List of attacks on diplomatic missions

The following is a list of attacks on diplomatic buildings (embassies, consulates) anywhere in the world. The list does not include attacks on individuals outside or inside an embassy, such as assassinations of ambassadors, or incidents such as letter bombs to individuals.

List

Year	Date	Diplomatic mission	Location country	Location city	Deaths	Injuries	Details
1829	February 11	Russia	Persia	Tehran	4+		Death of Aleksander Griboyedov
1900	June 20 – August 14	Legation Quarter (multinational)  UK  France  Germany  Japan  Russia  Italy  Spain  Austria-Hungary  Belgium  Netherlands  United States	China	Beijing	68		Siege of the International Legations during the Boxer Rebellion
1918	August 31	UK	Russia	Moscow	4+		Bolshevik raid on British embassy for sake of "Lockhart Plot" prevention leaves Francis Cromie and more dead.[1]
1924	July 18	United States	Persia	Tehran	1	0	Muslim clerics and soldiers of the Iranian military beat Robert Whitney Imbrie, United States consul in Tehran after it was incorrectly believed that he poisoned a well.[2]
1926	May 16		Argentina	Buenos Aires	0	0[3]	Bombing following the trial and executions of Sacco and Vanzetti.[4]
	June 4		Uruguay	Montevideo	0	0
1927	March 24	UK	China	Nanking			Nanking Incident
		Japan
		United States
	April 6	Soviet Union	China	Peking			On April 6, with support from other foreign diplomatic missions, Zhang Zuolin ordered policemen and gendarmeries stormed and invaded the Soviet embassy in Peking to arrest Li Dazhao and his family, as Li was accused of overthrowing government backed by Soviet Union. Li Dazhao was sentenced to death later, and his family members were released shortly after Li was executed.[5][6]
1937		UK	Spain	Valencia			Aerial bombings by Nationalist forces during the Spanish Civil War damaged the British Embassy and destroyed the Paraguayan consulate.[7]
		Paraguay
1941		United Kingdom	Spain	Madrid			On June 24, in the days following Nazi Germany's declaration of war on the Soviet Union, members of the Falange stormed the British Embassy with a truck-load of stones at their disposal. Embassy staff as well as 16 escaped POWs prevented an attempted break in by the Falangists. The Spanish dictator Francisco Franco dismissed the incident as a "trivial matter concerning young hotheads" in response to a protest by the British ambassador Sir Samuel Hoare.[8][9][10][11]
1946			Italy	Rome			Irgun campaign; British Embassy bombing
1947	September 27	Sweden	Mandate for Palestine	Jerusalem	0	0	A bomb exploded at the gate of the Swedish consulate in Jerusalem. The explosion caused some minor damage to the building. No people were injured. The police suspected that the bomb was placed by a Jewish or Arab individual who was angered by the proposal for the partition of Palestine developed under the chairmanship of the Swede Emil Sandström by the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine.[12]
1951	February 19	Soviet Union	Albania	Tirana	0		Bombing led to the Massacre of 1951 in Albania
1952	January 26	Sweden	Egypt	Cairo	0	0	In what became known as the Cairo fire on January 26, 1952, the two-story Swedish consulate general in Cairo was completely destroyed after being stormed, looted, and set on fire by rebellious crowds. Consul General Erik Ekberg and an Egyptian office assistant were in the building, but no one was harmed.[13]
	November 8 and December 5	Czechoslovakia	Israel	Tel Aviv	0		Perpetrated by the Tzrifin Underground in response to the persecution of Jews in Czechoslovakia.[14]
1953	February 9	Soviet Union	Israel	Tel Aviv	0	3	Perpetrated by the Tzrifin Underground in response to the Doctors' plot and other incidents of persecution in the Eastern Bloc.[15]
1955	February 14–16	Romania	Switzerland	Bern	0		1955 seizure of the Romanian embassy in Bern
1957	May 24	United States	Republic of China	Taipei	3	38	May 24 incident
1958	July 27	Republic of China	Turkey	Ankara	0	0	Bombs exploded at the Chinese Embassy compound and a Chinese school. The bombings caused minor damage to both places.[16]
1961	October 1	Peru	Venezuela	Caracas			Eight Venezuelans, five of whom escaped from a military hospital at gunpoint accompanied by three armed accomplices who joined them outside, sought asylum in the embassy, being forced out of the colonial building by the local police and army, ending in a shootout that continued inside the embassy. Amid the confusion, press attaché Guillermo O'Haggen was dragged out to the embassy's garden by various officers through a broken window, while Panamanian citizen Raúl Rodríguez was detained when leaving the embassy. Peruvian ambassador Pedro Ugarteche y Tizón protested the events the following day.[17]
1962	January 22	United States	Venezuela	Caracas	0	0	Several bombs were detonated in Caracas, including one in the United States embassy.[18]
	November 28	Yugoslavia	West Germany	Bonn	1	1	Attack by Croatian Crusader Brotherhood.[19]
1963	September 16	United Kingdom	Indonesia	Jakarta	0	0	Mob attack burnt the embassy and smashed all its windows.[20]
1964	March 5 and 8	United States	Gabon	Libreville	0	0	1964 United States Embassy in Libreville bombings
	March 18	Morocco	Soviet Union	Moscow	0	0	1964 Moscow protest
	June 30	Philippines	South Vietnam	Saigon			Bombing[21]
1965	March 30	United States			22	188	30 March 1965 Saigon Embassy bombing
1966	August 30	Yugoslavia	West Germany	Stuttgart	1	0	Attack by Croatian Revolutionary Brotherhood.[19][22]
	September 22	Cuba	Canada	Ottawa	0	0	(See: Embassy of Cuba, Ottawa)
	September 24	Portugal	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Kinshasa	0	3	Rioters sack the embassy and assault three staff members in a 20-minute rampage.[23]
