Hezbollah in Turkey ( unrelated to the Shia Hezbollah in Lebanon ) is a Sunni terrorist group accused of a series of attacks , including the November 2003 bombings of two synagogues , the British consulate in Istanbul and HSBC bank headquarters that killed 58 . Hizbullah 's leader , Hüseyin Velioğlu , was killed in action by Turkish police in Beykoz on 17 January 2000 . Besides Hizbullah , other Islamic groups listed as a terrorist organization by Turkish police counter-terrorism include Great Eastern Islamic Raiders ' Front , al-Qaeda in Turkey , Tevhid-Selam ( also known as '' al-Quds Army '' ) and Caliphate State . Islamic Party of Kurdistan and Hereketa İslamiya Kurdistan are also Islamist groups active against Turkey , however unlike Hizbullah they 're yet to be listed as active terrorist organizations in Turkey by Turkish police counter-terrorism . The area that has seen some of the worst terror attacks in modern history has been Iraq as part of the Iraq War . In 2005 , there were more than 400 incidents of suicide bombing attacks , killing more than 2,000 people . In 2006 , almost half of all reported terrorist attacks in the world ( 6,600 ) , and more than half of all terrorist fatalities ( 13,000 ) , occurred in Iraq , according to the National Counterterrorism Center of the United States . Along with nationalist groups and criminal , non-political attacks , the Iraqi insurgency includes Islamist insurgent groups , such as Al-Qaeda in Iraq , who favor suicide attacks far more than non-Islamist groups . At least some of the terrorism has a transnational character in that some foreign Islamic jihadists have joined the insurgency
November 2003 bombings
2003 Istanbul bombings
Islamic terrorism