The most notorious terrorist attacks of the 21st century. The largest terrorist attacks in the world in the 20th and 21st centuries

In 2015, more than three thousand people became victims of terrorist attacks around the world. This year, according to our conservative estimates, this figure has already exceeded 1,200 lives. The very word “terrorist attack” has become somehow commonplace and familiar, the reaction to this horror has dulled, become routine and fleeting. Almost every day we receive messages about new terrorist attacks, we worry, are horrified by the number of victims, we sympathize with our families - and then we forget. As two well-known politicians noted after the news of the terrorist attack in Nice, one has to offer condolences almost every week. Vox Populi today recalls the major terrorist attacks of our time, which together claimed the lives of about 5.5 thousand people.

9/11 attack

The largest terrorist attack in the world occurred on September 11, 2001 in the United States. Its victims were 2,993 people, almost nine thousand people were injured.

On the morning of September 11, 19 terrorists hijacked four passenger planes, two of which were flown into the World Trade Center towers located in the southern part of Manhattan in New York. As a result of the attacks, the towers collapsed, causing severe damage to adjacent buildings.

The third plane hijacked by terrorists attacked the Pentagon in Washington.

The fourth airliner did not reach its target - the passengers and crew of the plane tried to take control, and as a result, the plane crashed into a field in Pennsylvania.

The international Islamist organization Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the terrorist attack. Its leader was Osama bin Laden, who ten years after the disaster was killed by the American military.

Mumbai attacks

The series of terrorist attacks that took place in Mumbai from November 26 to 29, 2008 have been called the worst terrorist attacks in Indian history. This disaster claimed about 170 lives and injured more than 600 people.

During these days, ten terrorists, according to various sources, carried out about ten attacks in different places in Mumbai, but the terrorists placed their main emphasis on the most famous and largest hotel in the city - the Taj Mahal. First, two invaders burst into the hotel and open random fire from machine guns in the lobby. At the same time, two terrorists who were previously in the hotel break into the rooms and shoot the guests who do not understand anything, some of them are driven to the first floor. The battle for the hotel and the people in it lasted about 64 hours. The shooting and explosions practically did not subside. As a result of the anti-terrorist operation on November 29, the fourth and last terrorist who seized the Taj Mahal was killed.

The attack is being blamed on Lashkar-Taiba, one of the largest and most active terrorist organizations in South Asia.

The only surviving terrorist who took part in a series of terrorist attacks in Mumbai was sentenced to death by an Indian court in 2010. Two years later, the terrorist asked for pardon, but the sentence was upheld and was soon carried out.

Terrorist attacks in Norway

On July 22, 2011, the calm and serene life of Norway was shocked by two terrorist attacks committed by a terrorist Anders Breivik. The 32-year-old Norwegian confessed to both attacks. The tragedy claimed the lives of 77 people and injured 319.

On July 22, at about four o'clock in the afternoon local time, an explosion occurred in the government quarter of Oslo. A radio-controlled bomb weighing about 500 kilograms was planted in a minivan parked near a government building. The powerful explosion killed seven people on the spot, another died in hospital from his injuries, and 209 people were injured.

An hour and a half after the explosion, terrorist Anders Breivik arrived in a passenger car at the ferry crossing near the island of Utøya, where at that time the traditional youth summer camp of the ruling Workers' Party was taking place. Dressed in the uniform of a police officer, Anders presented a fake ID and reported the need for safety training in connection with the terrorist attack in the capital. Gathering several dozen young people around him, he opened targeted fire on them. For an hour and a half, Breivik shot people, killing 67 people.

The trial of the “Norwegian shooter” took place in 2012. The terrorist was found sane, guilty of the death of 77 people and sentenced to 21 years in prison.

Explosions in Madrid

On March 11, 2004, a series of terrorist attacks rocked the Spanish capital. Ten bombs exploded within minutes of each other in the vicinity of Madrid. All explosions went off in four commuter trains. The tragedy claimed the lives of 191 people and injured more than two thousand people.

An organization that is part of al-Qaeda took responsibility for the bloody disaster. During the investigation, it was suggested that the date of the terrorist attacks in Madrid was chosen with symbolic meaning - the explosions occurred 911 days (and exactly 2.5 years) after the terrorist attacks in the United States on September 11, 2001 (9/11).

