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The index provides a comprehensive summary of the key global trends and patterns in terrorism since 2000. It is an attempt to systematically rank the nations of the world according to terrorist activity. The index combines a number of factors associated with terrorist attacks to build an explicit picture of the impact of terrorism, illustrating ...
The number of persons wounded in terrorist attacks in 2001 was 1080, up from 796 wounded the previous year. Violence in the Middle East and South Asia also accounted for the increase in casualty totals for 2001. 2000: There were 423 international terrorist attacks in 2000, an increase of 8% from the 392 attacks recorded during 1999.
The GTD defines a terrorist attack as "the threatened or actual use of illegal force and violence by a non‐state actor to attain a political, economic, religious, or social goal through fear, coercion, or intimidation." [2]
The five preceding years from 2015 to 2019, by contrast, had seen 47 to 79 extremist-related murders per year. The ADL analysts put the recent decline down to reduced numbers of attacks by ...
West Africa recorded over 1,800 terrorist attacks in the first six months of the year resulting in nearly 4,600 deaths with dire humanitarian consequences, and a top regional official said Tuesday ...
An army chaplain was stabbed in the incident at Renmore Barracks, Galway. Police involved in the investigation said one line of enquiry is to establish if the attack had a terrorist motivation. [74] [75] Unnamed terrorist Islamic terrorism: 17 August Suicide bombing: 20+ (+1) 10+ Mogadishu, Somalia: 2024 Mogadishu tea shop bombing
U.N. experts said Tuesday the threat from Islamic State extremists and al-Qaida remains high in conflict areas and neighboring countries and warned that those conflicts will “incubate” the ...
From 7 January 2015 to 9 January 2015, terrorist attacks occurred across the Île-de-France region, particularly in Paris. Three attackers killed a total of 17 in four shooting attacks, and police then killed the three assailants.The main attacks were the Charlie Hebdo shooting and the Porte de Vincennes siege. The organization Al-Qaeda in the ...