List of terrorist incidents in January 2015

This is a timeline of terrorist incidents which took place in January 2015, including attacks by violent non-state actors for political motives.

List guidelines

• Casualties figures in this list are the total casualties of the incident including immediate casualties and later casualties (such as people who succumbed to their wounds long after the attacks occurred).
• The casualties listed are the victims, perpetrator casualties are listed separately (e.g. x (+y) indicate that x victims and y perpetrators were killed/injured).
• Casualty totals may be underestimated or unavailable due to a lack of information. A figure with a plus (+) sign indicates that at least that many people have died (e.g. 10+ indicates that at least 10 people have died) – the actual toll could be considerably higher.
• If casualty figures are 20 or more, they will be shown in bold. In addition, figures for casualties more than 50 will also be underlined.

January

Date	Type	Dead	Injured	Location	Details	Perpetrator	Part of
1	Shooting	15-25+	10+	Waza Region, Cameroon	A group of militants attacked a crowded bus traveling from Kousseri to Maroua. Locals said at least 20 were killed, while official sources said 25 were killed and another 10 were seriously injured. Boko Haram is suspected.[1]	Boko Haram (suspected)	Boko Haram insurgency
3	Attack	1	3	Maguindanao and Sultan Kudarat, Philippines	An undetermined number of Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF) insurgents launched simultaneous attacks on two military attachments: at the Kulasi detachment in Barangay Kulasi in General Salipada K. Pendatun, Maguindanao; and at Sitio Sumilalao in Barangay Katiku of President Quirino, Sultan Kudarat at 1 am local time. Military forces opened fire at the attacking insurgents, and the clashes lasted about an hour. One soldier was killed and three were wounded from the Katiku detachment.[2]	BIFF	Moro conflict
3	Shooting	3	2	Basra Governorate, Iraq	Shooting in Basra Governorate left 5 people dead and 2 wounded.[3]	Unknown	Iraqi Civil War
3	Melee attack	1	0	El Fahs, Tunisia	A Tunisian policeman was ambushed by a group of Islamist militants and abducted. They then killed him by cutting his throat and stabbing his heart. Nine people have been arrested in connection with the attack.[4]	Islamist militants	Insurgency in the Maghreb
3–7	Massacre	Unknown Est. 2000+	Unknown	Baga, Borno State, Nigeria	2015 Baga massacre: Boko Haram militants opened fire on northern Nigerian villages, leaving bodies scattered everywhere, with over 100 fatalities reported and as many as 2,000 people unaccounted for and feared dead.[5]	Boko Haram	Boko Haram insurgency
4	Bombing	0	6	Gao Region, Mali	A roadside bomb exploded next to a United Nations convoy of Niger troops in the Gao region between the northern communities of Asongo and Meneka, injuring six UN soldiers, three seriously.[6]	Unknown
4	Bombing	1	4	Baghdad, Iraq	A bomb killed one and another 4 wounded.[7]	Unknown	Iraq Civil War
4	Bombing	4	8	Orakzai Agency, Pakistan	While Shiite men were playing a game of volleyball in the Orakzai tribal district of the Pakistani northwest, a bomb dug into the ground near the playing field detonated, killing four civilians and injuring eight others, two critically.[8]	Pakistani Taliban or al-Qaeda linked groups	War in North-West Pakistan
4	Bombing	6	31	Dhamar Governorate, Yemen	An explosion hit a Houthi HQ south of the Yemen capital of Saana in Dhormar province, killing six Houthi rebels and injuring 31 others.[9]	Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula	Yemeni Civil War
4	Suicide bombing	4	n/a	Mogadishu, Somalia	A suicide car bomber detonated his explosives as a military convoy passed by, killing four soldiers.[10]	Al-Shabaab	War in Somalia
5	Bombing	0	4	Al-Arish, Egypt	Four police officers were injured when a bomb detonated at the entrance to an apartment complex in the Sinai peninsula capital of Al-Arish.[11]	Unknown	Sinai insurgency
5	Suicide bombing	3 (+2)	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.[12][13]	ISIL (suspected)