Explosions of residential buildings in Russia

From September 4-16, 1999, a series of terrorist attacks occurred in Russia, killing 307 people and injuring more than 1,700 people. Residential buildings were blown up in three cities at once - Buinaksk, Moscow and Volgodonsk.

In 2003, the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation named the customers and performers. The explosions were carried out by Karachai and Dagestan Wahhabis ordered by Arab mercenaries Amira Khattab And Abu Umara in order to divert the attention of the Russian authorities from the events in Dagestan, where at that time there were battles between federal troops and invading armed detachments of militants from Chechnya, who led Shamil Basayev and the Arab mercenary Khattab.

"Nord-Ost" - terrorist attack on Dubrovka

From October 23 to October 26, 2002, a group of armed militants led by Movsar Barayev held hostage the audience of the musical “Nord-Ost”. The total number of captured was 916 people. The hostages gathered in the hall were left without food or water for a long time. The invaders demanded the withdrawal of troops from the territory of the Chechen Republic.

On the third day of the capture of the Theater Center, the besiegers began pumping sleeping gas into the building through the ventilation, after which the Ministry of Internal Affairs burst into the theater. As a result of the operation to free the hostages, all the terrorists who were in the building at that time were killed.

According to official data, the terrorist attack claimed the lives of 130 hostages. Moreover, of the dead hostages, 5 people were shot before the assault, the rest died after liberation. Speaking about the gas used, the chief doctor of Moscow Andrey Seltsovsky stated that “in their pure form, no one will die from the use of such special means.” According to the doctor, the impact of the special gas only complicated a number of destructive factors to which the hostages were exposed (stressful situation, physical inactivity, lack of food, etc.)

Terrorist attack in Budennovsk

On June 14, 1995, 195 militants led by Shamil Basayev, attacked the Russian city of Budennovsk (Stavropol Territory). The terrorists took more than 1,600 city residents hostage and drove them to the local hospital. Those who refused to go were shot on the spot. On the way to the hospital, the bandits killed more than 100 people.

The criminals demanded a cessation of hostilities in Chechnya and the withdrawal of federal troops from its territory.

On June 17, early in the morning, Russian special forces attempted to storm the hospital, but it was unsuccessful.

After negotiations between the terrorists and the Russian government on June 19, 1995, most of the hostages were released, and the terrorist group was provided with transport to move to Chechnya. The terrorists took with them 123 hostages from among those who agreed to accompany them. Upon arrival in Chechnya, the people were released, and the bandits fled.

As a result of the terrorist attack, 129 people were killed and 415 people were injured by gunshots.

Tragedy in Beslan

The tragedy that occurred on September 1, 2004 in Beslan is unlikely to ever be erased from our memory.

On the morning of September 1, during a ceremonial ceremony dedicated to the beginning of the new school year, terrorists took hostages. For almost three days, in the mined building of School No. 1, terrorists held 1,128 hostages - mostly children, their parents and school staff - in difficult conditions. The hostages were denied even the minimum natural needs.

As a result of the terrorist attack, 333 people died, including 186 children, and over 800 were injured. To assess the scale of the terrorist attack, it is enough to say that during the four years of the Great Patriotic War, Beslan lost 357 men on various fronts.

Almost simultaneously, an explosion occurred near the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, visitors to several restaurants were shot, and the massacre at the Bataclan concert hall was tripled. The death toll is more than 130 people, about two hundred more were injured.

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attacks, calling them "French 9/11."

Unfortunately, we could go on and on about the terrorist attacks that claimed lives. People who came to watch the fireworks from the beautiful and serene promenade in Nice. Or people lying helplessly on a Tunisian beach...

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A terrorist act is a shame for all humanity. History remembers many brutal murders and bloody wars, but no war can compare with the cruelty and mercilessness of the organizers and perpetrators of these incidents.

Apart from the generally accepted statistics of deaths and injuries, no one undertakes to assess the social and psychological impact on people who witnessed terrible events. People who have experienced post-traumatic shock experience nightmares throughout their lives with memories of the events they experienced.

The attacks were carried out by fanatics of all stripes: religious radicals, nationalists and crazy revolutionaries. Each villain had their own wild explanations. But all the victims had one thing in common - defenselessness.

