On the morning of March 11, 2004, a coordinated series of bombings struck Madrid, Spain, during the height of rush hour, killing 193 people and injuring over 2,000. The bombings, which targeted four commuter trains, were one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in Europe. The perpetrators, a group of Islamist extremists, used backpacks filled with …
On February 26, 1993, a devastating explosion rocked the World Trade Center in New York City, marking the first major terrorist attack on American soil. A truck bomb, packed with over 1,200 pounds of explosives, detonated in the underground parking garage beneath the North Tower, killing six people and injuring over a thousand others. The …
