This is a recap of deadly attacks in Europe since 1995, after 12 people were killed when gunmen opened fire Wednesday in the offices of the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in Paris.
- January 25, 1995 - FRANCE: A bomb in an RER commuter train explodes at the Saint Michel station in Paris, killing eight people.
It is the worst of nine attacks generally attributed to Algerian extremists that wounded more than 200 that summer.
- August 15, 1998 - BRITAIN: Amid ongoing violence in Northern Ireland, a car bomb in Omagh, in the province of Ulster, kills 29 people and wounds 220. The attack is claimed by a splinter group of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) that opposes a fledgling peace process.
- October 11, 2002 - FINLAND: A bomb attack at a shopping mall in Vantaa, near Helsinki, kills six people, plus the bomber, a 19-year-old student. More than 80 are wounded.
- March 11, 2004 - SPAIN: A string of rush-hour bomb attacks on four trains in Madrid and its suburbs kill 191 people and wound almost 2,000 others. It is claimed by a group close to Al-Qaeda and is the worst in Europe since a Pan Am plane explodes in 1998 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people.
- July 7, 2005 - BRITAIN: Four suicide attacks at rush hour on three trains and a London bus kill 56 people and wound some 700. They are claimed by a group close to Al-Qaeda.
- July 22, 2011 - NORWAY: Right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik plants a bomb near the government's offices in Oslo, killing eight people, and later opens fire on a camp of youths close to the Labour party on the island of Utoeya, killing 69 others.
Breivik is sentenced to 21 years in prison, a period that could be extended as long as he is deemed a danger to society.
- March 11/19, 2012 - FRANCE: Mohamed Merah, 23, shoots three soldiers dead in Toulouse, and Montauban, southern France, before killing three students and a teacher at a Jewish school in Toulouse.
Merah is killed on March 22 in a shootout following a long siege of his apartment by French police.
- July 18, 2012 - BULGARIA: Five Israeli tourists are killed at the airport of the Black Sea resort of Burgas when a bomb placed in the bus carrying them to their hotel explodes. The bus driver and the man who laid the bag carrying the bomb are also killed.
May 22, 2013 - BRITAIN: Soldier Lee Rigby, 25, is hacked to death by two men near an army barracks in south-east London. Witnesses say the attackers encouraged them to film the scene as they shout "Allah Akbar" (God is greatest) before being injured and arrested by the police.
- May 24, 2014: - BELGIUM: Four people, including two Israeli tourists, are killed when a gunman attacks the Jewish Museum in Brussels. French police arrest Franco-Algerian Mehdi Nemmouche, 29, in Marseille, southern France six days later and hand him over to Belgian officials in late July.
Nemmouche has been charged with "murder in a terrorist context".