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A vehicle-ramming attack, also known as a vehicle as a weapon or VAW attack, is an assault in which a perpetrator deliberately rams a vehicle into a building, people, or another vehicle. According to Stratfor Global Intelligence analysts, this attack represents a relatively new militant tactic that could prove more difficult to prevent than suicide bombings.
Shia Muslims have been persecuted by the Islamic State, an Islamic extremist group, since 2014. Persecutions have taken place in Iraq, Syria, and other parts of the world.
In November 2019, six car bombings occurred in northern Syria. The bombings mostly happened in Tell Abyad and one in Al-Bab. The ISIL claimed responsibility for one, and the other five were alleged by Turkey to have been committed by the PKK.
This article lists events from the year 2021 in Niger.
This is a list of events in 2021 in West Africa.
This is a 2019 timeline of events in the Somali Civil War (2009–present).
Events in the year 2022 in Lebanon.
Events in the year 2022 in the Palestinian territories.
Events of 2022 in Tanzania.
Events in the year 2023 in Benin.
Events in the year 2023 in Uganda.
The events listed below are both anticipated and scheduled for the year 2023 in Pakistan.
On 8 January 2023, 40 people were killed and 101 injured in central Senegal when two buses collided in Gniby near the regional capital of Kaffrine on the N1 national road.
Up to 63 migrants are believed to have died in an incident off Cape Verde involving a pirogue which had voyaged from Senegal departing on 10 July. 38 persons from the boat were rescued on 14 August 2023 and taken to the island of Sal, Cape Verde.
