Sunday, 3 July 2016

Post date: Jul 03, 2016 5:15:24 PM

I cannot keep up with the news. After an Islamist killed forty‐nine in a targeted attack on gays in Florida on 12 June (*), the Wikipedia article “List of terrorist incidents, January–June 2016” lists over 120 incidents of Islamist and jihadist violence before one needs to then view the “List of terrorist incidents, July–December 2016” article which on only the third day of the month already lists over fifteen.

• Fifty‐two persons are killed by Boko Haram in Cameroon.

• Suicide bombings kill more than sixteen in Sirte, Libya.

• A shooting at a funeral kills at least twenty‐four in Nigeria.

• A minibus bombing in Kabul kills at least fourteen. (*)

• A bombing in a Badakhshan town square kills at least ten.

• Pakistani singer Amjad Sabri was killed by the Taliban.

• A bombing in Castelverde, Libya, kills thirty.

• A car bombing in Mogadishu kills at least fifteen. (*)

• Multiple bombings in Mukalla, Yemen, kill over forty. (*)

• Shooting and a suicide bombing in Atatürk Airport in İstanbul kill forty‐four. (*)

• A car bombing and a rocket attack in Tell Abyad, Syria, kill at least fourteen.

• An Israeli teen is stabbed to death in her bedroom.

• A suicide bombing in Afghanistan kills at least forty. (*)

• A suicide bombing in Cameroon kills at least fifteen.

• A minibus bombing kills at least eighteen in Somalia.

• A restaurant attack in Dhaka kills twenty‐two. (*)

• Car bombings in Baghdad kill over one hundred twenty.