	December 20	United States	Yugoslavia	Zagreb			[24]
1967	January 1	Yugoslavia	Australia	Sydney			[25]
	January 28–30	Yugoslavia	United States	San Francisco	0	0	Synchronized bombing.[26][25] Explosion went off at 12:55 AM in walkway between the consulate and home of Richard Stockton Rush Jr. (father of Richard Stockton Rush III), blowing holes in the walls of both the consulate where caretaker Mihailo Simić and his wife were sleeping and the very room in which 6-year-old Catherine Rush was sleeping.[24]
	January 28–30	Yugoslavia	United States	New York	0	0	Synchronized bombing.[26] The bomb was pushed under a locked iron grillwork fence to explode in a stairway.[24][25]
	January 28–30	Yugoslavia	United States	Chicago	0	0	Synchronized bombing.[26][25] Perpetrated by Miomir Radovanović and Dragiša Kašiković. Left a crater in the backyard.[24] In response, the FBI had Serbian flyers condemning the bombings distributed in Chicago.[27]
	January 28–30	Yugoslavia	United States	Washington, D.C.	0	0	Synchronized bombing.[24][28][26] Shattered 30 windows, blew a hole in the wall, left a three-foot crater in the ground.[25]
	January 28–30	Yugoslavia	Canada	Toronto	0	0	Synchronized bombing.[28] The front door of the consulate was nearly blown off.[24][25]
	January 28–30	Yugoslavia	Canada	Ottawa	0	0	Synchronized bombing.[28][25]
		Soviet Union	China	Beijing			See: Chinese Cultural Revolution[29]
	August	United Kingdom
	June		Libya	Benghazi			American and British embassies were attacked and burned by rioters after false rumors spread in the city that the United States had bombed Cairo. This incident occurred at the start of the Six-Day War.[30]
		United States
	September 19	Republic of China	South Vietnam	Saigon	0	12	Bombing[31]
	October	China	Indonesia	Jakarta	0	0	Aftermath of the Indonesian mass killings of 1965–1966. Diplomatic relations with People's Republic of China severed.[32]
	November 29	Yugoslavia	Australia	Melbourne	0	1	Bombing.[19]
1968	January 31	United States	South Vietnam	Saigon	5		Tet offensive attack on US Embassy
	February 21	Soviet Union	United States	Washington D.C.	0	0	[33]
	October	Singapore	Indonesia	Jakarta			Ransacked in reaction to Singapore's execution of two Indonesia marines responsible for the MacDonald House bombing.[34]
		Philippines	Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur			Due to the North Borneo dispute[35]
1969		Soviet Union	China	Beijing			Due to the Sino-Soviet border conflict
	June	Yugoslavia	Australia	Sydney			Bombing.[36]
	November			Canberra			Gelignite bombing.[36]
1970	October 21			Melbourne			Bombing.[19][36]
1971		United States	Khmer Republic	Phnom Penh			[37]
	February 10	Yugoslavia	Sweden	Gothenburg	0	0	Two Croatian emigres seized the Yugoslav consulate in demanding the release of prisoners held in Yugoslav jails, only to surrender to authorities after their demands were refused.
	April 7	Yugoslavia	Sweden	Stockholm	1	0	The 1971 Yugoslav Embassy shooting. Ambassador Vladimir Rolović was killed in the attack by Croatian National Resistance.
1972	February 2	UK	Ireland	Dublin	0	20	(See: Bloody Sunday (1972) and Burning of British Embassy, Dublin)[38]
	February 17	Yugoslavia	Australia	Perth			Armed assault.[19][39]
	April 4	Cuba	Canada	Montreal	1	7	Bombing of Cuban trade offices in Montreal.
	December 28	Czechoslovakia	Thailand	Bangkok	0
		China	Philippines	Manila	0	1	Attacked by suspected British soldiers.
1973	March 1	Saudi Arabia	Sudan	Khartoum	3		Attack on the Saudi Embassy in Khartoum
	December 14	Algeria	France	Marseille	4	23	Algerian consulate bombing in Marseille
1974	February 7	Japan	Kuwait	Kuwait City	0		1974 attack on the Japanese Embassy in Kuwait
	August 19	United States	Cyprus	Nicosia	2	0	TMT attack
	September 13	France	Netherlands	The Hague	0		1974 French Embassy attack in The Hague
1975	April 24	West Germany	Sweden	Stockholm	4		West German Embassy siege
	April 29	Israel	South Africa	Johannesburg	4	82	1975 Fox Street siege: David Protter, a South African Jew, seized about 20–30 hostages at the Israeli Consulate General where he worked as a security officer. The consulate was on the 5th-floor of an office building in downtown Johannesburg. After killing two consulate employees Protter – armed with two Uzi submachine guns, eleven pistols, a .22 pellet gun and about 2 000 rounds of ammunition – opened fire on pedestrians and motorists in Fox and Von Brandis Streets, killing 2 and wounding 82. He surrendered to police early the next morning (30 April), 19 hours after taking over the consulate.
		Egypt	Spain	Madrid			Ambassador Mahmoud Abdul Ghaffer, as well as the consul and the press attaché of the embassy of Egypt in Madrid were held at gunpoint by unaffiliated Palestinian militants at the embassy. The group left via a plane headed to Algiers, alongside the ambassadors of Algeria (Jaled Jelladi) and Iraq (Hassan Al-Naklb), who requested to accompany Ghaffer. All hostages and perpetrators were released at Algiers–Dar El Beïda International Airport.[40]
	August 4	United States	Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur			1975 AIA building hostage crisis
	September 27	Spain	Portugal	Lisbon			Attacked by far left activists in response to the execution of far left activists by the Spanish state.
	December 4–19	Indonesia	Netherlands	Amsterdam	1		1975 Indonesian consulate hostage crisis
1976	17 February	China	Venezuela	Caracas	0	0
	April 22	Cuba	Portugal	Lisbon	2		Attack by far right terrorists.
1977	April 16	West Germany	Israel	Tel Aviv	0	0	Two Israelis occupied part of the West German Embassy in Tel Aviv to protest the slowness of a trial of former Nazis in Dusseldorf.
