# List of terrorist incidents in 2015

This is a list of terrorist incidents which took place in 2015, including attacks by violent non-state actors for political motives. Note that terrorism related to drug wars and cartel violence is not included in these lists. Ongoing military conflicts are listed separately.

## List guidelines

* To be included, entries must be notable (have a stand-alone article) and described by a consensus of reliable sources as "terrorism".
* List entries must comply with the guidelines outlined in the manual of style under MOS:TERRORIST.
* Casualties figures in this list are the total casualties of the incident including immediate casualties and later casualties (such as people who succumbed to their wounds long after the attacks occurred).
* The casualties listed are the victims, perpetrator casualties are listed separately (e.g. x (+y) indicate that x victims and y perpetrators were killed/injured).
* Casualty totals may be underestimated or unavailable due to a lack of information. A figure with a plus (+) sign indicates that at least that many people have died (e.g. 10+ indicates that at least 10 people have died) – the actual toll could be considerably higher.
* If casualty figures are 20 or more, they will be shown in bold. In addition, figures for casualties more than 50 will also be underlined.
* In addition to the guidelines above, the table also includes the following categories:
       0 people were killed/injured by the incident.
       1–19 people were killed/injured by the incident.
       20–49 people were killed/injured by the incident.
       50–99 people were killed/injured by the incident.
       100+ people were killed/injured by the incident. An unknown number of people were killed/injured by the incident.

## List

| Date | Type | Dead | Injured | Location | Article | Details | Perpetrator | Part of |
| 3–7 Jan | Massacre | Unknown Est. 2000+ | Unknown | Baga, Borno State, Nigeria | 2015 Baga massacre | Boko Haram militants opened fire on villages. | Boko Haram | Boko Haram insurgency |
| 5 Jan | Suicide bombing | 3 (+2) | 2 | Arar, Saudi Arabia | January 2015 Arar attack | Two gunmen, one strapped with a suicide vest, ambushed a border guard patrol along the border with Iraq, killing two guards and injuring one. The guards were able to return fire and kill one of the gunmen, and afterwards the other one detonated his vest. | ISIL (suspected) | |
| 6 Jan | Suicide bombing | 1 (+1) | 1 | Istanbul, Turkey | January 2015 Istanbul suicide bombing | A female suicide bomber detonated her explosives in front of a police station, killing one officer and wounding another. | DHKPC | DHKP/C insurgency in Turkey |
| 7 Jan | Car bomb | 37 / 38 | 66 | Sana'a, Yemen | January 2015 Sana'a bombing | A car bomb detonated in front of a police academy. | al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (suspected) | Yemeni Civil War |
| 7 Jan | Mass shooting | 12 | 11 | Paris, France | Charlie Hebdo shooting | Two heavily armed gunmen entered the offices of satirical news magazine Charlie Hebdo. | al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula | Islamic terrorism in Europe |
| 9 Jan | Hostage crisis | 4 (+1) | 9 | Porte de Vincennes, France | Porte de Vincennes hostage crisis | A man attacked a kosher market, taking hostages in a four-hour siege. The police raided the market, killing the gunman and freeing the hostages. | Amedy Coulibaly | Islamic terrorism in Europe |
| 13 Jan | Artillery | 12 | 18 | Volnovakha, Ukraine | Volnovakha bus attack | MRLS attack on a highway checkpoint near the village of Buhas outside Volnovakha municipality in Donetsk Oblast that hit an intercity bus. These territories were controlled by Donetsk People's Republic. | Donetsk People's Republic | War in Donbas |
| 21 Jan | Melee attack | 0 | 12 | Tel Aviv, Israel | 2015 Tel Aviv attacks | A Palestinian from the West Bank, illegally entered Israel and boarded a crowded bus during rush hour and stabbed passengers before being shot in the leg and arrested by police. | Hamza Mohammed Hasan Matrouk (lone wolf) | Israeli–Palestinian conflict |
| 24 Jan | Artillery | 30 | 108 | Mariupol, Ukraine | January 2015 Mariupol rocket attack | MRLS attack. | Donetsk People's Republic | War in Donbas |
