The following is a list of attacks on diplomatic buildings (embassies, consulates) anywhere in the world. The list does not include attacks on individuals outside or inside an embassy, such as assassinations of ambassadors, or incidents such as letter bombs to individuals.
List
Year | Date | Diplomatic mission | Location country | Location city | Deaths | Injuries | Details |
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1829 | February 11 | Russia | Persia | Tehran | 4+ | Death of Aleksander Griboyedov | |
1900 | June 20 – August 14 | Legation Quarter (multinational) | China | Beijing | 68 | Siege of the International Legations during the Boxer Rebellion | |
1918 | August 31 | UK | Russia | Moscow | 4+ | Bolshevik raid on British embassy for sake of "Lockhart Plot" prevention leaves Francis Cromie and more dead.[1] | |
1924 | July 18 | United States | Persia | Tehran | 1 | 0 | Muslim clerics and soldiers of the Iranian military beat Robert Whitney Imbrie, United States Consul in Tehran after it was incorrectly believed that he poisoned a well.[2] |
1926 | May 16 | Argentina | Buenos Aires | 0 | 0[3] | Bombing following the trial and executions of Sacco and Vanzetti.[4] | |
June 4 | Uruguay | Montevideo | 0 | 0 | |||
1927 | March 24 | UK | China | Nanking | Nanking Incident | ||
Japan | |||||||
US | |||||||
1937 | UK | Spain | Valencia | Aerial bombings by Nationalist forces during the Spanish Civil War damaged the British Embassy and destroyed the Paraguayan consulate.[5] | |||
Paraguay | |||||||
1941 | United Kingdom | Spain | Madrid | On June 24, in the days following Nazi Germany's declaration of war on the Soviet Union, members of the Falange stormed the British Embassy with a truck-load of stones at their disposal. Embassy staff as well as 16 escaped POWs prevented an attempted break in by the Falangists. The Spanish dictator Francisco Franco dismissed the incident as a "trivial matter concerning young hotheads" in response to a protest by the British Ambassador Sir Samuel Hoare.[6][7][8][9] | |||
1946 | Italy | Rome | Irgun campaign; British Embassy bombing | ||||
1951 | February 19 | Soviet Union | Albania | Tirana | 0 | Bombing led to the Massacre of 1951 in Albania | |
1952 | November 8 and December 5 | Czechoslovakia | Israel | Tel Aviv | 0 | Perpetrated by the Tzrifin Underground in response to the persecution of Jews in Czechoslovakia.[10] | |
1953 | February 9 | Soviet Union | Israel | Tel Aviv | 0 | 3 | Perpetrated by the Tzrifin Underground in response to the Doctors' plot and other incidents of persecution in the Eastern Bloc.[11] |
1955 | February 14–16 | Romania | Switzerland | Bern | 0 | 1955 seizure of the Romanian embassy in Bern | |
1957 | May 24 | United States | Republic of China | Taipei | 3 | 38 | May 24 incident |
1958 | July 27 | China | Turkey | Ankara | 0 | 0 | Bombs exploded at the Chinese Embassy compound and a Chinese school. The bombings caused minor damage to both places. [12] |
1962 | January 22 | United States | Venezuela | Caracas | 0 | 0 | Several bombs were detonated in Caracas, including one in the United States embassy.[13] |
November 28 | Yugoslavia | West Germany | Bonn | 1 | 1 | Attack by Croatian Crusader Brotherhood.[14] | |
1963 | September 16 | United Kingdom | Indonesia | Jakarta | 0 | 0 | Mob attack burnt the Embassy and smashed all its windows.[15] |
