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In the United States, domestic terrorism is defined as terrorist acts that were carried out within the United States by U.S. citizens and/or U.S. permanent residents. [1] As of 2021, the United States government considers white supremacists to be the top domestic terrorism threat.
Acts of domestic terrorism are federally charged under specific laws, such as killing federal agents or "attempting to use explosives to destroy a building in interstate commerce". [10] Some state and local governments in the United States do have domestic crimes called "terrorism", [11] including the District of Columbia. [12]
Map of 2,872 terrorist incidents in the contiguous United States from 1970 to 2017. KEY: Orange: 2001–2017; Green: 1970–2000 Terrorism deaths in the United States In the United States, a common definition of terrorism is the systematic or threatened use of violence in order to create a general climate of fear to intimidate a population or government and thereby effect political, religious ...
Seth Jones, CSIS International Security Program Director, joins Yahoo Finance's Kristin Myers to break down a new report detailing the rise of U.S. extremist attacks.
The FBI, focused intently for years on combating terrorism from abroad, is turning more attention to home-grown, U.S. domestic violent extremists, a senior FBI counterterrorism official said on ...
The Justice Department is establishing a specialized unit focused on domestic terrorism, the department's top national security official told lawmakers Tuesday as he described an "elevated" threat ...
In 2015, the Southern Poverty Law Center released a report on domestic terrorism in the United States. The report (titled The Age of the Wolf) analyzed 62 incidents and found that, between 2009 and 2015, "more people have been killed in America by non-Islamic domestic terrorists than jihadists."
More than two decades after 9/11, the federal government is struggling to address the most significant terrorist threat currently facing the nation, ... 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us.