| 25 Jan | Attack | 67+ | | Mamasapano, Philippines | Mamasapano clash | Special Action Force officers encountered fighters from the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters, Moro Islamic Liberation Front and private armed groups after a successful operation to kill wanted militant Zulkifli Abdhir, also known as Marwan. 44 SAF officers, 18 MILF members, 5 BIFF members, and some civilians were killed | Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters Moro Islamic Liberation Front | Moro conflict |
| 4–5 Feb | Mass shooting | 91+ | 500+ | Fotokol, Cameroon | 2015 Fotokol attack | Militants attacked villages and torched mosques and churches. | Boko Haram | Boko Haram insurgency in Cameroon |
| 14–15 Feb | Shooting | 2 (+1) | 6 | Copenhagen, Denmark | 2015 Copenhagen shootings | A man opened fire at the "Art, blasphemy and the freedom of expression", which was organized by Lars Vilks at Krudttønden cafe at Østerbro. Later in the night on 15 February, Dan Uzan, a 38-year-old Jewish community member who was on security duty, was shot in the head by the same person and later died outside the Great Synagogue. The attacker was killed. | Omar Abdul Hamid El-Hussein | Islamic terrorism in Europe |
| 22 Feb | Bombing | 4 | 10–12 | Kharkiv, Ukraine | 2015 Kharkiv bombing | Explosion at a pro-Ukraine march. Three suspects were arrested on 26 February. | Anti-Maidan | Russo-Ukrainian War |
| 7 Mar | Suicide bombing | 58 | 139 | Maiduguri, Nigeria | March 2015 Maiduguri suicide bombing | Suicide bombs roughly an hour after each other in markets and a car lot. | Boko Haram | Boko Haram insurgency |
| 18 Mar | Shooting, hostage taking | 21 | 40+ | Tunis, Tunisia | Bardo National Museum attack | One or two gunmen attacked the Bardo Museum. | ISIL | Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002–present) |
| 20 Mar | Suicide bombing | 142 | 351 | Sana'a, Yemen | 2015 Sanaa mosque bombings | Militants carried out four suicide bombings at the Badr and al-Hashoosh Shia mosques during prayers. | ISIL-YP | Yemeni Civil War (2015–present) |
| 26–27 Mar | Suicide bombing, Shooting | 24 | 28 | Mogadishu, Somalia | Makka al-Mukarama hotel attack | Six gunmen stormed an upscale hotel for diplomats and government officials. Combat between the militants and Somali troops ended two days later after twelve hours of fighting. Somalia's ambassador to Switzerland, Yusuf Bari-Bari, was among the dead. | Al-Shabaab | War in Somalia |
| 2 Apr | Hostage taking, Shooting | 147+ (+4) | 79 | Garissa, Kenya | Garissa University College attack | Six to ten gunmen opened fire at the Garissa University. Christians were their main target of the attack, with the Islamic extremists separating the Muslims from Christians before executing them. | Al-Shabaab | War in Somalia |
| 18 Apr | Suicide bombing | 33 | 115 | Jalalabad, Afghanistan | April 2015 Jalalabad suicide bombing | A suicide bomber set off a bomb outside a state run bank. | ISIL | War in Afghanistan |
| 27 Apr | Shooting | 1 (+1) | 2 | Zvornik, Bosnia and Herzegovina | Zvornik police station terrorist attack | At a police station in Republika Srpska, an armed member of a wahhabist movement opened fire on the police. An officer was killed, two others were injured, and the attacker was killed by police. | Wahhabist movement | Islamic terrorism in Europe |
| 3 May | Shooting | 0 (+2) | 1 | Garland, Texas, United States | Garland terror attack | At Curtis Culwell Center, a school district owned events center, two assailants opened fire outside a Mohammed art exhibit. A policeman providing security for the event, returned fire, killing both suspects. One security guard was injured. | ISIL |
| 13 May | Attack | 45 | 13 | Karachi, Pakistan | 2015 Karachi bus shooting | A bus carrying Shia Muslims was attacked by six armed gunmen who rode up in motorcycles. | Jundallah (claimed), ISIL (claimed), Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (claimed) | Sectarianism in Pakistan |
| 14 May | Suicide bombing, hostage taking | 14 | 6 | Kabul, Afghanistan | Park Palace guesthouse attack | A hotel that was hosting a cultural event was attacked. | Taliban | War in Afghanistan |