	August 18	Sweden	Tunisia	Tunis	0	0	The Swedish embassy in Tunis was set on fire by a Tunisian man who had previously lived in Sweden and wanted to return there. When he was not allowed to do so, he decided to retaliate by setting the embassy on fire. A few days earlier, the man had vandalized a business and was then admitted to a mental hospital. He escaped from there. The man had a knife during the attack on the embassy. When the police apprehended him, he attempted to take his own life.[41]
	November 18	Egypt	Greece	Athens	1		A group of Arab students stormed the Egyptian embassy in Athens to protest Egyptian president Anwar Sadat's historic trip to Jerusalem. Embassy guards opened fire on the protesters.[42][43]
	November 18		Lebanon	Beirut	1	8	A rocket fired at the Egyptian Embassy killed one security guard and wounded two other guards and six soldiers from Saudi Arabia. This incident was in response to Egyptian president Anwar Sadat's historic trip to Jerusalem.[42][43]
1978	July 31	Iraq	France	Paris	2	4	Two gunmen attacked the Iraqi Embassy in Paris, but one of them fled during the attack. The lone gunman was persuaded to release his eight hostages and surrender after eight hours. As he was being led away, Iraqi guards opened fire, wounding the gunman and killing one policeman. Police returned fire, killing one of the Iraqis and wounding three others.[44]
	December 11	West Germany	Israel	Tel Aviv	0	0	Three Israeli gunmen seized the West German Embassy and Culture Centre in Tel Aviv. They demanded the abolition of the West German statute of limitations whereby those accused of war crimes could not be tried after 1978.
1979	February 14	United States	Iran	Tehran	0	1	Kenneth Kraus was the first of the Iran hostages[45]
	May 4	Costa Rica	El Salvador	San Salvador	0	0	Four armed members of the Popular Revolutionary Bloc (BPR) seized the Costa Rican embassy, taking five persons hostage. The hostages escaped on May 9, but the group continued to hold the embassy until they were granted safe passage to Costa Rica.[44]
	May 4	France			0	1	Sixteen armed members of the Popular Revolutionary Bloc (BPR) seized the French embassy, taking six persons hostage. Granted political asylum in Mexico, the militants released the hostages on June 1.[44]
	May 11	Venezuela	El Salvador	San Salvador	0	0	Nine armed members of the Popular Revolutionary Bloc (BPR) seized the Venezuelan embassy, taking eight persons hostage. On May 20, the ambassador and four staff members escaped. The group continued to hold the embassy until June 1, when they were granted safe passage to Mexico.[44]
	May 15	South Africa	El Salvador	San Salvador	2	0	Eight members of the Farabundo Marti Popular Liberation Forces attempted to seize the South African embassy. The attackers were repulsed after a gun battle with police which left two policemen dead. All of the attackers escaped.[44]
	May 18	Cuba	United States	Washington D.C.			Bomb detonated by Omega 7[46]
	June 26	Mexico	Guatemala	Guatemala City	0	0	Guatemalan workers seized the Mexican embassy, taking the ambassador and 15-20 others hostage.[44]
	July 14	Egypt	Turkey	Ankara	3		Four terrorists from the group Eagles of the Palestinian Revolution seized the Egyptian embassy in Ankara and held a number of diplomats, including the ambassador, hostage for two days.[47][48]
	October 30	United States	El Salvador	San Salvador	0	2	Approximately 300 armed leftists attempted to storm the American embassy. U.S Marine guards and local police forces drove back the attackers.[44]
	October 31	Guatemala	El Salvador	San Salvador	0	Unknown	A group of unknown attackers attempted to seize the Guatemalan embassy, but were driven back by security forces after a ten-minute battle.[44]
	November 4	United States	Iran	Tehran	9		Iran Hostage Crisis
	November 21	United States	Pakistan	Islamabad	6	70+	1979 U.S. embassy burning in Islamabad
	December 2	United States	Libya	Tripoli	0	0	1979 United States embassy burning in Libya
1980	January 11	Panama	El Salvador	San Salvador	0	0	Approximately 50 leftist militants of the 28 February Popular League seized the Panamanian embassy, taking seven hostages, including the Panamanian and Costa Rican ambassadors.[44]
	January 31	Spain	Guatemala	Guatemala City	36	2	Burning of the Spanish Embassy in Guatemala
	February 4	Spain	El Salvador	San Salvador	0	0	About 30 members of the 28 February Popular League seized the Spanish embassy, taking eleven hostages, including the Spanish ambassador.[44]
	February 13	Panama	El Salvador	San Salvador	0	0	A group of leftist militants seized the Panamanian embassy for the second time in a month, taking three hostages, including the Panamanian ambassador.[44]
	February 27 – April 27	Dominican Republic	Colombia	Bogotá	1		1980 Dominican Republic Embassy siege in Bogotá
	February 28	El Salvador	Panama	Panama City	0	0	A group of 17 Panamanian student militants briefly took over the Salvadoran embassy to demand the release of imprisoned comrades.[44]
	April 1	Peru	Cuba	Havana	1	2	Peruvian Havana Embassy Crisis of 1980
	April 30 – May 5	Iran	United Kingdom	London	7		Iranian Embassy siege
	May 20	Nicaragua	Peru	Lima	0	1	A security guard was attacked and his submachine gun stolen, the first attack of its type in the country.[49]
1981	March 26	United States	El Salvador	San Salvador	0	0	Gunmen attacked the United States embassy with rocket-propelled grenades and submachine guns, extensively damaging the building.
	July 10	China	Peru	Lima	0	0	A bomb exploded at the Chinese embassy's garden as part of a series of attacks that also targeted a local headquarters of the Acción Popular political party and the Caja Municipal de Crédito bank at the corner of Piérola and Grau avenues.[49]
	August 31	United States			2[50]		A bomb exploded in front of the U.S. embassy at Wilson Avenue and at the residence's main yard in Arequipa Avenue, located a few blocks away, as part of a series of attacks that also targeted factories of American companies, as well as a branch of the Bank of America.[49][51] The Argentine embassy was also attacked.[52]
		Argentina
	September 4	Yugoslavia			0	0	An attempt was made to bomb the embassy.[52]
	September 24–25	Turkey	France	Paris	1		Turkish consulate attack in Paris
	December 15	Iraq	Lebanon	Beirut	61	100+	Iraqi embassy bombing in Beirut
1982	May 24	France		Beirut	14	22	Car bombing of the French embassy in Beirut. The Front for the Liberation of Lebanon from Foreigners claimed responsibility.[53]
	July 24	United States	Peru	Lima			The embassy was attacked with dynamite as part of a series of attacks that included company headquarters.[49][52][51]
	July 26	United Kingdom					The residence of the British ambassador was attacked with dynamite alongside the offices of newspaper La Prensa and Bayer, a mall, Hans Christian Andersen school and the Coliseo Amauta, which was then hosting Miss Universe 1982.[49]
	September 6	Poland	Switzerland	Bern			1982 seizure of the Polish embassy in Bern
	October 28	India	Peru	Lima	1		Four armed men shot and killed a guard at the embassy.[51]
	October 29	United States			0	0	Reports of the midday attack vary between a gunfight between six gunmen (four men in a small car and two on motorcycles) and six members of the Civil Guard, and one attacker without the exchange of gunfire. Ambassador Frank Ortiz was not at the residence at the time.[51]
	December 8	South Africa	Lesotho	Maseru	3	Unknown	ANC guerillas attack the South African embassy.
