January 2, 2005 - Erez Industrial Zone, Israel: Hamas claimed responsibility for a mortar shell attack at the Erez Industrial Zone that killed one Israeli man.

January 7 - Fatah's Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for a drive-by shooting on the Trans-Samaria Highway that killed one off-duty Israeli soldier.

January 13: Hamas and Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for a bomb and shooting attack at the Karni Crossing that killed six Israeli civilians.

January 15: An Israeli teenager was killed by a Qassam rocket in Sderot, Israel.

January 20: A suicide bombing attack against an Uzbek warlord in northern Afghanistan wounded 23 people.

January 27: A grenade attack in Laskarpur, Bangladesh, killed a former Finance Minister and four other members of the Bangladeshi opposition party, the Awami League Party.

January 28: A suicide bombing in Chechnya killed nine pro-Moscow police.

February 9: BBC journalist Kate Peyton was shot to death in Somalia. In Madrid, an ETA car bomb injured 43 people.

February 13: In Bangladesh, suspected Islamic radicals attacked an office of the NGO Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee in Joypurhat district, killing two people.

February 14: Former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafil Hariri and 16 others were assassinated in a car bomb explosion in Beirut. In the Philippines, Abu Sayyaf claimed responsibility for bombs set off in three cities that killed eight people and injured 130 others.

February 17: In Thailand, suspected Muslim separatists set off a car bomb outside a hotel in southern Thailand killing seven people and wounding 40 others. In an apparent attack on an African Union delegation in Somalia, a bomb exploded in Mogadishu killing two people and wounding six others.

February 20: Shining Path terrorists in Peru ambushed and killed three Peruvian policemen in a remote jungle area.

February 25: An Islamic Jihad suicide bomber detonated himself outside a beachfront nightclub in Tel Aviv, Israel, killing five Israelis and wounding 50 others.

March 19: A suicide bombing at a theater in Doha, Qatar killed a British citizen and wounded 15 others. A previously unknown Islamic group calling itself Jund al-Sham - "Army of the Levant" claimed responsibility.

In the southwestern Pakistani province of Baluchistan, a bomb exploded at a religious shrine, killing at least 32 Shi`a Muslim worshippers.

March 20: Suspected Muslim separatists set off two bombs in southern Thailand wounding at least 11 people.

March 23: A bomb exploded in a shopping mall north of Beirut killing three people.

March 27: Suspected Muslim separatists attacked a train in southern Thailand wounding at least a dozen soldiers, police and railway workers.

April 3: Suspected Islamic separatists set off three simultaneous bombs in southern Thailand - at an airport, department store, and hotel - killing two people and injuring 54 others, including an American and a Frenchwoman.

In Algeria, the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) detonated a bomb in the Boumerdes province killing three farmers.

April 7: In Egypt, a suicide bomber killed two French tourists and an American in a Cairo bazaar.

In Algeria, suspected Armed Islamic Group (GIA) terrorists killed 14 civilians at a fake roadblock near Larba, south of Algiers.

April 22: Suspected Islamist militants in Algeria set off a bomb in the Tebessa province, killing two civilians.

April 23: Islamist militants shot dead the mayor of Eraguen, a small town in eastern Algeria.

In Ain Defla province west of Algiers, a band of GSPC militants shot dead two family members.

April 23: Islamist militants shot dead the mayor of a small town in eastern Algeria.

April 30: In Cairo, a suicide bomber attacked tourists near the Egyptian Museum and injured seven people. A few hours later, two women opened fire on a tour bus in Cairo.

In the western Turkish resort town of Kusadasi, Kurdish separatists from the Kurdistan Liberation Hawks (TAK) set off a bomb that killed a police officer and wounded four others.

May 6: In Lebanon, a bomb in the Christian port town of Jounieh killed one person.

May 7: An explosion at an Internet café in Kabul, Afghanistan killed three people, including a United Nations worker.

May 11: The Kashmiri militant group Al-Nasirin claimed responsibility for a car bomb in Srinagar, India, that killed two people and injured thirty-four.

May 12: A grenade exploded near a school in Srinagar killing two women. .

May 16: Suspected Islamic militants killed five police officers and their cook on eastern Indonesia's Seram Island in Maluku province.

May 18: Suspected Taliban militants ambushed and killed five Afghans working for the Washington-based Chemonics International Inc., on a U.S.- funded antidrug agricultural project.

