January 4

Thailand : Narathiwat: Muslim extremists raid a government armory and set fire to 18 schools in a rampage that leaves at least four soldiers dead and an unknown number injured. 21

January 12

Bangladesh : Mazar: Jamaat-e-Islami fundamentalists place bomb at a shrine that kills three and injures 36. 21

January 18

Baghdad: Suicide car bombing near main gate to U.S.-led coalition's headquarters kills at least 31 people. 16

February 11

Baghdad: A suicide attacker blows up a car packed with explosives in a crowd of Iraqis waiting outside an army recruiting center killing 47. 16

February 25

Yelwa. Nigeria: According to testimonies gathered by Human Rights Watch, at least 78 Christians, and possibly many more, were killed, and several churches destroyed, by armed Muslims     29

February 27

Philippines : Mariveles: Abu Sayyaf group, claims responsibility for an explosion on a ferry that kills nearly two-hundred people. 21

March 2

At least 106 people were killed and over 233 injured in a massive suicide attack on the holy Shiite city of Karbala. At least four bombs detonated.  This attack came on the same day as another Shiite shrine was attacked in Baghdad on one of the holiest Shiite holidays. Police suspect a group linked to Al Qaeda or loyalists of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi of carrying out the attacks. 25

March 11

A series of coordinated terrorist bombings against the commuter train system of Madrid , Spain on the morning of 11 March 2004, killed 191 people and wounded more than 1,800, making them the deadliest terrorist attack against civilians in Europe since the Lockerbie bombing in 1988 . 12

March 31

Four US civilian contractors were killed in Fallujah when their two vehicles were ambushed by gunmen. It is reported that at least two of the bodies were burned, dragged through the streets and hung from a bridge over the Euphrates River.  The group, 'Brigades of Martyr Ahmed Yassim claimed responsibility for the attack.  25

April 21

Five people were killed and 148 injured when a suicide bomber drove an explosives-packed car into a barrier outside the national police headquarters in Riyadh.  No group claimed responsibility, though authorities believe it may have been perpetrated by Al Qaeda.  25

April 21

Terrorists launched a suicide car bomb attack against Saudi Arabian government buildings in Riyadh .  Five people were killed and over 150 were wounded in the attack.  3

May 1

Saudi Arabia : Gunmen killed at least six people in an attack on a Western oil company office in the Red Sea city of Yanbu . Bodies dragged in streets. 3

May 5

Fallujah , Iraq : Four civilians were killed in a grenade attack by suspected insurgents. Afterward, residents cheered and pulled charred bodies from burning vehicles and hung them from a Euphrates River bridge. Crowds dragged at least one of the bodies through the streets, witnesses said. Residents pulled another body from one of the cars and beat it with sticks. 14

May 11

A video airing on an Islamic militant website shows a man who identifies himself as Nick Berg from Philadelphia . The video shows the man being beheaded. The website says he was executed in revenge for the abuse of Iraqi prisoners. 16

May 11

Nigeria : Kano : At least 11 Christians burned to death by Muslim mob that also set 2 churches on fire. 21

May 17

Suicide car bomber kills Izzadine Saleem, pres. of the Iraqi Governing Council, and eight others. 16

May 17

Thailand : Narathiwat: Three Buddhist temples are bombed, injuring two. 21

May 21

Bangladesh : Sylhet: At least two people are killed by a bomb blast at a shrine. Some 50 others, including a British diplomat are injured. 21

May 25

Indonesia : Ambon : Bomb blast in the Christian sector of the city kills one and injures 13. A second bomb is found near a church and defused. 21

May 24

A bomb attack on the anniversary of Eritrean independence kills three and injures 50.  A month after the attack, a Sudanese-born Eritrean appeared on television claiming responsibility, and saying it had been ordered by a radical Islamist group based in Sudan.  25

May 29

Thailand : Pattani: Muslim radicals kidnap a Buddhist civilian and decapitate him. They leave the body with a note attached, warning other Buddhists of the same fate. 21

May 30

Saudi Arabia: Khobar: A shooting rampage and hostage standoff in Saudi's oil industry hub killed 22 and injured 25, mostly foreigners. In the early morning, four militants stormed the oil industry office compounds spraying gunfire and killing thirteen people. They then moved up the street to Oasis Residential Resort. According to the Saudi Interior Ministry, the militants first tried to ram the gate with an explosives-rigged car but when that failed they scaled the wall. They then proceeded to sort out Muslims from non-Muslims and corralled at least fifty hostages in a hotel. Nine hostages were killed and forty-one rescued by Saudi commandos. Only one of the attackers was captured. Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility. 25

June 5

Riyadh : The BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner was critically injured and his cameraman Simon Cumbers was killed when they came under fire in a neighborhood notorious for militants. 3

June 6

A car bomb explodes near the entrance to an American-run base at Taji north of Baghdad , killing at least nine people and wounding 30 others, including three U.S. soldiers. 16

June 8

Saudi Arabia : Terrorists gunned down Robert Jacob, an American working for Vinnell Corp., a U.S. defense contractor in Riyadh . 3

June 14

A car bomb tore through a convoy carrying contractors in Baghdad killing eight Iraqis and three GE employees and two bodyguards- the foreignors included two Britons, one Frenchmen, one American and a Filipino. The blast destroyed eight vehicles and nearby buildings into rubble. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's group, Tawhid and Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. 25

June 18

U.S. hostage Paul Marshal Johnson, an American engineer working for Lockheed Martin, beheaded by Al-Qaeda captors in Saudi Arabia . He was kidnapped on June 13. 3

June 25

Terrorists kill an abducted railway engineer, Sudhir Kumar Pundeer, and his brother. Their slit-throat bodies are recovered from the Zainapora area of Shopian in south Kashmir on June 25.  30

July 18

Jakarta , Indonesia : A woman priest was killed and 4 people wounded when gunmen opened fire on a church service in eastern Indonesia , police said. The attack occurred Sunday as Christians gathered at the church in the city of Palu in Central Sulawesi province, near the town of Poso -- the site of bloody Muslim-Christian clashes that have killed some 2,000 people since 1999. 23

August 31

Near a busy Moscow subway station, police said a suicide bombing took place that killed 10, and injured 151. The incident comes exactly a week after two Russian airliners crashed within minutes of each other, killing a total of 90 people. An Islamic group calling itself the Islambouli Brigades claimed responsibility for the airline crashes as well as the subway bombing, saying it was acting on behalf of Chechen fighters. 34, 35

September 1

A group of 33 Islamist Rebels stormed a school and took about 1,200 children and adults captive. The siege ended after 3 days with the deaths of at least 339 hostages-about half of them children-and 500 injured. 36