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.

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Year  | Date  | Diplomatic mission  | Location country  | Location city  | Deaths  | Injuries  | Details

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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]

## See also

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* Politics portal

* Havana syndrome – mysterious disease affecting US and Canadian staff, starting in Havana, Cuba

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