A run-down of the terrorist attacks carried out across the world so far this year, compiled by Deaglán de Bréadún, Foreigh Affairs Correspondent.
Afghanistan
August 29th: Car bomb kills seven people in Kabul.
July 11th: Incendiary bomb attack at Herat by Taliban.
Algeria
June 21st: Car bomb in Algiers.
Gaza Strip
June 15th: Car bomb at Netzarim.
Greece
July 22nd: Incendiary bomb in Athens.
Israel
August 31st: Seventeen die, including two Palestinian suicide bombers, and 80 injured in attacks on two buses in the southern Israeli town of Beersheba.
July 19th: Assassination at Ramat Hasharon by Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade.
March 14th: Suicide attack in the port of Ashdod kills 10 people, plus the bombers.
January 29th: Eleven people are killed in a suicide attack on a bus in west
Jerusalem.
January 14th: Suicide bombing by Hamas at Erez Crossing into Gaza Strip.
Italy
August 18th: Bomb planted by anarchist group during visit to Berlusconi villa by Tony Blair.
Nepal
March 8th: Ambush by Maoist guerrillas in Bhojpur District.
Pakistan
May 31st: Suicide bombing.
March 1st: Suicide bombing in Rawalpindi.
Russia
September 1st: Armed attackers, believed to be Chechen rebels, seize crowded school in Belsan, North Ossetia.
August 31st: Suicide bomber kills 10 people at Moscow metro station.
August 29th: Suicide bomb in Grozny, capital of Chechnya.
August 24th: Two passenger aircraft blown up almost simultaneously, killing 89 people.
June: Rebels seize interior ministry building in Ingushetia, killing 92 people.
February 6th: A rush-hour bombing hits the Moscow subway five weeks before presidential elections, killing 41 people.
Saudi Arabia
April 21st: Suicide car bomb at security forces HQ in Riyadh, kills four and injures 148; al-Qaeda blamed.
April 17th: Car bomb in Riyadh.
Spain
August 21st: Incendiary bomb attack by ETA in Galicia.
August 15th: Incendiary bomb attack by ETA in Llanes, Asturisa province.
March 11th: Bomb attacks on morning rush-hour trains in Madrid kill 198 people with 1,400 injured.
Sri Lanka
July 7th: Suicide bombing in Sri Lanka by Tamil Tigers.
Turkey
August 10th: Two people killed in bomb attacks on tourist hotels in Istanbul.
July 2nd: Car bomb in Istanbul.
March 9th: Suicide bombing in Istanbul.
Uganda
February 21st: Assault by Lord's Resistance Army.
West Bank
January 12th: Suicide bombing by Islamic Jihad at Nablus. In addition, there were continuous attacks by Iraqi insurgents against US occupation forces and the interim government, leading to many casualties, as well as hostage-taking on a regular basis. Some attacks by state forces, e.g., Israeli attacks in the illegally-occupied territories, are also regarded in some quarters as terrorist.