Turkey has endured numerous terror attacks over the past year by Islamic State militants and Kurdish separatist groups.
Still, in a city on high alert during the Republican National Convention, with memories of the World Trade Center attack, anthrax mailings, smallpox vaccinations and numerous terror warnings, the post office incident added to an already serious case of jitters.
Israel may not be able to stop every attack, the reasoning goes, but the calm of the last months took place because Israel was able to stop most of the numerous terror attempts that were made.
Numerous terror plots were foiled and militia leaders arrested.
Since the revolution, Cuba had been subjected to numerous terror attacks.
It has carried out numerous terror attacks, seized territory there and filmed horrific propaganda over the past year -- and Western security officials now consider the group's Libyan offshoot to be the most dangerous of ISIS's global affiliates. .
But given the catastrophism that accompanied this summer's numerous environmental terrors – deadly fires in Greece and elsewhere, parts of the Arctic Circle turning a disconcerting red on heat maps – you'd think people would be open to even more urgency on climate change than conventional politics might allow.
This is the part of the world that has hatched numerous international terror plots, from the Christmas 2009 underpants bomb plot to the Charlie Hebdo attacks this year.
The Israeli military confirmed the killing, saying in a statement that the sheik was "responsible for numerous murderous terror attacks, resulting in the deaths of many civilians, both Israeli and foreign".
As well as being a popular tourist destination, with sights including Parliament, Westminster Abbey and Big Ben, Westminster — the symbolic heart of British government — has been the target of numerous recent terror plots.
