The attack, which occurred Friday in Nashville, Tennessee, the US, is the latest in a series of bloody attacks in the United States in a quarter of a century, which left thousands of victims.
The motives for the attacks, which included bombings, shootings, trampling, and the use of civilian aircraft to destroy buildings, varied between ideological and racist, and the US authorities classify some of them as external or internal terrorism.
The following are the most prominent attacks that occurred in America until 1995.
December 10, 2019
Two people shoot inside a New Jersey Jewish grocery store, killing 3 people inside the store.
The incident was declared an internal terrorist act, fueled by anti-Semitism.
December 6, 2019
, a gunman opened fire inside a naval air base in Pensacola, Florida, killing 3 American sailors and the bomber.
Then-US Attorney General William Barr said that the shooting was an act of terrorism motivated by a "jihadist ideology."
August 3, 2019:
22 people were killed in El Paso, Texas, after a mass shooting at a Walmart store in an incident dealt with as an internal terrorist act driven by an anti-immigrant ideology.
October 31, 2017
, 8 people were killed and 12 injured in a run-over accident by a man who rented a truck on a busy cycling road near the World Trade Center in New York.
August 12, 2017
One person was killed and 19 injured when a speeding vehicle collided with a crowd of opposition protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the incident was treated as a federal hate crime.
June 12, 2016
Omar Mateen - an American-born man who pledged allegiance to ISIS - killed 49 people and wounded others in a shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando.
December 2, 2015
During a party held at the Regional Center in San Bernardino, California, a couple shot dead 14 people.
July 16, 2015,
in a shooting incident inside a military recruitment center and a Navy facility in Chattanooga, Tennessee, 4 US Marines were killed.
The FBI concluded that the motives for the incident were propaganda promoted by a foreign terrorist organization.
April 15, 2013
Two bombs explode near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing 3 and wounding 264 people.
September 11, 2001
This day witnessed bloody attacks by 4 hijacked airliners, 3 of which collided with the Commerce Towers in New York and the Pentagon building in Washington, killing 3 thousand people.
At that time, the administration of President George W. Bush used the attacks as a pretext to invade Afghanistan, as it was among the reasons that led to the subsequent invasion of Iraq in 2003, and the declaration of the so-called global war on terror.
April 19, 1995:
168 people are killed and 700 injured in a building explosion in Oklahoma City.
American Timothy McVeigh was found guilty of the attack and executed in 2001.