background:#FED8B1"|60+
|Kabul, Afghanistan
|22 August 2015 Kabul suicide attack | |Taliban (suspected)
|War in Afghanistan |
| 20 Sep
|Bombing, Suicide Bombing
|style="background:#FA8072"|145
|style="background:#FA8072"|97-150+
|Maiduguri, Nigeria
|September 2015 Maiduguri bombing | Series of blasts, some of which were suicide bombings, targeting a market and civilians in a mosque during night prayers and a football match.[{{cite news|title=Four fatal blasts in Maiduguri|url=http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/Four-fatal-blasts-in-Maiduguri-20150921|access-date=19 August 2017|publisher=news24|date=21 September 2015}}]
|Boko Haram
|Boko Haram insurgency |
| 20 Sep
|Melee attack
|style="background:#FED8B1"|50
|style="background:#FED8B1"|50
|Aksu, Xinjiang, China
|2015 Aksu colliery attack | Attackers stormed a colliery before stealing firearms from police.[{{cite web |last1=Chen |first1=Andrea |title=Flamethrower used to flush out militants in China's Xinjiang region, says state media |url=https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/1881961/flamethrower-used-flush-out-militants-chinas-xinjiang |website=SCMP |date=23 November 2015 |access-date=7 September 2020}}]
|Uyghur separatists
|Xinjiang conflict |
| 1 Oct
|Shooting
|style="background:#b6fcb6"|2
|style="background:#E0FFFF"|0
|West Bank
|Murder of Eitam and Na'ama Henkin | Five members of a Hamas terrorist cell killed Eitam and Naama Henkin, parents of a Jewish family driving home from a meeting of yeshiva graduates, on a road near Nablus. Their four children, who were sitting in the car's back seat, were unhurt.[{{cite news|last1=Levinson|first1=Chaim|title=Two Killed in Shooting Attack Near West Bank Settlement|url=http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.678511|access-date=1 October 2015|date=1 October 2015}}][{{cite news |last1=Harel|first1=Amos|last2=Levinson|first2=Chaim|last3=Hasson|first3=Nir|title=Thousands Attend Funeral of Couple Killed in West Bank|url=http://www.haaretz.com/news/israel/1.678563|access-date=7 October 2015|date=2 October 2015}}] The attackers were caught on 5 October .[{{cite news|last1=Lapin|first1=Yaakov|title=Shin Bet: Hamas suspects arrested for murder of couple in front of their children|url=http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Security-forces-arrest-Palestinian-terror-cell-for-double-murder-419999|access-date=5 October 2015|work=The Jerusalem Post|date=5 October 2015}}]
|Hamas affiliated cell
|Israeli–Palestinian conflict |
| 2 Oct
|Shooting
|style="background:#b6fcb6"|1 (+1)
|style="background:#E0FFFF"|0
|Parramatta, Sydney, Australia
|2015 Parramatta shooting | A 15-year-old shot dead an unarmed civilian police employee outside the NSW Police headquarters on Charles Street. The shooter was fatally shot by responding special constables after firing on them.[[http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-03/nsw-police-headquarters-gunman-was-radicalised-youth/6825028 Gunman who shot dead NSW police employee was radicalised youth], ABC News Online, 3 October 2015]
|Farhad Khalil Mohammad Jabar (lone wolf)
|Terrorism in Australia |
| 3 Oct
|Melee attack, shooting
|style="background:#b6fcb6"|2 (+1)
|style="background:#b6fcb6"|2
|East Jerusalem
|Lions' Gate stabbing | A 19 year old stabbed four people. He then took a firearm from one of the wounded and started shooting at civilians and police officers who shot back and killed him. Two men died from stab wounds, a woman and her two-year-old toddler were wounded. The incident occurred in the Old City of Jerusalem.[{{cite news |last1=Hasson|first1=Nir|title=4 Wounded in Stabbing Attack in Jerusalem's Old City|url=http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.678679|access-date=3 October 2015|work=Haaretz|date=3 October 2015}}][{{cite news|last1=Hasson|first1=Nir|title=Stabbing Attack Kills 1, Wounds 4 in Jerusalem's Old City (Hebrew)|url=http://www.haaretz.co.il/news/politics/1.2743617|access-date=3 October 2015|work=Haaretz|date=3 October 2015}}]