5	Suicide bombing	1 (+1)	5	Kabul, Afghanistan	A car packed with explosives drove up to the HQ of EUPOL Afghanistan, a European police-training organization in Kabul, and detonated, killing one Afghan civilian and wounding five others. The Taliban quickly claimed responsibility for the attack.[14]	Taliban	War in Afghanistan
4	Execution	8	0	Tikrit, Iraq	Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant killed 8 people.[15]	Unknown	Iraq Civil War
6	Suicide bombing	23 (+2)	21	Al Anbar Governorate, Iraq	Two suicide bombers attacked a mosque in the town of Al-Jubba while Iraqi soldiers were resting, killing 10 soldiers and themselves. Clashes following the bombings left 13 security personnel dead and 21 wounded. The casualty count for militants was not released.[16][17]	ISIL	Iraq War
6	Execution	23	0	Mosul, Iraq	Islamic State killed 23 people in Mosul.[18]	ISIL	Iraq War
6	Suicide bombing	1 (+1)	1	Istanbul, Turkey	January 2015 Istanbul suicide bombing: A female suicide bomber detonated her explosives in front of a police station, killing one officer, wounding one officer, and killing herself in the process.[19][20]	DHKPC	DHKP/C insurgency in Turkey
7	Car bomb	37 / 38	66	Sana'a, Yemen	January 2015 Sana'a bombing: A car bomb detonated in front of a police academy in Sanaa, killing 33 people and injuring 62.[21]	al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (suspected)	Yemeni Civil War
7	Mass shooting	12	10	Paris, France	Charlie Hebdo shooting: Two heavily armed gunmen entered the Paris offices of satirical news magazine Charlie Hebdo and killed 12 people, including two police officers.[22]	al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula[23]	Wave of Terror in Europe
7	Shooting	0	1	Paris, France	On 7 January, a few hours after the Charlie Hebdo attack, a third assailant in the attacks, Amedy Coulibaly, shot a 32-year-old man who was out jogging in Fontenay-aux-Roses, in a park next to Coulibaly's home.[24]	Islamic State	Wave of Terror in Europe
7	Bombing	4	11	Baghdad, Iraq	At least 4 people die and 11 wounded after two bomb exploded in Baghdad.[25]	Unknown	Iraq Civil War
7	Suicide car bombing	4	3	Mosul, Iraq	A suicide car bombing left at least 4 Peshmerga fighters dead and injured 3 in Mosul.[26]	Unknown	Iraq Civil War
7	Execution	5	0	Mosul, Iraq	Islamic State killed at leas 5 in Mosul.[27]	Unknown	Iraq Civil War
8	Shooting	1	1	Paris, France	A shooting occurred in Montrouge on 8 January. Clarissa Jean-Philippe, an unarmed French policewoman, was killed, and a street sweeper was critically injured. DNA found at the scene was a match to Coulibaly [28]	Islamic State	Wave of Terror in Europe
9	Hostage crisis	4 (+1)	9	Porte de Vincennes, France	Porte de Vincennes hostage crisis: A man identified as Amedy Coulibaly attacked and took control of a kosher market in Porte de Vincennes, immediately killing four people. He then took hostages, and a four-hour siege began. The police raided the market, killing the gunman and freeing the hostages.[29]	ISIL[30]	Wave of Terror in Europe
10	Suicide bombing	7 (+2)	36	Tripoli, Lebanon	Two suicide bombers struck a cafe in the predominantly Alawite district of Jabal Mohsen in Tripoli. The attackers have been identified as Sunni. The city has seen sectarian violence in the past between the two groups. The al-Nusra Front claimed responsibility.[31]	al-Nusra Front	Syrian Civil War spillover in Lebanon
10	Suicide bombing	19+	20+	Maiduguri, Nigeria	At least 19 people were killed by a girl aged about 10 in a suicide bombing attack.[32]	Boko Haram (suspected)	Boko Haram insurgency
11	Suicide bombing	3 (+2)	46	Potiskum, Nigeria	Two young girls walked into a crowded market strapped with explosives. The explosives on one girl detonated, causing the majority of the casualties; the other girl ran away, and her explosives detonated in the middle of the road. One witness said the girls looked as young as 10 years old.[33]	Boko Haram	Boko Haram insurgency
12	Melee attack	0 (+6)	0	Xinjiang, China	A man attacked a group of police officers with an axe and an explosive device. The police quickly killed the man charging at them. Five more men came and tried to attack the police officers and set off the explosives, but the police were able to shoot all of the attackers.[34]	Uyghur separatists	Xinjiang conflict
