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Several bombs were detonated in Caracas, including one in the United States embassy. [18] November 28 Yugoslavia West Germany: Bonn: 1 1 Attack by Croatian Crusader Brotherhood. [19] 1963 September 16 United Kingdom Indonesia: Jakarta: 0 0 Mob attack burnt the embassy and smashed all its windows. [20] 1964 March 5 and 8 United States Gabon ...
The 1998 United States embassy bombings were attacks that occurred on August 7, 1998. More than 220 people were killed in two nearly simultaneous truck bomb explosions in two East African capital cities, one at the United States embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and the other at the United States embassy in Nairobi, Kenya.
The April 18, 1983, United States Embassy bombing was a suicide bombing on the Embassy of the United States in Beirut, Lebanon, that killed 32 Lebanese, 17 Americans, and 14 visitors and passers-by. The victims were mostly embassy and CIA staff members, but also included several US soldiers and one U.S. Marine Security Guard .
The September 11 attacks, the deadliest terrorist attack in history. The United States of America has been attacked several times throughout its history as a country, including attacks on U.S. states and territories, embassies and consulates, or the military of the United States.
The United States Department of State designated Ansar al-Sharia as a terrorist organization in January 2014. [24] [25] [26] Khattala was captured in Libya by United States Army Special Operations Forces, who were acting in coordination with the FBI, in June 2014. [27] Another suspect, Mustafa al-Imam, was captured in October 2017. [28] [29]
A rocket attack on the sprawling U.S. Embassy in Baghdad caused minor damage but no casualties on Friday morning, U.S. and Iraqi officials said. The attack was the first on the embassy located in ...
In autumn 2020, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo repeatedly threatened to close the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad if Iraqi leaders did not prevent further attacks on the embassy. [47] According to some media sources, Pompeo informed Baghdad that it would target 120 sites in Iraq linked to Iran-backed militias if rocket attacks cost American lives.
The U.S. embassy in Russia has warned U.S. citizens to avoid large gatherings in Moscow due to what it said were reports that extremists had imminent plans for an attack. The embassy, which has ...