|Mohannad Hallabi
(lone wolf)
|Israeli–Palestinian conflict |
| 10 Oct
|Suicide bombing
|style="background:#FA8072"|102
|style="background:#FA8072"|508
|Ankara, Turkey
|2015 Ankara bombings | Two suicide bombers blew themselves up near Ankara Central Station where a peace rally supported by the HDP was taking place.[{{cite news|title=Ankara explosions leave almost 100 dead – officials|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34495161|access-date=11 October 2015|work=BBC News|date=2015-10-10}}] The attack left 102 dead[{{cite web|url=http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ankara-bombing-death-toll-rises-to-102-chief-public-prosecutors-office.aspx?pageID=238&nID=89988&NewsCatID=341|title=Ankara Bombing death toll rises to 102: Chief Public Prosecutor's Office|date=16 October 2014}}] and 508 injured.[{{cite web|title=BAŞBAKANLIK KOORDİNASYON MERKEZİ AÇIKLAMASI 11 EKİM – 12:24|url=http://www.basbakanlik.gov.tr/Forms/_Article/pg_Article.aspx?Id=4fb00379-6412-4b85-ba20-8c8c630aec69|publisher=Prime Minister of Turkey|access-date=2016-08-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160423104922/http://www.basbakanlik.gov.tr/Forms/_Article/pg_Article.aspx?Id=4fb00379-6412-4b85-ba20-8c8c630aec69|archive-date=2016-04-23|url-status=dead}}]
|Islamic State
|Turkey–ISIL conflict |
| 18 Oct
|Shooting
|style="background:#b6fcb6"|2 (+1)
|style="background:#b6fcb6"|11
|Be'er Sheva, Israel
|Beersheva bus station shooting | An Israeli Bedouin shot and killed a soldier with a firearm in the main bus station. He then picked the soldier's rifle and clashed with other armed guards and soldiers. Police accidentally shot an Eritrean man who was presumed to be a second attacker, possibly because of his skin-color. Locals beat him and he later died.[{{cite news|title=Autopsy Reveals Eritrean Asylum Seeker Died From Gunshot Wounds, Not Lynching|url=http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.681677|access-date=31 October 2015|work=Haaretz|date=21 October 2015}}][{{cite news|title=Israeli killed in Beersheva bus station attack|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-34567988|access-date=18 October 2015|publisher=BBC|date=18 October 2015}}]
|Muhand al-Okabi (lone wolf)
|Israeli–Palestinian conflict |
| 19 Oct
|Bus bombing
|style="background:#b6fcb6"|11
|style="background:#FFFF66"|22
|Quetta, Pakistan
|2015 Quetta bus bombing | A bomb exploded in a bus.[{{cite web|url=http://www.dawn.com/news/1214159|title=Bus bombing killed 11 people in Quetta|newspaper=Dawn|date=19 October 2015|access-date=21 October 2015}}][{{cite web|url=http://tribune.com.pk/story/975668/at-least-four-killed-in-blast-on-sariab-road-quetta/|title=11 people die in Quetta in Balochistan province|publisher=The Express Tribune|date=19 October 2015|access-date=21 October 2015}}][{{cite web|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pakistan-blast-baluchistan-idUSKCN0SD25N20151019|title=At least 11 people die in Balochistan bus bombing|publisher=Reuters|date=19 October 2015|access-date=21 October 2015}}]
|Unknown
|Balochistan conflict |
| 22 Oct
|Mass stabbing
|style="background:#b6fcb6"|3 (+1)
|style="background:#b6fcb6"|1
|Trollhättan, Sweden
|Trollhättan school stabbing | A 21-year-old attacked Kronan School with a sword. He targeted people with dark skin, stabbed four people, killing three before committing suicide by cop. The second teacher who was wounded died in hospital six weeks after the attack, on 3 December.
