List Of Terrorist Incidents
The following is a list of non-state terrorist incidents that have not been carried out by a government or its forces (see state terrorism and state-sponsored terrorism). Assassinations are listed at List of assassinated people.
There is no single accepted definition of non-state terrorism in common use, so incidents listed here are restricted to those that:
- Are believed to not have been state-sponsored.
- Are either commonly called terrorism, or meet at least some of the commonly used criteria.
- This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
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