The sad statistics of victims of terrorist attacks in the world is growing every year. Data on the number of victims of acts of intimidation from 1994 to 2015.

About the largest terrorist attacks in modern history.

On June 23, 1985, terrorists blew up an Air India Boeing 747 over the Atlantic. The terrorist attack killed 329 people and was considered the largest before September 11, 2001.

On October 23, 1983, in Beirut, Hezbollah militants blew up two trucks with explosives near the barracks of US Marines and French paratroopers. 299 people died.

On June 23, 1985, Sikh extremists detonated a bomb on board an Air India Boeing 747 en route from Montreal to London. 329 people died.

On December 21, 1988, a Pan American Boeing 747 flying from London to New York crashed over Lockerbie, Scotland. The disaster occurred as a result of an explosion of a Libyan intelligence officer on board. 270 people died.

On December 27, 1988, at the airports of Rome and Vienna, terrorists of the Palestinian organization Abu Nidal shot with machine guns passengers standing at the ticket counters of Israeli airlines. 16 people were killed and more than 120 were injured.

On September 19, 1989, a bomb exploded on board a DC-10 of the French airline UTA, flying from the Congo to Paris. 171 passengers died.

On March 12, 1993, a series of terrorist attacks were carried out in Bombay (now Mumbai). The explosions were organized by a criminal group headed by Davud Ibrahim. Terrorists detonated 13 cars filled with explosives near the stock exchange, immigration department, post office and several hotels. The explosions killed 257 people.

On March 20, 1995, members of the Aum Shinrikyo sect sprayed sarin gas at 16 Tokyo subway stations. More than 3 thousand people were injured, 12 died.

On April 19, 1995, in Oklahoma (USA), far-right terrorist Timothy McVeigh detonated a bomb in the Alfred Murray Federal Building. 168 people died.

On June 14, 1995, in Budennovsk, a detachment of militants led by Shamil Basayev captured a hospital where about two thousand people were staying. The hostages were kept for six days without food or water. As a result of the terrorist attack, 143 hostages were killed and about 400 were injured.

On August 7, 1998, a truck loaded with explosives was detonated near the US Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. 213 people died. More than five thousand people were injured. The radical organization “Islamic Army for the Liberation of Islamic Shrines” took responsibility for the attack.

On September 4, 1999, in the city of Buynaksk (Dagestan), a 5-story residential building was blown up, in which the families of officers of the 136th brigade of the Ministry of Defense lived. Two entrances collapsed completely. 64 people died, including 23 children. 146 people were seriously injured. According to the investigation, this terrorist attack was organized and financed by the leaders of the illegal armed group Islamic Institute "Caucasus" Emir al-Khattab and Abu Umar.

On the night of September 8-9, 1999, a residential building on 19 Guryanova Street in Moscow was blown up. As a result of the terrorist attack, more than 90 people were killed and about 200 were injured.

On September 13, 1999, a residential building on Kashirskoe Highway was blown up in Moscow. It was completely destroyed. More than 120 people died.

On September 16, 1999, a residential building was blown up in the city of Volgodonsk, Rostov Region. 18 people died, including two children, and 310 people were injured.

On September 11, 2001, three planes flown by al-Qaeda terrorists crashed into the skyscrapers of the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon building. Another crashed in Pennsylvania. Al-Qaeda, led by Osama Bin Laden, claimed responsibility for the attack. According to his own statement, the attacks were carried out "because we are a free people who do not accept injustice, and we want to return freedom to our nation." The victims of the terrorist attacks were 2,977 people: 246 passengers and crew members of aircraft, 2,606 people in New York, another 125 in the Pentagon building. More than 1,600 bodies were identified, but about 1,100 people could not be identified.

On the night of October 13, 2002 on the island of Bali (Indonesia) near a disco in the city of Kuta, as a result of a series of explosions carried out by suicide bombers, about 190 people were killed and more than 300 were injured. At the same time, explosive devices were detonated near the US consulates in Bali and the Philippine Consulate General in Manado, the capital of North Sulawesi province.

On October 23, 2002, a group of militants led by Chechen separatist Movsar Barayev took over 900 hostages in the building of the Moscow Theater Center on Dubrovka during the musical “Nord-Ost”. During the storming of the building, three days later, gas was released into the hall where the terrorists and hostages were located. According to official data, 130 people were killed and more than 700 people were injured.