1964 | March 5 and 8 | United States | Gabon | Libreville | 0 | 0 | 1964 United States Embassy in Libreville bombings |
March 18 | Morocco | Soviet Union | Moscow | 0 | 0 | 1964 Moscow protest | |
June 30 | Philippines | South Vietnam | Saigon | Bombing[16] | |||
1965 | March 30 | US | 22 | 188 | 30 March 1965 Saigon Embassy bombing | ||
1966 | Cuba | Canada | Ottawa | 0 | (See: Embassy of Cuba, Ottawa) | ||
Portugal | Zaire | Kinshasa | |||||
Yugoslavia | West Germany | Stuttgart | 1 | 0 | Attack by Croatian Revolutionary Brotherhood.[14] | ||
1967 | January 28–29 | United States | Washington, D.C., New York City, Chicago, San Francisco | Synchronized bombing.[17] | |||
Canada | Ottawa | ||||||
Soviet Union | China | Beijing | See: Chinese Cultural Revolution[18]) | ||||
August | United Kingdom | ||||||
June | Libya | Benghazi | American and British embassies were attacked and burned by rioters after false rumors spread in the city that the United States had bombed Cairo. This incident occurred at the start of the Six-Day War.[19] | ||||
US | |||||||
September 19 | Republic of China | South Vietnam | Saigon | 0 | 12 | Bombing[20] | |
October | China | Indonesia | Jakarta | 0 | 0 | Aftermath of the Indonesian mass killings of 1965–1966. Diplomatic relations with People's Republic of China severed.[21] | |
November 29 | Yugoslavia | Australia | Melbourne | 0 | 1 | Bombing.[14] | |
1968 | January 31 | United States | South Vietnam | Saigon | 5 | Saigon Embassy attack | |
February 21 | Soviet Union | United States | Washington D.C. | 0 | 0 | [22] | |
October | Singapore | Indonesia | Jakarta | Ransacked in reaction to Singapore's execution of two Indonesia marines responsible for the MacDonald House bombing.[23] | |||
Philippines | Malaysia | Kuala Lumpur | Due to the North Borneo dispute[24] | ||||
1969 | Soviet Union | China | Beijing | Due to the Sino-Soviet border conflict | |||
June | Yugoslavia | Australia | Sydney | Bombing.[25] | |||
November | Canberra | Gelignite bombing.[25] | |||||
1970 | October 21 | Melbourne | Bombing.[14][25] | ||||
1971 | United States | Khmer Republic | Phnom Penh | [26] | |||
February 10 | Yugoslavia | Sweden | Gothenburg | 0 | 0 | Two Croatian emigres seized the Yugoslav consulate in demanding the release of prisoners held in Yugoslav jails, only to surrender to authorities after their demands were refused. | |
April 7 | Yugoslavia | Sweden | Stockholm | 1 | 0 | The 1971 Yugoslav Embassy shooting. Ambassador Vladimir Rolović was killed in the attack by Croatian National Resistance. | |
1972 | February 2 | UK | Ireland | Dublin | 0 | 20 | (See: Bloody Sunday (1972) and Burning of British Embassy, Dublin)[27] |
February 17 | Yugoslavia | Australia | Perth | Armed assault.[14][28] | |||
December 28 | Czechoslovakia | Thailand | Bangkok, | 0 | |||
Cuba | Canada | Montreal | 1 | ||||
China | Philippines | Manila | 0 | 1 | Attacked by suspected British soldiers. | ||
1973 | March 1 | Saudi Arabia | Sudan | Khartoum | 3 | Attack on the Saudi Embassy in Khartoum | |
1973 | December 14 | Algeria | France | Marseille | 4 | 23 | Algerian consulate bombing in Marseille |
1974 | February 7 | Japan | Kuwait | Kuwait City | 0 | 1974 attack on the Japanese Embassy in Kuwait | |
August 19 | US | Cyprus | Nicosia | 2 | 0 | TMT attack | |
September 13 | France | Netherlands | The Hague | 0 | 1974 French Embassy attack in The Hague | ||