13	Artillery	12	18	Volnovakha, Ukraine	Volnovakha bus attack: The Volnovakha bus attack was an MRLS attack on a highway checkpoint near the village of Buhas outside the Volnovakha municipality in the Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. It resulted in the deaths of 12 passengers of an intercity bus and injuries to 18 others in the area. OSCE Special Monitoring Mission found that all craters were caused by rockets fired from a north-north-eastern direction.[35] These territories were controlled by Donetsk People's Republic.	Donetsk People's Republic	War in Donbass
21	Melee attack	0	12	Tel Aviv, Israel	2015 Tel Aviv attacks: 23-year-old Hamza Mohammed Hasan Matrouk, a Palestinian man from the West Bank, illegally entered Israel and boarded a crowded bus during rush hour and stabbed 12 people before being shot in the leg and arrested by police. Three civilians were injured severely.[36]	Hamza Mohammed Hasan Matrouk (lone wolf)	Israeli-Palestinian conflict
22	Artillery	13		Donetsk, Ukraine	Donetsk bus shelling incident: In Donetsk, Ukraine, two military shelling projectiles exploded near a trolleybus and a car. Early reports indicated at least 13 people, all civilians, were killed.	Donetsk People's Republic or Armed Forces of Ukraine (suspected)	War in Donbass
23	Mass shooting	15		Kambari, Nigeria	Boko Haram militants attacked the village of Kambari (near Maiduguri) in Nigeria early in the morning and killed 15 people, including a village leader, and torched the entire village.[37]	Boko Haram	Boko Haram insurgency
23	Car bomb	1	48	Zamboanga City, Philippines	A car suspected to have had a bomb exploded in front of a pub, which was across the street from a bus terminal. One person was killed and 48 were injured. Nearby establishments, another car and a tricycle sustained damaged. Zamboanga City Mayor Maria Isabella Climaco suspects that the Abu Sayaf group were behind the explosion as part of their plan to free 57 of their fellow members detained at the city jail, although no group has yet claimed responsibility.[38]	Abu Sayaf (suspected)	Moro conflict
24	Artillery	30	108	Mariupol, Ukraine	January 2015 Mariupol rocket attack: An MRLS attack on Mariupol was launched by pro-Russian forces associated with the Donetsk People's Republic. Shelling killed 30 civilians and injured 108. The OSCE Special Monitoring Mission conducted an analysis, and its initial assessment showed that the impacts were caused by Grad and Uragan rockets that were fired from areas controlled by the "Donetsk People's Republic" ("DPR").[39]	Donetsk People's Republic	War in Donbass
25	Attack	67+		Mamasapano, Philippines	Mamasapano clash: Special Action Force officers had an encounter with fighters from the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters, Moro Islamic Liberation Front and private armed groups returning from 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[40]	Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters Moro Islamic Liberation Front	Moro conflict
28	Suicide bombing	10 (+3)	5	Tripoli, Libya	A car bomb was detonated outside the Corinthian Hotel. Three militants rushed inside the hotel and opened fire before blowing themselves up. Five foreigners were among those killed. ISIL claimed that its Tripoli branch was responsible for the attacks[41]	ISIL	Libyan Civil War
28	Melee attack	1	0	Belfast, Northern Ireland	A man had been stabbed a number of times and died at the scene.[42]	Islamic extremist	Wave of Terror in Europe
30	Bombing	60		Shikarpur, Pakistan	An explosive device was detonated during the Friday prayers in a Shia mosque in Pakistan's Shikarpur town, causing at least 60 deaths and part of the building to collapse. Jundullah, a group associated with the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, claimed responsibility for the attack.[43]	Jundullah	Sectarianism in Pakistan

Total Incidents: 39

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