| 22 May | Suicide bombing | 22 | 102 | Qatif, Saudi Arabia | 2015 Qatif bombings | A suicide bomber detonated himself inside a Shia mosque during Friday prayers. | ISIS | |
| 25 May | Shooting | 7 (+1) | 9 | Tunis, Tunisia | Tunis barracks shooting | A soldier killed 8 comrades and injured 9 others in a shooting rampage before killing himself. | Unknown | |
| 29 May | Attack | 21 | 0 | Mastung, Pakistan | 2015 Mastung bus attack | Unknown militants attacked and burned two Karachi-bound buses. | Unknown | Baluchistan conflict |
| 4 Jun | Ambush | 20 | 11 | Manipur, India | 2015 Manipur ambush | The attack, in the Chandel district close to the border with Myanmar, was carried out against a small convoy of army vehicles traveling from one army camp to another in the hilly and forested area about 60 miles south of the state capital, Imphal. | Unknown | Insurgency in Northeast India |
| 17 Jun | Shooting | 9 | 1 | Charleston, South Carolina, United States | Charleston church shooting | Mass shooting and hate crime at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. | Dylann Roof | Terrorism in the United States |
| 17 Jun | Bombing | 63 | | Monguno, Nigeria | Monguno bombing | A large sack containing homemade bombs exploded. | Boko Haram | Boko Haram insurgency |
| 22 Jun | Car bomb, Shooting | 9 | 40 | Kabul, Afghanistan | Kabul Parliament attack | Car bomb outside the National Assembly as fighters attempted to storm the building during a parliamentary speech of defense minister Mohammed Masoom Stanekzai. | Taliban | War in Afghanistan |
| 25–29 Jun | Massacre, Suicide bombing, Hostage-taking | 223–233 | 300+ | Barkh Butan, Kobani, Syria | Kobanî massacre | Bombers detonated three car bombs in Kobanî, close to the Turkish border crossing. | ISIL | Syrian Civil War |
| 26 Jun | Bombing, Beheading | 1 | 2 | Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, France | Saint-Quentin-Fallavier attack | One attacker decapitated one person and blew up a gas canister in a factory near Lyon. One person was killed and two were injured. The attacker wrote unknown Arabic writings on the severed head of the victim and placed it near the entrance of the factory. One attacker was killed and the other arrested. | ISIL | Islamic terrorism in Europe |
| 26 Jun | Suicide bombing | 27 (+1) | 227 | Kuwait City, Kuwait | 2015 Kuwait mosque bombing | Suicide bombing at the Imam Sadiq mosque. | ISIL | |
| Jun 26 | Mass shooting | 38 (+1) | 40 | Sousse, Tunisia | Sousse attacks | Tourists killed by armed gunmen. The main gunman was killed in an exchange of gunfire with the army and armed police. | ISIL | ISIL insurgency in Tunisia |
| Jun 26 | Attack | 70 | 27 | Leego, Somalia | Battle of Leego (2015) | Militants attacked an African Union base. | Al Shabaab | Somali Civil War |
| Jun 29 | Shooting | 1 | 3 | Shilo, West Bank | 2015 Shvut Rachel shooting | Four Israelis were shot and injured in a drive-by shooting. One of them died in hospital the following day. | PFLP | Israeli–Palestinian conflict |
| 29 Jun | Car bomb | 1 | 4 | Cairo, Egypt | Assassination of Hisham Barakat | State prosecutor Hisham Barakat was killed by a remotely detonated car bomb. Two civilians and two police officers were injured. | Unknown | |
| 1 Jul | Attack | 21 | 9 | North Sinai, Egypt | July 2015 Sinai clashes | Militants simultaneously attacked 21 security positions in an attempt to establish territorial control. Militants detonated two suicide car bombs in Sheikh Zuweid targeting two military barriers and then besieged a police station in Sheikh Zuweid and clashed with government forces in Sheikh Zuweid and Rafah. Militants also attacked and shelled minor security positions across North Sinai and said it detonated a suicide car bomb in Arish but no media or official reports confirmed that. The attacks left 21 Egpytians dead and 9 wounded. | Wilayat Sayna (Islamic State) | Sinai Insurgency |
| 1–2 Jul | Massacre | 145 | 17 | Kukawa, Nigeria | July 2015 Kukawa massacre | Insurgents attacked mosques. 84 men and boys were killed on the 1st at one mosque. 17 others were wounded in the attack. 97 others, mostly men, were killed in mosques on the 2nd and a number of women and young girls were killed in their homes. | Boko Haram | Boko Haram insurgency |