	December 23	Israel	Australia	Sydney			Sydney Israeli Consulate and Hakoah Club bombings
		Soviet Union	Afghanistan	Kabul
1983	February 23	Nicaragua	Peru	Lima	1	0	Civil Guard Evert Medrano was shot to death by three suspects while guarding the embassy, who took his submachine gun and escaped in a cream Volkswagen vehicle.[49][52]
	April 18	United States	Lebanon	Beirut	64		1983 United States embassy bombing in Beirut
	July 27	Turkey	Portugal	Lisbon	7		1983 Turkish embassy attack in Lisbon
	August 27	Philippines	United States	Washington, D.C.	0		Three unidentified men hurled home made bombs into the lobby of the embassy.[54]
	November 10	Honduras	Peru	Lima	0	0	The Honduran and U.S. embassies were attacked with dynamite between 8:40 and 9:30 p.m. Honduran ambassador Leiva and his son Yuri were at the chancery's lobby in Dos de Mayo Avenue when the explosives were thrown. Other attacks took place on the same night.[55][52]
		United States
	December 12	France	Kuwait	Kuwait City	0		1983 Kuwait bombings
	December 12	China			6
1984	May 5	United States	Peru	Lima			The residence of the U.S. ambassador was attacked alongside a water treatment plant and a power station.[49][52]
	July 11	Libya	Lebanon	Beirut	0	0	Done in protest of a visit by Libya's foreign minister.[56]
	September 16	West Germany	Peru	Lima	0	0	An assassination attempt was made on the Civil Guard that was guarding the embassy.[49][52]
	September 20	United States	Lebanon	Beirut	24		1984 United States embassy annex bombing in Beirut
	September 28		Peru	Lima			Three MRTA members located at the Parque Neptuno, 120 metres from the embassy, shot at its façade at night with FN FAL rifles in response to comments made by then President Fernando Belaúnde during the United Nations General Assembly. Four arrests were made on the same day, with Belaúnde referring to the events as "criminal and cowardly."[49][52]
	November 26		Colombia	Bogotá	1	7	A bomb exploded on the street adjacent to the embassy, killing one Colombian woman. Drug traffickers were believed to be responsible.[57][58]
	December 26	China	Peru	Lima			Explosives were thrown at the embassy and a restaurant.[52]
1985	January 17	Chile			0	0	An assassination attempt was made on the Civil Guard that was guarding the embassy.[49][52]
	March 12	Turkey	Canada	Ottawa	1		1985 attack on Turkish embassy in Ottawa
	May 15	United States	Peru	Lima	0	0	The terrorist group Shining Path bombed a number of targets in Lima, including the Soviet and Chinese embassies. Two sticks of dynamite were thrown over the wall of the U.S. ambassador's residence, causing no injuries.[58][59][49] Two police stations were also bombed.[52]
		China
		Soviet Union
	May 16	Colombia					A bomb was detonated at the embassy.[52]
	May 20						Molotov cocktails were thrown at the embassy.[52]
	July 14	United States			0	0	The U.S. consulate in Miraflores was shot at with submachine guns.[49]
	November 9					The embassy was shot at from two cars.[52]
	November 13	Colombia			1	0	A Civil Guard that was guarding the embassy (also reported as the consulate) was fatally shot in the head by MRTA members. Afterwards, the offices the Banco de Desarrollo in Juan de Arona avenue and that of Avianca, both in San Isidro were attacked, with graffiti against Belisario Betancur being painted on the latter's walls, all in response to the killing of M-19 guerrilla members in Bogotá.[49][52]
1986	February 2	United States					A number of embassies were attacked with dynamite, as well as a number of government and private offices, including that of Xinhua News Agency.[52]
		Spain
		India
		United Kingdom
		Chile
		West Germany
		Argentina
	April 3	Colombia					The embassy was attacked with dynamite, alongside offices belonging to ICPNA, IBM, APRA and Citibank, two Sears bank agencies, the LaSalle School, and a store.[52]
	April 9-?	Nigeria	Philippines	Makati	0		100 Nigerian students seized and occupied the Nigerian embassy for days to protest alleged neglect of the diplomatic mission over their plight
	April 11	United States	Peru	Lima			Explosive devices were thrown at the U.S. and Venezuelan embassies at 10:45 p.m. as part of a series of nine attacks.[49][52]
		Venezuela
	April 15	France	Libya	Tripoli			During 1986 United States bombing of Libya
	April 21	United States	Peru	Lima			A car bomb placed by MRTA operatives and armed with 40 kg of dynamite destroyed the vehicle and parts of the back wall of the ambassador's residence, exploding five minutes after the end of curfew, in response to U.S. actions in Libya and in Nicaragua.[49][52]
	June 22	Honduras					MRTA bombing carried out in rejection of a "submissive government" and "complicit" with the Reagan administration.[52]
	July 4	China					The two embassies were attacked with dynamite, alongside the Soviet–Peruvian Cultural Centre and a monument to John F. Kennedy.[52]
		Italy
	July 7	Soviet Union			1	0	1986 Soviet embassy attack in Lima
	September 18	Chile			0	0	At 5:45 a.m., three members of the MRTA aboard a red Toyota threw dynamite at the main gate of the embassy, destroying it, with debris impacting the Los Ficus building, located nearby. The date was chosen due to it being the country's national holiday, with the fugitives throwing papers denouncing Augusto Pinochet's "fascist dictatorship."[60] The ambassador's residence was also attacked.[52]
	September 26	Bolivia					The embassy was attacked by the People's Revolutionary Command (Spanish: Comando revolucionario del pueblo).[52]
	October 2	Egypt	Spain	Madrid	0	0	A shooting took place at embassy, then located at 60 Velázquez Street, between security personnel and militants who entered through a window, with no injuries.[61]
	November	China	Indonesia	Jakarta			Japanese Red Army attack
	November	Canada	Indonesia	Jakarta			Japanese Red Army attack
	November	United States	Portugal	Lisbon			Forças Populares 25 de Abril attack
	November 23	Turkey	Australia	Melbourne	1		1986 Turkish consulate bombing in Melbourne
