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Counterterrorism (alternatively spelled: counter-terrorism), also known as anti-terrorism, relates to the practices, military tactics, techniques, and strategies that governments, law enforcement, businesses, and intelligence agencies use to combat or eliminate terrorism.
In Israel, Gaza and the West Bank, suicide bombings are an anti-Israel strategy perpetrated generally by Islamist and occasionally by secular Palestinian groups including the PFLP. [7] India has also been the victim of suicide attacks by groups based in Pakistan, a recent example taking place in February 2019. [8]
About Category:Counterterrorism and related categories. The scope of this category includes pages whose subjects relate to terrorism, a contentious label.. Value-laden labels—such as calling an organization and/or individual a terrorist—may express contentious opinion and are best avoided unless widely used by reliable sources to describe the subject, in which case use in-text attribution.
This is a list of counter-terrorism agencies by country. A counter-terrorism agency is a government agency or military agency responsible for counter terrorism.
The National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) is no longer in the CIA proper, but is in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). The NCTC, however, contains personnel from the CIA, FBI, Department of Justice, and from other members of the IC. A counterterrorism center did exist in the CIA before the NCTC was established.
On 22 February 2017, newly-installed Secretary-General António Guterres declared that a new Office of Counter-Terrorism would soon be formed with gender-balanced staff in order "to review the capability of the UN system to assist Member States, upon their request, in implementing the GCTS in a balanced manner". He said that "terrorism cannot ...
The Counter-Terrorism Committee is a subsidiary body of the United Nations Security Council.. In the wake of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States, the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted resolution 1373, which, among its provisions, obliges all States to criminalize assistance for terrorist activities, deny financial support and safe haven to terrorists ...
Tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) is an essential concept in terrorism and cyber security studies. [1] The role of TTPs in terrorism analysis is to identify individual patterns of behavior of a particular terrorist activity, or a particular terrorist organisation, and to examine and categorize more general tactics and weapons used by a particular terrorist activity, or a particular ...