On November 20, 2003, five explosions occurred in Istanbul, including at the British Consulate General and at a branch of one of the British banks. As a result of the attack, 28 people were killed and 450 people were injured. Al-Qaeda and the Turkish radical Islamist group “Front of the Islamic Mujahideen of the East” took responsibility for the incident.

On February 6, 2004, on the stretch between the Avtozavodskaya and Paveletskaya stations on a Moscow metro train, a suicide bomber detonated a bomb. As a result of the terrorist attack, 41 people were killed and about 250 were injured.

As a result of a series of explosions on March 11, 2004, several explosions occurred at the Atoche train station in Madrid. 191 people were killed and 1,800 were injured. Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the attack. The terrorist attack was the deadliest in Europe since the end of World War II.

On September 1, 2004, terrorists seized school No. 1 in Beslan. Two days later, as a result of the storming of the building, 334 people (186 of whom were children) were killed and more than 800 were injured.

On July 7, 2005, explosive devices went off on three London Underground trains. Another bomb exploded on the bus. 56 people were killed and more than 700 were injured. The terrorist attack was the largest in London since World War II.

From November 26 to 29, 2008, a series of terrorist attacks known as the “Attack on Mumbai” occurred. Islamic terrorists from the Deccan Mujahideen organization attacked in several places at once. One group opened fire with machine guns in the Victoria Station building, two others took hostages at the Taj Mahal and Oberoi hotels, and the fourth attacked a police station. A total of seven attacks were recorded (including on a hospital and a Jewish center). As a result of the terrorist attack, about 170 people were killed and more than 300 were injured.

On September 23, 2013, as a result of a militant attack on visitors to the Westgate shopping center in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, 67 people were killed and more than 200 were injured. A group of armed men - believed to be about ten people - seized the fashionable Westgate shopping center. The terrorist group Al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the incident.

On April 2, 2015, at least 147 people became victims of an attack by militants of the radical Islamist group Al-Shabaab on a university in the Kenyan city of Garissa, and about 80 more were injured. The terrorists killed mostly Christians. Law enforcement agencies in Kenya reported that four attackers were killed and another was detained.

On the night of November 13-14, 2015, Paris was subjected to several terrorist attacks. The terrorist attacks in the capital of France literally stunned the whole world with their inhumanity. According to preliminary data, seven members of a terrorist gang carried out a series of explosions and shootings that killed at least 153 people and injured about 200.

On the morning of March 22, 2016, two explosions occurred at Brussels airport, and a little later an explosion occurred at the Malbec metro station near the quarter with EU institutions. According to the latest data, explosions at the airport and metro killed 34 people and injured almost 200 of varying degrees of severity.

The sad statistics of victims of terrorist attacks in the world is growing every year.

About the largest terrorist attacks in modern history.

On June 23, 1985, terrorists blew up an Air India Boeing 747 over the Atlantic. The terrorist attack killed 329 people and was considered the largest before September 11, 2001.

On October 23, 1983, in Beirut, Hezbollah militants blew up two trucks with explosives near the barracks of US Marines and French paratroopers. 299 people died.

On June 23, 1985, Sikh extremists detonated a bomb on board an Air India Boeing 747 en route from Montreal to London. 329 people died.

On September 19, 1989, a bomb exploded on board a DC-10 of the French airline UTA, flying from the Congo to Paris. 171 people died.

On March 20, 1995, members of the Aum Shinrikyo sect sprayed sarin gas at 16 Tokyo subway stations. More than 3 thousand people were injured. 12 died.

On April 19, 1995, in Oklahoma (USA), far-right terrorist Timothy McVeigh detonated a bomb in the Alfred Murray Federal Building. 168 people died.

On September 13, 1999, a residential building on Kashirskoe Highway was blown up in Moscow. It was completely destroyed. More than 120 people died.

On September 16, 1999, a residential building was blown up in the city of Volgodonsk, Rostov Region. 18 people died, including two children, and 310 people were injured.

On the night of October 13, 2002, on the island of Bali (Indonesia), as a result of a series of suicide bombings near a discotheque in the city of Kuta, about 190 people were killed and more than 300 were injured. At the same time, explosive devices were detonated near the US consulates in Bali and the Philippine Consulate General in Manado, the capital of North Sulawesi province.