1987	January 26	India	Peru	Lima	3		The embassy in Miraflores was attacked between 2 and 5 p.m. with grenades and submachine guns during an official visit of then president Alan García to the Asian country as part of a series of attacks in different parts of the city. Earlier on the same day, newspapers announced that the government had extended its state of emergency for another 30 days. Civil Guards Segundo Rufasto Alarcón, Luis Salas and alférez Francisco Flores were killed during the attack.[49][52]
	May 4	United States					A shootout took place near the U.S. ambassador's residence, at Petit Thouars Avenue. One of several shootings, some 15 explosions also took place, leaving nine departments in a blackout.[49][52]
	April 30	North Korea			0	2	1987 North Korean embassy attack in Lima
	June[62]	United States	Italy	Rome			(See: Japanese Red Army)
		United Kingdom
		Kuwait	Iran	Tehran			In response to the 1987 Mecca Massacre
		Saudi Arabia
	September 11	South Korea	Peru	Lima	0	0	The embassy was attacked alongside two police stations and two electrical centres.[52]
	October 8	Bolivia					High-potency explosives were used against diplomatic missions of the U.S. and Bolivia, the former being the consulate in Miraflores.[49][52]
		United States
	October 10	Soviet Union			0	0	Two Civil Guards that were guarding the embassy were unsuccessfully targeted by terrorists.[49][52]
	November 18	United States			5		The embassy was attacked alongside a hotel, civil guards posted near the Ministry of Health, and a Nissan manufacturing plant, where one worker and four terrorists were killed.[52]
1988
	June 9				0	0	The residence of then ambassador Alexander Watson was shot at twice with homemade mortars mounted on vehicles by alleged MRTA members, who slightly damaged the building.[49]
	October 2						Two men were arrested while two others ran away.[52][63]
	November 23	South Korea					An unsuccessful attempt was made to attack the embassy.[52]
	December 6	Peru	Bolivia	La Paz	1		Assassination of Juan Carlos Vega Llona[49][52]
		Soviet Union	Iran	Tehran			Due to alleged Soviet support for Iraq during the Iran–Iraq war
1989			Afghanistan	Kabul
	September 17	China	Colombia	Bogotá			Suspected FARC attack
	October 25		Peru	Lima	0	0	A coordinated attack by the Shining Path was carried out with explosives at 8:15 p.m. in Miraflores and San Isidro districts, against the embassies of the PRC and the USSR and a building where U.S. marines resided, causing material damages.[64]
		Soviet Union			0	0
1990		China	Iran	Tehran			Failed 1990 Chinese Embassy attack in Tehran
	February 14	United States	Peru	Lima	0	0	A bomb exploded outside the General Services Officer's warehouse door.[65]
	March 31	South Africa	United Kingdom	London	0	0	During the Poll Tax Riots
	November 4	United States	Peru	Lima	0	0	An RPG-2 was fired towards the empty consulate at night.[66]
1991	January 25					1+	An hour after a car bomb exploded at Lima Airport, an RPG-7 was fired towards the embassy at 1:51 p.m. The six perpetrators travelled aboard a stolen four-door white Nissan pickup truck, firing the projectile and immediately continuing with small arms fire. MRTA literature and materials related to the Gulf War were found inside the vehicle. The attack indicated a departure from previous MRTA attacks, as it was possibly intended to cause harm rather than cause damage.[66]
	December 20	Spain			0	0	The Spanish ambassador's residence was attacked with an explosive that only damaged the building's windows and surroundings, and did not manage to go over its two-metre-tall outer wall when thrown. Meanwhile, another device destroyed two cars parked behind the security fence at the French embassy. A woman who had appeared moments earlier claiming to have been raped nearby was detained.[67]
		France
		Iraq	Finland	Helsinki			Iraqi Kurdish refugee protest on Kurdish massacre in Northern Iraq
1992	February 11	United States	Peru	Lima	2[68]	2	A red car exploded in the posterior wall of the ambassador's residence, similar to the April 1986 attack, leaving a 20 foot-long section of the 10-foot-high wall and dealing considerable damage to the interior. Ambassador Anthony Quainton was not home at the time of the attack, which continued with the bombings of at least five banks and a movie theatre.[69]
	March 17	Israel	Argentina	Buenos Aires	29		1992 attack on Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires
	April 5	Iran	Canada	Ottawa			(See: Embassy of Iran, Ottawa)[70][71]
	April 6		Australia	Canberra	0	1
	April		Germany	Bonn, Hamburg	0	4
	April		Czechoslovakia	Prague
	April		Netherlands	The Hague
	April		Ireland	Dublin	0	1
	April		Poland	Warsaw	0	3
	April		United Kingdom	London
	April		United States	New York
	22 July	Bolivia	Peru	Lima	0	5-16	1992 Bolivian embassy attack in Lima
	August	Peru	Sweden	Stockholm	0	0	1992 Peruvian embassy attack in Stockholm: A series of attacks against diplomatic missions of the country began with rebels painting red pro-Shining Path slogans on the building's façade and making an attempt on the life of the ambassador in Sweden that was thwarted by local police. The embassy in London was next, being shot at and also painted with slogans in early August. Similar attacks were made on a number of European embassies, while the mission in Mexico had dead dogs hung around it.[72]
			United Kingdom	London
			Spain	Madrid
			Belgium	Brussels
			Italy	Rome
			Germany	Berlin
			Switzerland	Bern
			France	Paris
			Denmark	Copenhagen
			Mexico	Mexico City
	December 26	China	Peru	Lima	0	0	Simultaneous attacks: On December 26, the anniversary of Mao Zedong's birth, Shining Path members detonated a number of car bombs next to diplomatic missions in Lima. At 5:45 a.m., the one at the Chinese embassy partially detonated with no casualties or major damage. Around the same time, the Costa Rican embassy and the Austrian consulate in Miraflores followed, causing material damage, followed by another one at the German embassy. On the 28th, at approximately 9:40 a.m., the Japanese embassy and an adjacent house were bombed after being shot at, with the Chinese embassy following suit 20 minutes later with material damage.[73]