May 19: On a highway toward Kabul, Afghanistan, suspected Taliban militants ambushed and killed six Afghans, including two employees of Chemonics International Inc., two relatives of an Afghan killed the previous day, and two drivers.

May 22: Bomb blasts at two cinemas in New Delhi killed one person and injured over sixty others.

May 25: In Colombia's Caqueta province, FARC rebels sprayed a local government meeting with gunfire, killing six town officials and four police officers. In Spain, a Basque/ETA car bomb in Madrid injured eighteen people.

May 27: A suicide bombing at a Muslim shrine in Islamabad killed at least nineteen people.

May 28: On the central Indonesian island of Sulawesi, two bombs exploded in a crowded market in Christian-dominated Tentena killing twenty-two people and wounding forty .

May 29: In Kandahar, Afghanistan, suspected Taliban militants shot to death pro-government cleric Mawlavi Abdullah Fayaz.

May 30: A suicide bomb blast at a Shi'i mosque in Karachi, Pakistan killed a policeman and two worshipers, and wounded eighteen others. In retaliation, a Shi'i Muslim mob set fire to the American fast food restaurant KFC, burning six employees to death.

June 1: A suicide bomb attack in a Kandahar mosque killed at least twenty-one people and wounded more than fifty.

June 2: Near Kandahar, Afghanistan, suspected Taliban militants attacked an oil tanker transporting fuel for U.S. forces and killed the truck driver and another man. In Lebanon, prominent anti-Syrian journalist Samir Qasir was killed by a car bomb in Beirut.

June 3: In Srinagar, India, suspected Islamic militants gunned down a local Kashmiri politician from the majority National Conference party. In Afghanistan's Zabul province, suspected Taliban militants killed a government driver.

June 4: In Algeria, suspected Islamic militants shot dead a deputy mayor near Bouira.

June 6: In Nepal, suspected Maoist rebels bombed a crowded bus in Chitwan district, killing at least thirty-eight people and injuring seventy-two.

June 7: A Palestinian mortar attack on a Jewish settlement in Gaza killed a Palestinian and a Chinese laborer.

A bomb explosion in Algeria's M'Sila region killed thirteen local government guards.

June 12: In Algeria, a bomb attack near Ain Delfa killed a local government guard.

June 13: In Iran, four bomb blasts at Iranian government buildings in Ahvaz, near the Iraqi border, killed eight people and injured 86. Several hours later, two bombs exploded in central Teheran killing one person and wounding four.

In Algeria, west of Algiers, Islamic militants ambushed a police patrol and killed three Algerian policemen.

In Srinagar, India, a bomb exploded near a school and a post office in Pulwama, killing at least fourteen people and wounding more than 100 others.

June 14: In Afghanistan's Khost Province, suspected Taliban militants attacked a medical clinic and killed a doctor and six of his assistants. In Kandahar Province, suspected Taliban militants killed a tribal elder.

June 17: In Algeria, a local guard was killed in a bomb explosion near Djelfa, southeast of Algiers.

June 18: In Algeria, suspected Islamic militants killed two Algerian policemen in a bomb attack near Djelfa.

June 20: Palestinian terrorists opened fire on a car carrying Israelis in the West Bank and shot dead an Israeli man.

June 21: In Beirut, Lebanon, former leader of the Lebanese Communist Party George Hawi was assassinated by a car bomb.

In Kandahar, Afghanistan, suspected Taliban militants fired on a car carrying an employee of the UN-backed Afghan electoral commission, killing one Afghan man.

June 23: In Karachi, Pakistan, gunmen shot to death a prominent Sunni Muslim cleric and his friend.

In the West Bank, Palestinian gunmen shot dead a Palestinian policeman in Jenin.

June 24: In the West Bank, two teenage Israeli boys were shot to death by Palestinian terrorists as they stood on the side of a road near Hebron.

June 29: The Shariat Group in Dagestan claimed responsibility for killing a Russian journalist in the North Caucasus.

July 2: In Turkey's eastern Bingol province, suspected Kurdish terrorists set off bombs under two trains killing six railway guards and injuring twelve passengers and crew members.

July 3: In Kandahar, Afghanistan, suspected Taliban militants shot dead pro-government cleric Maulvi Mohammad Musbah.

July 6: In eastern Algeria, suspected Islamic militants stopped cars at a bogus checkpoint and killed four people, three soldiers in civilian clothes and their civilian driver.

July 7: Four near-simultaneous bombs exploded on trains and buses in London killing fifty-two people and the four bombers, and wounding over 700.

