Chronology of attacks on US targets overseas

June 1998 - Rocket-propelled grenades explode near the US embassy in Beirut.

June 1998 - Rocket-propelled grenades explode near the US embassy in Beirut.

July 1996 - Bomb explodes at a concert during the Atlanta Olympic Games, killing two and wounding 110.

June 1996 - Fuel truck bomb kills 19 US soldiers and wounds nearly 400 people at a US military complex in Khobar, Saudi Arabia.

December 1988 - Pan American World Airways Boeing 747 crashed on the town of Lockerbie, Scotland killing 259 people aboard and 11 in the town when the plane was blown up by a bomb.

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April 1986 - An explosion rips a hole in a TWA plane as it makes its descent towards Athens airport, killing four passengers as they are sucked out of the plane.

A few days later, a bomb blast in a West Berlin disco frequented by Americans kills a US citizen and a German woman and injures 150 people, 44 of them Americans.

December 1985 - An Arab suicide hit squad attacks US and Israeli check-in desks at the international airports of Rome and Vienna simultaneously. The attacks claim a total of 20 lives.

October 1985 - Leon Klinghoffer, an elderly wheelchair-bound New Yorker, is killed and thrown overboard from the hijacked cruise liner Achille Lauro - taken over by Palestinians a few days after Israeli warplanes attacked the Tunis headquarters of the PLO.

August 1985 - A large car bomb kills two and injures 20 at a US base in Frankfurt. A US soldier murdered for his identity papers is found the day after the blast.

June 1985 - A TWA plane is hijacked in the Mediterranean, the start of a two-week hostage drama. The last 39 of the passengers taken hostage are released in Damascus after being held at various points in Beirut.

In El Salvador the same month, four US marines and two American businessmen are among 13 people killed in a machine-gun attack on a cafe in the capital San Salvador.

April 1985 - A bomb explodes in a restaurant popular with Americans near a US air base in Madrid, killing 18, all Spaniards, and injuring 82 - among them 15 Americans.

November 1984 - A bomb attack on the US embassy in the Colombian capital Bogota kills a passer-by. The explosion follows death threats against US officials from drug traffickers.

October 1983 - A suicide car bomb attack by radical Muslims on the headquarters of the US military peace-keeping force in Lebanon kills 241 US servicemen. A simultaneous attack on a French base in Beirut kills 58 paratroopers.

April 1983 - Suicide car bombing of US embassy in Beirut kills 63 people, including 17 Americans.