		Costa Rica			0	0
		Austria			0	0
		Germany			0	0
	December 28	China			0	0
		Japan			0	8–20
1993	March 8	Nicaragua	Costa Rica	San Jose			Contra rebels seized the embassy along with eight hostages.
	July 27	China	Peru	Lima			Shining Path attack.[68]
		United States			0	2
1994	26 July	Israel	United Kingdom	London	0		1994 London Israeli Embassy bombing
1995		China	Nicaragua	Managua	0
	17 June	France	Australia	Perth	0		1995 French consulate bombing in Perth
	November 19	Egypt	Pakistan	Islamabad	19		Attack on the Egyptian Embassy in Pakistan
	6 September	Pakistan	Afghanistan	Kabul	1		1995 attack on the Embassy of Pakistan in Kabul
	September 13	United States	Russia	Moscow			Suspected Chechen attack
1996	June 22	Honduras	Peru	Lima			Dynamite was thrown at the embassy, damaging its front door, in a series of attacks that also targeted popular restaurant La Rosa Náutica, and a number of APRA offices, alongside other places.[49]
	December 17 – April 22 (1997)	Japan			3		Japanese embassy hostage crisis
1998		Russia	Latvia	Riga	0		1998 Riga bombing
		Iran	Afghanistan	Mazari Sharif	11		1998 killing of Iranian diplomats in Afghanistan
	June 21	United States	Lebanon	Beirut			Hezbollah attack
	August 7		Kenya	Nairobi	212		1998 United States embassy bombings
			Tanzania	Dar es Salaam	11
1999	May 7	China	Serbia and Montenegro	Belgrade	3		United States bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade
	May 15	United States	China	Beijing	0		In response to the U.S. bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade
		Serbia and Montenegro
		Myanmar	Thailand	Bangkok	0		1999 attack on the Myanmar Embassy in Bangkok
2000	August 1	Philippines	Indonesia	Jakarta	2	21	Philippine consulate bombing in Jakarta
2002	January 22	United States	India	Kolkata	5		Attack by gunmen on the American Centre in Kolkata.[74]
	March 20		Peru	Lima	9	32	2002 Lima bombing
	April 12	Cuba	Venezuela	Caracas	0		Part of the 2002 Venezuelan coup d'état attempt
	June 14	United States	Pakistan	Karachi	12		2002 US consulate bombing in Karachi
	October 12	Philippines	Indonesia	Manado			[75]
		United States		Denpasar			A bomb detonated outside the US Consular Office as part of the 2002 Bali bombings
2003	January 29	Thailand	Cambodia	Phnom Penh	0	0	2003 Phnom Penh riots
	February 25	Colombia	Venezuela	Caracas	0	0	[76]
		Spain			0	0	[76]
	February 28	Czech Republic	Pakistan	Islamabad	2	0	Suspected Al-Qaeda attack
	July 9	Pakistan	Afghanistan	Kabul	0	0	2003 attack on Pakistan Embassy in Kabul
	August 7	Jordan	Iraq	Baghdad	17		2003 Jordanian embassy bombing in Baghdad
	October 14	Turkey	Iraq	Baghdad	1		Turkish embassy bombing in Baghdad[broken anchor][77]
November 20	United Kingdom	Turkey	Istanbul	71		2003 Istanbul bombings
2004	July 27	Chile	Costa Rica	San José	4		Costa Rican police officer assigned to the embassy took 9 employees hostages, killing 3 Chilean diplomats and himself after a 7-hour standoff[78]
		Israel	Uzbekistan	Tashkent	2		Tashkent embassy bombings
		United States			2
		Australia	Indonesia	Jakarta	9		2004 Australian Embassy bombing in Jakarta
		Greece	Saudi Arabia	Riyadh
2006	February 7	Denmark	Iran	Tehran			Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy
	March 2	China	Pakistan	Karachi	4		Suspected Al-Qaeda attack
	September 12		Syria	Damascus	4
		Denmark	Lebanon	Beirut			Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy
			Syria	Damascus
		Italy	Libya	Benghazi
		Pakistan	Sri Lanka	Colombo			Attack on Pakistani ambassador to Sri Lanka
2007		United States	Greece	Athens	0		(see: Embassy of the United States, Athens)
		Spain	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Kinshasa
		Russia	Costa Rica	San José			Hostage situation.
		China	India	New Delhi
2008		United States	Serbia	Belgrade	1[79][80]		2008 Serbia protests
		China
		Croatia
		Slovenia
	March 10	China	Canada	Toronto			2008 Tibetan unrest
	March 11		United States	Washington D.C.
	March 14		Canada	Calgary
	March 15		Australia	Sydney		1
	March 16		France	Paris
	March 20		Austria	Vienna
			Hungary	Budapest
			Netherlands	The Hague
			Switzerland	Zürich
		Japan	Mauritania	Nouakchott
		Denmark	Pakistan	Islamabad			2008 Danish embassy bombing in Islamabad
		India	Afghanistan	Kabul			2008 Indian embassy bombing in Kabul
	October	Turkey	Finland	Helsinki			part of Kurdish–Turkish conflict
		China	Turkey	Istanbul	6
			Romania	Bucharest	19		2008 attack on the Chinese Embassy in Romania
		Ethiopia	Somalia	Hargeisa	30		2008 Hargeisa–Bosaso bombings
		Greece	Germany	Berlin			[citation needed]
2009		France	Mauritania	Nouakchott	3		2009 Nouakchott suicide bombing
		Denmark	Sweden	Stockholm			Deportation of Iraqi refugees[citation needed]
	February 4	Holy See	Venezuela	Caracas			[81]
	February 18	Pakistan	Iran	Tehran			2009 attack on Pakistan Embassy in Tehran
		Slovakia	Hungary	Budapest			2009 attack on Slovak Embassy in Budapest
	July 5	China	United States	Los Angeles			July 2009 Ürümqi riots[82]
	July 6		Germany	Munich
			Netherlands	Amsterdam
	July 7		Norway	Oslo
	July 13		Turkey	Ankara
	August 25	Greece	Serbia	Belgrade			Molotov cocktails attack by anarchists in support of Greek riots.[83]
	October 8	India	Afghanistan	Kabul	17		2009 Kabul Indian embassy attack
2010		Bulgaria	Greece	Athens			by Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei
		Japan
		Chile
		Nigeria
		South Korea
		Mexico
		Russia
		Hungary
		Morocco
		Hungary	Italy	Rome			The Informal Anarchist Federation claimed credit for these mail bombs.[84]
		Chile
		Greece					Alleged explosive device defused by Italian police[citation needed]
		France	Mali	Bamako			[85]
	11 May	Pakistan	Iran	Tehran			2010 attack on Pakistan ambassador to Iran
	April 5	United States	Pakistan	Peshawar	6		5 April 2010 North-West Frontier Province attacks
	26 February	India	Afghanistan	Kabul	18 (9 Indians)		February 2010 Kabul attack
2011	26 May	Serbia	Russia	Moscow			Attacked by National Bolshevik Party activists as a response to arrest of Ratko Mladić.