| 5 Jul | Bombings and arson | 69 | 67+ | Jos, Potiskum and Borno, Nigeria | 5 July 2015 Nigeria attacks | In Potiskum, Yobe State, six people were killed in a suicide bombing at a church, followed by a bomb at a restaurant and a suicide bomb at a mosque in Jos, Plateau State. 51 were killed along with 67 injured. Militants killed nine people and burned 32 churches and 300 houses in cities in Borno State. | Boko Haram | Boko Haram insurgency |
| 16 Jul | Spree shooting | 5 (+1) | 2 | Chattanooga, United States | 2015 Chattanooga shootings | A Kuwaiti-born national opened fire on a U.S. military recruitment center and a U.S. Navy Reserve center, killing 4 U.S. Marines and a sailor, and wounding a Marine and a Chattanooga police officer. An investigation revealed he had been radicalized online by a foreign Islamic terror group. | Muhammad Abdulazeez (lone wolf) | |
| 17 Jul | Suicide bombing, car bomb | 130 | 130 | Khan Bani Saad, Iraq | 2015 Khan Bani Saad bombing | A car bomb was sent to a crowded market during the Eid al-Fitr celebrations. The explosion brought down several buildings. | Islamic State | Iraqi Civil War |
| 20 Jul | Suicide bombing | 34 | 104 | Suruç, Turkey | 2015 Suruç bombing | A suicide bomber attacked a Peoples' Democratic Party protest in Şanlıurfa Province. | Islamic State | Turkey–ISIL conflict |
| 26 Jul | Suicide bombing | 10–15 | unknown | Mogadishu, Somalia | Jazeera Palace Hotel bombing | A suicide bomber detonated a vehicle loaded with explosives at a hotel. | Al-Shabaab | Somali Civil War |
| 27 Jul | Mass shooting | 10 | 16 | Punjab, India | 2015 Gurdaspur attack | Gunmen dressed in Indian Army uniforms opened fire on a civilian bus and then took over a police station. | Unknown | |
| 31 Jul | Arson | 3 | 1 | Duma, West Bank | Duma arson attack | Two masked men arrived at two houses and threw two Molotov cocktails into the houses. One of the houses was empty; in the other, the Daobasa family slept and the explosive burned the house, killing 18-month-old Ali Saad and severely wounding his parents and his 4-year-old brother. The parents succumbed to their wounds in the ensuing weeks. | Jewish gang | Israeli–Palestinian conflict |
| 6 Aug | Suicide bombing | 15 | 9 | Abha, Saudi Arabia | 2015 Abha mosque bombing | A suicide bomb attack at a mosque. | Islamic State affiliate | |
| 7 Aug | Suicide bombing, car bomb | 50+ (+1) | 500+ | Kabul, Afghanistan | 7 August 2015 Kabul attacks | A suicide bomber attacked recruits outside a police academy while a truck bomb was set off in a residential area, leveling a block and leaving a thirty foot deep crater. | Taliban (suspected) | War in Afghanistan |
| 10 Aug | Suicide bombing | 5 | 16 | Kabul, Afghanistan | 10 August 2015 Kabul suicide attack | | Taliban (suspected) | War in Afghanistan |
| 13 Aug | car bomb | 76+ | 212 | Baghdad, Iraq | 2015 Baghdad market truck bombing | A refrigeration truck loaded with explosives was blown up in the center of a market in Sadr City. Followers of Shia Islam were targeted. | Islamic State | Iraq War |
| 16 Aug | Suicide bombing | 22 | 20 | Attock District, Pakistan | 2015 Attock bombing | Two suspected suicide bombers detonated explosives in the home of Punjab Interior Minister Shuja Khanzada in the village of Shadikhan, killing the minister and at least 21 other people. | Lashkar-e-Jhangvi | War in North-West Pakistan |
| 17 Aug | Bombing | 21 | 123 | Ratchaprasong Intersection, Bangkok | 2015 Ratchaprasong bombing | Bomb attack outside the Erawan Shrine at the Ratchaprasong Intersection in Pathum Wan District. | Grey Wolves (suspected) | |
| 21 Aug | Shooting Melee attack | 0 | 3 (+1) | Oignies, Pas-de-Calais | 2015 Thalys train attack | A man opened fire with an AKM assault rifle on a Thalys high speed train between Amsterdam and Paris. One person was shot in the neck. Two United States military personnel and their civilian friend intervened and stopped the attack continuing. One of them was cut in the struggle. Another passenger received glass cuts. | Ayoub El Kahzani | Islamic terrorism in Europe |
| 22 Aug | Car bomb | 10+ | 60+ | Kabul, Afghanistan | 22 August 2015 Kabul suicide attack | | Taliban (suspected) | War in Afghanistan |