|Anton Lundin Pettersson
|Terrorism in Sweden |
| 31 Oct
|Bombing
|style="background:#FA8072"|224
|style="background:#E0FFFF"|0
|Sinai, Egypt
|Metrojet Flight 9268
|The aircraft was bombed.[{{cite news|title=Disaster which killed 224 people caused by 'external impact on plane' as it emerges Metrojet airline had not paid employees for two months |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/11969465/Russian-plane-crash-investigators-examine-theory-that-Isil-bombed-airliner.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151102233110/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/11969465/Russian-plane-crash-investigators-examine-theory-that-Isil-bombed-airliner.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2 November 2015|access-date=3 November 2015|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=2 November 2015}}]
|Islamic State
|Sinai insurgency |
| 4 Nov
|Stabbing
|style="background:#E0FFFF"|0(+1)
|style="background:#b6fcb6"|4
|California, United States
|University of California, Merced stabbing attack | A man armed with a hunting knife, stabbed four people at the University of California before being shot and killed by police.[{{cite web|last1=Savransky |first1=Rebecca |title=Student in campus stabbing inspired by 'terrorist propaganda' |url=https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/273524-fbi-student-in-uc-merced-campus-stabbing-inspired-by-terrorist/ |work=The Hill |date=17 March 2016 |access-date=17 March 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160319090417/http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/273524-fbi-student-in-uc-merced-campus-stabbing-inspired-by-terrorist |archive-date=19 March 2016 }}]
|Faisal Mohammad (lone wolf)
|Terrorism in the United States |
| 12 Nov
|Suicide bombing
|style="background:#FED8B1"| 89
|style="background:#FA8072"|200+
|Beirut, Lebanon
|2015 Beirut bombings | A suicide bomber detonated a bike loaded with explosives and when onlookers gathered, another suicide bomber detonated himself on them.[[http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKKCN0T121R20151112 Two suicide bombers hit Hezbollah bastion in Lebanon, 43 killed]{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}, Reuters (12 November 2015).]
|Islamic State
|Syrian Civil War spillover in Lebanon |
| 13 Nov
|Attack
|style="background:#FA8072"|130 (+7)
|style="background:#FA8072"|368
|Paris, France
|November 2015 Paris attacks | A series of coordinated attacks began over about 35 minutes at six locations. The first shooting attack occurred in a restaurant and a bar in the 10th arrondissement. There was shooting and a bomb detonated at Bataclan theatre in the 11th arrondissement during a rock concert. Approximately 100 hostages were then taken and 90 were killed there. Other bombings took place outside the Stade de France stadium in the suburb of Saint-Denis during a football match between France and Germany.[{{cite web|title=Paris terror attacks: eight attackers dead after killing at least 120 people – live updates|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/nov/14/paris-terror-attacks-attackers-dead-mass-killing-live-updates|website=The Guardian|access-date=14 November 2015|first=Claire|last=Phipps|date=14 November 2015 }}]
|Islamic State
|Islamic terrorism in Europe |
| 19 Nov
|Melee attack
|style="background:#b6fcb6"|2
|style="background:#b6fcb6"|1
|Tel Aviv, Israel
|2015 Tel Aviv synagogue stabbing | A 36-year-old Palestinian man attacked a makeshift synagogue before being arrested.[{{cite news|title=At least 5 dead in West Bank and Tel Aviv terrorist attacks|url=http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/11/19/at-least-5-dead-in-west-bank-and-tel-aviv-terrorist-attacks/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151119180927/http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/11/19/at-least-5-dead-in-west-bank-and-tel-aviv-terrorist-attacks/|url-status=dead|archive-date=19 November 2015|access-date=19 November 2015|publisher=Fox News|date=19 November 2015}}]
| lone wolf
|Israeli–Palestinian conflict |
| 19 Nov
|Shooting
|style="background:#b6fcb6"|3
|style="background:#b6fcb6"|5
|Gush Etzion Junction, West Bank
|2015 Gush Etzion Junction attack | A Palestinian man opened fire on a line of traffic. The attacker then fled the scene, only to shoot at and intentionally ram into a group of pedestrians at a nearby junction.[{{cite web|title=Palestinian Attacks in Tel Aviv, West Bank Leave 5 Dead|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/israel-grants-palestinian-mobile-carriers-3g-frequency-35298615|publisher=ABC News|access-date=20 November 2015}}]
|lone wolf
|Israeli–Palestinian conflict |
| 20 Nov
|Hostage taking, Shooting
|style="background:#FFFF66"|20 (+2)
|style="background:#b6fcb6"|7
|Bamako, Mali
|2015 Bamako hotel attack | Gunmen took several hostages at the Radisson Hotel—among them 140 visitors and 30 employees.[{{cite news|title=Mali hotel attack: 'No more hostages' after special forces raid |date=20 November 2015 |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-34879955|publisher=BBC News|access-date=21 November 2015|language=en-GB}}]
|Al-Mourabitoun
AQIM
|Northern Mali conflict |
| 24 Nov
|Suicide bombing, car bombing, shooting
|style="background:#b6fcb6"|7
|style="background:#b6fcb6"|12
|al-Arish, Egypt
|2015 Arish attack | A day after the second round of parliamentary elections, militants attacked a hotel housing election judges.