		France	Syria	Damascus			part of the Syrian civil war[86]
		United States
	9–10 September	Israel	Egypt	Cairo			2011 attack on Israeli Embassy in Egypt
		United States	Afghanistan	Kabul			2011 Kabul Attacks[87]
			Bosnia and Herzegovina	Sarajevo			[88]
		France	Syria	Damascus			part of the Syrian civil war[89]
		Turkey
		Saudi Arabia
	29 November	United Kingdom	Iran	Tehran			2011 attack on the British Embassy in Iran
2012	January 8	Japan	South Korea	Seoul			A Chinese man hurled four petrol bombs at the Japanese mission in protest of Japan's war crimes during the World War II.[90]
		Belarus	Kyrgyzstan	Bishkek			[91]
		China	Libya	Tripoli			[92]
		United States	Egypt	Cairo			2012 attack on the American Embassy in Egypt[93]
	July 9	Japan	South Korea	Seoul			[94]
	September 11	United States	Libya	Benghazi	4	4 (possibly as many as 30)	U.S. Consulate attack in Benghazi. Official and unofficial accounts vary on the number of Americans injured, from 4 to as many as 30.[95][96][97][98]
			Yemen	Sana'a			2012 attack on the American Embassy in Yemen[99]
			Tunisia	Tunis
		Germany	Sudan	Khartoum			2012 attack on the German Embassy in Sudan
		Japan	China	Shenyang	0		2012 attack on the Japanese Consulate in Shenyang
2013	February 1	China	Turkey	Ankara	2
	April 23	France	Libya	Tripoli	0		AQIM car-bombing attack[100]
	July 25	United Arab Emirates			0		Rocket-propelled grenade attack.[101]
	June 29	Pakistan					2013 attack on Pakistan Embassy in Tripoli
	August 3	India	Afghanistan	Jalalabad	9	21	[102]
	August 7	Pakistan	India	New Delhi			2013 attack on Pakistan Embassy in New Delhi
	September 13	United States	Afghanistan	Herat	2	20	2013 attack on U.S. consulate in Herat
	October 3	Russia	Libya	Tripoli	1		[103]
	October 11	Sweden	Libya	Benghazi	0	0	A car bomb exploded outside Sweden's honorary consulate in Benghazi, Libya, causing significant damage to the building but no reported injuries. The explosion shattered windows and destroyed the entrance, but consulate staff remained unharmed.[104]
	November 5	Sweden	Syria	Damascus
	November 8	Serbia	Croatia	Rijeka			[105]
	November 11	Russia	Poland	Warsaw			[106]
	November 19	Iran	Lebanon	Beirut	20+	50+	Iranian embassy bombings
	December 19	Pakistan	Bangladesh	Dhaka			2013 siege of the Pakistani embassy in Dhaka
2014	22 May	India	Afghanistan	Herat			2014 attack on Indian consulate in Herat, Afghanistan[107]
	June 14	Russia	Ukraine	Kyiv	0	0	Attack following[108] the downing of a plane with 49 Ukrainian troops near Luhansk carried out by pro-Russian militants using weapon probably from Russia.[109][110]
	November 13	Egypt	Libya	Tripoli	0	0
		United Arab Emirates			0	0
2015	January 17	Algeria			0	3
	February 22	Iran			0	0
	April 12	South Korea			2	1
	April 13	Morocco			0	0
	April 21	Spain			0	0
	June 12	Tunisia			0	0
	June 24	United Arab Emirates	Somalia	Mogadishu	3	7
	July 8	Thailand	Turkey	Istanbul			6th anniversary of the Ürümqi riots
	July 9	China		Ankara
	July 11	Italy	Egypt	Cairo	1	4	Suspected ISIS attack
	July 24	China	Australia	Sydney	0	1	7th anniversary of the 2008 Tibetan unrest
	July 26		Somalia	Mogadishu	12	0	Suspected Al-Shabaab attack
	July 29	Niger	Egypt	Cairo	1	2	Suspected Al Qaeda attack
	August 10	Portugal	Turkey	Istanbul	0	1	Suspected DHKP-C attack
	September 20	Russia	Syria	Damascus	0	0
	September 28	United States	Uzbekistan	Tashkent	0	1	Firebomb attack possibly by IMU or IS Terrorist Group[111]
	November 25	Turkey	Russia	Moscow	0	0	Attack following the downing a bomber aircraft by Turkey near the border between Syria and Turkey[112]
	December 11	Spain	Afghanistan	Kabul	2	9	2015 Spanish Embassy attack in Kabul
2016	January 3	Saudi Arabia	Iran	Tehran and Mashhad			2016 attack on the Saudi diplomatic missions in Iran
	May 11	Australia	Iraq	Baghdad	1		Security contractor shot dead. investigation underway.
