List of attacks attributed to Abu Nidal

Abu Nidal (Sabri al-Banna) was regarded as the most dangerous of the Palestinian political leaders.

[1] Abu Nidal, whose pseudonym means "father of struggle" (Abu meaning father and Nidal, a secular term, meaning "struggle" or "effort" in Arabic) was primarily active in the 1970s and 1980s in the left-wing of the Palestine Liberation Organization and later the secular/rejectionist front, and was accused by Western and Arab sources of acting as a mercenary for various Arab governments.

The following list has been compiled from a variety of sources.

Some of these attacks have been claimed by several groups, some of them by no group, and others may have been falsely claimed by or attributed to Abu Nidal's organization.

Especially noteworthy attacks have been marked in bold type.