List of Islamist terrorist attacks
Location Date Description Deaths
Nigeria February 14 Borno Massacre 200+
China July 28 A gang armed with knives and axes attacked a police station and government offices in Elixku Township , and some moved onto Huangdi Township , attacking civilians and smashing vehicles as they passed 37
Syria August 2014 ISIL fighters massacred some 700 people , mostly men , of the Shu'aytat tribe in Deir ez-Zor Governorate 700
Australia September 23 2014 Endeavour Hills stabbings . Numan Haider , an Afghan Australian stabbed two counter terrorism officers in Melbourne , Australia . He was then shot dead 1
Russia October 5 2014 Grozny bombing 6
Canada October 22 2014 shootings at Parliament Hill , Ottawa . Lone attacker shot a soldier at a war memorial and attacked Parliament 1
United States October 23 Zale H. Thomson , also known as Zaim Farouq Abdul-Malik , attacked four New York policemen in the subway with a hatchet , severely injuring one in the back of the head and injuring another policeman in the arm before being shot to death by the remaining officers , who also shot a civilian 0
Nigeria November 28 Kano bombing 120
United Arab Emirates December 1 A burqa-clad woman stabs a 47-year-old American teacher to death in a mall restroom in Abu Dhabi She later plants a bomb outside the home of an Egyptian-American doctor 1
Russia December 4 2014 Grozny clashes 26
Pakistan December 16 2014 Peshawar school massacre 140
Yemen December 16 2014 Rada ' bombings Two suicide car bombers rammed their vehicles into a Shiite rebels ' checkpoint 26
Nigeria December 18 2014 Gumsuri kidnappings . Boko Haram insurgents killed 32 men and kidnapped at least 185 women and children 32
Syria December 18 Mass grave of 230 tribesmen killed by ISIL found in Eastern Syria 230
France December 20 2014 Tours police station stabbing . A man yelling Allahu Akbar attacked a police office with a knife . He was killed and three police officers were injured 1
Nigeria December 22 Boko Haram insurgents bombed a bus station in the city of Gombe 20+
Iraq December 2014 ISIL militants execute 150 women Iraqi province of Al Anbar Governorate , some of whom were pregnant at the time , who refuse to marry their fighters 150
Iraq December 24 A suicide bomber killed 33 people and wounded 55 others in Madaen , about 25 km ( 15 miles ) south of Baghdad 33
Somalia December 25 Al-Shabaab attack in Mogadishu 9
Cameroon December 28 Boko Haram attacks village in Cameroon 30
2010s -- 2014
The following is a list of Islamist terrorist attacks that have received significant press coverage since the Iranian revolution in 1979.