	August 30	China	Kyrgyzstan	Bishkek	1	3	[113]
	November 10	Germany	Afghanistan	Mazar-i-Sharif	6	120	German consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif attack: Taliban truck bombing
2017	March 29	Poland	Ukraine	Lutsk	0	0	Polish consulate in Lutsk was attacked with grenade launcher[114][115]
2018	March 11	Iran	Austria	Vienna	1 (perpetrator)	1	Soldier posted outside Iranian Embassy in Vienna was attacked by a knife-wielding Egyptian national with Islamist sympathies. Attacker was shot and killed.[116]
	September 7		Iraq	Basra			Protesters torched the Iranian consulate.[117]
	November 23	China	Pakistan	Karachi	4	1	Karachi Chinese consulate attack by the Balochistan Liberation Army
2019	February 22	North Korea	Spain	Madrid			North Korean Embassy in Madrid incident: 10 men forcibly entered the North Korean embassy in Madrid and beat and tied up eight diplomats within, before stealing computers and files.[118]
	September 5	South Africa	Democratic Republic of the Congo	Lubumbashi	0	0	Protestors attack the South African consulate to protest against xenophobic attacks in South Africa.
	November 3	Iran	Iraq	Karbala	3	0	During the 2019 Iraqi protests[119]
	November 10	Venezuela	Bolivia	La Paz			During the 2019 Bolivian protests, a group attacked and took control of the Venezuelan embassy building.[120]
	November 27	Iran	Iraq	Najaf			Amid antigovernment protests in Iraq focusing on government dysfunction, corruption, and Iranian influence over the Iraqi government, a crowd of Iraqi demonstrators (almost all Shia Muslim) burned down the Iranian consulate in Najaf in southern Iraq. Najaf police said that 35 protesters and 32 members of Iraqi security forces were injuries. No Iranian personnel were in the consulate during the attack,[121] as consulate staff fled just beforehand.[122]
	December 1		Iraq	Najaf			The Iranian consulate in Najaf was torched by an angry crowd of Iraqis a second time.[122]
	December 31	China	Iraq	Baghdad			Anti-Chinese and anti-communist protesters torched the Chinese embassy after a rumor that China killed four Kata'ib Hezbollah members who were hiding in Xinjiang.
2020	February 10	Iran	Nigeria	Abuja			During a protest against the Shiite Islamic Movement of Nigeria and the anniversary of the Iranian Revolution, angry crowds of Nigerians stormed the embassy.[123]
2021	July 7	Taiwan	Haiti	Pétion-Ville			During the Assassination of Jovenel Moïse[124]
	July 13	Cuba	Peru	Lima	0	0	The embassy was vandalised by unknown attackers who escaped in a car.[125]
	July 27		France	Paris			The embassy was firebombed by molotovs to protest against the Communist Party of Cuba
2022	March 1	Slovenia	Ukraine	Kharkiv	0	0	The consulate was destroyed during the air strikes against the city with no injuries reported by the country's foreign ministry.[126]
	April 20	Peru	United States	Washington, D.C.	1	0	A man broke into the ambassador's residence in Forest Hills at around 8 a.m. and started breaking doors and windows while the building was occupied by the diplomat and his family, causing the arrival of local Secret Service and Police units, who fatally shot the intruder when he attempted to charge at them.[127][128]
	September 5	Russia	Afghanistan	Kabul	8	15	Bombing of the Russian embassy in Kabul
	October 6	Germany	Ukraine	Kyiv			A Russian missile struck a building in the German embassy complex during the offensive against the city.[129]
	December 20	Finland	Russia	Moscow			Attack possibly by the Wagner Group
2023	January 27	Azerbaijan	Iran	Tehran	1	2	Attack on the Azerbaijani Embassy in Tehran
	May 20	Qatar	Sudan	Khartoum			Battle of Khartoum
	June 28	United States	Saudi Arabia	Jeddah	2 (including attacker)		2023 Jeddah shooting
	July 19	Sweden	Iraq	Baghdad			Demonstrators stormed and torched the embassy in protest over the burning of the Koran in Stockholm on 28 June
	July 20	China	Ukraine	Odesa	0	0	The Chinese consulate-general was damaged by air strikes against the city, with at least one window broken. No casualties were reported at the site, although three people were killed on the same night.[130]
	July 30	France	Niger	Niamey			Pro-coup and pro-Russian protestors surrounded and attempted to set fire to the embassy, prompting partial evacuations of both the French and US embassies.[131]
		China	Russia	Saint Petersburg	0	0	A rocket was fired at the Chinese consulate in Saint Petersburg. There was superficial damage to the building but no one was injured.[citation needed]
	August 9	United States	Canada	Toronto	0	0	A smoke bomb was thrown at the US consulate in Toronto, at 8:15am the suspect remains at large.[132]
	August 10	Sweden	Lebanon	Beirut	0	0	On the night of August 10, 2023, an attempted attack on the Swedish embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, occurred. Police suspect that someone threw a bomb at the embassy, but it was removed before it exploded. No one was injured in the incident. Lebanese police believe the attack was motivated by the Quran burnings in Sweden.[133]
	October 12	China	United States	San Francisco	1	0	A Chinese citizen crashed a car into the lobby of the Chinese consulate. The police struggled to restrain him and shot him after seeing that he had a knife.[134][135]
	September 24	Cuba	United States	Washington, D.C.	0	0	Two Molotov cocktails were thrown at the Cuban embassy.[136]
	December 8	United States	Iraq	Baghdad	0	0	Rockets were fired toward the embassy causing material damage.[137]
2024	April 1	Iran	Syria	Damascus	16		The Israeli airstrike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus destroyed the building housing its consular section and killed sixteen people. Iran launched 300 drones and missiles at Israel in retaliation.[138][139]
	April 5	Mexico	Ecuador	Quito	0	1+	2024 attack on the Mexican embassy in Ecuador: Officers of the Ecuadorian police stormed and invaded the Mexican embassy in Quito to capture former Ecuadorian Vice President Jorge Glas, who is accused of corruption. The operation prompted Mexico to sever diplomatic relations with Ecuador.[140][141]
	June 29	Israel	Serbia	Belgrade	1	1	2024 attack on the Israeli embassy in Belgrade
	September 29	United Arab Emirates	Sudan	Khartoum	0	0	The UAE alleged that the Sudanese air force bombed the UAE ambassador's residence in Khartoum. Sudan denied attacking the residence and blamed the Rapid Support Forces.[142]
	December 2	Bangladesh	India	Tripura	0	0	2024 attack on the Bangladesh Assistant High Commission in India
2025	January 11	Venezuela	Portugal	Lisbon	0	0	Cocktail molotov was thrown at the Venezuelan consulate.[143]

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