1975 | April 24 | West Germany | Sweden | Stockholm | 4 | West German Embassy siege | |
April 29 | Israel | South Africa | Johannesburg | 4 | 82 | 1975 Fox Street siege: David Protter, a South African Jew, seized about 20–30 hostages at the Israeli Consulate General where he worked as a security officer. The consulate was on the 5th-floor of an office building in downtown Johannesburg. After killing two consulate employees Protter – armed with two Uzi submachine guns, eleven pistols, a .22 pellet gun and about 2 000 rounds of ammunition – opened fire on pedestrians and motorists in Fox and Von Brandis Streets, killing 2 and wounding 82. He surrendered to police early the next morning (30 April), 19 hours after taking over the consulate. | |
Egypt | Spain | Madrid | 1975 Egyptian Embassy attack | ||||
August 4 | United States | Malaysia | Kuala Lumpur | 1975 AIA building hostage crisis | |||
September 27 | Spain | Portugal | Lisbon | Attacked by far left activists in response to the execution of far left activists by the Spanish state. | |||
December 4–19 | Indonesia | Netherlands | Amsterdam | 1 | 1975 Indonesian consulate hostage crisis | ||
1976 | 17 February | China | Venezuela | Caracas | 0 | 0 | |
April 22 | Cuba | Portugal | Lisbon | 2 | Attack by far right terrorists. | ||
1977 | November 18 | Egypt | Greece | Athens | 1 | A group of Arab students stormed the Egyptian embassy in Athens to protest Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's historic trip to Jerusalem. Embassy guards opened fire on the protesters.[29][30] | |
November 18 | Lebanon | Beirut | 1 | 8 | A rocket fired at the Egyptian Embassy killed one security guard and wounded two other guards and six soldiers from Saudi Arabia. This incident was in response to Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's historic trip to Jerusalem.[29][30] | ||
1978 | Iraq | France | Paris | ||||
1979 | Costa Rica | El Salvador | San Salvador | ||||
France | |||||||
February 14 | United States | Iran | Tehran | 0 | 1 | Kenneth Kraus was the first of the Iran hostages[31] | |
May 18 | Cuba | United States | Washington D.C. | Bomb detonated by Omega 7[32] | |||
July 14 | Egypt | Turkey | Ankara | 3 | Four terrorists from the group Eagles of the Palestinian Revolution seized the Egyptian embassy in Ankara and held a number of diplomats, including the ambassador, hostage for two days.[33][34] | ||
November 4 | United States | Iran | Tehran | 9 | Iran Hostage Crisis | ||
1980 | February 27 – April 27 | Dominican Republic | Colombia | Bogotá | 1 | 1980 Dominican Republic Embassy siege in Bogotá | |
January 31 | Spain | Guatemala | Guatemala City | 36 | 2 | Burning of the Spanish Embassy in Guatemala | |
April 1 | Peru | Cuba | Havana | 1 | 2 | Peruvian Havana Embassy Crisis of 1980 | |
April 30 – May 5 | Iran | United Kingdom | London | 7 | Iranian Embassy siege | ||
1981 | September 24–25 | Turkey | France | Paris | 1 | Turkish consulate attack in Paris | |
December 15 | Iraq | Lebanon | Beirut | 61 | 100+ | Iraqi embassy bombing in Beirut | |
1982 | May 24 | France | Beirut | 14 | 22 | Car bombing of the French embassy in Beirut. The Front for the Liberation of Lebanon from Foreigners claimed responsibility.[35] | |
December 23 | Israel | Australia | Sydney | Sydney Israeli Consulate and Hakoah Club bombings | |||
Poland | Switzerland | Bern | 1982 seizure of the Polish embassy in Bern | ||||