|Islamic State
|Sinai Insurgency |
| 27 Nov
|Shooting Hostage-taking
|style="background:#b6fcb6"|3
|style="background:#b6fcb6"|9
|Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
|Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooting | A shooting and five-hour standoff with police occurred at a Planned Parenthood clinic. A police officer and two civilians were killed. Five officers and four civilians were injured. The shooter was captured after police convinced him to surrender. His motives appeared to be political (specifically anti-abortion) in nature.[{{cite web |title=Planned Parenthood Standoff 'Appears' to Be Domestic Terrorism, Colorado Springs Mayor Says |url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/planned-parenthood-standoff-appears-domestic-terrorism-colorado-springs/story?id=35471366 |publisher=ABC News |access-date=29 November 2015}}][{{cite web|title=Huckabee: Planned Parenthood shooting is 'domestic terrorism' |url=http://www.kcci.com/politics/huckabee-planned-parenthood-shooting-is-domestic-terrorism/36704644 |publisher=KCCI Des Moines |access-date=29 November 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151129222942/http://www.kcci.com/politics/huckabee-planned-parenthood-shooting-is-domestic-terrorism/36704644 |archive-date=29 November 2015 }}][{{cite news |title=Colorado Springs shootings: Calls to cool abortion debate |work=BBC News |date=29 November 2015 |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34958284 |access-date=29 November 2015}}]
|Robert Lewis Dear
(lone wolf)
| |
| 2 Dec
|style="width: 30pt;"|Mass shooting
|style="background:#b6fcb6"|14 (+2)
|style="background:#FFFF66"|23
|San Bernardino, California, United States
|2015 San Bernardino attack | Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, a married couple, opened fire at a county health department's holiday banquet and left a failed pipe bomb at the scene. Both perpetrators were shot and killed four hours later in a shootout with police forces.[{{cite news |title=San Bernardino Shooting Kills at Least 14; Two Suspects Are Dead|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/03/us/san-bernardino-shooting.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=2015-12-02|access-date=2015-12-03|issn=0362-4331|first1=Adam Nagourney, Ian |last1=Lovett |first2=Richard|last2=Pérez-peña}}][{{cite news|title=F.B.I. Treats San Bernardino Attack as Possible Terrorism Case |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/04/us/san-bernardino-shooting.html|newspaper=The New York Times|date=2015-12-03|access-date=2015-12-03|issn=0362-4331|first1=Ian Lovett, Richard Pérez-peña, Michael S.|last1=Schmidt|first2=Laurie|last2=Goodstein}}] Malik pledged allegiance to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant on the day of the shooting, and the FBI investigated the attack as an act of terrorism.[{{cite news|title=F.B.I. Treating San Bernardino Attack as Terrorism Case|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/05/us/tashfeen-malik-islamic-state.html|newspaper=The New York Times |date=2015-12-04 |access-date=2015-12-05|issn=0362-4331|first1=Michael S.|last1=Schmidt|first2=Richard|last2=Pérez-peña}}]
|Islamic State
|Jihadist extremism in the United States |
| 5 Dec
| Melee attack
| style="text-align:right;background:#E0FFFF" |0
| style="text-align:right;background:#b6fcb6" |3
| London, United Kingdom
|December 2015 London Underground attack | A man with a knife stabbed three people at the Leytonstone tube station, reportedly screaming 'this is for Syria', before police used a stun gun on him and arrested him.[{{cite news |title=Three injured in knife attack 'terror incident' in London metro|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-stabbing-idUSKBN0TO0RA20151205|access-date=5 December 2015|publisher=Reuters|date=5 December 2015}}][[https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-35018789 Leytonstone Tube stabbing a 'terrorist incident'], BBC News (5 December 2015).]
