At least 30 gold miners were killed in northern Nigeria in November 2016, quite possibly by Boko Haram terrorists.
Category: Perspectives
Statements like “we never saw this coming” when referring to terrorist acts are inaccurate: there are things to look for.
Islamic State claimed that one of its ‘fighters’ was behind a prison riot in Tajikistan in which 27 were killed, including prison guards.
Leftist terrorists took control of the Colombian Supreme Court and killed over a hundred civilians, including judges, in November 1985.
The recent sentencing of a man to 20 years in prison for his role in the 2015 San Bernardino terrorist attack underlines why the term ‘lone actors’ is inaccurate.
In the ultimate insider threat, a US Army officer killed 13 fellow soldiers and wounded another 30 at Fort Hood, Texas in November 2009.
The November 1995 assassination of Israeli PM Rabin by a Jewish extremist is a good reminder that terrorism knows no religious bounds.
Both violence in general and terrorist violence in particular are declining but most people seem to consider these facts counterintuitive.
The so-called Allied Democratic Forces abducted and killed civilians in eastern DRC in early November 2018
ISIS terrorists shot dead 52 people in a public school in Mosul in November 2016 during the ‘Battle of Mosul.