Soviet Union | Afghanistan | Kabul | |||||
1983 | April 18 | United States | Lebanon | Beirut | 64 | 1983 United States embassy bombing in Beirut | |
August 27 | Philippines | United States | Washington, D.C. | 0 | Three unidentified men hurled home made bombs into the lobby of the embassy.[36] | ||
December 12 | France | Kuwait | Kuwait City | 0 | 1983 Kuwait bombings | ||
December 12 | China | 6 | |||||
July 27 | Turkey | Portugal | Lisbon | 7 | 1983 Turkish embassy attack in Lisbon | ||
1984 | July 11 | Libya | Lebanon | Beirut | 0 | 0 | Done in protest of a visit by Libya's foreign minister.[37] |
September 20 | United States | Lebanon | Beirut | 24 | 1984 United States embassy annex bombing in Beirut | ||
November 26 | Colombia | Bogota | 1 | 7 | A bomb exploded on the street adjacent to the embassy, killing one Colombian woman. Drug traffickers were believed to be responsible.[38][39] | ||
1985 | March 12 | Turkey | Canada | Ottawa | 1 | 1985 attack on Turkish embassy in Ottawa | |
May 15 | United States | Peru | Lima | The terrorist group Shining Path bombed a number of targets in Lima, including the Soviet and Chinese embassies. Two sticks of dynamite were thrown over the wall of the United States Ambassador's residence, causing no injuries.[39][40] | |||
China | |||||||
Soviet Union | |||||||
1986 | April 9-? | Nigeria | Philippines | Makati | 0 | 100 Nigerian students seized and occupied the Nigerian embassy for days to protest alleged neglect of the diplomatic mission over their plight | |
April 15 | France | Libya | Tripoli | During 1986 United States bombing of Libya | |||
November | China | Indonesia | Jakarta | Japanese Red Army attack | |||
November | Canada | Indonesia | Jakarta | Japanese Red Army attack | |||
November | United States | Portugal | Lisbon | Forças Populares 25 de Abril attack | |||
November 23 | Turkey | Australia | Melbourne | 1 | 1986 Turkish consulate bombing in Melbourne | ||
1987 | June[41] | United States | Italy | Rome | (See: Japanese Red Army) | ||
United Kingdom | |||||||
Kuwait | Iran | Tehran | In response to the 1987 Mecca Massacre | ||||
Saudi Arabia | |||||||
1988 | Soviet Union | Due to alleged Soviet support for Iraq during the Iran–Iraq war | |||||
1989 | Afghanistan | Kabul | |||||
September 17 | China | Colombia | Bogota | Suspected FARC attack | |||
1990 | Iran | Tehran | Failed 1990 Chinese Embassy attack in Tehran | ||||
South Africa | United Kingdom | London | During the Poll Tax Riots | ||||
1991 | Iraq | Finland | Helsinki | Iraqi Kurdish refugee protest on Kurdish massacre in Northern Iraq | |||
1992 | Israel | Argentina | Buenos Aires | 29 | 1992 attack on Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires | ||
April 5 | Iran | Canada | Ottawa | (See: Embassy of Iran, Ottawa)[42][43] | |||
April 6 | Australia | Canberra | 0 | 1 | |||
April | Germany | Bonn, Hamburg | 0 | 4 | |||
April | Czechoslovakia | Prague | |||||
April | Netherlands | The Hague | |||||
April | Ireland | Dublin | 0 | 1 | |||
April | Poland | Warsaw | 0 | 3 | |||
April | United Kingdom | London | |||||
April | United States | New York | |||||
1993 | July 27 | China | Peru | Lima | Shining Path attack | ||
1994 | 26 July | Israel | United Kingdom | London | 0 | 1994 London Israeli Embassy bombing | |
1995 | China | Nicaragua | Managua | 0 | |||