| 20 Sep | Bombing, Suicide Bombing | 145 | 97-150+ | Maiduguri, Nigeria | September 2015 Maiduguri bombing | Series of blasts, some of which were suicide bombings, targeting a market and civilians in a mosque during night prayers and a football match. | Boko Haram | Boko Haram insurgency |
| 20 Sep | Melee attack | 50 | 50 | Aksu, Xinjiang, China | 2015 Aksu colliery attack | Attackers stormed a colliery before stealing firearms from police. | Uyghur separatists | Xinjiang conflict |
| 1 Oct | Shooting | 2 | 0 | West Bank | Murder of Eitam and Na'ama Henkin | Five members of a Hamas terrorist cell killed Eitam and Naama Henkin, parents of a Jewish family driving home from a meeting of yeshiva graduates, on a road near Nablus. Their four children, who were sitting in the car's back seat, were unhurt. The attackers were caught on 5 October . | Hamas affiliated cell | Israeli–Palestinian conflict |
| 2 Oct | Shooting | 1 (+1) | 0 | Parramatta, Sydney, Australia | 2015 Parramatta shooting | A 15-year-old shot dead an unarmed civilian police employee outside the NSW Police headquarters on Charles Street. The shooter was fatally shot by responding special constables after firing on them. | Farhad Khalil Mohammad Jabar (lone wolf) | Terrorism in Australia |
| 3 Oct | Melee attack, shooting | 2 (+1) | 2 | East Jerusalem | Lions' Gate stabbing | A 19 year old stabbed four people. He then took a firearm from one of the wounded and started shooting at civilians and police officers who shot back and killed him. Two men died from stab wounds, a woman and her two-year-old toddler were wounded. The incident occurred in the Old City of Jerusalem. | Mohannad Hallabi (lone wolf) | Israeli–Palestinian conflict |
| 10 Oct | Suicide bombing | 102 | 508 | Ankara, Turkey | 2015 Ankara bombings | Two suicide bombers blew themselves up near Ankara Central Station where a peace rally supported by the HDP was taking place. The attack left 102 dead and 508 injured. | Islamic State | Turkey–ISIL conflict |
| 18 Oct | Shooting | 2 (+1) | 11 | Be'er Sheva, Israel | Beersheva bus station shooting | An Israeli Bedouin shot and killed a soldier with a firearm in the main bus station. He then picked the soldier's rifle and clashed with other armed guards and soldiers. Police accidentally shot an Eritrean man who was presumed to be a second attacker, possibly because of his skin-color. Locals beat him and he later died. | Muhand al-Okabi (lone wolf) | Israeli–Palestinian conflict |
| 19 Oct | Bus bombing | 11 | 22 | Quetta, Pakistan | 2015 Quetta bus bombing | A bomb exploded in a bus. | Unknown | Balochistan conflict |
| 22 Oct | Mass stabbing | 3 (+1) | 1 | Trollhättan, Sweden | Trollhättan school stabbing | A 21-year-old attacked Kronan School with a sword. He targeted people with dark skin, stabbed four people, killing three before committing suicide by cop. The second teacher who was wounded died in hospital six weeks after the attack, on 3 December. | Anton Lundin Pettersson | Terrorism in Sweden |
| 31 Oct | Bombing | 224 | 0 | Sinai, Egypt | Metrojet Flight 9268 | The aircraft was bombed. | Islamic State | Sinai insurgency |
| 4 Nov | Stabbing | 0(+1) | 4 | California, United States | University of California, Merced stabbing attack | A man armed with a hunting knife, stabbed four people at the University of California before being shot and killed by police. | Faisal Mohammad (lone wolf) | Terrorism in the United States |
| 12 Nov | Suicide bombing | 89 | 200+ | Beirut, Lebanon | 2015 Beirut bombings | A suicide bomber detonated a bike loaded with explosives and when onlookers gathered, another suicide bomber detonated himself on them. | Islamic State | Syrian Civil War spillover in Lebanon |
| 13 Nov | Attack | 130 (+7) | 368 | Paris, France | November 2015 Paris attacks | A series of coordinated attacks began over about 35 minutes at six locations. The first shooting attack occurred in a restaurant and a bar in the 10th arrondissement. There was shooting and a bomb detonated at Bataclan theatre in the 11th arrondissement during a rock concert. Approximately 100 hostages were then taken and 90 were killed there. Other bombings took place outside the Stade de France stadium in the suburb of Saint-Denis during a football match between France and Germany. | Islamic State | Islamic terrorism in Europe |