As a result of a series of explosions, on March 11, 2004, several explosions occurred at the Atoche train station in Madrid. 191 people were killed and 1,800 were injured. Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the attack. The terrorist attack was the deadliest in Europe since the end of World War II.

On September 22, 2013, as a result of a militant attack on visitors to the Westgate shopping center in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi, 67 people were killed and more than 200 were injured. A group of armed men - believed to be about ten people - seized the fashionable Westgate shopping center. The terrorist group Al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the incident.

Terrorism is a method used by radical groups, based on intimidation and coercion of authorities to make necessary decisions through hostage-taking in public places. Having become one of the central problems of the 21st century, terrorist activity annually claims the lives of many people on the planet, brings billions of dollars in losses and, despite the measures taken by law enforcement agencies, terrorism statistics are inexorably growing.

The most terrible reflection of this phenomenon is from terrorism. The spread of terrorism in the world implies the recruitment of mercenaries from various countries through social networks, the development of an extensive structure of underground branches in many states.

History of development

Since this phenomenon is usually understood as any acts, including monarchs, all kinds of riots and conspiracies, we can assume that there was terrorism in the ancient world and in the Middle Ages.

Most historians associate its emergence with the activities of the organizations formed in 1820 in Italy - “Commora” and “Brotherhood of the Carbonari”.

The first group was created for the purpose of bribing or intimidating prison guards into releasing them. The second was to protect dispossessed peasants from the lawlessness of landowners. Despite the fact that the tasks of these organizations were strikingly different, they used the same methods to achieve their goals - murder, intimidation, explosions.

This is how terrorism appeared in the world in the 19th century, and soon numerous parties and movements began to use this effective weapon for their own purposes. The further development of terrorism in the world occurred very rapidly. For example, at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, terror was widely used among various movements of Russian revolutionary parties - nationalists, Socialist Revolutionaries, Bolsheviks.

In the United States, for a long time (from 1865 to 1993), the far-right terrorist organization Ku Klux Klan operated against the African-American population of the country.

Over time, terrorism has undergone a transformation. In the modern world, in addition to such types as nationalist, religious, ideological and political terrorism, informational terrorism has also appeared in the world. It manifests itself in cyber attacks on information resources (websites) with their hacking, dissemination of misleading information through the media and promoting the formation of the desired views.

Recruitment is also taking place with the help of new militants, and videos of brutal executions of prisoners and ordinary residents are being disseminated. Information terrorism in the modern world, due to the large volume of Internet traffic and the enormous influence of the media on people’s opinions, becomes, along with traditional types, a serious threat.

The combat power and equipment of militants with various types of weapons is constantly growing. Therefore, nuclear terrorism in the modern world will soon cease to be a frightening myth. It could become a terrible reality .

Statistics of terrorism in the world

Terrorism in the modern world is technological, cruel and large-scale. In 2016, 1,787 terrorist attacks of various sizes were committed in many countries. Statistics of victims of terrorism in the world recorded 13,759 killed and 16,683 wounded. Most of them died as a result of bomb explosions planted by militants in crowded places.

According to statistics, many victims of terrorism are kidnapped by militants, in particular women in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, for the purpose of selling them on the black market. There were 4034 such cases.

The frightening statistics of terrorism are largely caused by the outbreak of military operations in Syria against ISIS militants. The main causes of terrorism in the world:

struggle for power, deposits of valuable minerals;
religious strife;
conflicts on interethnic grounds.

The bloodiest acts of terrorism in the world were:

explosion in Baghdad– 292 people died, more than 200 were wounded and maimed;
explosions in Istanbul(January 12 and December 10) - the total number of victims was 237 people, of whom 56 were killed, 181 were wounded;
gay club shooting“Pulse” in Orlando - 49 people killed, 53 injured;
shooting and explosions at Istanbul airport– 45 people were killed, 239 people were injured;
terrorist attack in Gaziantep– due to an explosion during a wedding ceremony in a church in a town in southern Turkey, 30 people were killed and over 90 were injured;
terrorist attacks in Brussels– 13 people died, more than 35 were injured.

