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2016 Nice truck attack
The 2016 Nice truck attack, the Bastille Day attack, was an Islamist vehicle-ramming attack on the Promenade des Anglais on 14 July 2016 by Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel, killing 86 and injuring over 400; eight accomplices were convicted in 2022.
2016 Pathankot attack
Terrorist assault on the Indian Air Force Station at Pathankot, Punjab, on 2 January 2016 by six Jaish-e-Mohammed gunmen; seven Indian defence personnel killed, 25 injured, assets saved.
2016 shooting of Dallas police officers
The 2016 shooting of Dallas police officers, also called the Dallas police ambush or Dallas sniper attack: on July 7, 2016, Army veteran Micah Xavier Johnson killed five officers and wounded others at a Black Lives Matter protest before being killed by a bomb robot, the first such U.S. use.
2016 United States–Iran naval incident
The 2016 United States–Iran naval incident, also called the Farsi Island incident: Iran's IRGC Navy seized two U.S. riverine command boats and detained 10 sailors on January 12, 2016, releasing them after 16 hours following Kerry–Zarif diplomacy; a Navy inquiry blamed navigation error and disciplined nine personnel.
2016 Uri attack
2016 Uri attack: militant assault on the Indian Army's 12 Infantry Brigade base near Uri, Kashmir, 18 September 2016, killing 17-19 soldiers; attributed by the Army to Jaish-e-Mohammed and by the NIA to Lashkar-e-Taiba, prompting India's cross-border surgical strikes.
2017 Barcelona attacks
The 2017 Barcelona attacks, also known as the Las Ramblas van attack, were two connected jihadist attacks in Catalonia, Spain, in August 2017 that killed 16 people.
2017 China–India border standoff
The 2017 China-India border standoff (Doklam/Dong Lang standoff) was a 72-73 day military face-off from 16 June to 28 August 2017 at the Doklam plateau near the China-India-Bhutan tri-junction, triggered by Chinese road building, resolved by agreed disengagement without combat, followed by continued Chinese construction.
2017 Las Vegas shooting
The 2017 Las Vegas shooting: Stephen Paddock, 64, fired from Mandalay Bay's 32nd floor on the Route 91 Harvest Festival on October 1, 2017, killing 60 and wounding hundreds; motive officially undetermined.
2017 Las Vegas shooting conspiracy theories
Conspiracy theories about the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, also called Mandalay Bay conspiracy theories: claims of multiple shooters, false flags, ISIS or antifa links, all rejected by FBI and LVMPD findings that Stephen Paddock acted alone with no clear motive.
2017 London Bridge attack
The 2017 London Bridge attack: three jihadists, Khuram Butt, Rachid Redouane and Youssef Zaghba, killed eight and injured 48 on 3 June 2017 with a rented van and ceramic knives before armed police shot them dead in about eight minutes.
2017 Shayrat missile strike
The 2017 Shayrat missile strike: 59 US Tomahawk cruise missiles fired April 6-7, 2017 from destroyers USS Porter and USS Ross at Shayrat Airfield, Homs, Syria, retaliating for the Khan Sheikhoun sarin attack; first US strike on Assad's forces.
2017 Westminster attack
2017 Westminster attack: on 22 March 2017 Khalid Masood drove a car into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge and stabbed PC Keith Palmer at Parliament, killing five before being shot; first of five UK attacks in 2017.
2018 Amesbury poisonings
2018 Amesbury poisonings: Dawn Sturgess and Charlie Rowley were exposed to Novichok from a discarded perfume bottle on 30 June 2018; Sturgess died 8 July, linked to the Skripal attack.
2018 Bhima Koregaon violence
The 2018 Bhima Koregaon violence: caste clashes on 1 January 2018 at the bicentenary of the 1818 Battle of Koregaon near Pune, followed by UAPA arrests of 16 activists in the Elgar Parishad case.
2018 Southern Syria offensive
The 2018 Southern Syria offensive, also known as Operation Basalt, was a military campaign launched by the Syrian government with Russian support in June 2018 that recaptured Daraa and Quneitra.