| 19 Nov | Melee attack | 2 | 1 | Tel Aviv, Israel | 2015 Tel Aviv synagogue stabbing | A 36-year-old Palestinian man attacked a makeshift synagogue before being arrested. | lone wolf | Israeli–Palestinian conflict |
| 19 Nov | Shooting | 3 | 5 | Gush Etzion Junction, West Bank | 2015 Gush Etzion Junction attack | A Palestinian man opened fire on a line of traffic. The attacker then fled the scene, only to shoot at and intentionally ram into a group of pedestrians at a nearby junction. | lone wolf | Israeli–Palestinian conflict |
| 20 Nov | Hostage taking, Shooting | 20 (+2) | 7 | Bamako, Mali | 2015 Bamako hotel attack | Gunmen took several hostages at the Radisson Hotel—among them 140 visitors and 30 employees. | Al-Mourabitoun AQIM | Northern Mali conflict |
| 24 Nov | Suicide bombing, car bombing, shooting | 7 | 12 | al-Arish, Egypt | 2015 Arish attack | A day after the second round of parliamentary elections, militants attacked a hotel housing election judges. | Islamic State | Sinai Insurgency |
| 27 Nov | Shooting Hostage-taking | 3 | 9 | Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States | Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooting | A shooting and five-hour standoff with police occurred at a Planned Parenthood clinic. A police officer and two civilians were killed. Five officers and four civilians were injured. The shooter was captured after police convinced him to surrender. His motives appeared to be political (specifically anti-abortion) in nature. | Robert Lewis Dear (lone wolf) | |
| 2 Dec | Mass shooting | 14 (+2) | 23 | San Bernardino, California, United States | 2015 San Bernardino attack | Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, a married couple, opened fire at a county health department's holiday banquet and left a failed pipe bomb at the scene. Both perpetrators were shot and killed four hours later in a shootout with police forces. Malik pledged allegiance to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant on the day of the shooting, and the FBI investigated the attack as an act of terrorism. | Islamic State | Jihadist extremism in the United States |
| 5 Dec | Melee attack | 0 | 3 | London, United Kingdom | December 2015 London Underground attack | A man with a knife stabbed three people at the Leytonstone tube station, reportedly screaming 'this is for Syria', before police used a stun gun on him and arrested him. | Muhyadin Mire (lone wolf) | Islamic terrorism in Europe |
| 8 Dec | Suicide bombing, hostage taking, shooting | 50 | 35 | Kandahar, Afghanistan | 2015 Kandahar Airport attack | Several suicide bombers penetrated the security of Kandahar Airfield, barricading themselves into an old school building that now contains shops and battled with soldiers for a few hours. | Taliban | War in Afghanistan |
| 11 Dec | Car bombing, raid | 6 (+2) | 7 | Kabul, Afghanistan | 2015 Spanish Embassy attack in Kabul | Militants detonated a car bomb and stormed a guesthouse near the Spanish embassy in Shirpour neighborhood. Two guards were killed, one of them was Spanish and seven others were wounded. Two militants were shot dead by Afghan security forces. | Taliban | War in Afghanistan |
| 11 Dec | Car bombing | 60 | 80 | Tell Tamer, Syria | Tell Tamer bombings | Three truck bombs struck near a Kurdish militia field hospital and in the crowded Souk Al Jumla market square, where the majority of the fatalities occurred. | Islamic State | Syrian Civil War |
| 25 Dec | Suicide-bombing | 0 (+1) | 3–12 | Rajshahi, Bangladesh | 2015 Rajshahi mosque bombing | A suicide bomber detonated inside an Ahmadiyya mosque. | TBD | Internal conflict in Bangladesh |
| 29 Dec | Suicide-bombing | 26 | 50+ | Mardan, Pakistan | Mardan suicide bombing | A suicide bomber detonated at the entrance of the National Database and Registration Authority. | Jamaat-ul-Ahrar | |
| 30 Dec | Suicide bombing | 16+ | 35+ | Kamishli, Syria | 2015 al-Qamishli bombings | Three suicide bombers blew themselves up in restaurants in the Kurdish controlled town, targeting the Kurdish and Assyrian Christian populations. | Islamic State | Syrian Civil War |
Total incidents: 80