Various Islamist groups claimed responsibility for the attacks. In addition to these explosions, there were other cases of terrorism in the world, although not distinguished by such a number of victims. The largest victims of terrorism in the world were recorded in the following countries:

Iraq.
Syria.
Afghanistan.
Nigeria.
Yemen.
Libya.
Pakistan.

Recently, this phenomenon has grown from a local criminal activity into a well-organized global network . Vivid examples of international terrorism in the world are the Al-Qaeda organization and the radical Islamist group ISIS (Islamic State) that formed after its collapse. Its ranks include up to 40–50 thousand militants of various nationalities and religions. The capital of the unrecognized militant state is the city of Raqqa.

Terrorism in different countries of the world

The main regions susceptible to terrorist attacks were:

Near East.
Russia.
Western Europe.

Statistics on terrorism over 10 years in these territories total more than 6 thousand major terrorist attacks. The number of victims is more than 15 thousand. The hottest spots subject to militant attacks are Syria, Libya, and Iraq. Today, the joint anti-terrorist operation of the troops of Syria and its allies against IS militants has been concentrated here.

The situation in Israel has improved somewhat. Even against the backdrop of the Arab-Israeli confrontation, terrorism statistics in Israel show a decrease in indicators compared to previous years.

After the largest terrorist attack in terms of destruction and number of victims in human history (the explosion of the Twin Towers in New York), terrorism in the United States remains one of the threats. Statistics over the past 10 years include 38 large-scale manifestations of terror, in which more than 600 people died. The table shows statistics of terrorist attacks in the 21st century by country:

A country	date	Place	Number of victims, people
USA	11.09.2001	New York, Twin Towers	2977
Russia	01.09.2004	Beslan, school №1	333
India	26–29.11.2008	Mumbai	195
Spain	11.03.2004	Madrid commuter train	191
Russia	23.10.2002	Moscow, Dubrovka Theater	130

The statistics of terrorism financing are quite high - the annual budget of the most influential terrorist organization, IS, according to experts, is about 3-5 billion dollars.

The amount of terrorist financing in the world is gradually increasing over the years. . This is facilitated by the seizure and resale by militants of various valuables and gas fields, human trafficking, as well as the flow of funds from states supporting the activities of IS.

Terrorism statistics in Russia

For Russia, this type of criminal activity poses a serious threat to national security . Terrorism statistics have totaled more than 600 cases since 1994. The most notorious terrorist attacks on the territory of the Russian Federation:

school siege in Beslan;
hostage taking at the Dubrovka theater in Moscow;
explosions of residential buildings in the cities of Buinaksk, Volgodonsk, Moscow;
explosions in the Moscow metro;
explosion of a train station in Volgograd.

Official statistics on terrorism in Russia have decreased over the past year due to the actions of law enforcement agencies. Only 25 acts of violence and intimidation were recorded against the country's citizens, which corresponds to the average for the period 2009–2015. During this time, according to Rosstat, 171 terrorist acts were registered. Statistics of terrorism victims during this period include about 400 people killed and 1,300 wounded.

The seriousness of the threat of terrorism in Russia is made clear by pdf statistics posted annually on the website of the FSB and Rosstat. The percentage of terrorist attacks prevented has also increased in recent years. in the fight against terrorism over 5 years there are more than 300 prevented cases.

Terrorism statistics in the CIS countries

In addition to Russia, this type of criminal activity has managed to manifest itself in countries such as Belarus and Kazakhstan.

Terrorism statistics in Kazakhstan

Recently, this deadly phenomenon has intensified in a previously calm and prosperous country. Terrorism statistics over the past 5 years include over 50 people killed and about 50 wounded. The largest terrorist attack was in Aktobe. 25 people died here and about 20 were injured.

Explosions in the Belarusian metro

Until recently, statistics on terrorism in this country were the lowest in the entire post-Soviet space. This trend was disrupted by an explosion in the Minsk subway. The terrorist attack on the Minsk metro on April 11, 2011, killed 15 people and injured 203 more. Officers detained two suspects, who subsequently confessed. Both were sentenced and shot.

