Terrorists detonate bombs in two crowded nightclubs in the Bali resort of Kuta, killing 202 people

Chechen terrorists take hostage the entire audience of a Moscow theatre in an atrocity resulting in the death of more than 150 people

In spite of a massive military operation, the terrorist leader Osama bin Laden escapes US pursuit in Afghanistan

Zoran Dindić, the prime minister of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade

Sweden's Minister for Foreign Affairs, Anna Lindh, is stabbed in a Stockholm department store and dies the following day

Bombs explode simultaneously on several commuter trains in Madrid during the morning rush hour, killing 190 people

Chechen terrorists take an entire school hostage, in Beslan in southern Russia, resulting in more than 300 deaths

Lebanon's former prime minister Rafik Hariri is killed when a massive bomb is detonated as his car passes in Beirut

Four English suicide bombers cause 52 deaths on London's transport system during the morning rush hour

A Brazilian citizen, Jean Charles de Menezes, is killed on the London underground by police mistaking him for a terrorist

The Provisional IRA announces a formal end to armed conflict and orders units to dump all their weapons

Just three years after the first attack, suicide bombers kill more than 25 people in the same Balinese town of Kuta

Hamas, defined in many countries as a terrorist organization, wins the majority of seats in elections to the Palestinian Legislative Council

The terrorist organization ETA declares what it says will be a permanent ceasefire in its campaign for Basque independence

Hamas militants take hostage an Israeli corporal, provoking a new Israeli military campaign against Gaza

A series of coordinated terrorist bombs explode on trains during the crowded evening rush hour in Mumbai (Bombay)

Hezbollah takes two Israeli soldiers hostage, provoking the renewal of air and rocket warfare on the Israel-Lebanon border