17 June | France | Australia | Perth | 0 | 1995 French consulate bombing in Perth | ||
November 19 | Egypt | Pakistan | Islamabad | 19 | Attack on the Egyptian Embassy in Pakistan | ||
6 September | Pakistan | Afghanistan | Kabul | 1 | 1995 attack on the Embassy of Pakistan in Kabul | ||
September 13 | United States | Russia | Moscow | Suspected Chechen attack | |||
1996 | December 17 – April 22 (1997) | Japan | Peru | Lima | 3 | Japanese embassy hostage crisis | |
1998 | Russia | Latvia | Riga | 0 | 1998 Riga bombing | ||
Iran | Afghanistan | Mazari Sharif | 11 | 1998 killing of Iranian diplomats in Afghanistan | |||
June 21 | United States | Lebanon | Beirut | Hezbollah attack | |||
August 7 | Kenya | Nairobi | 212 | 1998 United States embassy bombings | |||
Tanzania | Dar es Salaam | 11 | |||||
1999 | May 7 | China | Serbia and Montenegro | Belgrade | 3 | United States bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade | |
May 15 | United States | China | Beijing | 0 | In response to the U.S. bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade | ||
Serbia and Montenegro | |||||||
Myanmar | Thailand | Bangkok | 0 | 1999 attack on the Myanmar Embassy in Bangkok | |||
2000 | August 1 | Philippines | Indonesia | Jakarta | 2 | 21 | Philippine consulate bombing in Jakarta |
2002 | January 22 | China | India | New Delhi | 5 | ||
April 12 | Sweden | Vietnam | Hanoi | 0 | |||
June 14 | China | Pakistan | Karachi | 12 | |||
October 12 | Philippines | Indonesia | Manado | [44] | |||
China | Denpasar | ||||||
2003 | February 25 | Colombia | Venezuela | Caracas | 0 | 0 | [45] |
Spain | 0 | 0 | [45] | ||||
February 28 | Czech Republic | Pakistan | Islamabad | 2 | 0 | Suspected Al-Qaeda attack | |
Jordan | Iraq | Baghdad | 17 | 2003 Jordanian embassy bombing in Baghdad | |||
Pakistan | Afghanistan | Kabul | 0 | 0 | 2003 attack on Pakistan Embassy in Kabul | ||
Turkey | Iraq | Baghdad | 1 | Turkish embassy bombing in Baghdad[46] | |||
United Kingdom | Turkey | Istanbul | 71 | 2003 Istanbul bombings | |||
2004 | Chile | Costa Rica | San José | 4 | Costa Rican police officer assigned to the Embassy took 9 employees hostages, killing 3 Chilean diplomats and himself after a 7 hour standoff [47] | ||
Israel | Uzbekistan | Tashkent | 2 | Tashkent embassy bombings | |||
United States | 2 | ||||||
Australia | Indonesia | Jakarta | 9 | 2004 Australian Embassy bombing in Jakarta | |||
Greece | Saudi Arabia | Riyadh | |||||
2006 | February 7 | Denmark | Tehran | Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy | |||
March 2 | China | Pakistan | Karachi | 4 | Suspected Al-Qaeda attack | ||
September 12 | Syria | Damascus | 4 | ||||
Denmark | Lebanon | Beirut | Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy | ||||
Syria | Damascus | ||||||
Italy | Libya | Benghazi | |||||
Pakistan | Sri Lanka | Colombo | Attack on Pakistani ambassador to Sri Lanka | ||||
2007 | United States | Greece | Athens | 0 | (see: Embassy of the United States, Athens) | ||
Spain | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Kinshasa | |||||
Russia | Costa Rica | San José | Hostage situation. | ||||
China | India | New Delhi | |||||
2008 | United States | Serbia | Belgrade | 1[48][49] | 2008 Serbia protests | ||
China | |||||||
Croatia | |||||||
Slovenia | |||||||
March 10 | China | Canada | Toronto | 2008 Tibetan unrest | |||
March 11 | United States | Washington D.C. | |||||
