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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 ...
1983 US embassy bombing in Beirut; 1984 US embassy bombing in Beirut; 1998 United States embassy bombings; 2004 Tashkent suicide bombings; 5 April 2010 North-West Frontier Province attacks; 2011 United States embassy attack in Sarajevo; 2023 Jeddah shooting; 2024 Beirut US embassy shooting
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 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 Tet offensive attack on the United States embassy took place on the early morning of 31 January 1968, when a 19-man Viet Cong (VC) sapper team attempted to seize the US Embassy in Saigon at the start of the VC's Tet Offensive. While the VC successfully penetrated the embassy compound, they were unable to enter the chancery building and were ...
The attack, the first on the embassy in well over a year, was seen as an escalation in weeks of attacks on U.S. forces in the region that were claimed by Iraqi Shi'ite Muslim armed groups with ...
The embassy was previously targeted in an attack on 18 March, though the mortar shells fired at the embassy missed it and instead hit a girls school nearby, injuring 13 children. [1] The attack, as well as another targeting a residential compound housing Americans workers in April were attributed to the Soldier's Brigade of Yemen, an offshoot ...
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 .