Modern Era · Middle East · War

1996

Khobar Towers bombing

June 25, 1996

A massive truck bomb exploded outside a US Air Force housing complex in Saudi Arabia, killing nineteen American airmen. Hezbollah fighters with Iranian backing were suspected. Osama bin Laden praised the attack. A campaign of attacks against American targets in the Muslim world was gathering pace that Washington was slow to recognize.

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Before and after in Middle East

Before: November 4, 1995: Rabin assassinated
After: October 12, 2000: USS Cole bombed in Aden

Before and after in War

Before: July 11, 1995: Srebrenica massacre
After: May 11, 1998: India and Pakistan test nuclear weapons

Era

Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.

Sources

Wikipedia: Khobar Towers bombing