|Muhyadin Mire
(lone wolf)
|Islamic terrorism in Europe |
| 8 Dec
| Suicide bombing, hostage taking, shooting
| style="text-align:right;background:#FED8B1" |50
| style="text-align:right;background:#FFFF66" |35
| Kandahar, Afghanistan
|2015 Kandahar Airport attack | Several suicide bombers penetrated the security of Kandahar Airfield, barricading themselves into an old school building that now contains shops and battled with soldiers for a few hours.[{{cite news|title=Kandahar airport death toll jumps to 50 after Taliban attack|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35058964|access-date=10 December 2015|publisher=BBC News|date=10 December 2015}}]
|Taliban
|War in Afghanistan |
| 11 Dec
|Car bombing, raid
|style="background:#b6fcb6"|6 (+2)
|style="background:#b6fcb6"|7
|Kabul, Afghanistan
|2015 Spanish Embassy attack in Kabul | Militants detonated a car bomb and stormed a guesthouse near the Spanish embassy in Shirpour neighborhood. Two guards were killed, one of them was Spanish and seven others were wounded. Two militants were shot dead by Afghan security forces.[{{cite news|title=Taliban Attack Near Spanish Embassy in Afghanistan Kills 6|url=https://news.yahoo.com/gunmen-attack-military-bases-burundi-capital-072729343.html|access-date=12 December 2015 |publisher=NBC News|date=12 December 2015}}]
|Taliban
|War in Afghanistan |
| 11 Dec
|Car bombing
|style="background:#FED8B1"|60
|style="background:#FED8B1"|80
|Tell Tamer, Syria
|Tell Tamer bombings | Three truck bombs struck near a Kurdish militia field hospital and in the crowded Souk Al Jumla market square, where the majority of the fatalities occurred.{{citation needed|date=December 2020}}
|Islamic State | Syrian Civil War |
| 25 Dec
|Suicide-bombing
|style="background:#E0FFFF"|0 (+1)
|style="background:#b6fcb6"|3–12
|Rajshahi, Bangladesh
|2015 Rajshahi mosque bombing | A suicide bomber detonated inside an Ahmadiyya mosque.[{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/26/world/asia/bangladesh-suicide-bombing.html?_r=0 |title=Suicide Bomber Strikes at Ahmadi Mosque in Bangladesh |work=New York Times |date=25 December 2015 |access-date=25 December 2015}}]
|TBD
|Internal conflict in Bangladesh |
| 29 Dec
|Suicide-bombing
|26
|50+
|Mardan, Pakistan
|Mardan suicide bombing
|A suicide bomber detonated at the entrance of the National Database and Registration Authority.[{{Cite web |last=AFP |first=Ali Akbar {{!}} Abdul Hakeem {{!}} |date=2015-12-29 |title=26 killed in suicide attack near Nadra office in Mardan |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1229406 |access-date=2024-08-21 |website=DAWN.COM |language=en}}]
|Jamaat-ul-Ahrar
| |
| 30 Dec
|Suicide bombing
|style="background:#FFFF66"|16+
|style="background:#FFFF66"|35+
|Kamishli, Syria
|2015 al-Qamishli bombings | Three suicide bombers blew themselves up in restaurants in the Kurdish controlled town, targeting the Kurdish and Assyrian Christian populations.[{{cite web|title=Au moins 9 morts et plus de 25 blessés dans trois attentats dans le nord-est de la Syrie (OSDH)|url=http://www.rfi.fr/contenu/ticker/moins-9-morts-plus-25-blesses-trois-attentats-le-nord-est-syrie-osdh |publisher=RFI|access-date=30 December 2015}}]
|Islamic State
|Syrian Civil War |