March 14 | Canada | Calgary | |||||
March 15 | Australia | Sydney | 1 | ||||
March 16 | France | Paris | |||||
March 20 | Austria | Vienna | |||||
Hungary | Budapest | ||||||
Netherlands | The Hague | ||||||
Switzerland | Zurich | ||||||
Japan | Mauritania | Nouakchott | |||||
Denmark | Pakistan | Islamabad | 2008 Danish embassy bombing in Islamabad | ||||
India | Afghanistan | Kabul | 2008 Indian embassy bombing in Kabul | ||||
October | Turkey | Finland | Helsinki | part of Kurdish–Turkish conflict | |||
China | Turkey | Istanbul | 6 | ||||
Romania | Bucharest | 19 | 2008 attack on the Chinese Embassy in Romania | ||||
Ethiopia | Somalia | Hargeisa | 30 | 2008 Hargeisa–Bosaso bombings | |||
Greece | Germany | Berlin | |||||
2009 | France | Mauritania | Nouakchott | 3 | 2009 Nouakchott suicide bombing | ||
Denmark | Sweden | Stockholm | Deportation of Iraqi refugees | ||||
February 4 | Holy See | Venezuela | Caracas | [50] | |||
February 18 | Pakistan | Iran | Tehran | 2009 attack on Pakistan Embassy in Tehran | |||
Slovakia | Hungary | Budapest | 2009 attack on Slovak Embassy in Budapest | ||||
July 5 | China | United States | Los Angeles | July 2009 Ürümqi riots[51] | |||
July 6 | Germany | Munich | |||||
Netherlands | Amsterdam | ||||||
July 7 | Norway | Oslo | |||||
July 13 | Turkey | Ankara | |||||
August 25 | Greece | Serbia | Belgrade | Molotov cocktails attack by anarchists in support of Greek riots.[52] | |||
October 8 | India | Afghanistan | Kabul | 17 | 2009 Kabul Indian embassy attack | ||
2010 | Bulgaria | Greece | Athens | by Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei | |||
Japan | |||||||
Chile | |||||||
Nigeria | |||||||
South Korea | |||||||
Mexico | |||||||
Russia | |||||||
Hungary | |||||||
Morocco | |||||||
Hungary | Italy | Rome | The Informal Anarchist Federation claimed credit for these mail bombs.[53] | ||||
Chile | |||||||
Greece | Alleged explosive device defused by Italian police | ||||||
France | Mali | Bamako | [54] | ||||
11 May | Pakistan | Iran | Tehran | 2010 attack on Pakistan ambassador to Iran | |||
April 5 | United States | Pakistan | Peshawar | 6 | 5 April 2010 North-West Frontier Province attacks | ||
26 February | India | Afghanistan | Kabul | 18 (9 Indians) | February 2010 Kabul attack | ||
2011 | 26 May | Serbia | Russia | Moscow | Attacked by National Bolshevik Party activists as a response to arrest of Ratko Mladić. | ||
France | Syria | Damascus | part of the Syrian civil war[55] | ||||
United States | |||||||
9–10 September | Israel | Egypt | Cairo | 2011 attack on Israeli Embassy in Egypt | |||
United States | Afghanistan | Kabul | 2011 Kabul Attacks[56] | ||||
Bosnia and Herzegovina | Sarajevo | [57] | |||||
France | Syria | Damascus | part of the Syrian civil war[58] | ||||
Turkey | |||||||
Saudi Arabia | |||||||
29 November | United Kingdom | Iran | Tehran | 2011 attack on the British Embassy in Iran | |||
2012 | January 8 | Japan | South Korea | Seoul | A Chinese man hurled four petrol bombs at the Japanese mission in protest of Japan's war crimes during the World War II.[59] | ||
Belarus | Kyrgyzstan | Bishkek | [60] | ||||
China | Libya | Tripoli | [61] | ||||
United States | Egypt | Cairo | 2012 attack on the American Embassy in Egypt[62] | ||||
July 9 | Japan | South Korea | Seoul | [63] | |||