Al-Qa'ida in Iraq claimed responsibility for killing the Egyptian ambassador to Iraq, Ihab al-Sherif.

July 10: Somali peace activist Abdulkadir Yahya Ali was killed at his home in Mogadishu.

Suspected Taliban militants ambushed a convoy in Afghanistan's Helmand province, killed ten police officers and beheaded six of them.

The Kurdistan Liberation Hawks (TAK) claimed responsibility for a bomb attack at a Turkish resort in the Aegean that injured twenty-one people, including three foreign tourists.

July 12: In Israel, an Islamic Jihad suicide bomber killed four Israeli women and an Israeli soldier at a mall in Netanya.

Near Beirut, a car bomb exploded killing two people and injuring the target, outgoing Defense Minister Elias Murr, and twelve others.

July 14: Palestinian terrorists from the northern Gaza Strip launched Qassam rockets into Israel killing an Israeli woman.

July 16: On Turkey's Aegean coast, a bomb destroyed a minibus carrying tourists killing five people and wounding sixteen.

July 19: West of Algiers, in Ein al-Defli, gunmen killed three Republican Guards and two municipal men in an ambush. A bomb targeting a police car in Znamenskoye, Chechnya, killed at least ten people.

July 23: A series of synchronized bomb explosions in Sharm el-Sheikh Egypt killed at least ninety people and wounded 240 others. The foreign tourists killed included one American woman.

July 24: Palestinian terrorists shot to death an Israeli couple driving near the Gaza border. In Dagestan, a bomb exploded beneath a train killing one person and injuring four others.

July 28: A bomb exploded on an Indian train traveling to New Delhi killing at least twelve people and wounding dozens of others. In the Kashmiri district of Rajouri, terrorists axed to death a woman and slit the throats of five Hindu men, and in Jammu's Udhampur district, terrorists killed two women and a child.

July 29: East of Algiers, suspected Islamic radicals killed two policemen.

Muslim Separatist Violence in Thailand

In recent months, Muslim separatists in southern Thailand have stepped up violent attacks against Buddhist civilians, police and other civil servants, government buildings and pro-government Muslims in the predominantly Buddhist country. The violence has taken the form of brutal beheadings, bombings, and shooting deaths. Muslims comprise about 10 percent of Thailand's overall population of 63 million and are concentrated in three southern provinces that were annexed by Bangkok in 1902. The provinces border Malaysia and many of Thailand's Muslims speak Malay and share other cultural traits with Malaysian Muslims.

Observers of Thailand differ in their assessments of whether the current escalation in violence represents a shift in tactics on the part of an indigenous Muslim separatist movement or whether regional and international Islamic extremist groups such as Jemaah Islamiyah and Al-Qa`ida have become active and/or are exerting influence in the area.

May 30: In Pattani province, a Buddhist teacher was shot dead by suspected Muslim separatists.

June 2: In Narathiwat province, a defense volunteer and local government official were shot dead.

June 3: In Pattani province, suspected Muslim separatists shot dead a school headmaster.

June 6: A Buddhist plantation worker was found beheaded in a fruit orchard in Yala province.

June 14: In two incidents in Pattani, gunmen shot to death a pro-government local Muslim headman and his driver, and a former Muslim deputy village headman. In Narathiwat province, gunmen shot to death a Muslim rubber plantation worker.

June 15: In Pattani province, suspected Islamic militants beheaded a retired Buddhist schoolteacher.

June 18: In Pattani province, suspected Islamic militants beheaded two Laotian migrant workers.

June 21: A village official in Yala province was shot dead by masked gunmen and suspected Islamic militants shot dead a defense volunteer in neighboring Pattani province.

June 22: Suspected Islamic militants beheaded a Buddhist clothing vendor outside a roadside teashop in Narathiwat province.

June 24: In Yala province, a Buddhist couple had their throats slashed and two gunmen killed a school principal in Narathiwat province.

June 26: In Yala province, a rubber plantation worker was shot dead.

June 29: In Narathiwat province, suspected Islamic militants shot and beheaded a Buddhist construction worker.

July 5: In Pattani province, suspected Islamic militants beheaded a policeman.

July 6: In Narathiwat province, suspected Islamic militants shot to death a Buddhist newspaper delivery man.

July 26: In Pattani province, the Buddhist son of a police officer was beheaded, and in Narathiwat province, a former school director was shot to death.