Islamic terrorism

==== Tunisia ====
On 11 April 2002, [[Ghriba synagogue bombing|a Tunisian Al-Qaeda operative used a truck bomb to attack]] the [[El Ghriba synagogue]] on [[Djerba]] island. The attack killed 19 people and injured 30 and was planned by [[Khalid Sheikh Mohammed]] and financed by a [[Pakistanis in Spain|Pakistani resident of Spain]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IQbRDgAAQBAJ&pg=PT88|title=Al-Qaeda's Revenge: The 2004 Madrid Train Bombings|last=Reinares|first=Fernando|publisher=Columbia University Press|year=2016|isbn=978-0-231-80140-9|page=88}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ctc.usma.edu/fifteen-years-after-the-djerba-synagogue-bombing/|title=Fifteen Years after the Djerba Synagogue Bombing|date=14 April 2017|website=Combating Terrorism Center at West Point|language=en-US|access-date=18 March 2019|archive-date=6 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181206103743/https://ctc.usma.edu/fifteen-years-after-the-djerba-synagogue-bombing/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

On 18 March 2015, [[Bardo National Museum attack|three militants attacked the Bardo National Museum]] in the [[Tunisia]]n capital city of [[Tunis]], and took hostages. Twenty-one people, mostly European tourists, were killed at the scene, and an additional victim died ten days later. Around fifty others were injured.<ref name="nytimes12">{{cite news|date=18 March 2015|title=The Latest: French President Mourns Tunisia Victims|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/03/18/world/middleeast/ap-ml-tunisia-attack-the-latest.html|url-status=dead|access-date=4 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150320215139/https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/03/18/world/middleeast/ap-ml-tunisia-attack-the-latest.html|archive-date=20 March 2015}}</ref><ref name="latimes">{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-tunisia-museum-attack-20150318-story.html#page=1|title=Museum attack a 'great calamity' for Tunisia's young democracy|date=18 March 2015|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=19 March 2015}}</ref><ref name="auto">[https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/tunisia-death-toll-in-museum-attack-rises-to-23/ar-BBiqmqN Death toll rises to 23] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180105123113/http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/tunisia-death-toll-in-museum-attack-rises-to-23/ar-BBiqmqN |date=5 January 2018 }}, MSN. Retrieved 19 March 2015.</ref> Two of the gunmen, Tunisian citizens Yassine Labidi and Saber Khachnaoui were killed by police. Police treated the event as a [[terrorist attack]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/3/18/tourists-killed-in-tunisia-museum-assault.html|title=21 dead in Tunisia attack, Including Gunmen|publisher=Al Jazeera|access-date=19 March 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/tunisia/11479898/Gunmen-take-hostages-in-attack-on-Tunisia-parliament.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150318130121/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/tunisia/11479898/Gunmen-take-hostages-in-attack-on-Tunisia-parliament.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=18 March 2015|title=Gunmen 'take hostages' in attack on Tunisia parliament.|last1=Marszal|first1=Andrew|date=18 March 2015|work=The Telegraph|access-date=18 March 2015}}</ref>

In June 2015, a mass shooting claimed by the Islamic State [[2015 Sousse attacks|was carried out at a hotel by Seifeddine Rezgui]]. Thirty-eight people were killed, the majority of whom were tourists from the United Kingdom.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.france24.com/en/20150626-tunisia-deadly-shooting-beach-resort-gunmen|title=Scores killed in terror attack on Tunisian beach resort|date=26 June 2015|publisher=France 24|language=en|access-date=19 March 2019}}</ref>