September 11 | United States | Libya | Benghazi | 4 | 4 (possibly as many as 30) | U.S. Consulate attack in Benghazi. Official and unofficial accounts vary on the number of Americans injured, from 4 to as many as 30.[64][65][66][67] | |
Yemen | Sana'a | 2012 attack on the American Embassy in Yemen[68] | |||||
Tunisia | Tunis | ||||||
Germany | Sudan | Khartoum | 2012 attack on the German Embassy in Sudan | ||||
Japan | China | Shenyang | 0 | 2012 attack on the Japanese Consulate in Shenyang | |||
2013 | February 1 | China | Turkey | Ankara | 2 | ||
April 23 | France | Libya | Tripoli | 0 | AQIM car-bombing attack[69] | ||
July 25 | United Arab Emirates | 0 | Rocket-propelled grenade attack.[70] | ||||
June 29 | Pakistan | 2013 attack on Pakistan Embassy in Tripoli | |||||
August 3 | India | Afghanistan | Jalalabad | 9 | 21 | [71] | |
August 7 | Pakistan | India | New Delhi | 2013 attack on Pakistan Embassy in New Delhi | |||
September 13 | United States | Afghanistan | Herat | 2 | 20 | 2013 attack on U.S. consulate in Herat | |
October 3 | Russia | Libya | Tripoli | 1 | [72] | ||
November 5 | Sweden | Syria | Damascus | ||||
November 8 | Serbia | Croatia | Rijeka | [73] | |||
November 11 | Russia | Poland | Warsaw | [74] | |||
November 19 | Iran | Lebanon | Beirut | 20+ | 50+ | Iranian embassy bombings | |
December 19 | Pakistan | Bangladesh | Dhaka | 2013 siege of the Pakistani embassy in Dhaka | |||
2014 | 22 May | India | Afghanistan | Herat | 2014 attack on Indian consulate in Herat, Afghanistan[75] | ||
June 14 | Russia | Ukraine | Kyiv | 0 | 0 | Attack following[76] the downing of a plane with 49 Ukrainian troops near Luhansk carried out by pro-Russian militants using weapon probably from Russia.[77][78] | |
November 13 | Egypt | Libya | Tripoli | 0 | 0 | ||
United Arab Emirates | 0 | 0 | |||||
2015 | January 17 | Algeria | 0 | 3 | |||
February 22 | Iran | 0 | 0 | ||||
April 12 | South Korea | 2 | 1 | ||||
April 13 | Morocco | 0 | 0 | ||||
April 21 | Spain | 0 | 0 | ||||
June 12 | Tunisia | 0 | 0 | ||||
June 24 | United Arab Emirates | Somalia | Mogadishu | 3 | 7 | ||
July 8 | Thailand | Turkey | Istanbul | 6th anniversary of the Ürümqi riots | |||
July 9 | China | Ankara | |||||
July 11 | Italy | Egypt | Cairo | 1 | 4 | Suspected ISIS attack | |
July 24 | China | Australia | Sydney | 0 | 1 | 7th anniversary of the 2008 Tibetan unrest | |
July 26 | Somalia | Mogadishu | 12 | 0 | Suspected Al-Shabaab attack | ||
July 29 | Niger | Egypt | Cairo | 1 | 2 | Suspected Al Qaeda attack | |
August 10 | Portugal | Turkey | Istanbul | 0 | 1 | Suspected DHKP-C attack | |
September 20 | Russia | Syria | Damascus | 0 | 0 | ||
November 25 | Turkey | Russia | Moscow | 0 | 0 | Attack following the downing a bomber aircraft by Turkey near the border between Syria and Turkey[79] | |
December 11 | Spain | Afghanistan | Kabul | 2 | 9 | Taliban attack | |
2016 | January 3 | Saudi Arabia | Iran | Tehran and Mashhad | 2016 attack on the Saudi diplomatic missions in Iran | ||
May 11 | Australia | Iraq | Baghdad | 1 | Security contractor shot dead. investigation underway. | ||
August 30 | China | Kyrgyzstan | Bishkek | 1 | 3 | [80] | |
November 10 | Germany | Afghanistan | Mazar-i-Sharif | 6 | 120 | German consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif attack: Taliban truck bombing | |
2017 | March 29 | Poland | Ukraine | Lutsk | 0 | 0 | Polish consulate in Lutsk was attacked with grenade launcher[81][82] |
