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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.
Domestic terrorism or homegrown terrorism is a form of terrorism in which victims "within a country are targeted by a perpetrator with the same citizenship" as the victims. [1] There are various different definitions of terrorism , with no universal agreement about it.
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 ...
Instances of domestic terrorism are on the rise in the US, particularly in the last decade. There were 529 incidents of terrorism between 2011 and 2021, according to the University of Maryland’s ...
More than two decades after 9/11, the federal government is struggling to address the most significant terrorist threat currently facing the nation, a new report released by the Senate Homeland ...
According to DHS, there were 231 domestic terrorism incidents between 2010 and 2021. Of these, about 35% were classified as racially or ethnically motivated. Of these, about 35% were classified as ...
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 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 ...