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Global Terrorism Index 2020
In 2019, deaths from terrorism fell for the fifth consecutive year, after peaking in 2014.
On this day in 2000 six explosions in central Manila killed 22 and wounded 100 in an attack eventually blamed on Jemaah Islamiya.
Terrorists seek to sow fear and angst: it is important to gather as much data as possible to separate facts from lies.
On this day in 1992 Al Qaeda was behind the bombing of a Movenpick Hotel in Aden, Yemen that killed a tourist and an employee.
A suicide bomber linked to an Iranian Shiite terrorist group drove a vehicle into the Iraqi Embassy in Beirut, killing dozens including the Lebanese Ambassador to Baghdad.
Far right terrorism may indeed be ‘on the rise’ – or is it? In any event this form of political violence is a mere shadow of its Islamist cousin
If one nation decides to unilaterally take out another’s citizen what stops the desire for legitimate retribution?
Our focus on sending armed forces to confront Islamist terrorists is understandable but the outcome is seldom definitive.