2018 | March 11 | Iran | Austria | Vienna | 1 (perpetrator) | 1 | Soldier posted outside Iranian Embassy in Vienna was attacked by a knife-wielding Egyptian national with Islamist sympathies. Attacker was shot and killed.[83] |
September 7 | Iraq | Basra | Protesters torched the Iranian consulate.[84] | ||||
November 23 | China | Pakistan | Karachi | 4 | 1 | Karachi Chinese consulate attack by the Balochistan Liberation Army | |
2019 | February 22 | North Korea | Spain | Madrid | North Korean Embassy in Madrid incident: 10 men forcibly entered the North Korean embassy in Madrid and beat and tied up eight diplomats within, before stealing computers and files.[85] | ||
November 3 | Iran | Iraq | Karbala | 3 | 0 | During the 2019 Iraqi protests[86] | |
November 10 | Venezuela | Bolivia | La Paz | During the 2019 Bolivian protests, a group attacked and took control of the Venezuelan embassy building.[87] | |||
November 27 | Iran | Iraq | Najaf | Amid antigovernment protests in Iraq focusing on government dysfunction, corruption, and Iranian influence over the Iraqi government, a crowd of Iraqi demonstrators (almost all Shia Muslim) burned down the Iranian consulate in Najaf in southern Iraq. Najaf police said that 35 protesters and 32 members of Iraqi security forces were injuries. No Iranian personnel were in the consulate during the attack,[88] as consulate staff fled just beforehand.[89] | |||
December 1 | Iraq | Najaf | The Iranian consulate in Najaf was torched by an angry crowd of Iraqis a second time.[89] | ||||
December 31 | China | Iraq | Baghdad | Anti-Chinese and anti-communist protesters torched the Chinese embassy after a rumor that China killed four Kata'ib Hezbollah members who were hiding in Xinjiang. | |||
2020 | February 10 | Iran | Nigeria | Abuja | During a protest against the Shiite Islamic Movement of Nigeria and the anniversary of the Iranian Revolution, angry crowds of Nigerians stormed the embassy.[90] | ||
2021 | July 7 | Taiwan | Haiti | Pétion-Ville | During the Assassination of Jovenel Moïse[91] | ||
2021 | July 27 | Cuba | France | Paris | The embassy was firebombed by molotovs to protest against the Communist Party of Cuba | ||
2022 | September 5 | Russia | Afghanistan | Kabul | 8 | 15 | Bombing of the Russian embassy in Kabul |
October 6 | Germany | Ukraine | Kyiv | A Russian missile struck a building in the German embassy complex. | |||
December 20 | Finland | Russia | Moscow | Attack possibly by the Wagner Group | |||
2023 | January 27 | Azerbaijan | Iran | Tehran | 1 | 2 | Attack on the Azerbaijani Embassy in Tehran |
May 20 | Qatar | Sudan | Khartoum | Battle of Khartoum | |||
July 19 | Sweden | Iraq | Baghdad | Demonstrators stormed and torched the embassy in protest over the burning of the Koran in Stockholm on 28 June | |||
July 30 | France | Niger | Niamey | Pro-coup and pro-Russian protestors surrounded and attempted to set fire to the embassy, prompting partial evacuations of both the French and US embassies.[92] | |||
August 9 | United States | Canada | Toronto | 0 | 0 | A smoke bomb was thrown at the US consulate in Toronto, at 8:15am the suspect remains at large.[93] | |
China | Russia | Saint Petersburg | 0 | 0 | A rocket was fired at the Chinese consulate in Saint Petersburg. There was superficial damage to the building but no one was injured. |
See also
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