The growth of terrorism in the world forces the authorities of many countries to develop a set of measures aimed at combating this negative phenomenon. The most effective methods of combating terrorism in the world:

control and suppression of the activities of prohibited organizations extremist orientation;
announcement of rewards for information about the location of persons suspects in this species;
development and execution of joint military operations to eliminate terrorists in various countries;
media control, information resources on the global network for their involvement in militant organizations;
outreach to the public countries in order to inform about methods for recognizing potential terrorists and behavior when detecting suspicious objects.

These methods make it possible not only to combat the consequences of terrorist attacks, but also to prevent them. Their implementation of methods is carried out by such organizations in the fight against terrorism in the world as Interpol, the UN, NATO, and the EU.

An important fact is the strengthening of counteraction to terrorism in the world by vigilant citizens, thanks to whom many explosions and other illegal actions were prevented.

Also not least important in anti-terrorism measures are such legal means of combating it as licensing the activities of parties, movements and religious communities, banning sects and organizations that incite ethnic hatred, restricting or banning the issuance of firearms permits.

Conclusion

Terrorism statistics in 2017 have already been replenished with new cases. Despite all the measures taken, the problem remains relevant. There is no answer yet to the question of how to save the world from terrorism.

The development of this phenomenon is facilitated by numerous socio-economic aspects, as well as human nature, which contains the desire to own a large amount of material values, power and territories, and hatred of those who differ in skin color and religion.

The mortality rate and number of injuries caused by terrorism throughout its existence can be compared to a dangerous disease. Until a “cure” for this disease is found, the statistics of international terrorism will be replenished with new acts of violence, hostage-taking, and bomb explosions, claiming more and more human lives.

Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the world's largest terrorist attack. Nineteen terrorists, having hijacked four passenger airliners, carried out a suicide attack unprecedented in its scale of cruelty. As a result of plane crashes, the destruction of the World Trade Center towers and damage to the Pentagon, 2,974 people died.

2. Terrorist attacks in Bali (10/12/2002, Indonesia).

The worst terrorist attack in Indonesian history killed 202 people, 164 of whom were foreigners. The radical organization Jemaah Islamiyah was found responsible for the three explosions. Three organizers were sentenced to death.

3. Terrorist attack on Dubrovka (Nord-Ost) (10/23/2002 - 10/26/2002, Russia).

A group of armed terrorists held 916 people for several days in the building of the Moscow Bearing House of Culture. As a result of the operation of the security forces, all militants were eliminated. According to official statistics, 130 hostages died. Shamil Basayev took responsibility for the terrorist attack.

4. Terrorist attacks in Istanbul (11/15/2003 and 11/20/2003, Türkiye).

As a result of the first terrorist attack, suicide car bombs killed 25 people and injured more than 300. Five days later, a series of explosions killed another 28 people and injured 450. Al-Qaeda, as well as the Islamist group of radicals “Front of Islamic Conquerors of the Great East,” claimed responsibility for the attacks.

5. Explosions in the Moscow metro (02/06/2004 and 03/29/2010, Russia).

In 2004, a suicide bomber killed 41 people and injured 250. In 2010, two explosions also killed 41 people and injured 88 people. Doku Umarov took responsibility for the latest terrorist attack.

6. Terrorist attacks in Madrid (03/11/2004, Spain).

Took place 3 days before the parliamentary elections. As a result of four explosions in electric train cars, 191 people were killed and 2,050 passengers were injured. It is noteworthy that the explosions took place exactly 911 days after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 in the United States.

7. A series of explosions in Iraq (06/24/2004, Iraq).

A series of explosions and attacks on police stations affected five cities in the country. More than 70 people were killed and dozens were seriously injured.

8. Terrorist attack in Beslan (09/01/2004 -- 09/03/2004, Russia)

One of the most brutal in history. For more than two days, the terrorists held about 1,100 people hostage, mostly children. As a result of the terrorist attack, 334 people died, of which 186 were children. The only surviving terrorist was sentenced to life imprisonment.

9. Explosions in London (07/07/2005 and 07/21/2005, Great Britain).

The first four explosions in the London Underground killed 52 people and injured about 700 more. The second series of terrorist attacks, fortunately, resulted in no casualties. All surviving terrorists were brought to justice.

10. Explosions in Qahtaniya (08/14/2007, Iraq).

The city of Qakhtanya, inhabited by Yazidi Kurds, a religious minority, was targeted by terrorists who blew up four fuel tankers loaded with explosives. At least 500 people were injured in the explosions.