2019 Bærum murder and mosque attack
The 2019 Bærum murder and mosque attack: on 10 August 2019 far-right extremist Philip Manshaus killed his stepsister Johanne Zhangjia Ihle-Hansen and attacked the Al-Noor mosque in Bærum, Norway, inspired by Christchurch; sentenced to 21 years, later retried.
2019 Blagoveshchensk college shooting
2019 Blagoveshchensk college shooting: 14 November 2019 attack at the Amur College of Construction and Housing and Communal Services, Russia, in which fourth-year student Daniil Zasorin killed classmate Alexei Golubnichy with a registered IZh-81 shotgun, wounded three, and killed himself.
2019 Chilean protests
The 2019 Chilean protests, known in Chile as the Estallido Social, were mass demonstrations over a subway fare increase that became the largest since the Pinochet dictatorship.
2019 El Paso Walmart shooting
August 3, 2019 racist mass shooting at the Cielo Vista Walmart in El Paso, Texas; Patrick Wood Crusius killed 23 and injured 22 targeting Hispanics, later sentenced to 90 consecutive life terms plus state life without parole.
2019 Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting
Mass shooting on July 28, 2019 at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Christmas Hill Park, Gilroy, California; shooter Santino William Legan, 19, killed three and wounded 13 to 17 before dying by suicide; FBI opened a domestic terrorism probe.
2019 Pulwama attack
2019 Pulwama attack: February 14, 2019 Jaish-e-Muhammad suicide bombing of a CRPF convoy at Lethpora, Pulwama, Jammu and Kashmir, killing 40 personnel; led to India's Balakot airstrike and a 2020 NIA chargesheet.
2019 SEAL Team Six operation in North Korea
Classified early-2019 US mission, approved by Trump, in which SEAL Team 6's Red Squadron tried to plant a listening device to intercept Kim Jong Un's communications; the SEALs killed three civilian fishermen and aborted, and the operation was never officially acknowledged.
2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings
The 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings were coordinated Islamic State-inspired suicide attacks on 21 April 2019 by National Thowheeth Jama'ath and JMI against three churches and three hotels, killing over 260 people despite ignored foreign intelligence warnings, leading to commissions, Supreme Court compensation orders, and later convictions.
2019 Turkish offensive into north-eastern Syria
Operation Peace Spring: Turkey's 9 October 2019 cross-border offensive with the Syrian National Army against the Kurdish-led SDF in north-east Syria, ending in US and Russian-Turkish ceasefires, mass displacement, and disputed legality.
2019 Virginia Beach shooting
The 2019 Virginia Beach shooting was a mass shooting on May 31, 2019, at the Virginia Beach Municipal Center. It killed 12 people and wounded 5 others.
2020 Calabasas helicopter crash
The 2020 Calabasas helicopter crash (Kobe Bryant crash): Sikorsky S-76B N72EX of Island Express Helicopters flew VFR into IMC on January 26, 2020; spatial disorientation led to a rapid descending left turn that killed all nine aboard.
2020 Delhi riots
The 2020 Delhi riots, or 2020 Northeast Delhi riots, were February 2020 communal violence during anti-CAA protests: 53 killed, over 700 injured, Kapil Mishra's speech as trigger, police complicity findings, 758 FIRs, and a UAPA conspiracy case.
2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement
The 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh ceasefire agreement, also called the 9 or 10 November 2020 trilateral statement, ended the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War; signed by Aliyev, Pashinyan, and Putin, it deployed Russian peacekeepers, returned territories to Azerbaijan, and left Nagorno-Karabakh's status unresolved.
2020 Nashville bombing
The 2020 Nashville bombing, also called the Nashville Christmas Day bombing, was a suicide RV bombing by Anthony Quinn Warner outside an AT&T facility on December 25, 2020, causing regional telecom and 911 outages.
2020 Nova Scotia attacks
The 2020 Nova Scotia attacks, also called the Portapique mass casualty, were the April 18–19, 2020 killing spree by Gabriel Wortman that left 22 dead, including RCMP Cst. Heidi Stevenson, and led to the Mass Casualty Commission inquiry.